The Bibliographical Society (London) : Winter programme

["David J. Shaw" <djs@zetnet.co.uk>]

The Bibliographical Society continues to hold its monthly lectures on 
the third Tuesday of the month at 6.00 pm in University College, London.

Full details about the Society, its publications, membership, etc. can 
be found on its web site at www.bibsoc.org.uk

--
David J. Shaw
djs@zetnet.co.uk and d.j.shaw@cerl.org
http://www.djshaw.co.uk/

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THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY

MONTHLY LECTURE PROGRAMME

Tuesday 16 November 2004 (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre)

Adam Fox: Cheap Political Print and its Audience in Later 
Seventeenth-Century London: the case of Narcissus Luttrell's 'Popish 
Plot' Collections.
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Tuesday 14 December 2004 (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre)

Anthony Rooley: ‘Take, Oh Take Those Lips Away': Shakespeare's beguiling 
lyric from 'Measure for Measure' is explored in depth, with fresh 
interpretations of its original meaning and function, with reference to 
some of the numerous settings over four centuries; a slice of the 
'geological strata of English Song' .
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Tuesday 18 January 2005 (Embryology Lecture Theatre)

Liz Evenden: Hunting Foxes: A Book Historian's View of the 'Book of 
Martyrs'.
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Tuesday 15 February 2005 (Embryology Lecture Theatre)

M. Antoni J. Ucerler: Gutenberg Travels East: The Jesuit Mission Press 
in Japan, 1588-1620: On the introduction of the printing press to 
'Warring States' Japan and its use by Jesuit missionaries as a means of 
cultural and religious interaction with the Japanese .
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Tuesday 15 March 2005 (Embryology Lecture Theatre)

Bettye Chambers: Unmasking the unidentified: various techniques for 
identifying books that have lost their title page, and perhaps much 
more, with examples taken from 16th- and 17th-century French Bibles .”
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Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture

Tuesday 19 April 2005 (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre)

Brenda Hosington: Translation and Early English Printing, 1475-1550: New 
Facts and New Approaches.
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The Homee and Phiroze Randeria Lecture

Tuesday 17 May 2005 (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre)

Martin Davies: A Tale of Two Aesops . An investigation of two unique 
copies of Aesop in French, both printed at Lyons but without printer, 
place or date. The first dates from the early 1480s and is remarkable 
for its type and illustration and for its unsuspected connexion with 
Caxton, and the second is a chapbook of the early 17th century, tied to 
the earlier edition by its reuse of the same woodblocks.
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