Dear Members,

Please see the below list of books which may be of interest to some readers who might wish to offer a book review.

Persons wishing to review books should contact Dr Nicholas Sparks, Reviews Editor, Script & Print, St. John’s College, Camperdown, NSW, 2050 (bsanz.reviews@gmail.com). ​

For further information refer to ​the Script & Print Book Review guidelines.

June 2018 – Books for review (PDF file)

Please note that the deadline for submission of abstracts for the BSANZ 2018 Conference, ‘Marginalia: Bibliography at the Margins’, has been extended to Friday 27 April.

Find out more here.

Contents:

• Patricia Thomas — Iconoclastic Effrontery: Rex Fairburn, Bob Lowry and the Printing of Polemics
• Marion Amies — Amelia Carey White: Author of Social Life and Manners in Australia
• B. J. McMullin — Walter Scott’s Ballads and Lyrical Pieces, 1806, and the Collected Works
• John C. Ross — Fleuron: A User’s Report—And Charles Ackers Revisited Again
• Nicholas A. Sparks — Corrigenda to Two Modern Editions of The Peterborough Chronicle
• Reviews — The Fifteenth-Century Printing Practices of Johann Zainer, Ulm, 1473–1478 (B. J. McMullin); The Noblest Roman: A History of the Centaur Type of Bruce Rogers (Dennis Bryans)

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Contents:

• Chris Vening — William Martin Leggett: The “Bard of New Brunswick” in Australia
• Donald J. Kerr — For the Boys Over There! The Churchill Auction of Books and Pictures in New Zealand, 1942
• Duncan M. Campbell — Henry E. Huntington’s Chinese Book: A Bibliographical Note

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Contents:

• Paul Eggert — The Long 1890s: Henry Lawson, Francis Adams and the Anglo-Australian Network in London
• J. E. Traue — Eighty Years of Serial Fiction in New Zealand Newspapers: A Snapshot of Writers and their Readers
• Patrick Spedding — Unfortunate Delays in Publishing the Bibliothèque Britannique
• B. J. McMullin — Matthew McLennan Young, Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press: Further Bibliographical Notes

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Nicholas Sparks, who is a past Fellow, draws the attention of BSANZ members to The Institute of Advanced Studies, University of London which is making its annual offer of a range of Fellowships at the Institute:

Fellowship Applications Now Open 

Applications are now open for the Institute’s Research Fellowship, Visiting Research Fellowship, and Postdoctoral Research Fellowship programmes. Fellowships allow early career and established researchers the opportunity to work closely with the Institute. Applications are accepted 1 February – 1 March. To learn more, or to apply, please click here.

Connecting the Colonies: Empires and Networks in the History of the Book

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

22-24 November 2017

Empires of all kinds – commercial, geo-political, bureaucratic – are defined by their peripheries as well as their centres, by the flows of information that maintain or destabilise their structures of authority and control.

BSANZ, in collaboration with the Society for the History of Authorship Reading and Publishing (SHARP), invites scholars and researchers to consider the printed word, the book, and texts of all kinds, as both mechanism and matter of transmission.

We invite proposals for 20-minute papers on any matters of bibliographical interest, traditional and contemporary. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Commercial empires: the book as a commodity in colonial contexts
• Across boundaries: print networks across geo-political, commercial or bureaucratic borders
• The trans-temporal: the afterlife of books and re-imagining of ideas
• Indigenous cultures, frontier encounters, and the presence or absence of print
• The stuff of legend: the role of print in constructing colonial and imperial consciousness
• The book as treasured possession: emotion, ownership and display

Proposals for three-person panel discussions are also welcome.

Some financial assistance towards travel costs may be available for postgraduate students who are presenting papers. Please enquire when submitting your proposal, and include a brief budget outlining your anticipated travel costs.

Proposals – including, a 250-word abstract title of paper, name and institutional affiliation of each author, a brief biography of each author, email address of each author, and 3-5 keywords – should be sent to the convenor, Ian Morrison ian.morrison@education.tas.gov.au.

Presenters must be members of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand.

The deadline for submissions is Friday 31 March 2017.

Image: detail from Captain Austin’s Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, W L Crowther Library, Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office

Contents:

• Ashok Malhotra — Advertising Colonial Romance and Imperial Masculinity: The Promotion of Philip Meadows Taylor’s Novels in Britain
• B. J. McMullin — Further Reflections on Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press
• Review — Hocken: Prince of Collectors (Paul Brunton)

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Contents:

• Chris Elmore — Describing Nineteenth-Century Papers
• Michael Cop — Compositions for a King: Little Gidding’s Use of Henry Garthwait’s Monotessaron
• B. J. McMullin — Cowper’s Complete Poetical Works, 183 (Russell, 166)
• Patrick Spedding — A Postscript on Thomas Gardner’s Printing
• Review — Believe me, I am: Selected Letters of Frederic Warde 1921–1939; Giambattista Bodoni: His Life and His World (Dennis Bryans)

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Contents:

• John Arnold and James Doig — William Nicholas Willis, Père, Fils and Family and the Anglo-Eastern Publishing Company
• Rosi Crane — Creating Parker & Haswell’s A Textbook of Zoology (1897)
• B. J. McMullin — Gatherings and Signatures in Conflict

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