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Latest Issue of Script & Print — Vol. 43 No. 1 (2019)

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Contents:

  • Anna Welch — Introduction
  • Wallace Kirsop — BSANZ: Beginnings and Aspirations
  • Chris Tiffin — BSANZ at Fifty Years: An Address Delivered to the BSANZ 50th Anniversary Seminar, 26 February 2019
  • Donald Kerr — Almost a Decade in Control: BSANZ 2011–2018
  • B. J. McMullin — Stephen Leacock as Exemplum
  • Reviews — The Fox and the Bees: The Early Library of Corpus Christi College Oxford (Shane Carmody); Shakespeare’s Workplace: Essays on Shakespearean Theatre (Mark Houlahan)

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In Memoriam: Dennis E. Rhodes

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Dear colleagues,

It is with great sadness that we acknowledge the passing of Dennis E. Rhodes, 97, former Deputy Keeper of Printed Books at the British Library. Dennis was one of the world’s foremost experts in renaissance and early modern bibliography, especially of Italian material. Throughout his long and distinguished career he published many significant studies, including Incunabula in Greece: A First Census (1980), Studies in Early Italian Printing (1982) and several seminal catalogues of incunabula in British collections. In 1993 he was honoured by his colleagues through the publication of a festschrift, The Italian Book, 1465-1800: Studies Presented to Dennis E. Rhodes on his 70th Birthday​. In 2007, Dennis contributed to a volume honouring his colleague at the British Museum Library/British Library, Ian Willison: The Commonwealth of Books: Essays and Studies in Honour of Ian Willison, edited by Wallace Kirsop (BSANZ founding member).

Several of his colleagues have shared their memories with me of Dennis’ great kindness towards and mentorship of young bibliographers, which was a hallmark of his career: he was unfailingly generous both with his knowledge and his support of students in practical ways, such as through gifts of useful books.

The world of bibliography is so much the richer for his contribution, and we offer our condolences to his family, friends and colleagues, who will miss him greatly.

You will find many of Dennis’ publications in your library of choice, and you can read two of his articles freely via the British Library site: https://www.bl.uk/eblj/authorindex.html#r​

I trust you are all staying well and keeping safe in this difficult time.

Regards,

Anna Welch
Vice President, BSANZ​

Latest Issue of Script & Print — Vol. 42 No. 4 (2018)

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S and P 42.4Contents:

  • Helen Bones — Accident or Desire? Linked Archives and the Trans-Tasman Literary Scene
  • B. J. McMullin — The Two Eighth Editions of Scott’s The Lay of the Last Minstrel
  • Patrick Spedding and Peter Pereyra — The Huon Mechanics’ Institute Library, 1858–1990
  • Toby Burrows — Addendum: Another Phillipps Manuscript in Australia
  • Anthony Tedeschi — An Additional Phillipps Manuscript in New Zealand
  • Reviews — Books That Changed History (Paul Tankard); Editio princeps: A History of the Gutenberg Bible (Anthony Tedeschi); Speech, Print and Decorum in Britain, 1600–1750: Studies in Social Rank and Communication (Shef Rogers); Early Modern English Marginalia (Patrick Spedding); Peter Koch Printer: A Descriptive Bibliography (Caren Florance)

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Latest Issue of Script & Print — Vol. 42 No. 3 (2018)

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S and P 42 3Contents:

  • Rachel Franks — A Life in the Margins: John Rae and the Early Minute Books of the City of Sydney
  • J. E. Traue — Commercial Circulating Libraries and Recreational Reading in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand: A Re-evaluation
  • Janet Hadley Williams — An Annotated Copy of Buchanan’s Rerum Scoticarum Historia
  • B. J. McMullin and Carlo Dumontet — Cancellation in Thomas Ford’s Singing of Psalmes the Duty of Christians under the New Testament, 1659
  • Wallace Kirsop — An Early Australian Dust-Jacket
  • Dennis Bryans — Dating D. W. Paterson’s Melbourne Monotype Specimen
  • Reviews — What is the History of the Book? (Anna Welch); How the Anglo-Saxons Read Their Poems (Daniel Anlezark); Lost Books and Printing in London, 1557-1640: An Analysis of the Stationers’ Company Register (Rachel Franks); A World of Fiction: Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History (Elizabeth Webby).

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Latest Issue of Script & Print — Vol. 42 No. 2 (2018)

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Contents:

  • Kevin Molloy and Katie Flack — James Shanley of Clonmel: Printer to the Population of Port Phillip, 1841–1857
  • Toby Burrows — The Legacy of Sir Thomas Phillipps in Australia and New Zealand
  • Reviews — Nineteenth-Century Dust-Jackets (Patrick Spedding); Librorum Studiosus: Miscellanea Palaeographica et Codicologica Alberto Derolez Dicata (Rodney Thomson); An Analysis of the 1969 Kroepelien Catalogue (Wallace Kirsop)

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Latest Issue of Script & Print — Vol. 42 No. 1 (2018)

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S and P 42 1Contents:

  • Martyn Lyons — Ships’ Newspapers and the Graphic Universe Afloat in the Nineteenth Century
  • Sally Bloomfield — Spruiking Van Diemen’s Land: The Long Reach of a Little Bushranger Book
  • Samir Ricardo and Figalli de Angelo — Exhibition of the Material Book as Object in the Northwest Amazon
  • Review — Études bibliographiques à la mémoire de Jeanne Veyrin-Forrer (Véronique Duché)

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Latest Issue of Script & Print — Vol. 41 No. 4 (2017)

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S and P 41Contents:

  • Wallace Kirsop — Editorial: Providing Printed Matter for Multicultural Australia in the Nineteenth Century
  • Naomi Milthorpe — The Materials of Which I Am Made: Evelyn Waugh and Book Production
  • Tim Gatehouse — Plantation House, St. Helena: An Extant Colonial Library
  • Roger Osborne — ‘An Editor Regrets’: R. G. Campbell’s Australian Journal, 1926–1955
  • Nicholas A. Sparks — The Palæographical Society of Australasia A New Learned Society from the Late Nineteenth Century Dedicated to the Advancement of Palaeography
  • Reviews — A Catalogue of Manuscripts Known to Contain Old English Dry-Point Glosses (Tadashi Kotake); Printed Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century Italy: The Texts, the Books, and the Survival of a Long-Lasting Genre (Hilary Maddocks); Empires of Print: Adventure Fiction in the Magazines, 1899–1919 (Merete Colding Smith)

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BSANZ 50th anniversary celebrations

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In 2019, the Society celebrates its 50th anniversary.

Please join us in Melbourne on Tuesday 26 February 2019 to mark the occasion. There are three parts to the gathering, across two venues:

  • 1.30–5pm, State Library Victoria, Conference Centre, Entry 3 La Trobe St: Papers on the history of the Society and current research will be presented by Wallace Kirsop, Brian McMullin, Chris Tiffin, Merete Colding Smith and Louise Box.
  • 6–7pm, State Library Victoria, Village Roadshow Theatrette, Entry 3 La Trobe St: The annual Foxcroft Lecture will be presented by Louise Anemaat (SLNSW) on ‘Unseen art of the First Fleet’.
  • 7.30pm, University of Melbourne: Dinner for Society members and supporters (cost to be confirmed).

Please indicate interest in the papers and the dinner to Meredith Sherlock (meredith.sherlock@monash.edu) by 20 January 2019. Venue details and the dinner cost will be confirmed once this information is received.

You must book separately for the Foxcroft Lecture, and this free event does book out – please follow this link to secure your place: https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/2019-foxcroft-lecture-unseen-art-first-fleet.

BSC Emerging Scholar Prize

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The Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC) invites applications for the Emerging Scholar Prize. The Prize promotes the work of a researcher who is beginning a career in the fields of book history and bibliography broadly defined, including a study of the creation, production, publication, distribution, transmission, history, and uses of printed books, manuscripts, or electronic texts. Preference will be given to topics with a Canadian dimension.

The recipient of the BSC Emerging Scholar Prize will be invited to deliver a paper at the Society’s annual conference. A revised article-length version of the paper will be published in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada / Cahiers de la Société bibliographique du Canada subject to peer review. A grant of $500 accompanies the Prize and may be used to help the recipient attend the annual BSC conference or to meet costs associated with research. The recipient will also receive a one-year complimentary membership in the BSC.

Students of any nationality enrolled in a master’s or doctoral program (e.g., MA, PhD, MLIS) are eligible, as is anyone who has completed such a program within the last two years from date of convocation. Individuals holding tenure track/continuing appointments are ineligible, as are members of the Awards Committee and the BSC Council. There are no restrictions regarding the topic of research so long as it relates to some aspect of bibliography or book history.

Council members of the Bibliographical Society of Canada are eligible for awards and fellowships unless they are serving on the executive, the Awards Committee, or the Fellowships Committee.

Applicants must submit the following documents electronically in English or in French, in a single PDF file in the following order:

  • A one-page cover letter that explains the applicant’s interest in and suitability for the prize;
  • A brief CV (max. three pages);
  • An abstract (max. 750 words, incl. bibliography) of the proposed paper;
  • Proof of student status or of graduation within the past two years (copy of diploma, copy of student identification, or official or unofficial transcript).
  • As well, one confidential letter of reference should be emailed directly by the referee. The letter may be given as text or sent as an attachment, but it must include the referee’s contact information and any institutional affiliation.
  • All application materials, including letters of reference, should be sent to Sarah Lubelski, Chair, BSC Awards Committee, awards_prix@bsc-sbc.ca, by December 7, 2018. Incomplete applications will not be considered. The recipient will be announced in February 2019.
  • Additional information about the award and the BSC can be found at: http://www.bsc-sbc.ca.