In addition to its quarterly scholarly journal, Script and Print, the Society from time to time issues monographs, which are refereed scholarly works deemed too lengthy for publication as journal articles.
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The following is a list of BSANZ Occasional Publications, with availability and pricing information.
Carlo Dumontet Collation, Reference Notation, & Statement of Signing 109pp. ISBN: 9780645666229. AUD$25 Members AUD$20 Non-members. Please add $A15 per order for postage and handling within Australia, and A$25 per order for postage and handling to any other destination.
This workbook discusses the various techniques which can be employed in book collation writing in order to provide readers with the capacity to construct collations and to interpret published ones. W.W. Greg’s and Fredson Bowers’s approach is discussed in depth, together with Thomas Tanselle’s view on how to handle inserted leaves. Upon this Greg-Bowers-Tanselle bedrock other possible solutions are also discussed. The exposition relies on a large number of examples and also on some exercises in order to render this workbook as practical a tool as possible. This workbook will be an invaluable guide for students of bibliography, early printed books cataloguers, and booksellers, but it is hoped that all those engaged in collation-writing may find it a useful reference tool.
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Donald Jackson Kerr. Awakening a Curate’s Library: The Rev. William Arderne Shoults (1839–1887) His life, his book collection and his legacy to New Zealand, 376 pp., illustrated. ISBN: 9780645666205 (cased) AUD$65 non-members AUD$50 members. Ebook ISBN: 9780645666212. Please add $A15 per order for postage and handling within Australia, and A$25 per order for postage and handling to any other destination.
This book is the first to provide an account
of the life of Rev. William Arderne Shoults (1839–1887) and his book collecting. It is also the first detailed examination of a true survivor, his book collection of some 5600 items, including medieval manuscripts, incunables, books on ecclesiastical history and primitive church rites and rituals, philology, bibliography, science, travel, and Arabic and Persian texts.
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Jennifer Alison. Doing Something for Australia: George Robertson and the Early Years of Angus and Robertson, Publishers, 1888–1900. 2010. 318 pp, illustrated. ISBN 978 0 9751 5003 0 (cased) A$55, A$38 (BSANZ Individual Members).
A study of A&R’s business records, providing production numbers, sales figures, reviews and reader reception information.
Edited collection. The Culture of the Book: Essays from Two Hemispheres in honour of Wallace Kirsop 1999. 504 pages (xxx + 474) with 28 black & white illustrations. Case bound with dustjacket. A$100; A$65 (BSANZ individual members).
This collection of 36 essays by scholars in Britain, Ireland, France, Belgium, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand reflects the range and diversity of Wallace Kirsop’s interests, from sixteenth century alchemy to the modern Australian book trade.
Stephen Herrin. The Development of Printing in Nineteenth-Century Ballarat. 1999. 164 pages (xii + 152) with 20 black & white illustrations. Paperback A$30 (Australia and New Zealand) A$25 (Personal members of the BSANZ).
The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand’s Silver Jubilee Prize winner, Herrin’s study of printing in colonial Ballarat — the capital of the Victorian goldfields — is a groundbreaking work. Herrin weaves the various elements — early printing, technological change and innovation, the social and political history, industrial relations, jobbing printing, newspaper publishing, lithography and engraving — into a concise and readable history of printing in Ballarat, a region of immense importance to the development of Australia’s national identity. Includes a comprehensive checklist of works published in nineteenth-century Ballarat.
Ian Morrison. The Publishing Industry in Colonial Australia: a name index to John Alexander Ferguson’s Bibliography of Australia 1784-1900. Melbourne, BSANZ, 1996. ISBN 0 9598271 6 1 (hb) 0 9598271 5 3 (pbk) (Members $40 hb. $20 pbk; Non-members $50 hb. $30 pbk).
Wallace Kirsop. Books for Colonial Readers: the nineteenth-century Australian experience. Melbourne, BSANZ in association with The Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, 1995. ISBN 0959827145 (Members $15; Non-members $20).
Rosemary Foxton. ‘Hear the Word of the Lord’: A Critical and Bibliographical Study of Quaker Women’s Writing, 1650-1700. Melbourne, BSANZ, 1994. ISBN 0959827137 (Members $10; Non-members $15).
Trevor Mills. Rare Books Collections in Australian Libraries. Melbourne, BSANZ, 1985. ISBN 0959827129 (Members $5; Non-members $10).
K. I. D. Maslen. Victorian Typefaces in Dunedin, New Zealand. Melbourne, BSANZ, 1981. ISBN 0959827110 (Members $5; Non-members $10).
J. C. T. Oates. The Manuscripts of Thomas Erpenius; and John Fletcher, Pieter Nuyts and his “Album Amicorum”. Melbourne, BSANZ, 1974. ISBN 0969827102, OUT OF PRINT.
Availability
For orders, please contact the Occasional Publications Manager:
Amanda Laugesen
Email: amanda.laugesen@anu.edu.au
Payment should be in Australian dollars. Cheques should be made out to the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand. Please add $A15 per order for postage and handling within Australia, and A$25 per order for postage and handling to any other destination.