Conference Announcement:
     
     Journeys Through the Market: Travel, Travellers
     and the Book Trade
     
     Annual two day conference on book trade history
     
     Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 November 1998 at
     Royal Geographical Society
     (with the Institute of British Geographers)
     1 Kensington Gore, London SW7
     
     Chair: Robin Myers
     Organiser: Michael Harris
     Fee: £75
     
     The annual conference on book trade history, organised
     through the Faculty of Continuing Education at Birkbeck
     College, will be held this year at the Royal
     Geographical Society in London. This provides an
     appropriate setting for the discussion of the
     production, collection and use of books on travel. Such
     material rapidly became a staple in the output of the
     book trade, crossing the boundaries of text and
     illustration and forming an area in which fact and
     fiction mingled together. Leading specialists will
     explore areas of the trade in travel books since the
     16th century and examine publications ranging from
     accounts of voyages and shipwrecks to the publication
     of guide books. The papers given at last year's
     conference, published by St Paul's Bibliographies under
     the title Medicine, Mortality and the Book Trade, will
     be available at a special rate. A selection of
     antiquarian books will also be available. The
     conference fee covers coffee, tea and a buffet lunch on
     both days, and anyone interested in book history will
     be welcome.
     
     Programme
     Saturday
     10.30am - 11.45am "Strange, remote, and farre distant
     countreys": The travel books of Richard Hakluyt
         Anthony Payne
     11.45am - 12 noon Coffee
     12 noon - 1.15pm The English Language Guidebooks to
     Europe before 1870
         Giles Barber
     1.15pm - 2.30pm Lunch
     2.30pm - 3.45pm The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in
     the 18th century
         Jeremy Black
     3.45pm - 4.00pm Tea
     4.00pm - 4.45pm The Printed Collections at the Royal
     Geographical Society
         Andrew Tatham
     4.45pm - 6.00pm Tour of the Collections
     
     Sunday
     10.30am - 11.30am Shipwrecks and Print during the 18th
     century
         Michael Harris
     11.30am - 11.45am Coffee
     11.45am - 1.00pm Kingdoms of the Mind: The Scottish
     Colonial Reader in the 19th century
         Bill Bell
     1.00pm - 2.30pm Buffet Lunch
     2.30pm - 3.45pm Illustrating Books about the Middle
     East, 1800-1850
         Charles Newton
     3.45pm - 4.00pm Tea
     4.00pm - 5.00pm Research and the History of Travel
     Books: Informal Panel Discussion
     
     The Speakers:
     
     Giles Barber worked in the Department of Printed Books,
     Bodleian Library and was Librarian of the Taylor
     Institution to 1996. He was Panizzi Lecturer at the
     British Library in 1988 and Sanders Reader at the
     University of Oxford in 1998 and is past President of
     the Bibliographical Society. He is currently
     cataloguing the books and fine bindings from the
     Rothschild collection at Waddesdon Manor.
     
     Bill Bell is Senior Lecturer in Literature and
     co-director of the Centre for the History of the Book
     at the University of Edinburgh. He is general editor,
     with Jonquil Bevan, of A History of the Book in
     Scotland, to be published in 4 volumes by the
     University of Edinburgh, and co-editor with Peter
     Garside of Volume 3 (1800-1880). He has written widely
     on 19th-century literature and culture.
     
     Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University
     of Exeter. His many books include The British Abroad:
     The Grand Tour in the 18th century (1992) and more
     recently a study of the cultural and political uses of
     historical maps, Maps and History: Constructing Images
     of the Past (1997).
     
     Michael Harris is Senior Lecturer in History in the
     Faculty of Continuing Education, Birkbeck College and
     is co-founder, with Robin Myers, of these conferences
     in book history (from 1979). He has written on various
     aspects of the history of print, mainly in serial form,
     and is currently working on a study of the construction
     and use of news.
     
     Charles Newton is Deputy Head of the collection of
     designs in the Department of Prints, Drawings and
     Paintings at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He has
     special responsibility for the Searight Collection of
     images of the Middle East.
     
     Anthony Payne is a Director of the London antiquarian
     booksellers, Bernard Quaritch Ltd and Honorary
     Secretary of the Hakluyt Society. His Hakluyt Society
     lecture Richard Hakluyt and His Books, published in
     1997, includes an interim census (compiled with P A
     Neville-Sington) of surviving copies of Hakluyt's
     Divers Voyages and Principal Navigations.
     
     Andrew Tatham is Keeper at the Royal Geographical
     Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). He
     is Head of Information Resources at the Royal
     Geographical Society and has written extensively on
     tactile mapping. He is President of the British
     Cartographic Society.
     
     To participate, please request an enrolment form from,
     and return it with your payment to:
     
     Carol Watts
     Faculty of Continuing Education
     26 Russell Square
     London WC1B 5DQ
     
     Tel 0171 631 6652
     Fax 0171 631 6686
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     Please include your full postal address in your
     message.
     
     Payment may be made by cheque, or by Mastercard, Visa,
     Switch or Delta cards.
     
      



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