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
     E-mail: [log in to unmask]
     
     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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