LIBRARIES AND THE BOOK TRADE:
The formation of collections in the public sphere
from the 16th to the 20th century
Annual two-day conference on book trade history
Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 December 1999
at Honourable Artillery Company
Armoury House, City Road, London EC1
Chair: Organiser:
Robin Myers Michael Harris
The fee of 75 pounds includes coffee and tea and a buffet lunch on
both days
Collections of books which could be accessed by scholars and also a wider
public have played a crucial part in the construction of the print
culture. Libraries and the trade have provided a mutual stimulus and the
world-wide process of accumulation has itself been crucially informed by
commercial interests.
During this conference specialists from Europe, America and New
Zealand will explore the process of library building and associated
activities over the last four centuries. The papers given at last year's
conference, published by St Paul's Bibliographies under the title `Travel
and the Book Trade', will be available at a special rate. A selection of
antiquarian books will also be available for sale. The conference fee
covers coffee and a buffet lunch on both days, and anyone interested in
book history will be welcome. The conference is again supported by a grant
from the British Academy.
Programme
SATURDAY
10.30am - 11.45am Booksellers and librarians in 16th-century Cambridge
Elisabeth Leedham-Green
11.45am - 12.00 noon Coffee
12.00 noon - 1.15pm The construction of the circulating library during the
18th-century Keith Manley
1.15pm - 2.30pm Lunch
2.30pm - 3.45pm Collecting an Aldine: Castiglione's Libro del Cortegiano
(1528) through the centuries Conor Fahy
3.45pm - 4.15pm Tea
4.15pm - 5.30pm Bookbinding for libraries: a study of the functional
requirements of institutional and public libraries from the 15th-century
Esther Potter
SUNDAY
10.30am - 11.45am Willam Augustus White (1843-1927) and his
Elizabethan library Leslie Morris
11.45am - 12.00 noon Coffee
12.00 noon - 1.15pm `Mr Greenhill, whom you cannot get rid of': copyright,
legal deposit and the Stationers' Company in the 19th-century
Simon Eliot
1.15pm - 2.30pm Lunch
2.30pm - 3.45pm Latin Stock sales to the Bodleian Library
Julian Roberts
3.45pm - 4.15pm Tea
4.15pm - 5.30pm Persistence conquers distance: Sir George Grey (1812-98)
and the English antiquarian book trade Donald Kerr
Conference ends
The Speakers
Simon Eliot teaches literature at the Open University. He is co-editor of
volume 6 (1830-1914) of the History of the Book in Britain, an associate
editor of the New DNB and editor of `Publishing History'. He is currently
President of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and
Publishing (SHARP). He has published a microfilm edition of the
`Publishers' Circular 1837-1900' and `Some Patterns and Trends in British
Publishing 1800-1919' for the Bibliographical Society.
Conor Fahy is Emeritus Professor of Italian at Birkbeck College,
University of London. He is a leading authority in the field of Italian
bibliography. Among other projects he is currently working on a detailed
bibliographical study of the first edition of Castiglione's `Libro del
Cortegiano' (1528).
Donald Kerr is Librarian of Printed Collections at Auckland Central
Library, Auckland, New Zealand. He has completed a study of `Frank Wild
Reed and his Alexandre Dumas Pere collection' and is currently working on
Governor Sir George Gray as a book collector.
Elisabeth Leedham Green was until recently University Archivist at the
University Library Cambridge. Her study `Books in Cambridge Inventories'
(2 vols., 1986) has become a standard reference work. She runs Libri
Pertinente to publish books on medieval and early modern bibliography. She
is a general editor of the History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland and
is editor of volume 1 (to 1640).
Keith Manley is a librarian at the Institute of Historical Research,
University of London. He is editor of `Library History' and co-editor of
vol. 2 of the `History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland'. He is an
authority on the history of circulating libraries in 18th-century Britain.
Leslie Morris is Curator of manuscripts at the Houghton Library at Harvard
and was for some years Curator of Books and Manuscripts at the Rosenbach
Museum and library. She has organised major exhibitions at these
institutions and contributed to the Quaritch special issue of the `Book
Collector' (`Bernard Alfred Quaritch in America').
Esther Potter is an independent scholar specialising in the structure and
practices of the 19th-century bookbinding trade. She has twice given the
Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture at the Bibliographical Society and was
co-author, with Graham Pollard, of `Early Bookbinding Manuals'.
Julian Roberts was Assistant Keeper at the British Library before becoming
Deputy Librarian at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. He served
for several years as Hon. Secretary and later President of the
Bibliographical Society. He co-edited `John Dee's Library Catalogue'
(1990) and is currently working on the Latin Stock of the Stationers'
Company.
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College' or complete the Credit Card payment section. Return with
your payment to: Carol Watts, Faculty of Continuing Education,
Birkbeck College, 26 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DQ
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