http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/courses/summer-school-2018

The Bodleian Libraries Centre for the Study of the Book announces a Summer School in 2018, 25-29 JUNE [note correction of date!]:

The Scientific Image

The course is convened by Roger Gaskell.

Themes: Origination and transfer of images; relief, intaglio and lithographic printing; the role of the author, draughtsman and printmaker; formal analysis of images; text-image relationships; bibliographical description and cataloguing; the history of scientific, technical, medical, and natural history illustration.

The course includes examination of material from the Bodleian Libraries Special Collections, with lectures and demonstrations.

See images from last year's Summer School on Printed Book Illustration: http://bodleianlibs.tumblr.com/post/162312752450/sneak-peeks-at-the-history-of-printed-book

Applications are open. Details here: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/courses/summer-school-2018

Dr Alexandra Franklin, Project Co-ordinator Bodleian Libraries Centre for the Study of the Book Bodleian Library Broad Street Oxford OX1 3BG

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Tel.: +44 (0) 1865 277160

Dr Alexandra Franklin

Co-ordinator, Centre for the Study of the Book

Department of Special Collections
Bodleian Libraries
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG

Tel.: +44 (0) 1865 277160 (Mon-Wed)

OR

Tel.: +44 (0) 1865 277006 (Thu-Fri)

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website: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb