Seminar on Textual Bibliography
for Modern Foreign Languages

Monday, 24 May 2004
Meeting Room 4, Conference Centre, The British Library
96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB

PROGRAMME

11.15 NEIL HARRIS  (Udine)
Jacopo Corbinelli and the Paris imprints of La Bellamano by Giusto de’ Conti (1589, 1590, 1595): a bibliographical conundrum

12.00 Sherry

12.15 Lunch
(at participants’ own expense. Tables will be booked in the British Library Staff Restaurant, which offers a range of self-service meals.)

1.45 R.W. TRUMAN (Oxford)
The control of the book trade in Spain’s Golden Age: a failed attempt? Some notes and illustrations

2.30 W.A. KELLY (Edinburgh)
Printing as a health risk: an eighteenth-century German perspective

3.15 Tea

3.45 CONOR FAHY (Ely)
A work-flow chart for Paolo Manuzio's editions for the Accademia Veneziana, September 1558-January 1559

4.30 DAVID SHAW (CERL)
One Book, five printers: Franciscus Lichetus, Commentaria, Paris, 1520

The Seminar will end at 5.30 pm.


Please notify us by email or by post using the form attached if you are able to attend and if you wish to have lunch in the Restaurant (this will enable us to book for sufficient numbers). If you know of colleagues who might like to attend, please pass on the invitation.

Barry Taylor (barry.taylor@bl.uk;  tel 020 7412 7576)
Susan Reed (susan.reed@bl.uk;  tel 020 7412 7311)

 Early Printed Collections
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Pages created by D.J. Shaw.
David.Shaw@BibSoc.org.uk