The Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture
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With the 1995-96 season, the Society will return to its earlier meeting place of the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre in University College, London WC1. All meetings will begin at 5.30 p.m.
Tea will be served in the South Cloisters of University College (main building) at 4.45 p.m.
The AGM will take place at Freemasons' Hall on 17 October at 5.30; this will not be preceded by tea, but wine will be available after the meeting.
The Summer Visit will take place on 6 July 1996 to the Library of Ushaw College, Durham.
DAVID PEARSON
Hon. Secretary
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The AGM will be held at The Library, United Grand Lodge, Freemasons' Hall, 55-60 Great Queen Street, London WC2.
Following the business of the meeting, the Librarian, JOHN HAMILL, will introduce an exhibition of some interesting items showing the history of Freemasonry and its Library.
Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture
MICHAEL SUAREZ: Methodological considerations on English book sale catalogues as bibliographical evidence: a case study in the provenance and distribution of Dodsley's Collection of Poems, 1750-1795.
The paper will look at the question: How can evidence from book sale catalogues improve our understanding of distribution, readership, and ownership? and suggest ways in which our thinking on the subject may need revising.
DAVID ALEXANDER: Copperplate printing before the age of steel engraving: a survey of a neglected activity in the history of the print and book trades.
JOHN BUCHANAN-BROWN: The book trade in Herefordshire 1611-1851: a preliminary study based upon the minutes of the Haberdashers' Company of Hereford (1611-1771), the Worcester Postman (1711-1770) and the Hereford Journal (1770-1851).
BARRY MCKAY: The chapbook industry in Cumbria.
The lecture will discuss printers of chapbooks in Cumbria in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the chapbooks they produced, and the chapmen active in the county.
PETER MCDONALD: The book, the critic, and the field: the critical uses of book history.
Using material from a study of the literary field in London in the 1890s, the paper will consider tensions between textual scholars and literary critics, and outline a framework of investigation that incorporates book history, textual criticism, and literary criticism.
The Presidential Address
PETER ISAAC: John Murray II and his `spy': constancy and change among Murray's printers.
Thomas Davison, a north-easterner who migrated to London, was Murray's principal printer until his death in 1831. His work will be described, along with that of other important printers who worked for Murray in the twenty years following his purchase of 50 Albemarle Street.
The Homee Randeria Lecture
ANTHONY HOBSON: Bookbinding in Padua in the fifteenth century.
The Summer Visit
A visit to the Library of Ushaw College, Durham.
Further details will be published in The Library in 1996.
Maps and prints in the Italian Renaissance.
The eleventh series of Panizzi Lectures will take place on Thursday 23 November, Tuesday 28 November, and Thursday 30 November 1995.
They all start at 6.00 p.m. and will be held in the Lecture Theatre of the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1. All are welcome to attend.
These pages were created by David Shaw at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
D.J.Shaw@ukc.ac.uk