The Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture
Lecture programme for other years
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All meetings (except for the AGM) will be held in 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 be held at the Society of Antiquaries.
The Summer Visit will be to the Library of Sir John Soane's Museum, London.
DAVID PEARSON
Hon. Secretary
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Monday, 14 October 1996
The Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1
The Librarian, Bernard Nurse, will give a brief address on the history of the Library.
Tuesday 19 November 1996
Anne Hargreaves
Theory and practice for early modern operators
A brief account of the relationship between the book trade and some aspects of surgical education in Tudor and Stuart England.
Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture
Tuesday 17 December 1996
Michelle Brown
Excavating the Book of Cerne
The Book of cerne is a ninth-century prayer book. This paper will discuss how the methods employed in the study of an Anglo-Saxon 'monument' and the issues raised are of broader relevance to the history of book production.
Tuesday 21 January 1997
Michael Phillips
Blake's Songs of Experience: towards a biography of the book.
The lecture will be concerned with dating the manuscript drafts, placing them in the immediate historical and social contexts that occasioned their creation, and with discussing the colour-printing method developed to reproduce the first copies.
Tuesday 18 February 1997
John Flood
'God has given us the printing press chiefly so that we may pressurize the Pope'. Printers and artists in the German Reformation.
Several significant Reformation anniversaries fall in 1996-1997: the death of Luther (450th), and the births of Philipp Melanchthon (500th) and Lucas Cranach (525th). The lecture will focus on Cranach's collaboration with Luther and Melanchthon over the illustration of Luther's New Testament translation and other books from Wittenberg presses.
Tuesday 18 March 1997
Philip Harris
Sic transit ... The British Museum Library, 1753-1973.
The paper will consider the good (and less good) qualities which the Library developed over 200 years, and the transformation which has taken place since the British Library was formed.
Tuesday 15 April 1997
Roy Shipperbottom
Eighteenth-century cookery books
The printing, publishing and distribution of cookery books and a look at subscriptions, pirates and plagiarists. It is hoped that various biscuits and confections from the receipts of the time will be available to taste.
Tuesday 20 May 1997
Esther Potter
Benjamin West, ca 1804-1883, bookbinder.
Benjamin West was celebrated for making bookbindings 'just like extra morocco' at a thrid of the normal price: the paper considers his output stylistically and technically, based on the collection of West bindings in the National Art Library.
The Summer Visit
A visit to the Library of Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2.
Further details will be issued with The Library in March 1997.
The next Presidential Address will be in the 1997-98 Session.
The twelfth series of Panizzi Lectures will be given by Dr Charles Burnett of the Warburg Institute, on The introduction of Arabic learning to England in the Middle Ages.
The lectures will take place on Wednesday 20 November, Monday 25 November and Friday 29 November 1996.
They will 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.
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