The Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture
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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Tuesday 21 October 1997
The Honourable Artillery Company, Armoury House, City Road, London EC1.
Following the business of the meeting, Jean Tsushima, Honorary Archivist to the Company, will present an exhibition of books from their collection.
Alison Shell
The publication of Philip Morant's History of Colchester in 1748.
An account of the turbulent publishing history of the book and its hidden political agenda, drawing especially on the extensive Morant archives at the Essex Record Office.
Jenny Stratford
The manuscripts of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, d.1397.
The discovery in the Bibliothèque municipale, Reims, of a previously unrecognised manuscript of Thomas of Woodstock, youngest son of Edward III, has prompted this study of manuscripts written and decorated in England for him and his wife, Eleanor Bohun.
Tuesday 20 January 1998
Anatomy Theatre
Germaine Warkentin
The world and the book at Penshurst: the second Earl of Leicester and his library.
An examination of the book collecting activities of Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1595-1677), based on four surviving book lists from different stages of his career.
Rowan Watson
The cult of the medieval miniature
Attitudes to illumination in the nineteenth century.
Judith Blezzard
Church music manuscripts in Tudor times: compilation and scribal practices.
A survey with particular reference to the Lumley books (British Library Royal Appendix mss 74-76) in their context of liturgical upheaval.
Tuesday 21 April 1998
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
Robin Myers
Andrew Coltee Ducarel as Lambeth Librarian, lawyer and public servant
Was the learned Doctor a sham? Ducarel's achievement reconsidered in the light of Edward Rowe Mores's vicious attack on him and of correspondence with Henry Hall and Philip Morant.
Tuesday 19 May 1998
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
Christian Coppens
The prize is the proof: four centuries of prize books.
An illustrated examination of the traditions for producing prize bindings in European countries.
Details will be issued at a later date
All meetings will be held in either the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre or the Anatomy Theatre of University College, Gower Street, London WC1, beginning at 5.30 p.m., unless indicated otherwise.
Tea will be served in the South Cloisters of University College (main building) at 4.45 p.m. Members are always welcome to bring guests, both to meetings and to the tea beforehand. Please note that tea will be in the Haldane Room on 16 December and 20 January.
The AGM will take place at the Honourable Artillery Company on 21 October at 5.30; this will not be preceded by tea, but wine will be available after the meeting.
DAVID PEARSON
Hon. Secretary
The thirteenth series of Panizzi Lectures will be given by Dr Mirjam Foot of the British Library, on A humble auxiliary discipline? The history of bookbinding as a mirror of society.
The lectures will take place on Thursday 20 November, Thursday 27 November and Thursday 4 December 1997.
They will start at 6.00 p.m. and will be held in the Conference Centre at the new British Library, Euston Road, London NW1. All are welcome to attend.
These pages were created for The Bibliographical Society by David Shaw at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
Latest upate : 6 March 1998.
D.J.Shaw@ukc.ac.uk