THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
Session 1998-1999
The Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture
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Programme for the session 1998-1999
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Wednesday 21 October 1998
The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will be held at the Wellcome Institute Library, 183 Euston Road, London NW1. Following the business of the meeting, members will have an opportunity to see the Library and a display of selected items from the collections, following a brief introduction by the Librarian, DAVID PEARSON..
Tuesday 17 November 1998
Gustave Tuck Lecture TheatreNigel Ramsay
Around 1620: a turning point in the history of English libraries.
A discussion of certain trends in the history of private and institutional library formation in the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Tuesday 15 December 1998
Gustave Tuck Lecture TheatreRichard Ovenden
Lord William Howard as a collector of manuscripts
An account of the formation, growth and dispersal of the library of Lord William Howard of Naworth (1563-1640).
Tuesday 19 January 1999
Anatomy TheatreJulian Pooley
The Nichols Archive project.
An examination of documents created and accumulated by a remarkable family of printers and antiquaries between the birth of John Nichols (1745-1826) and the death of his grandson, John Gough Nichols (1806-1873).
Tuesday 16 February 1999
Anatomy TheatreBill Bell
Colonial emigres and exiles
Scottish readers in the Empire, 1800-1880.
Tuesday 16 March 1999
Anatomy TheatreJacqueline Glomski
'Incunabula typographiae': seventeenth-century views on early printing.
An investigation of attitudes towards incunabula and sixteenth-century imprints, and notions of rarity, at a time when the invention of printing was beginning to be explored.
Graham Pollard Memorial LectureTuesday 20 April 1999
Anatomy TheatreDavid Shaw
'Operum omnium longe maximum et laboriosissimum': fifty years at work on the Cathedral Libraries Catalogue.
Started in 1943, completed in 1998, the Catalogue has been another mammoth project for the Society. The Editor-in-Chief tells some of the inside stories and discusses the scope and potential usefulness of the Catalogue.
The Homee Randeria LectureTuesday 18 May 1999
Gustave Tuck Lecture TheatreCarmen Blacker and Mirjam Foot
Collector, dealer and forger: a fragment of nineteenth-century binding history.
This tells the story of the obsession of a collector, the dealer who supplied him with the treasures he desired, and the villain who took advantage of one - or possibly both?
Details will be announced in The Library for March 1999.
VenuesAll 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 Wellcome Institute Library on 21 October at 5.30; this will not be preceded by tea, but wine will be available after the meeting.
DAVID PEARSON
Hon. SecretaryThe Fourteenth series of Panizzi Lectures will be given by Dr Roger Chartier of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, on Publishing drama in early modern Europe.
The lectures will take place on three consecutive days: Tuesday 8 December (7.15 pm); Wednesday 9 December (6.15 pm); and Thursday 10 December (6.15 pm) 1998.
They will be held in the Conference Centre at the British Library, Euston Road, London NW1. All are welcome to attend but tickets (free) must be obtained in advance from the british Library Events Office.
These pages were created for The Bibliographical Society by David Shaw at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
Latest upate : 29 October 1998.
D.J.Shaw@ukc.ac.uk