THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
Session 1999-2000
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Programme for the session 1998-1999
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Tuesday 19 October 1999
The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will be held at the Marx Memorial Library, 37a Clerkenwell Green, London EC1, October at 5.30; this will not be preceded by tea, but wine will be available after the meeting.
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, Tish Newland.
Tuesday 16 November 1999
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Michael Loewe
The Chinese encyclopaedia (Gujin tushu jicheng) of 1728.
Extending to 10,000 chapters, this work was reprinted in 1883 and 1890, and again recently in facsimile. Motives for its compilation owed much to ventures dating back to the 7th century; dynastic rivalries threatened its completion.
Tuesday 14 December 1999
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Andrew Pettegree
The sixteenth-century French religious book
A description of the work and findings of a survey of religious printing in France during a time of change
Tuesday 18 January 2000
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Laurence Worms
The search for John Senex, F.R.S.
An aspect of the early eighteenth-century London book trade.
Following the lecture, the Society's Gold Medal for distinguished service to bibliography will be presented to Mr Nicolas Barker, and to Professor Bernhard Fabian
The Presidential AddressTuesday 15 February 2000
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.David McKitterick
Women and their books in seventeenth-century England
The case of Elizabeth Puckering in London and Warwickshire
Tuesday 21 March 2000
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Peter Lucas
From politics to practicalities
Printing Anglo-Saxon in the context of seventeenth-century scholarship
Tuesday 18 April 2000
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Ann Veenhoff and Marja Smolenaars
"Mr Samuel Smith, bookseller to the Royal Society, deals very much in books of a foreign growth ..."
On the track of a seventeenth-century stationer
The Homee Randeria LectureTuesday 16 May 2000
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 6.00 p.m.Jan Storm van Leeuwen
An aspect of bookbinding history, title to be announced.
Details will be announced in The Library for March 2000.
VenuesAll meetings will be held in the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre of University College, Gower Street, London WC1, beginning at 6.00p.m. (Note new time: not 5.30)
Tea will be served in the South Cloisters of University College (main building) at 5.15 p.m. (again, note new time: not 4.45). Members are always welcome to bring guests, both to meetings and to the tea beforehand.
The AGM will take place at the Marx Memorial Library on 19 October at 5.30; this will not be preceded by tea, but wine will be available after the meeting.
DAVID PEARSON
Hon. SecretaryThe fifteenth series of Panizzi lectures will be given by Professor Glen Dudbridge of the University of Oxford on `Lost books of medieval China'.
The lectures will take place on Monday 8 November, Monday 15 November and Monday 22 November 1999 at 6.15 p.m. in the Conference Centre of the British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB.
All are welcome to attend, but tickets (free) must be obtained in advance from the British Library Events Office (phone 0171 412 7222; email boxoffice@bl.uk).
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Latest upate : 29 September 1999.
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