THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY

Monthly Lecture Programme

Session 2004 - 2005

Monthly lecture programme

Annual General Meeting

The Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture

The Homee and Phiroze Randeria Lecture

The Panizzi Lectures

Summer Visit

Venues

Programme for earlier years

Programme for the session 2004 - 2005

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The AGM will take place at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, WC1 on 19 October 2004 at 5.30; this will not be preceded by tea, but wine will be available after the meeting.

After the business of the meeting Mr. Peter Hingley, librarian, will give a brief introduction to the collection and show some of its highlights.

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MONTHLY LECTURE PROGRAMME

Tuesday 16 November 2004 (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre)

Adam Fox: Cheap Political Print and its Audience in Later Seventeenth-Century London: the case of Narcissus Luttrell's 'Popish Plot' Collections.

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Tuesday 14 December 2004 (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre)

Anthony Rooley: ‘Take, Oh Take Those Lips Away': Shakespeare's beguiling lyric from 'Measure for Measure' is explored in depth, with fresh interpretations of its original meaning and function, with reference to some of the numerous settings over four centuries; a slice of the 'geological strata of English Song' .

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Tuesday 18 January 2005 (Embryology Lecture Theatre)

Liz Evenden: Hunting Foxes: A Book Historian's View of the 'Book of Martyrs'.

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Tuesday 15 February 2005 (Embryology Lecture Theatre)

M. Antoni J. Ucerler: Gutenberg Travels East: The Jesuit Mission Press in Japan, 1588-1620: On the introduction of the printing press to 'Warring States' Japan and its use by Jesuit missionaries as a means of cultural and religious interaction with the Japanese .

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Tuesday 15 March 2005 (Embryology Lecture Theatre)

Bettye Chambers: Unmasking the unidentified: various techniques for identifying books that have lost their title page, and perhaps much more, with examples taken from 16th- and 17th-century French Bibles .”

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Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture

Tuesday 19 April 2005 (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre)

Brenda Hosington: Translation and Early English Printing, 1475-1550: New Facts and New Approaches.

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The Homee and Phiroze Randeria Lecture

Tuesday 17 May 2005 (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre)

Martin Davies: A Tale of Two Aesops . An investigation of two unique copies of Aesop in French, both printed at Lyons but without printer, place or date. The first dates from the early 1480s and is remarkable for its type and illustration and for its unsuspected connexion with Caxton, and the second is a chapbook of the early 17th century, tied to the earlier edition by its reuse of the same woodblocks.

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The Summer Visit

Details will be announced in The Library for March 2005.

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Venues

Meetings will be held at University College, Gower Street, London WC1, beginning at 6.00 p.m. The Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre is located on the second floor, Main Building (South). The Embryology Lecture Theatre is located in the Medical Sciences and Anatomy Building (exit main gate, turn left on Gower St. for approx. 100 metres to entrance marked "Biological Sciences").

Tea will be served in the South Cloisters of University College (main building) at 5.15 p.m., except on 14 December, when tea will be served in the Garden Room (off South Cloisters). Members are welcome to bring guests, both to meetings and to the tea beforehand.

Margaret Ford
Hon. Secretary

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PANIZZI LECTURES

The 2004 Panizzi lectures will be given by Maria Luisa López-Vidriero on 'The Polished Cornerstones of the Temple: Queenly Libraries of the Enlightenment'.

Monday 22 November: A Weakness for Reading: Heavy Books in Light Hands.
Monday 29 November: Libraries Under the Philosophical Eye: Caroline of Ansbach and Elizabeth Farnese.
Monday 6 December: Towards a Female Literary Canon.

The lectures are at 6.15pm in the Conference Centre of the British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB. Tickets (free) must be obtained in advance from the British Library Box Office (phone 020 7412 7222; email: boxoffice@bl.uk).

Pages updated on: August 23, 2005