THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY

Monthly Lecture Programme

Session 2006 - 2007

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 2006 - 2007

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

17 October 2006

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING at Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y. Following the business of the meeting, the librarian of the Royal Society, Keith Moore, will introduce the Society's library and its collection.

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MONTHLY LECTURE PROGRAMME

14 November 2006 (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre; Tea in the South Cloisters)

GRACE IOPPOLO: "As good a play for your publique howse as euer was playd": Dramatists, Manuscript Records and Early Modern London Theatre

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19 December 2006 (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre; Tea in the Wilkins Garden Room)

DABNEY BANKERT: The Gentleman Philologist and Lexical Nationalism: The Making of Joseph Bosworth's 1838 A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language
Bosworth-Toller, as the Old English Dictionary has come to be known, is the foundation on which generations of scholars and translators have built; its compilation history, however, necessitates a reassessment of this impact

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16 January 2007 (Garwood Lecture Theatre, South Wing; Tea in the North Cloisters)

NESLIHAN SENOCAK: The Protection and Preservation of Books in the Medieval Franciscan Order. Having established libraries in their convents from an early date, Franciscans faced the challenge of how to protect these expensive commodities from external and internal threats, and make them accessible to friars.

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20 March 2007 (Garwood Lecture Theatre, South Wing; Tea in the South Cloisters)

COLIN LEE: Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1799-1848) lawyer, antiquary, and controversialist. An examination of part of his extensive and varied writings.

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Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture

17 April 2007 (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre; Tea in the Wilkins Garden Room)

MARTIN DAVIES: "Penny plain, tuppence coloured: Marketing Books with Sweynheym and Pannartz". A consideration of the illumination of the earliest books printed in Italy as part of a sales strategy.

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The Homee and Phiroze Randeria Lecture

15 May 2007 (Garwood Lecture Theatre, South Wing; Tea in the South Cloisters)

MARIANNE TIDCOMBE: The Woman Bookbinder of the William Morris Circle . Katharine Adams (1862 - 1952) counted among her customers Sydney Cockerell, C. H. St. John Hornby, C. Fairfax Murray, C. W. Dyson Perrins, and Emery Walker.

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The Summer Visit

Details will be announced in The Library for March 2007.

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Venues

All meetings will be held atUniversity College, Gower Street, London WC1, beginning at 6.00 p.m.

Tea will be served in the main building at 5.15 p.m. 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 nineteenth series of Panizzi lectures will be given by Professor Christopher Pinney on 'The Coming of Photography in India '. The lectures will take place on 7, 14 and 21 November 2006 at 6.15 p.m. 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 (telephone 020 7412 7222; e-mail: boxoffice@bl.uk).