Submitted by David Shaw on 28 January 2019 - 9:16pm
Barry Taylor (British Library) has reported a new Dee item in Dr William's Library, London.
It is no. 490 in the Bibliographical Society's publication of the facsimile of Dee's catalogue (Roberts and Watson, 1990): 'Vite de piu eccelle[n]ti artichitetti, pittori &c da Giorgio Vasari: 4°. 2 tomis flor. 1550.' http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/content/john-dees-library-catalogue
Submitted by Christopher Adams on 28 January 2019 - 3:47pm
From time to time the Society awards a Gold Medal for distinguished services to bibliography to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the development of the subject and the furtherance of the Society’s aims. Forty-four awards have been made since the Medal Fund was established in 1929 and recipients since 1990 have been Nicolas Barker, Bernhard Fabian, Lotte Hellinga, Don McKenzie, David McKitterick, Henri-Jean Martin, Paul Needham, Mirjam Foot, G. Thomas Tanselle and James Mosley.
Submitted by David Shaw on 17 August 2018 - 12:03pm
An updated version of the Index of provenances and former owners from David Selwyn's Edmund Geste and his books (Bibliographical Society, 2017) is now available online at http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/Geste/Provenances.
Submitted by David Shaw on 19 December 2017 - 1:41pm
The Post-Dissolution Wandering of Books from England’s Medieval Libraries.
Guest-edited by James Carley
The Library is happy to announce the fourth of its annual 'Virtual Issues' which focuses on the Post-Dissolution Wandering of Books from England’s Medieval Libraries. The articles presented are free to download until the end of March 2018.
Submitted by Hannah Pope on 16 November 2017 - 2:45pm
The official opening of the Stationers’ Company’s new archive room and reading room took place on 10th November 2017, and represented a milestone in improving access to its unique and priceless archive, both for members of the Company and the general public.
