News, Programs, Publications, and Awards
2018; Bibliographical Society of America; Volume: 112; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1086/700180
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ResumoPrevious articleNext article FreeSociety InformationNews, Programs, Publications, and AwardsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreNewsThe William L. Mitchell Prize for Bibliography or Documentary Work on Early British PeriodicalsAt its annual meeting in January 2018, the Bibliographical Society of America awarded its sixth triennial William L. Mitchell Prize for Bibliography or Documentary Work on Early British Periodicals to Paul Tankard for his edition Facts and Inventions: Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell (Yale University Press, 2014). Tankard, who took his PhD from Monash University in 2003, is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Otago, in New Zealand. His edition provides a lengthy, insightful introduction to Boswell’s career, strategies, manner, and achievement as a frequent writer for the British press and also to the fourteen newspapers and magazines to which he contributed. With assistance from Lisa Marr, Tankard has edited 130 pieces of journalism dating from 1758–1794, grouped by theme, the great majority unpublished since the 1800s. They receive commentary in headnotes and fulsome footnotes. The apparatus filling out the volume’s 500 pages includes a section with attribution details and textual variants (some in Boswell’s hand on his archive of clippings), a chronological list of articles, a bibliography, index, and nineteen plates. Tankard’s work reveals Boswell as a “busy professional writer with an almost constant presence in the British press,” to which he contributed over 600 pieces.Call for Society Archives MaterialsShould you have BSA historical material that may be suitable for the BSA Archives in formation, kindly get in touch with Grolier Club Librarian, Meghan Constantinou ([email protected]; 212-838-6690) to make arrangements for sending your material to the Grolier Club Library, which is the repository for the BSA records. The BSA Archive is particularly in need of officer’s records, councilor’s files, and BSA documents from the 1904–1950 era. With the appreciation of the BSA Archives Working Group, R. Dyke Benjamin, Chair, BSA Archives Working Group.BSA EventsThe society sponsored two panels at this year’s annual convention of the Renaissance Society of America, held in New Orleans 22–24 March 2018. The first, “Management and Reception of Renaissance Libraries,” featured Paola Molino speaking on the Imperial Library of Vienna before and after the Thirty Year’s War, Guy Lazure on the Escorial Library in the Republic of Letters, and Paul Nelles on Antonio Possevino and record management in sixteenth-century Rome. In the second panel, “New Directions in Woodblock Studies,” Erin Blake spoke on cataloguing woodblocks and copperplates for research and discovery, Kristin L. Huffman on the woodblocks of Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of Venice, and Ilaria Andreoli on the Correr collection of woodblocks.This year’s Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America/BSA co-sponsored talk at the 51st California International Antiquarian Book Fair was held at the Convention Center in Pasadena. Billed as a “Monster Gathering of Rare Book Lovers,” the conference theme marked the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. On Saturday 10 February, BSA member Sidney E. Berger spoke to a large audience of fairgoers on “Frankenstein in the Popular Imagination.” Currently Professor of Library and Information Science at Simmons College and at the library school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sid was formerly head of the Special Collections at the University of California, Riverside, which has notable collections of Frankenstein editions and ephemera in its Eaton Collection, some of which were on view in a Featured Exhibit at the Book Fair.Ernst Reichl WebsiteMartha Scotford, Professor Emeritus at North Carolina State University, would like to announce the unveiling of her website dedicated to the American book designer, Ernst Reichl, and his design work from the 1930s through the 1970s. He was active in trade publishing in New York, involved in the American Institute of Graphic Arts activities, and twenty-six of his books made their 50 Books selection. The site was supported in part by the Society’s 2012 Reese Fellowship and can be found at http://www.ernstreichl.org/.BibSite AdditionShef Rogers’s article, “‘To Accommodate the Purchasers of Former Editions’: Publishers’ Supplements to Printed Works in the Eighteenth Century,” published in the September 2016 issue of PBSA, was supported by data in an Excel spreadsheet. Rather than print what is more usable as a searchable, sortable list, the data has been put on the BSA’s BibSite, but no note in the article indicated the location of the supporting data. Anyone is welcome to use the data and Shef would be delighted to learn of additions to the list ([email protected]).Call for Addenda and Corrigenda: A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 through 1820Since its publication in 2012 by the Pennsylvania State University Press for the Bibliographical Society of America, readers have kindly reported several newly discovered editions and a few corrections to Roger E. Stoddard’s American Verse. At Mr. Stoddard’s request, the book’s editor, David R. Whitesell, has assumed responsibility for collecting and disseminating addenda and corrigenda. Readers are encouraged to submit reports of unrecorded editions, additions, and corrections to information published in American Verse, and reports of copies either not noted or not described by Stoddard. Addenda and corrigenda will be published periodically in an appropriate forum, such as the Bibliographical Society of America’s BibSite, http://bibsocamer.org/bibsite-home/.Please submit all information to: David R. Whitesell, Curator, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400110, Charlottesville, VA 22904; [email protected].American Verse encompasses “all the poetry composed in what is now the United States of America and printed, in the form of books or pamphlets, before 1821. No broadside (a single leaf printed on one or both sides) or leaflet (two conjugate leaves) is included… . Also omitted is ‘incidental verse,’ that is, poetry printed in the midst of or appended to a prose work. If, however, a poem is cited on the title-page of a prose work, then that work is described. All languages are included, as well as translations, and there is no limit on place of publication.”❧ProgramsAnnual MeetingThe Bibliographical Society of America held its annual meeting at the Cosmopolitan Club in New York on Friday, 26 January 2018 at 4 pm. The meeting featured a panel that discussed future trends in bibliographical research (Hwisang Cho, David L. Gants, Heather O’Donnell, and Erin Schreiner) and was preceded at 2 pm by papers delivered by the Society’s 2018 New Scholars (Rhae Lynn Barnes, Tess Goodman, and Andrew Keener). The next meeting will take place in New York on Friday, 25 January 2019 at 4 pm.New Scholars ProgramThe Bibliographical Society of America each year invites three scholars in the early stages of their careers to present twenty-minute papers on their current, unpublished research in the field of bibliography as members of a panel at the annual meeting of the Society, which takes place in New York City in late January. The New Scholars Program seeks to promote the work of scholars who are new to the field of bibliography, broadly defined to include any research that deals with the creation, production, publication, distribution, reception, transmission, and subsequent history of texts as material objects (print or manuscript). Papers of new scholars are published in the December issue of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America as part of the proceedings of the annual meeting. The 2018 BSA New Scholars are Rhae Lynn Barnes (Princeton University), Tess Goodman (University of Edinburgh), and Andrew Keener (Northwestern University).Junior (i.e., untenured) faculty and graduate students at the dissertation level are eligible, as are professional librarians, members of the book trade, and book collectors who are at the beginning of their careers. Candidates should submit a letter of application, an abstract of not more than 250 words, and a curriculum vitae. Graduate students should also submit a letter of recommendation from their dissertation director. For submissions to be considered for the following January, materials should be received by 31 July.New Scholars selected for the panel receive a subvention of $600 toward the cost of attendance at the annual meeting and a complimentary one-year membership in the Bibliographical Society of America. For further information on the New Scholars Program, see http://bibsocamer.org/awards/new-scholars-program/. Inquiries regarding the program may be directed to John A. Buchtel, Chair, New Scholars Program, at [email protected].❧FellowshipsAnnual FellowshipsEvery year the Society offers a variety of fellowship in support of bibliographical inquiry and research in the history of the book trades and in publishing history:The Katharine Pantzer Senior Fellowship in Bibliography and the British Book Trades ($6,000) supports research in topics relating to book production and distribution in Britain during the hand-press period as well as studies of authorship, reading and collecting based on the examination of British books published in that period, with a special emphasis on descriptive bibliography. 2018 Winner: Cathleen Baker, “New Research into John Baskerville’s Virgil (1757).”The BSA-ASECS Fellowship for Bibliographical Studies in the Eighteenth Century ($3,000). Recipients must be a member of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies at the time of the award. 2018 Winner: Soren Hammerschmidt, “Modular Pope: Letters, Portraits, and Recycled Print.”The BSA-Harry Ransom Center Pforzheimer Fellowship in Bibliography (two awards at $3,000 each) supports the bibliographical study of early modern books and manuscripts, 1455–1700, held in the Ransom Center’s Pforzheimer Library and in related collections of early printed books and manuscripts, including the Pforzheimer Gutenberg Bible. 2018 Winner: Brett Greatley-Hirsch, “James Shirley’s Hyde Park: A Critical Edition.”The BSA-Mercantile Library Fellowship in North American Bibliography ($3,000) supports scholarship in North American bibliography, including studies in the North American book trade, production and distribution of North American books, North American book illustration and design, North American collecting and connoisseurship and North American bibliographical history in general. No 2018 Award.The BSA-Pine Tree Foundation Fellowship in Culinary Bibliography ($3,000) supports the bibliographical study of printed and manuscript cookbooks (once commonly known as receipt books); medical recipe books that also contain culinary recipes; other types of books, manuscript, and printed material that include a substantial body of culinary recipes; treatises on and studies of gastronomy; or memoirs, diary accounts, or descriptions of food and cooking. Projects may cover any period or country. 2018 Winner: Anny Gaul, “From ‘Master of Cooks’ to ‘Fundamentals of Cooking’: A History of Early Arabic Print Cookbooks.”The BSA-Pine Tree Foundation Fellowship in Hispanic Bibliography ($3,000) supports the bibliographical study of printed and manuscript items: 1) in the Spanish language produced during any period and in any country; or 2) in any language provided they were produced in Spain, or in its overseas dominions during the time of Spanish sovereignty; or 3) the bibliographical study of book and manuscript collections in Spain, or in its overseas dominions during the time of Spanish sovereignty; or 4) the bibliographical study of Spanish-language book and manuscript collections during any period and in any country. 2018 Winner: Corinna Zeltsman, “Ink Under the Fingernails: Printers and Liberalism in 19th-Century Mexico.”The Charles J. Tanenbaum Fellowship in Cartographical Bibliography ($3000) supports projects dealing with all aspects of the history, presentation, printing, design, distribution and reception of cartographical documents from Renaissance times to the present, with a special emphasis on eighteenth-century cartography. Funded by the Pine Tree Foundation of New York. 2018 Winner: Chet Van Duzer, “Venturing into Unexplored Bibliographical Territory: Cartographic Cartouches.”The Katharine Pantzer Fellowship in the British Book Trades ($3,000) supports bibliographical inquiry as well as research in the history of the book trades and publishing history in Britain. 2018 Winner: Adam Hooks, “Counting Shakespeare.”The McCorison Fellowship for the History and Bibliography of Printing in Canada and the United States ($3,000). Funded by a gift of Donald Oresman. 2018 Winner: Simon Rowberry, “Digital Publishing Before the Web.”The Reese Fellowship for American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas ($3,000). The fellowship may be awarded to any scholar, whether academic or independent, whose project explores the history of print culture in the Western Hemisphere. 2018 Winner: Kaja Marczewska, “Anti-book and 1970s self-publishing practices in the USA.”BSA Short-term Fellowships ($3,000). The Society also offers a number of unnamed, short-term fellowships supporting bibliographical research as described above. 2018 Winners: Richard Calis, “Early Modern Codicology: the Case of Martin Crusius”; S Kaplan, “Se livre est a madame de Bourbon’: Agnès de Bourgogne, Duchess of Bourbon (1434–1456) and the Female Cultural Networks of Bourbon and Burgundy in the 15th Century”; Julia Mattison, “The Circulation of French Manuscripts in England”; and Tali Winkler, “The Role of Early Modern German Book Fairs in Jewish Economic, Cultural, and Intellectual Life.”BSA Travel Grant. 2018 Winner: Alessandro Meregaglia, “Caxton Printers of Idaho and the Development of Regional Publishers in the American West.”Applications are due 1 December of each year, and winners are announced at the annual meeting of the Society the following January. Details of the program are located at http://bibsocamer.org/awards/fellowships/, or can be had by contacting Gerald Cloud, Chair of the Fellowship Committee, [email protected].❧Triennial AwardsWilliam L. Mitchell PrizeThe Bibliographical Society of America invites submissions for its seventh William L. Mitchell Prize for Bibliography or Documentary Work on Early British Periodicals or Newspapers. The next competition has the deadline of 30 September 2019 and will consider works (including theses, articles, books, and electronic resources) published after 31 December 2017. The winner of the William L. Mitchell Prize will receive a cash award of $1,000 and a year’s membership in the Society.The Mitchell Prize for research on British serials was endowed to honor William L. Mitchell, former librarian at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas, where he was curator of the Richmond P. and Marjorie N. Bond Collection of 18th-Century British Newspapers and Periodicals and of the Edmund Curll Collection. It was conceived and mainly endowed by Mitchell’s colleague at the Kenneth Spencer Library, Alexandra Mason. The Prize serves as an encouragement to scholars engaged in bibliographical scholarship on 18th-century periodicals published in English or in any language but within the British Isles and its colonies and former colonies.Submissions for the Mitchell Prize may concentrate on any periodicals or newspapers printed before 1800 in English-speaking countries, but should involve research into primary sources of historical evidence, such as the analysis of the physical objects, whether for establishing a text or understanding the history of the production, distribution, collecting, or reading of serial publications. For examples of the kind of scholarship falling within the Prize’s survey, please see the descriptions of previous winners.Eligible scholarship may take the form of a book or article, a Master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation defended and approved, or research results distributed in another manner, such as on a website or a CD-ROM. Eligible scholarship must have been published or, if a dissertation or thesis, approved during the year of the deadline or the three previous calendar years. If a publication has an incorrect nominal date disqualifying it for submission but an actual date of publication within the prize period, it may be nominated with a letter by the publisher or editor testifying to the actual date of publication. Unpublished dissertations and theses must be accompanied by a letter from their authors’ directors attesting to their having been approved.For further information on the Mitchell Prize and how to apply, see the Society website at http://bibsocamer.org/awards/william-l-mitchell-prize/.Justin G. Schiller PrizeEndowed by Justin G. Schiller, a dealer in antiquarian children’s books and past member of the BSA Council, the Schiller Prize for Bibliographical Work on Pre-20th-Century Children’s Books is intended to encourage scholarship in the bibliography of historical children’s books. It brings a cash award of $3,000 and a year’s membership in the Society. The 2013 winner was Kyle B. Roberts for his essay “Rethinking The New-England Primer.”The next Schiller Prize will be awarded at the Society’s 2016 Annual Meeting. Works put into nomination, which must be in English, may concentrate on any children’s book printed before the year 1901 in any country or any language. Submissions should involve research into bibliography and printing history broadly conceived and should focus on the physical book as historical evidence for studying topics such as the history of book production, publication, distribution, collecting, or reading. Studies of the printing, publishing, and allied trades, as these relate to children’s books, are also welcome.Eligible scholarship may take the form of a published book or article, a master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation that has been defended and approved, or research results distributed in another manner, such as on a website or a CD-ROM. For further information on the Schiller Prize, including upcoming submission deadlines and how to apply, see the Society’s website at http://bibsocamer.org/awards/justin-g-shiller-prize/.St. Louis Mercantile Library PrizeFunded by the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, an institutional member of the Society, this prize encourages scholarship in the bibliography of American history and literature. Awarded every three years, the prize brings a cash award of $2,000 and a year’s membership in the Society.Submissions for the Mercantile Library Prize should concentrate on some aspect of American history and culture in territories that now comprise the United States, or on literature by American authors, or literature intended for publication in territories that now comprise the United States. They should involve research in bibliography and printing history broadly conceived and focus on the book (the physical object) as historical evidence for studying topics such as the history of book production, publication, distribution, collecting, or reading. Studies of the printing, publishing, and allied trades, as these relate to American history and literature, are especially welcome.Submissions may take the form of a published book or article, a master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation defended and approved, or research results distributed in another manner, such as the World-Wide-Web site or CD-ROM. Submissions must have been published or, if a dissertation or thesis, approved the year of the deadline or the three previous calendar years. If a publication has an incorrect nominal date disqualifying it for submission but an actual date of publication within the prize period, it may be nominated with a letter by the publisher or editor testifying to the actual date of publication. Unpublished dissertations and theses must be accompanied by a letter from the director attesting their approval. For further information on the Mercantile Library Prize, including upcoming submission deadlines and how to apply, see the Society website at http://bibsocamer.org/awards/st-louis-mercantile-library-prize/.❧Publications of The SocietyAvailable through Pennsylvania State University PressKaren Nipps, Lydia Bailey: A Checklist of Her Imprints (2013).Roger E. Stoddard, edited by David R. Whitesell, A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820 (2012).Catherine M. Parisian, ed., The First White House Library: A History and Annotated Catalogue (2010).Available through Oak Knoll PressTrevor Howard-Hill, The British Book Trade 1475–1890: A Bibliography (2009).Andrea Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823–50 (2008).Milton McC Gatch, The Library of Leander van Ess and the Earliest American Collections of Reformation Pamphlets (2007).Brian Alderson and Felix de Marez Oyens, Be Merry and Wise: Origins of Children’s Book Publishing in England 1650–1850 (2006).Kenneth E. Carpenter, The Dissemination of “The Wealth of Nations” in French and in France, 1776–1843 (2002).Sidney F. and Elizabeth S. Huttner, A Register of Artists, Engravers, Booksellers, Bookbinders, Printers & Publishers in New York City, 1821–42 (1993).K. I. D. Maslen, An Early London Printing House at Work: Studies in the Bowyer Ledgers, with a Supplement to the Bowyer Ornament Stock (1973), an Appendix on the Bowyer-Emonson Partnership, and “Bowyer’s Paper Stock Ledger” by Herbert Davis (1993).K. I. D. Maslen and John Lancaster, eds., The Bowyer Ledgers: The Printing Accounts of William Bowyer Father and Son Reproduced on Microfiche, with a Checklist of Bowyer Printing 1699–1777, a Commentary, Indexes, and Appendixes (1991).Staffan Fogelmark, Flemish and Related Panel-Stamped Bindings: Evidence and Principles (1990).C. Paul Christianson, A Directory of London Stationers and Book Artisans 1300–1500 (1990).William B. Todd and Anne Bowden, Tauchnitz International Editions in English 1841–1955: A Bibliographical History (1988).The Bibliographical Society of America, 1904–79: A Retrospective Collection (1980).Sidney L. Gullick, A Chesterfield Bibliography to 1800 (1979).Hazel A. Johnson, A Checklist of New London, Connecticut, Imprints, 1709–1800 (1978).M. A. Shaaber, Check-list of Works of British Authors Printed Abroad, in Languages other than English, to 1641 (1975).Denis B. Woodfield, Surreptitious Printing in England, 1550–1640 (1973).Margaret B. Stillwell, The Beginning of the World of Books, 1450 to 1470: A Chronological Survey of the Texts Chosen for Printing during the First Twenty Years of the Printing Art, with a Synopsis of the Gutenberg Documents (1972).Donald D. Eddy, A Bibliography of John Brown (1971).Roger Bristol, Supplement to Charles Evans’ American Bibliography (1970).Frederick R. Goff, ed., Incunabula in American Libraries: A Third Census of Fifteenth-Century Books Recorded in North American Collections (1964).Jacob Blanck, Virginia L. Smithers, and Michael Winship, eds., Bibliography of American Literature, 9 vols. (1955–91)Available through the Bibliographical Society of AmericaFrederick R. Goff, ed., Incunabula in American Libraries: A Supplement to the Third Census of Fifteenth-Century Books Recorded in North American Collections (1964) (1972).Available through ACLS Humanities E-BooksC. U. Faye and W. H. Bond, Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (1962).Warren S. Tryon and William Charvat, eds., The Cost Books of Ticknor and Fields and their Predecessors, 1832–1858 (1949).Joseph Sabin, continued by Wilberforce Eames and R. W. G. Vail, Bibliotheca Americana : A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time, vols. 20–29 (1928–36).❧BibsiteRecent additions and updates2018Joshua J. McEvilla, “A Chronology of Book Notices for English Drama from London Serials, 1650–1665” (update).2017Craig Kallendorf, “Additions and Corrections to Craig Kallendorf’s A Bibliography of the Early Printed Editions of Virgil, 1469–1850” (update).James E. May, “Bibliography of Studies of Eighteenth-Century Journalism, the Periodical Press, and Serial Publication in 1988–2016” (update).James E. May, “Recent Publications on 18th-Century Materials in Contemporary Library and Manuscript Collections (1985–2016)” (update).James E. May, “Recent Studies of 18th-Century Book Illustration and Engraving, including Cartography, Mainly 1985–2016” (update).James E. May, “Recent Studies (1985–2016) of Children’s Literature, Chapbooks, and Works Related by Form or Audience and Printed 1660–1840” (update).James E. May, “Recent Studies of 18th-Century Book Culture and Reading, 1985–2016” (update).James E. May, “Recent Studies of Censorship, Press Freedom, Libel, Obscenity, etc., in the Long Eighteenth Century, Published c. 1985–2016” (update).James E. May, “Recent Studies on Books Printed 1660–1820 as Physical Objects: Including Binding, Paper and Papermaking, Printing, and Typography, 1986–2016” (update).James E. May, “Studies of Authorship in the Long Eighteenth Century, c.1985–2016” (update).James E. May, “Studies of Printers & Publishers during the Long Eighteenth Century, 1985–2016” (new)Breon Mitchell, “An Annotated Bibliography of Bilingual Dictionaries and Vocabularies of the Languages of the World Held at Indiana University, Bloomington” (update).Elizabeth Savage (formerly Elizabeth Upper), “Red Frisket Sheets, ca. 1490–1700” (update to article in PBSA 108, no. 4 [2014]).2016Lenore Coral, “British Book Auction Catalogues, 1801–1900: A Preliminary Version of Munby-Coral 2” (update).Shef Rogers, “18th-C Printed Works in English with Free Supplements” (new). Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America Volume 112, Number 4December 2018 Published for the Bibliographical Society of America Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/700180 © 2018 by the Bibliographical Society of America. 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