Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada articles from March 1996

Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada archives from March 1996

Bibliographical Society of Canada celebrates its fiftieth anniversary: looking back and looking forward.
March 22, 1996... Although the origins of the Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC) can be traced back to informal discussions among Lorne Pierce, Marie Tremaine, and E.C. Kyte as early as 24 June 1942, the BSC was not formally and officially launched until...

Societe bibliographique du Canada celebre son cinquantieme anniversaire: vers le passe et vers l'avenir.
March 22, 1996... Meme si les origines de la Societe bibliographique du Canada (SBC) remontent aux discussions du 24 juin 1942 entre Lorne Pierce, Marie Tremaine, et E.C. Kyte, ce n'est qu'au mois de mai 1946 que la SBC vit officiellement le jour. La presente...

Publication of Songs of a Sourdough.
March 22, 1996... Robert W. Service's first, and perhaps best-known collection of verse, Songs of a Sourdough, was an immediate success when it appeared in 1907. Ten Canadian printings in its first year of publication -- totalling 12,750 copies -- launched...

Printing of handbills in Quebec City, 1764-1800: a listing with critical introduction.
March 22, 1996... In an article which appeared in the spring 1992 issue of the Papers/Cahiers (vol. 30, no. 1: 27-51), Patricia Kennedy of the National Archives of Canada discusses the types of records important to imprint bibliographers, and points to both the...

Henri Raymond Casgrain epistolier: reseau et litterature au XIXe siecle.
March 22, 1996... Henri Raymond Casgrain, souvent connu comme >, a entretenu une correspondance fournie en plus de se consacrer a ses travaux historiques et litteraires. Cet ouvrage collectif, ne des travaux, preliminaires devant mener a l'edition critique de...

Native Canadian anthropology and history: a selected bibiliography rev ed.
March 22, 1996... The often conflict-driven relationship between First peoples and governments, as demonstrated by recent land occupations at Gustafsen Lake, British Columbia, and Ipperwash, Ontario, continue to generate widespread interest and a high degree of...

Tennessee Williams: a descriptive bibliography.
March 22, 1996... The long awaited and greatly needed descriptive bibliography of Tennessee Williams's writings has appeared. The fifty-seven titles in 'Separate Publications' take up half the volume. Some unexpected items appear in this section: a mimeographed...

Type foundries of America and their catalogs.
March 22, 1996... The first edition of Type Foundries of America and Their Catalogs was published in 1975 in an edition of 500 copies. It had been complied by Maurice Annenberg, the proprietor of a major printing company in Baltimore and an enthusiastic student...

Decorated cloth in America: publishers' bindings 1849-1910.
March 22, 1996... Charles Gullans, who died in 1993, taught English Literature at UCLA and began to collect turn-of-the-century American trade bindings in the mid-1960s with his colleague John Espey. By 1968 they had formed a substantial collection of books...

Writers, books and trade: an eighteenth century English miscellany for William B. Todd.
March 22, 1996... This publication, the nineteenth in the useful series, AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century, gathers seventeen essays on writing, printing, publishing, and distributing books in the eighteenth century in Britain. The essays are written by a...

Second impression: rural life with a rare bookman.
March 22, 1996... This work of Barbara Kaye is the third of a trilogy relating to bookselling and, more specifically, to the bookselling career of Percy Muir, late eminent British bookdealer and the author's husband. The first work, written by Muir himself and...

Provenance research in book history: a handbook.
March 22, 1996... David Pearson's 1987 provenance indices, precursors of this book, are, revised and augmented, at its core in Chapter VII. The surrounding chapters are an additional reference guide to finding out about provenance -- the previous ownership of...

ABC for book collectors 7th ed.
March 22, 1996... These two quite disparate books have one thing in common: Oak Knoll Books, which is the publisher of the first and the distributor of the second. Oak Knoll Books was founded by Robert Fleck in the early 1970s and quickly established itself as...

Caxton Club 1895-1995: celebrating a century of the book in Chicago.
March 22, 1996... These two quite disparate books have one thing in common: Oak Knoll Books, which is the publisher of the first and the distributor of the second. Oak Knoll Books was founded by Robert Fleck in the early 1970s and quickly established itself as...

Fine printing: the private press in Canada.
March 22, 1996... In 1978 and 1981 David B. Kotin and Marilyn Rueter compiled two landmark exhibition catalogues, Reader, Lover of Books, devoted to the book arts in Ontario. Organized by Alan Horne and Guy Upjohn, this current exhibition catalogue with its...

Bibliography of Canadian master's theses and doctoral dissertations on Africa 1905-1993/Bibliographie des memoires de maitrise et theses de doctorat canadiens sur l'Afrique 1905-1993.
March 22, 1996... This bilingual bibliography has its roots in the work of Professor John Owen, formerly of the University of Saskatchewan, who began to gather titles in the mid-1970s of Canadian theses and dissertations pertaining to Africa. The compilers, who...

Guide to the Fonds d'archives and Collections in the holdings of the York University Archives.
March 22, 1996... This guide describes the archives of the faculties, departments, and offices of York University (250 entries) as well as private fonds (202 entries) up to the end of 1993. Each entry gives the title of the fonds, time span and predominant...

`Hear the word of the Lord': a critical and bibliographical study of Quaker women's writing, 1650-1700.
March 22, 1996... In an invocation addressed to the `heads and rulers of this nation' written on 22 August 1659 (Wing W1758), the Quaker, Dorothy White, exclaimed: `Oh! earth, earth, earth, hear the Word of the Lord.' To a great extent White's religious tract...

Yeats sisters and the Cuala.
March 22, 1996... The Cuala Press and its predecessor, the Dun Emer Press, are well known as important private presses of the twentieth century operated primarily by working women. The driving force behind both presses was Elizabeth Corbet Yeats. In Gifford...

Selective checklist of the published work of Aubrey Beardsley.
March 22, 1996... With its emphasis on the fantastic, the grotesque, and the erotic, the striking originality of Aubrey Beardsley's art boldly captures the heady mood evoked by the avant-garde movement in England during the 1890s. Beardsley worked primarily in...

Women and the Dictionary of national biography: a guide to DNB volumes 1885-1985 and missing persons.
March 22, 1996... This book on women and the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a continuation of Gillian Fenwick's work on the famous biographical dictionary which include The Contributors' Index to the Dictionary of National Biography (1885-1901) (1989)...

David Jones, artist and writer (1895-1974): a centennial exhibition.
March 22, 1996... In his capacity as a water colourist, illustrator, poet, and essayist, David Jones belongs to a long tradition in English culture that fosters the marriage of art and literature. The principal author of this exhibition catalogue, William...

Judaica reference sources: a selective, annotated bibliographic guide 2d ed.
March 22, 1996... Shlomo Shunami's Bibliography of Jewish Bibliographies, second edition (1965), and its supplement of 1975 are the major resources for Judaica bibliographies prior to 1975. In 1982 Charles Cutter of Brandeis University Library and Micha F....

History of book illustration: 29 points of view.
March 22, 1996... To the library community Bill Katz needs no introduction. His textbook, Introduction to Reference Work (1994), first published in 1969, is now in its sixth edition. He has edited a variety of library-related journals such as RQ, the Journal of...

Into print: selected writings on printing history, typography and book production.
March 22, 1996... By profession John Dreyfus is a book designer, typographical advisor, and organizer of important exhibitions such as the Gutenberg Quincentenary Celebration held in 1940 at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. As an historian of printing he has...