Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada articles from March 2002

Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada archives from March 2002

Editorial note.
March 22, 2002... The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada are the official publication of the Society and are distributed to members together with a semi-annual Bulletin. Membership fees are $35.00 yearly for individual members and $50.00 for...

Reconstructing the Palladium of British America: how the Rebellion of 1837 and Charles Fothergill helped to establish Susanna Moodie as a writer in Canada (1).(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... I. Toward a Literary Connection The study of authorship, literary culture, and publishing conditions in Upper Canada is illuminated by the brief convergence of two English-born writers, Susanna Moodie (1803-1885) and Charles Fothergill...

"A little steam, a little sizzle and a little sleaze": English-language tabloids in the interwar period (1).(Review)
March 22, 2002... Muckraking tabloid weeklies were a largely successful--and invariably controversial--part of Canadian English-language journalism in the years between the First and Second World Wars. While Bob Edwards' Calgary Eye Opener and J.R. Rogers' Jack...

H.J. Jackson. Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books.
March 22, 2002... New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. viii, 324 pp.; $27.95 US (hardcover). ISBN 0-300-08816-7. Professor Jackson should have known my grandmother. Her form of correspondence was, cultural protocols aside, that she regarded the...

James Carley. The Libraries of King Henry VIII.
March 22, 2002... Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7. London: The British Library in association with the British Academy, 2000. civ, 408 pp. 85 [pounds sterling] (hardcover). ISBN 0 7123 4630 9. This is a major contribution to the history of...

Valerie J. Korinek. Roughing It in the Suburbs: Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties.
March 22, 2002... Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. 460 pp.; $75.00 (hardcover). ISBN 0-8020-4180-9. For the browser in a magazine stand today, there is little to distinguish Chatelaine magazine from the other glossies racked in the "women's"...

The Aritha van Herk Papers: First Accession.(Bibliography)
March 22, 2002... The Aritha van Herk Papers: First Accession. Comp. Sandra Mortensen. Ed. Apollonia Steele and Jan F. Tener. Biocritical essay by I.S. MacLaren. Canadian Archival Inventory Series, Literary Papers, No. 15. Calgary: University of Calgary Press,...

Anne Innis Dagg. The Feminine Gaze: A Canadian Compendium of Non-Fiction Women Authors and Their Books, 1836-1945.
March 22, 2002... Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2001. viii, 346 pp.; $45.00 (hardcover). ISBN 0-88920-355-5. Most publications about Canadian women writers are about writers of fiction. Here, for the first time, is a bio-bibliography...

Ruari McLean. True to Type: A Typographical Autobiography.
March 22, 2002... New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. xv, 216 pp.; $39.95 US (hardcover). ISBN 1-99471-896-5. Caroline Archer. The Kynoch Press: The Anatomy of a Printing House 1876-1981. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. xi, 222 pp.; $49.95 US...

Lotte Hellinga and J.B. Trapp, eds. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 3, 1400-1557.
March 22, 2002... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xxiv, 744 pp. [pounds sterling] 90 (hardcover). ISBN 0 521 573467. The new Cambridge History of the Book in Britain begins in medias res with the third of seven projected volumes, covering the...

David Garrioch, et al., eds. The Culture of the Book. Essays from Two Hemispheres in Honour of Wallace Kirsop.
March 22, 2002... Occasional Publication no. 8. Melbourne: Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand. xxx, 474 pp.; $100 Austral. (hardcover). ISBN 095982717-x. If you have never met Wallace Kirsop, you don't go out much. If you have never read...

Sabrina Alcorn Baron, comp. and ed. With Elizabeth Walsh and Susan Scola. The Reader Revealed.
March 22, 2002... Washington: The Folger Shakespeare Library, 2001. 158 pp.; $29.95 U.S. (paperback). ISBN 0-295-98183-0. This volume complements the exhibition, The Reader Revealed, at The Folger Shakespeare Library from 4 September 2001 to 19 January 2002....

David L. Cowen. Pharmacopoeias and Related Literature in Britain and America, 1618-1847.
March 22, 2002... Variorum Collected Studies Series. Aldershot, Hampshire; and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2001. x, 296 pp.; $105.95 U.S. (hardcover). ISBN 0-86078-842-3. This collection brings together thirteen articles by David L. Cowen, written over...

Margaret M. Smith. The Title-Page: Its Early Development 1460-1510.
March 22, 2002... London: The British Library; New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. 176 pp. $39.95 (hardcover). ISBN 1-58456-033-9. By explaining the development of the early title-page in printed books, Margaret M. Smith not only realizes her goal of...

Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle, and Ernest W. Sullivan, II, eds. Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks.
March 22, 2002... New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press; London: British Library, 2000. 270 pp., illus.; $55.00 US (hardcover). ISBN: 1-58456-029-0. Watermark research is an important component of bibliographical investigation for all those working with paper...

Nicholson Baker. Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper.
March 22, 2002... New York: Random House, 2001. xii, 370 pp.; $ 38.95 (hardcover). ISBN 0-375-50444-3. A constant criticism of professional literature in all fields is that it is dull and boring, fails to refer to the external world, and is largely...