Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada articles from March 2003

Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada archives from March 2003

Editorial note.
March 22, 2003... 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...

Preserving and providing access to Canada's printed heritage: the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions at 25 years.
March 22, 2003... The Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions/Institut canadien de microreproductions historiques (CIHM/ICMH), a nonprofit corporation, was established in 1978 at the urging of the Canadian research community. CIHM's initial mission...

The economics of an early nineteenth-century Toronto newspaper shop.
March 22, 2003... In the first half of the nineteenth century, what were the economic circumstances of a successful Toronto newspaper shop? What were the typical expenses of such a shop and what kind of revenue could a proprietor expect from such an undertaking?...

Barbara Belyea, ed. A Year Inland: The Journal of a Hudson's Bay Company Winterer.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2000. 414 pp.; $39.95 (hardcover). ISBN 0 88920 343 I. In June 1754 Anthony Henday, a netmaker and labourer at York Fort on Hudson's Bay, set out with a group of Indians to winter on the western...

Stephen Leacock. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Ed. Carl Spadoni. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2002. 321 pp.; $12.95 (paperbound). ISBN 1 55 IIII 780. Broadview Press is to be commended for issuing this critical edition of Stephen Leacock's landmark work, Sunshine Sketches of...

Kathryn Carter, ed. The Small Details of Life: Twenty Diaries by Women in Canada, 1830-1996.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. xi, 486 pp.; $55.00 (hardcover) ISBN 0 8020 4339 9; $34.95 (paperbound). ISBN 0 8020 8159 2. Carter, the editor of this compilation of twenty diaries written in English by Canadian women, is well...

Paul Aubin. Les Communautes religieuses et l'edition' du manuel scolaire au Quebec, 1765-1964.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Coll., [??]Cahiers du GRELQ[??], no. 8. Sherbrooke: Editions Ex Libris, 2001. 131 p. 20 $. ISBN 2-921061-13-9. Dans Les Communautes religieuses et l'edition du manuel scolaire au Quebec, 1765-1964, Paul Aubin etudie l'activite des...

Heather Murray. Come, Bright Improvement! The Literary Societies of Nineteenth-Century Ontario.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. xx, 336 pp; $60.00 (hardcover). ISBN 0 820 036 333. The Puslinch Lake Football Club and Literary Society and the Angelica Shakespeare Club of Owen Sound can seldom have featured in a scholarly...

Denise Lemieux, dir. Traite de la culture.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Quebec: Les editions de l'IQRC, 2002. xi, 1089 p. 69,95 $. ISBN 2-89224-322-x. Fernand Dumont disait que le Quebec est a la fois la presence vivante et le temoignage renouvele de ses origines. De fait, l'histoire, la geographie et le...

Francoise Lepage. Histoire de la litterature pour la jeunesse (Quebec et francophonies du Canada) suivie d'un Dictionnaire des auteurs et des illustrateurs.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Orleans: Les editions David, 2000. 826 p. 35 $. ISBN 2-922109-24-0. Recipiendaire de nombreux prix dont le prix Francis Russel decerne par IBBY Canada pour sa contribution exceptionnelle a la recherche en litterature de jeunesse, Francoise...

Jacques Michon, dir. Histoire de l'edition litteraire au Quebec au X[X.sup.e] siecle, vol. 1: La naissance de l'editeur, 1900-1939.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Montreal: Fides, 1999. 482 p. 34,95 $. ISBN 2-7621-2091-8. A l'instar des recherches d'Henri-Jean Martin et de Roger Chartier sur l'histoire de l'edition francaise dont les resultats, publies en quatre volumes de 1982 a 1986, donnerent a...

David N. Griffiths. The Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer 1549-1999.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. viii, 616 pp.; $95.00 US (hardcover). ISBN 1 58456 081 9. Some years ago, in the library of Trinity College, Toronto, I found a copy of the Book of Common Prayer printed in shorthand. It seemed...

David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery, eds. The Book History Reader.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... London: Routledge, 2002. x, 390 pp.; 90 [pounds sterling], $90 US, $135.00 (hardcover). ISBN 0 415 22657 0; 17.99 [pounds sterling], $27.95 US, $41.95 (paperbound). ISBN 0415 22658 9. Since its inception with the publication of Lucien...

Jacques Michon et Jean-Yves Mollier, dir. Les Mutations du livre et de l'edition dans le monde, du XVII[I.sup.e] siecle a l'an 2000.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Quebec / Paris: Les Presses de l'Universite Laval / L'Harmattan, 2001, 597 p., 45 $. ISBN 2-7637-7805-4 / 2-7475-0813-7. En septembre 1990 se tenait a Gottingen le premier colloque international visant a dresser un bilan des recherches...

William Baker and John C. Ross. George Eliot: a Bibliographical History.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. xxxix, 1-676 pp; $79.00 US (hardcover). ISBN 1 58456 069 X. This is the first full descriptive author bibliography of George Eliot. There have been other bibliographies of first editions of her...

Peter Holliday, ed. Eric Gill in Ditchling: Four Essays.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. vii, [1]-82 pp.; $19.95 US (hardcover). ISBN 1 58456 075 4. Eric Gill lived and worked in Ditchling, Sussex, from 1907 to 1924, residing initially in Ditchling village before moving in 1913 to...

Robin Myers, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote, eds. Under the Hammer: Book Auctions Since the Seventeenth Century.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press; London: The British Library, 2001. xiv, 242 pp., illus.; $39.95 US (hardcover). ISBN 1 58456 066 5. This important collection of nine essays, based on papers given at a conference in November 2000,...

Jerome S. Handler. A Guide to Source Materials for the Study of Barbados History, 1627-1834.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Published in association with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the John Carter Brown Library. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. xvi, 205 pp.; $29.95 US (hardcover). ISBN 1 58456 064 9. For a small island Barbados...

Frank Herrmann. Low Profile: a Life in the World of Books.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press; Nottingham, England: The Plough Press, 2002. [10], 398 pp.; $39.95 US (hardcover). ISBN 1 58456 056 7. Frank Herrmann has had a very full and interesting career in the world of books, both new and...

Nancy H. Marshall. The Night Before Christmas: a Descriptive Bibliography of Clement Clarke Moore's Immortal Poem with Editions from 1823 through 2000.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. 324 pp.; $75.00 US (hardcover). ISBN 1 58456 071 1. From the outset Nancy H. Marshall's lengthy compendium functions under a double mode: the exclamatory and the laudatory. With 1001...

William W.E. Slights. Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. xiii, 298 pp.; $59.50 US (hardcover). ISBN 0 472 11229 5. This new study joins an ever-growing body of specialised work on the history of the book, particularly research dealing with what...

Jonathan Rose. The Intellectual Life of the English Working Classes.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. 534 pp.; $39.95 US (hardcover). ISBN 0 300 08886 8. This is a splendid book. Standing astride the frontiers of literary history, popular culture, educational history, and the social history of...

Roger E. Stoddard. A Library-Keeper's Business.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. XVII, 480 pp.; $85.00 US (hardcover). ISBN 1 58456 073 8. This book contains, as such compilations always do, a considerable variety of things; some profound, some slight but entertaining, and...

Mary Hyde Eccles. A Miscellany of Her Essays and Addresses.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Ed. William Zachs. New York: Grolier Club, 2002. 299 pp.; $55.00 US (hardcover). ISBN 0 910672 42 3. Mary Hyde Eccles, the American collector, editor, and moving force in a select circle of international bibliophiles, has been honoured by...

Paul Aron, Denis Saint-Jacques, et Alain Viala, dir. Le Dictionnaire du litteraire.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2002. 634 p. 79,95 $. ISBN 2-13-0516904. Les ouvrages de reference en litterature sont en vogue par les temps qui courent, a preuve la parution recente de Encyclopedia of Canadian literature in...

William E. Henning and ed. Paul Melzer. An Elegant Hand: the Golden Age of American Penmanship and Calligraphy.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. xii, [1]-307 pp.; $59.95 US (hardcover). ISBN 1 58456 067 3. It's easy to forget, sitting in front of the computer screen, that handwriting was not so long ago a far more important aspect of...

David Blewett, ed. Fiction and Print Culture: Genre romanesque et culture de l'imprime.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... 14, nos. 3-4 (April-July 2002): 251-806. $30.00 (paperbound). ISSN 0840 6286. In his editorial preface David Blewett says that the huge response to the call for papers for this special issue of Eighteenth-Century Fiction indicates the...

Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... 53 (2000) (Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 2002). 1-298 pp.; $60.00 US (hardcover). ISBN 0 8139 2148 1. This is the latest volume of articles from the Bibliographical Society of America, published two years after...

John Krill. English Artists' Paper: Renaissance to Regency.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press and the Winterthur Museum, Delaware, 2002. [i-x] 1-250 pp.; $49.95 US (hardcover). ISBN 1 58456 055 X. This is the second and revised edition of the well-known text, first prepared to accompany the...

Ian Young. The Aids Dissidents 1993-2000.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Toronto: TMW Communications, 2000. [i-vi], 1-54 pp; $30.00 (paperbound). ISBN 0 9696856 3 7; and Autobibliography 1962-2000. Toronto: TMW Communications, 2001. [1]-76 pp.; $30.00 (paperbound). ISBN 0 9696856 2 9. The Aids Dissidents...

1. Minutes of the 57th Annual General Meeting of the Society.
March 22, 2003... The 57th Annual General Meeting of the Bibliographical Society of Canada/Societe bibliographique du Canada was held on Tuesday, June 18, 2002/mardi, le 18 juin, 2002 at the Nova Scotia Archives & Records Management, Halifax, Nova Scotia. ...

2. Proposed changes to the objectives of the BSC/SBC.
March 22, 2003... BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA/SOCIETE BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE DU CANADA GOAL AND OBJECTIVES I. Exisitng The current objectives of the BSC/SBC, as indicated in our constitution are: 1. To promote the study of bibliography and the...

3. Call for nominations/appel de candidature.
March 22, 2003... Nominations are solicited for three year terms to the Society's Council. Nominees must be members in good standing of the Society. Nominations will be brought before the Annual General Meeting in Toronto, for ratification. L'appel de...

4. Copyright and BSC/SBC publications.
March 22, 2003... In accordance with the wishes of the membership as expressed at the annual meeting in Halifax in June 2002, an effort has been made by the Society to secure copyright in its publications by writing to individual authors and co-authors of...

5. Members news.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... Past President, Peter McNally received the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal in recognition of my large collection of books and commemorative objects relating to the Queen and the royal family, as well as for mounting an exhibition commemorating the...

6. The BSC/SBC and the new edition of Peel's Bibliography of the Prairie Provinces.
March 22, 2003... As many members are aware, from the bibliographical perspective, the landmark publishing event this year is the publication of the new edition of Bruce Peel's Bibliography of the Prairie Provinces (University of Toronto Press, 2003....

7. BSC/SbC annual conference / Congres annuel.
March 22, 2003... The 58th Annual Meeting of the Bibliographical Society of Canada at the University of Toronto / Congres annuel de la Societe Bibliographique du Canada June 15-16 2003 / 15-16 juin 2003 Conference theme: The illustration of books and...

8. Conferences and symposiums.
March 22, 2003... CANADIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: LIBRARY HISTORY INTEREST GROUP CONFERENCE PROGRAMME "U.S. and Canadian Library History: the Same but Different" at the joint Session of the Library History Interest Group of the Canadian Library Association...

9. History of the Book in Canada/Histoire du livre et de l'imprime au Canada fellowships/bourses.
March 22, 2003... The Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and the Faculty of Arts of McGill University offer in conjunction with the "History of the Book in Canada/Histoire du livre et de l'imprime au Canada" (HBiC/HLIC) project two M.A. fellowships of $5,000 and...

10. Seventh summer institute at the University of New Brunswick / Fredericton
March 22, 2003... Creating Electronic Texts and Images--a practical "hands-on" exploration of the research, preservation and pedagogical uses of electronic texts and images in the humanities. DATES: August 24-29, 2003 INSTRUCTOR: David Seaman, Director,...

11. News from special collections, University of Calgary Library.
March 22, 2003... Research materials in the Special Collections department of the University Library were greatly increased in 2002 principally through generous donations by individuals from across Canada and from the United States. Gifts of 17th to 20th...