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Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada archives from March 2005
Editorial note.
March 22, 2005... 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...
"This is no hearsay": reading the Canadian slave narratives.
March 22, 2005... For Linda Hutcheon (1)
I Admitting the 'Fugitive' U.S. Genre to Canadian Literature
The Canadian slave narrative is ignored as a genre of Victorianera Canadian literature (1837-1901) because it seems not to exist. Indeed, North...
Books for improvement: the Canadian Pacific Foundation Library (1).
March 22, 2005... Probably no other commercial enterprise has been so closely identified with the idea of nationhood and national identity than the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). The vision of a great transcontinental railway to bind together the British...
"La fin du pillage des auteurs": Louvigny de Montigny's international press campaign for authors' rights in Canada.
March 22, 2005... The legal precedent establishing the 1886 International Berne Convention on Intellectual Property as Canada's predominant copyright legislation was the result of Mary vs. Hubert, a civil suit tried in Quebec Superior Court on 23 March 1906....
Patricia Lockhart Fleming, Gillies Gallichan, and Yvan Lamonde, eds. History of the Book in Canada: Beginnings to 1840, vol. 1.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Patricia Lockhart Fleming, Gillies Gallichan, and Yvan Lamonde, eds. History of the Book in Canada: Volume One: Beginnings to 1840. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2004. xxix, 540 pp.; $75.00. ISBN: 0802089437.
Histoire du livre et...
Brendan Frederick R. Edwards. Paper Talk: A History of Libraries, Print Culture, and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada before 1960.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Brendan Frederick R. Edwards. Paper Talk: A History of Libraries, Print Culture, and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada before 1960. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2005. 248 pp.; US $45.00. ISBN: 081085113X.
The history of the book in Canadian...
Richard A. Davies. Inventing Sam Slick: A Biography of Thomas Chandler Haliburton.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Richard A. Davies. Inventing Sam Slick: A Biography of Thomas Chandler Haliburton. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 316 pp.; $60.00. ISBN: 0802050018.
Richard Davies admits that "a good portion" (xi) of his life was consumed by...
Marilyn S. Greenwald. The Secret of the Hardy Boys: Leslie McFarlane and the Stratemeyer Syndicate.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Marilyn S. Greenwald. The Secret of the Hardy Boys: Leslie McFarlane and the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Athens, Oh.: Ohio University Press, 2004. xiv, 310 pp.; US $32.95. ISBN: 0821415476.
From the perspective of anonymous authorship, the...
Faith Wallis and Pamela Miller, eds. 75 Books from the Osler Library.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Faith Wallis and Pamela Miller, eds. 75 Books from the Osler Library. Montreal: Osler Library, McGill University, 2004. ix, 182 pp.; $40.00 (softcover). ISBN 07717-0625-1.
The Osler Library, Canada's foremost scholarly resource in the...
Brian Douglas Tennyson, comp. Cape Bretoniana: An Annotated Bibliography.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Brian Douglas Tennyson, comp. Cape Bretoniana: An Annotated Bibliography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xiv, 789 pp.; $110.00. ISBN 0802087124.
Attempting "the impossible" is how Tennyson introduces this large bibliography of...
Colin G.C. Tite. The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Colin G.C. Tite. The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use. London: British Library, 2003. xvii, 297 pp.; $120.00. ISBN: 0712348247.
Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631) is best remembered for his celebrated...
Robin Myers, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote, eds. The London Book Trade: Topographies of Print in the Metropolis from the Sixteenth Century.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Robin Myers, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote, eds. The London Book Trade: Topographies of Print in the Metropolis from the Sixteenth Century. New Castle, Del. and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2003. xvi, 185 pp.; US...
Donald C. Dickinson. John Carter: The Taste and Technique of a Bookman.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Donald C. Dickinson. John Carter: The Taste & Technique of a Bookman. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2004. 416 pp.; US $49.95. ISBN 1-58456137B.
Donald C. Dickinson's biography of John Carter is a welcome addition to the burgeoning...
Paul Preston Davis. Howard Pyle His Life - His Work: A Comprehensive Bibliograpby and Pictorial Record of Howard Pyle; Illustrator, Author, Teacher; Father of American Illustration, America's Foremost Illustrator.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Paul Preston Davis. Howard Pyle: His Life--His Work: A Comprehensive Bibliograpby and Pictorial Record of Howard Pyle; Illustrator, Author, Teacher; Father of American Illustration, America's Foremost Illustrator. New Castle, Del. and...
Derek Birdsall. Notes on Book Design.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Derek Birdsall. Notes on Book Design. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 236 pp.; US $45.00. ISBN: 0300103766.
"I was not taught book design," Derek Birdsall states in the preface to his entertaining and idiosyncratic Notes on Book...
Brian Hubber and Vivian Smith. Patrick White: A Bibliography.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Brian Hubber and Vivian Smith. Patrick White: A Bibliography. Auburn, Australia and New Castle, Del.: Quiddlers Press and Oak Knoll Press, 2004. 322 pp.; AUD $95.00/US $95.00. ISBN: 0958194920 (Australia); 1584561432 (US).
Patrick White...
Peter Stoicheff and Andrew Taylor, eds. The Future of the Page.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Peter Stoicheff and Andrew Taylor, eds. The Future of the Page. Studies in Book and Print Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. 330 pp.; $75.00 (hardcover)/$29.95 (paperback). ISBN: 0802088023 (hardcover); 0802085849.
This...
Means and purposes: a suggestion to our members and friends.(Bibliographical Society of Canada)
March 22, 2005... One of the objects of the Bibliographical Society of Canada is to promote the study of bibliography and the publication of works of bibliography with a principal emphasis on those connected with Canada. We should like to suggest to our members,...