Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada articles from September 1997

Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada archives from September 1997

`Dragged at Anne's chariot wheels': L.M. Montgomery and the sequels to Anne of Green Gables.
September 22, 1997... `Elderly couple apply to orphan asylum for a boy. By mistake a girl is sent to them' (SJI, 330). (1) As later recounted in Montgomery's revised journals, an 1895 notebook jotting eventually resulted in a 1906 manuscript that was rejected by...

Beyond the shadow of William Briggs pt 2: Canadian-authored titles and the commitment to Canadian writing.
September 22, 1997... After William Briggs's accession to the office of Book Steward of the Methodist Book and Publishing House in June 1879, book publishing became more prominent among the House's activities and its commitment to Canadian writing more explicit. W....

History of reading.
September 22, 1997... Alberto Manguel is a prominent editor, anthologist, novelist, translator, and bibliophile, with an international reputation based, not least, on his wide-ranging literary interests and his output in several languages. He was born in Buenos...

Thomas James Wise and the trial book fallacy.
September 22, 1997... Will the last word on T.J. Wise's abominable legacy ever be written? Are there still areas of bibliographical infamy perpetrated by this wretched man which have remained hidden, despite the enormous Wise literature that has grown up since...

Canadian crime fiction.
September 22, 1997... This wide-ranging bibliography is described by its publisher as `eclectic, idiosyncratic, eccentric, and opinionated,' and it is certainly all of that. The design and the entries are unusual to say the least, with lively commentary on...

Books beyond the pale: aspects of the provincial book trade in Ireland before 1850: proceedings of the Rare Book Group Seminar 1994.
September 22, 1997... The title of this monograph is well chosen. It is a collection of seven essays based on papers given at the 1994 Rare Book Group seminar held at Marsh's Library, Dublin. They cover aspects of the publishing and the book trade outside Dublin up...

Greek letters: from tablets to pixels.
September 22, 1997... The difficulties of designing Greek type and of printing in Greek have concerned printers since the fifteenth century, and the fact that the invention of printing with movable type coincided so closely in time with the fall of Constantinople...

Jack McClelland: the publisher of Canadian literature/el editor de la literatura canadiense.
September 22, 1997... Since 1993, as part of the International Book Fair, the University of Guadalajara has annually paid homage to a publisher who has excelled in his or her career. In 1996 the person chosen for this honour was Jack McClelland, a publisher known...

At twilight in the century: memoirs of a Canadian nationalist.
September 22, 1997... Bookseller, political activist, publisher, and writer, Mel Hurtig is known as a Canadian nationalist par excellence. Oddly enough, his memoirs begin with reference to three well-known Americans -- John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and...

Vessels of light: a guide to special collections in the Killam Library Dalhousie University Libraries.
September 22, 1997... Dalhousie University is one of Canada's oldest and most venerable institutions of higher learning. It is not surprising that among the 80,000 items in the Department of Special Collections at Dalhousie's Killam Library, there are a number of...

Envol des signes: Borduas et ses lettres.
September 22, 1997... Presente a l'origine comme these de doctorat a l'Universite de Montreal en 1994, sous le titre Paul-Emile Borduas: Edition critique d'un choix de lettres, ce texte d'un des specialistes du mouvement automatiste quebecoise n'a de prime abord...

Scholarly editing: a guide to research.
September 22, 1997... D.C. Greetham, who teaches at the Graduate School, City University of New York, is the author of Textual Scholarship: An Introduction (see the review by Alexander Pettit, Papers/Cahiers 31, no. 1 (spring 1993): 107-9), an important work in the...

Five hundred years of printing.
September 22, 1997... Originally published in 1955 by Penguin Books as a Pelican Original, S.H. Steinberg's Five Hundred Years of Printing has become a classic in its field. A hardback edition was published in 1959 by Faber and Faber in England and Criterion Books...

Catalogue of watermarks in Italian printed maps, ca 1540-1600.
September 22, 1997... Books relating to watermarks occupy a special place on library shelves. Perhaps mainly because of the great effort and expense required to produce these works, the collection is not large, so each new arrival is eagerly welcomed. David...

Rise of Robert Dodsley: creating the new age of print.
September 22, 1997... Robert Dodsley (1704-1764), the most significant bookseller and publisher of his age, rose from humble beginnings. Having apprenticed as a footman, he found his escape in poetry. His first publication, Servitude: A Poem, which originally...

English Catholic books 1701-1800: a bibliography.
September 22, 1997... The scope of this bibliography is quite clear: it includes Catholic books published in English or in Great Britain and its colonies during the eighteenth century. In short, it provides bibliographical description to 2,960 editions, extending...

Fielding's library: an annotated catalogue.
September 22, 1997... Henry Fielding was once thought to be `a man with an essentially simple, untutored philosophy of life' (p. xi), but this study of his working library shows a man who read extensively in classics, law, history and biography. In the late 1890s...

Old books in the old world: reminiscences of book buying abroad.
September 22, 1997... Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern have been business partners since 1945 and are still very active. Old Books in the Old World is the fifth book of memoirs these grandes dames of the antiquarian bookselling world have written. In this work,...

Book collecting as one of the fien arts and other essays.
September 22, 1997... Colin Franklin is well known as an antiquarian bookseller and as an author and leading authority on a variety of subjects, particularly in the area of the private press movement. Most of the twelve essays in this collection were written...