Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada articles from September 1998

Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada archives from September 1998

Print culture in exile: the Scottish emigrant reader in the nineteenth century.
September 22, 1998... Bill Bell is currently Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland). He is Co-director of the Centre for the History of the Book and is General Editor of History of the Book in Scotland. After I had been there...

Books, nationalism and history.
September 22, 1998... This paper is a slightly revised version of a keynote address given at the founding conference of the History of the Book in Canada which took place at the National Library of Canada, Ottawa, on May 25, 1997. Robert A. Gross is Forrest D....

Chasing the sun: dictionary makes and the dictionaries they made.
September 22, 1998... New York: Henry Holt, 1996. xviii, 510 pp.; $30,000 U.S. (cloth) ISBN 0-8050-3466-8. Chasing the Sun is an account of some dictionaries and dictionary makers. Jonathan Green is himself a leading lexicographer and historian of lexicography,...

Margins of the text.
September 22, 1998... Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. viii, [1], 383, [1], pp.; $49.50 U.S. (cloth). ISBN 0-472-10667-8. The Margins of the Text is a collection of essays deliberately gathered together by D.C. Greetham for publication in George...

Text and textuality: textual instability, theory, and interpretation.
September 22, 1998... New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1997. Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History, and Culture, vol.13; Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, vol. 1823. xxxiv, 319, [1] pp.; $65.00 U.S. (cloth). ISBN 0-8153-1956-8....

Scientists since 1660: a bibliography of biographies.
September 22, 1998... Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 1997. vii, 150 pp.; $76.95 (U.S.) (cloth). ISBN 1-85928-035-8. This little volume is the first bibliography devoted specifically to scientific biographies, instead of focussing on a specific science and...

Women and the book: assessing the visual evidence.
September 22, 1998... Toronto: The British Library and University of Toronto Press, 1997.287, [I]pp.; $75.00 (cloth), $29.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8020-4216-3 (cloth), ISBN 0-8020-8069-3 (paper). Apart from a few invited contributions, most of the fourteen essays...

Captured voices: five centuries of interplay between folk literature and print: an exhibition for the Bruce Peel Special Collection Library.
September 22, 1998... University of Alberta. 1996. [36 pp.] (paper). Drawing upon items from its own holdings, the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library of the University of Alberta presented between 5 February and 26 April 1996 an exhibit entitled Captured...

Every man his own doctor': popular medicine in early America: an exhibition drawn from the Collections of Charles E. Rosenberg.
September 22, 1998... William H. Helfand, and the Library Company of Philadelphia. [Philadelphia]: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1998. [ii], 64 pp.; $10.00 U.S. (paper). ISBN 0-914076-93-0. Far from casting off all that relates to books and print, the...

Interdisciplinary annual of textual studies 9V.
September 22, 1998... Ann Arbor: University of Michingan Press, 1996.X,492 pp.; $59.50 U.S. (cloth). ISBN 0-472-10774-7. This volume of TEXT, the journal of the Society for Textual Scholarship, is the ninth to appear since 1984. Not simply the proceedings of...

Studies in bibliography 50v.
September 22, 1998... Charlottesville, Va.: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1997. 416 p.; $40 U.S. ISBN 0-8139-1731-X. In 1997 the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. To mark this...