Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada articles from September 2002

Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada archives from September 2002

Editorial note.
September 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...

100 books for 100 years (1).(Bibliography)
September 22, 2002... In the year 2001 the University of Toronto Press celebrated the hundredth anniversary of its founding. Those hundred years had seen many changes in its mandate and operations. It began as a printing operation, initially for examination papers...

Thomas L. Gravell, George Miller, and Elizabeth A. Walsh. American Watermarks 1690-1835.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. xxx, [2], 363 pp; US $85.00 (hardcover). ISBN 1-58456-068-1. This is a revised and considerably enlarged edition of the first survey of American watermarks compiled by Thomas L. Gravell and...

Maureen Bell, et al., eds. Re-constructing the Book: Literary Texts in Transmission.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. 231 pp.; $59.95 (hardcover). ISBN 0-7546-0360-1. In her introductory essay to Reconstructing the Book, Maureen Bell writes that it was the intent of this distinguished group of editors to produce a useful book for...

Dictionnaire biographique du Canada.(Audiovisual Review)
September 22, 2002... CD-ROM et Guide d'utilisation du CD-ROM. 200 Mg de memoire. Systeme minimal: Pentium, Windows 95, Internet Explorer 4.0, 32 Mo de memoire. Systeme recommande: Pentium II, Windows 98, Internet explorer 5.5, 64 Mo de memoire. Le cederom du...

W. James MacDonald, comp. & ed. A Bibliography of Victoria County, Nova Scotia.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Baddeck: Elder Brook Books, 2000. 116 pp.; $12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-9699231-1-2. In the latter half of the twentieth century as Canadians became more conscious of the diverse nature of their country, local history became an increasingly...

Nigel Tattersfield. John Bewick: Engraver on Wood, 1760-1795.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... London: The British Library & Oak Knoll Press, 2001. 256 pp.; 45.00 [pounds sterling] (hardcover). ISBN 0-7123-4707-0 (BL); 1-58456-053-3 (Oak Knoll). There is an extensive, and ever expanding literature on the life and career of Thomas...

Alan Powers. Front Cover: Great Book Jacket and Cover Design.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... London: Mitchell Beazley, 2001. 144 pp.; $45.00 (hardcover). ISBN 1-84000-421-5. This is a beautiful book illustrating the evolution of the book jacket in the twentieth century. It begins with a short overview essay on the history of the...

Peter Isaac and Barry McKay, eds. The Moving Market: Continuity and Change in the Book Trade.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2001. 206 pp. ill.; US $39.95 (hardcover). ISBN 1-58456-052-5. This rich collection of essays stems from the eighteenth Seminar on the British Book Trade held in Newcastle upon Tyne in 2000. This...

Edward Charles Bigmore and Charles William Henry Wyman. A Bibliography of Printing with Notes and Illustrations.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press; London: The British Library, 2001. 3 volumes in one, 1070 pp; US $85.00 (hardcover). ISBN 1-58456-062-4 (USA); ISBN 0-7123-4740-2 (UK). Daniel Berkeley Updike. Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and...

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. Book History and Print Culture; an Exhibition Celebrating the Collaborative Program at the University of Toronto.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, 2001. 99 PP. $20.00 (paperback). ISBN: 0-7727-6036-5. This splendid catalogue celebrates two grand events at the University...

M. Clark Chambers. Kay Boyle: a Bibliography.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Newcastle [Delaware]: Oak Knoll Press, 2001. 357 pp.; $75.00 (hardcover). ISBN 1-58456-063-0. It seems in keeping with a review of a descriptive bibliography of the work of Kay Boyle to admit at the outset that hers was a name only vaguely...

Robin Myers, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote, eds. Libraries and the Book Trade: the Formation of Collections from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Publishing Pathways Series. Folkestone: St Paul's Bibliographies; New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. xiii, 192 pp.; $39.95 US (hardcover). ISBN 1-58456-034-7. Jointly published by Oak Knoll Press and St Paul's Bibliographies and...

Thomas Wharton. Salamander.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2001. viii, 376 pp.; $34.99 (hardcover). ISBN 0-7710-8833-7. It's not often that the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada reviews fiction but Thomas Wharton's Salamander has the distinction of not...

David Mason. Serving the Book.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Toronto: Dearlove & Churl, 2000. 30 pp.; $20.00 (paperback). ISBN 0-921688-22-9. David Mason has had printed the talk he gave to the Toronto Centre for the Book at Victoria College, University of Toronto, on 30 November 1999. The booklet,...

Elizabeth B. Bentley. Elegant Necessities: the Grimaldi Picture Books for Children.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Toronto: Friends of the Osborne and Lillian H. Smith Collections, 2001. 50 pp.; $15.00 (paperback). ISBN 0-920601-47-2. Elizabeth Budd Bentley has been collecting children's books all her life. Her distinguished collection is now in the...

J. Eugene Horvath. A Canadian Collection of Hungarica.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... J. Eugene Horvath. A Canadian Collection of Hungarica. Two volumes: Books 1494-1819 and Maps & City Views 1493-1817. Vancouver: J. Eugene Horvath, 2001. vi, 356; viii, 160 pp.; (paperback). ISBN 0-9688570-0-0 and 0-9688570-1-9. These two...

Napier University. The Book: a CD-ROM History.(Audiovisual Review)
September 22, 2002... Edinburgh: Scottish Centre for the Book, 2001; 20.00 [pounds sterling] (Mac/PC CD-ROM). ISBN 1-84278-035-2. This so-called multimedia essay claims to provide a general introduction to the history of the book. It was produced by the Scottish...

Jacob Abbott. The Harper Establishment: How Books Are Made.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. xx, 160 pp.; US $29.95 (hardcover). ISBN 1-58456-058-4. This is a reprint of the classic 1856 edition. In its day it was the definitive guide to printing and publishing practice in...

Scholarly Editing in Canada. English Studies in Canada, Special Issue.(Periodical Review)
September 22, 2002... Vol. 27, 1/2, March/June 2001; 252 pp. $15.00 (paperback). ISBN 0317-0802. This double issue of the journal English Studies in Canada is devoted to scholarly editing in Canada. It includes nine articles, eleven reviews, and a review...

John J. McCusker. How Much Is That in Real Money?(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Worcester, Massachusetts: American Antiquarian Society, 2001. 144 pp.; US $15 (paperback). ISBN 1-929545-01-0. This is a new edition of McCusker's previous 1992 research tool, an historical commodity price index for use as a deflator of...

Nicolas Barker, ed. A Potencie of Life: Books in Society.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2001. 216 pp.; US $29.95 (paperback). ISBN 1-58456-054-1. This is a paperback reissue of Nicolas Barker's 1993 book, reviewed in the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada in Volume 33, No. 1...