Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada articles from September 2003

Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada archives from September 2003

Editorial note.(Editorial)
September 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...

Arthur Steven at the Ryerson Press: designing the post-war years (1949-1969) (1).
September 22, 2003... Lorne Pierce (1890-1961), the editor of the Ryerson Press from 1920 to 1960, will long be remembered for his energetic and inspired leadership of one of English Canada's most historic (3) and influential publishing firms. His role in the...

Les bio-bibliographies de l'Ecole de bibliothecaires de l'Universite de Montreal et la bibliographie canadienne (1938-1962).
September 22, 2003... Il n'est pas de meilleure maniere de mesurer le chemin parcouru en bibliographie canadienne depuis un siecle et demi que d'evaluer la contribution des nombreux essais et entreprises bibliographiques depuis le Catalogue d'ouvrages sur l'histoire...

William H. New, ed. Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. 1347 pp.; $75.00 (hardcover). ISBN 0 8020 0761 9. The preface of this new and very welcome survey of the scene in Canadian Literature defines itself not as an attempt to "encircle all knowledge"...

Daniel Chartier. Dictionnaire des ecrivains emigres au Quebec 1800-1999.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Quebec, Editions Nota bene, 2003, 367 p., 35,95 $, ISBN 2-89518-139-X. Depuis le debut des annees 1980, un nouvel objet d'etude a fait son apparition dans le domaine des lettres : on parle de l'ecriture ou de la litterature migrante pour...

Aurelien Boivin, dir. Dictionnaire des oeuvres litteraires du Quebec.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... t. VII : 1981-1985, Montreal, Editions Fides, 2003, 1229 p., 79,95 $. ISBN 2-7621-2424-7. La parution d'un nouveau tome du Dictionnaire des oeuvres litteraires du Quebec (DOLQ) constitue toujours un evenement, ne serait-ce que par...

Michael O'Driscoll and Jason Dewinetz. A Bibliography of the Black Sparrow Press Archive, Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... [Edmonton]: University of Alberta Libraries, 2002. xii, 332 pp.; $35.00 (paperback). ISBN 1 55195 172 X. Avant-garde poetry in the United States during the twentieth century was deeply fortunate to be championed by a series of supportive...

Lawrence Goldstone and Nancy Goldstone. Out of the Flames: the Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New York: Broadway Books, 2002. 353 pp.; US $37.95 (hardcover). ISBN 0 7679 0836 8. That book history is achieving popular status and reaching a mass audience is amply illustrated by this volume. Its dust jacket, illustrated with a burning...

Gerard Curtis. Visual Words: Art and the Material Book in Victorian England.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002. 305 pp. 52.50 [pounds sterling] (hardcover). ISBN 1 84014 657 5. Scholars and students of nineteenth-century print culture will find themselves largely intrigued by Gerard Curtis's valuable and enjoyable, if...

Pierre Rajotte, dir. Lieux et reseaux de sociabilite litteraire au Quebec.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... pref. Alain Viala, coll. >, no. 13, Quebec, Editions Nota bene, 2001, 335 P., 19, 95 $. ISBN 2-89518-080-6. Ce collectif nous convie a l'exploration de la sociabilite litteraire qui se pratique au Quebec, avec les usages internes et...

Estivals, Robert, dir. Information scientifique et technique et communication ecrite. Actes du 11e colloque international de bibliologie et du 1er colloque bilateral algero-francais, novembre 1992.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Estivals, Robert, dir. Information scientifique et technique et communication ecrite. Actes du 11e colloque international de bibliologie et du 1er colloque bilateral algero-francais, 22-25 novembre 1992, Paris, SBS Edition, 1997, 183 p. ISBN...

Marc Menard. Les chiffres des mots. Portrait economique du livre au Quebec.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Montreal, SODEC, 2001, 248 p., 19,95 $. ISBN 2-550-37187-9. Les chiffres des mots, derniere etude de l'economiste Marc Menard, s'inscrit dans la continuite d'une demarche entreprise par la Societe de developpement des entreprises...

Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine B. Stern. From Revolution to Revolution: Perspectives on Publishing & Bookselling.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. 189 pp.; US $60.00 (hardcover). ISBN 1 58456 074 6. Anyone familiar with the growing catalogue of publications about the history of books and printing has undoubtedly come across the names...

Josee Marcoux. Litterature jeunesse au Quebec. Mediaspaul (Editions Paulines 1947-1995).(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Montreal, Mediaspaul, 2000, 239 p., 34,95 $, ISBN 2-89420-424-8. Fruit de sa maitrise en litterature, l'ouvrage de Josee Marcoux s'inscrit dans le vaste champ de l'histoire de l'edition litteraire au Quebec. Selon une approche historique,...

Claire Le Brun et Monique Noel-Gaudreault, dir. Tangence 67.(Periodical Review)
September 22, 2003... >, automne 2001, 153 p., 8,00 $. ISSN 0226-9554. Apres soixante-six publications, la revue Tangence consacre un numero a l'ecrivain/e pour la jeunesse et ses publics, codirige par Claire le Brun et Monique Noel-Gaudreault, qui regroupe dix...

Richard Proudfoot. Shakespeare: Text, Stage and Canon.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... London: Thompson Learning, 2001. xiv, 114 pp.; $ 23.95 (paperback). ISBN 1 903436 11 7. Despite being the greatest playwrignt of the English language--and possibly any other language--William Shakespeare's life and career are surrounded by...

Robert L.M. Coupe. Illustrated Editions of William Morris in English: a Descriptive Bibliography.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. 238 pp.; US $35-95 (hardcover). ISBN 1 58456 079 7 I suppose every member of the William Morris Society believes that there can't be too many books about the heroic nineteenth-century polymath....

B.C. Bloomfield. Philip Larkin: a Bibliography 1933-1994.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. xx, 226 pp; US $70.00 (hardcover). ISBN 0 7123 4747 X. This is a revised, expanded and updated edition of Barry Bloomfield's 1979 bibliography of Philip Larkin. The first edition covered the...

Matthew J. Bruccoli & Park Bucker. Joseph Heller: a Descriptive Bibliography.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. 240 pp.; US $150.00 (hardcover). ISBN 1 58456 080 9. What else did the author of Catch-22 write? This is a question that might occur when one confronts a descriptive bibliography of the works of...

Hazel K. Bell, ed., with a foreword by A.S. Byatt. Indexers and Indexes in Fact & Fiction.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. 160 pp.; $22.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 8020 8494 X. A professional indexer since 1965, and with more than 600 indexes to her credit, Hazel K. Bell is an experienced guide in this lighthearted, and...

The Grolier Club collects: Books, Manuscripts, & Works on Paper from the Collections of Grolier Club Members.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New York: The Grolier Club, 2002. 192 pp.; US $50.00 (hardcover). ISBN 0 919672 44 X. This is the catalogue of the Grolier Club's exhibition held between December 2002 and February 2003. The exhibition presented items from Grolier Club...

Mike Palmquist. The Bedford Researcher: an Integrated Text, CD-ROM, and Web Site.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Boston and New York: Bedford/St Martin's, 2003. 444 pp. US $32.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 312 26013 X. Website www.bedfordresearcher.com. This claims to be a twenty-first century text book on research writing, addressing twenty-first century...

Ian Morrison, Maureen Perkins, and Tracey Caulfield. Australian Almanacs 1806-1930: a Bibliography.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Hawthorn East, Victoria: Quiddlers Press, 2003. xiv 166 pp.; AUD $108.90 (paperback). ISBN 0 9581949 0 4. As the authors say in the Introduction, less than a century ago an almanac was as standard a part of the furniture of the European...

Brian Alderson. Old Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All: the Helen Stubbs Memorial Lectures.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Toronto: Toronto Public Library, 2002. 56 pp.; $15.00 (paperback). ISBN 0 920601 50 2. The annual lecture at the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books once again comes the way of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada...

G. Thomas Tanselle. Introduction to Bibliography: Seminar Syllabus.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Charlottesville: Book Arts Press, 2002. 370 pp; US $25.00 (paperback). This is not really a book: hence no ISBN. G. Thomas Tanselle regularly makes available for sale through the Books Arts Press at the University of Virginia his syllabus...

Arthur W. Johnson. The Repair of Cloth Bindings.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. viii, 115 pp; US $35.00 (hardcover). ISBN 1 58456 070 3. This is a how-to manual by one of the leading book designers in Great Britain. Normally concerned with construction, Johnson here gives...

Means and purposes: a suggestion to our members and friends.
September 22, 2003... 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,...