Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada articles from September 2006

Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada archives from September 2006

Arctic exploration in Canadian print culture, 1890-1930.
September 22, 2006... In the spring of 1933, Canadian poet E.J. Pratt conceived the idea of writing a verse epic on Sir John Franklin's ill-fated 1845 expedition in search of the Northwest Passage, a story that had "long haunted his imagination." Pratt's sources of...

"Head of the publishing side of the business": Ellen Elliott of the Macmillan Company of Canada.
September 22, 2006... From 1905 to 1980, the Macmillan Company of Canada was a crucial catalyst in the shaping of Canada's literary heritage. Macmillan championed a group of leading Canadian authors including Stephen Leacock, Mazo de la Roche, Grey Owl, Hugh...

Design and ideology in A Pocketful of Canada (1).(Article)
September 22, 2006... In 1946, the Canadian Council of Education for Citizenship issued A Pocketful of Canada, edited by John D. Robins, head of English at Victoria College, and published in Toronto by William Collins. According to the Introduction by H.M. Tory, who...

Priscilla Coit Murphy. What a Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Priscilla Coit Murphy. What a Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. xvi, 254 pp.; US $34.95. ISBN 1558494766. Silent Spring (1962), by marine biologist Rachel Carson,...

Valerie Neveu. Catalogues regionaux des incunables des bibliotheques publiques de France. Volume XVII. Haute-Normandie.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Valerie Neveu. Catalogues regionaux des incunables des bibliotheques publiques de France. Volume XVII. Haute-Normandie. Geneve, Droz, Ecole pratique des hautes Etudes. Sciences historiques et philologiques VI. Histoire et Civilisation du Livre...

Nick Mount. When Canadian Literature Moved to New York.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Nick Mount. When Canadian Literature Moved to New York. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 210 pp; $45.00. ISBN 080203828X. The announcement of this book in the University of Toronto Press catalogue immediately piqued my interest...

Approches de la biographie au Quebec.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Approches de la biographie au Quebec, etudes reunies par Dominique Lafon, Rainier Grutman, Marcel Olscamp et Robert Vigneault, Montreal, Fides, coll. >, tome XII, 2004, 203 p.; 26,955. ISBN 276212591X. > s'interroge d'entree de jeu Robert...

Nicole Howard. The Book: The Life Story of a Technology.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Nicole Howard. The Book: The Life Story of a Technology, Greenwood Technographies. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005. xvi, 171 pp. US $45.00. ISBN: 031333028X. The growing interest in book history and print culture is attracting...

Mens, Numero thematique << L'histoire du livre au Quebec de la Nouvelle-France au XXe siecle >>.(history of books and printing in Canada)
September 22, 2006... Mens, Numero thematique >, Vol. V, no 2, printemps 2005, 591 p. Documentation et bibliotheques, >, vol. 51, no 2, avril-juin 2005, 157 p. Il faut se rendre a l'evidence: l'histoire du livre et de l'imprime au Quebec suscite beaucoup...

Benoit Melancon, dir. Le Savoir des livres.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Benoit Melancon, dir. Le Savoir des livres, Montreal, Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 2005, 127 p.; $34,95. ISBN 276061980X. Les textes reunis dans Le Savoir des livres interrogent les notions de livre savant et de publication...

Gagnon, Jean. Quelques souvenirs.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Gagnon, Jean. Quelques souvenirs. Quebec, Editions de la Huit, 1992. 45P. ISBN 2-9802300-1-4. 19,00$ Il est utile de rappeler la publication, il y a quelques annees, d'un opuscule a tirage limite par le libraire Jean Gagnon sur son metier....

John Y. Cole and Jane Aikin, eds. Encyclopedia of the Library of Congress: for Congress, the Nation and the World.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... John Y. Cole and Jane Aikin, eds. Encyclopedia of the Library of Congress: for Congress, the Nation & the World. Washington, DC, Library of Congress; Lanham, MD, Bernan Press, 2004. xxxi, 569 pp. US $125.00. ISBN 0890599718. Specialized...

Philip Oldfield and Richard Landon. Ars medica: Medical Illustration Through the Ages. An Exhibition to Commemorate the Seventieth Anniversary of the Founding of Associated Medical Services. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, January-April 2006.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Philip Oldfield and Richard Landon. Ars medica: Medical Illustration Through the Ages. An Exhibition to Commemorate the Seventieth Anniversary of the Founding of Associated Medical Services. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of...