The Bibliographical Society
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The Bibliographical Society exists to promote the study of the history of the book, for librarians, collectors, historians and book lovers everywhere.
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Joined May 2013
RT @universalstc: 🚨Call for Papers: The 18th St Andrews/USTC Book History Conference on 'Print and Education' will take place 18–20 June 20….
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For this month’s Council’s Choice, Daryl Green highlights the German-language wiki Buntpapier, assembled and hosted by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation as a subset of their larger “ProvenienzWiki”:.
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Our lecture from May is now online:.Nicholas Pickwoad, Entitled: The Choice, Purpose and Placing of Titles on Early-Modern Bookbindings
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Our lecture from April is now online: .David Shaw, The Stationers and the Poor Law.
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For this month’s Council’s Choice, our President Nicolas Bell salutes the return of ESTC:.
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The Bibliographical Society and CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group and have joined together for an event (4 June) on acquisitions, aimed at librarians, archivists and curators although all are welcome!
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Delighted to be taking part in Firsts Rare Book Fair. Do come and say hello if you're visiting the fair.
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RT @samuscript: Briefly returning to X to share our CfP for the @livesandletters Built with Books Symposium. Come and geek out with us over….
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Our friends at The Revels Office have asked us to share details of this conference, which is coming up on 13 June:
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RT @theULSpecColl: The typographer Stanley Morison was born #OTD in 1889. We are lucky to look after his personal library & archive, includ….
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To attend online, please register for the event here:
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The increasing introduction of edition bindings and printed titles in the eighteenth century indicates a profound change in the identification of books by their titles. .
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Where they are place on bindings and how many times in different places, also reflects shelving practices and national preferences, and often gives evidence of the movement of books both within and between libraries. .
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Until well into the eighteenth century they appear mostly to have been added on the instructions of the owner, whether commercial, institutional or private, sometimes a long time after the books were first bound, with a consequent wide variety of type and purpose. .
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‘Entitled: The Choice, Purpose and Placing of Titles on Early-Modern Bookbindings’. The introduction of standardised titles on the bindings of early modern printed books is a relatively recent phenomenon. .
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Our final meeting of the 2024/25 season will take place on Tuesday, 20 May, at 5.30 pm, at the Society of Antiquaries, London, and online via Zoom. Nicholas Pickwoad will deliver the 2025 Homee and Phiroze Randeria Lecture on the subject of . .
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Our Past President Mirjam Foot has asked us to publicise the following:
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To attend online, please register for the event here:
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