Latest Issue of Script & Print — Vol. 44 No. 3 (2020)

  • Shef Rogers — Some Thoughts on Analytical Bibliography in the Twenty-First-Century Academy
  • Pervez Rizvi — Typecase Attributions for the Shakespeare First Folio
  • Reviews — The Letters of Jacob Tonson in Bodleian MS. Eng. lett. c. 129 (Geoff Kemp); The Best-Read Army in the World (Louise Voll Box); Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack (Philip Kent)

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Latest Issue of Script & Print — Vol. 44 No. 2 (2020)

  • Keith Maslen — Was Samuel Richardson a Closet Jacobite?
  • Ian Morrison — A Description of a Voyage: The ‘Allport’ Copy of STC 15193
  • B. J. McMullin and Carlo Dumontet — Small Volumes and Format: Le Nain
  • Nicholas A. Sparks — An Unrecorded Issue of An Account of the
    Mutinous Seizure of the Bounty 1791
  • Rachel Franks — Review essay: Roguery in Print: Crime and
    Culture in Early Modern London (Leoni Liapi)
  • Reviews — Priests and their Books in Late Anglo-Saxon England (Shane P. Carmody); Renaissance Illuminators in Paris: Artists and Artisans 1500–1715 (Anna Welch); Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books: Continuities of Reading in the English Reformation (Hilary Maddocks); Religion around John Donne (Alice Capstick); The
    People’s Cuisine: Origins of Australia’s Cookery (Ian Morrison)

2021 BSANZ Conference: Communities, books and the power of words

Pencil in the dates and start writing your abstracts…

BSANZ is pleased to announce that the conference for 2021 will be hosted online from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand on 22-23 November 2021.

The call for papers is closing on 14 July. Read more here.

We are thrilled to announce our keynote speakers: Dr Hirini Kaa, of Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu and Rongowhakaata, an historian and Anglican minister, and Dr Sarah Werner, book historian and digital media scholar. Read more here.

Keep an eye out here for further programme announcements and the link to the conference website.

Latest Issue of Script & Print — Vol. 44 No. 1 (2020)

  • Agnieszka Dytman-Stasieńko — The Untamed Force of Free Expression: 
    “Second-Circulation” Publishing in Poland 1976–1989
  • Warwick Hirst — Mr. Christian’s Library
  • Dennis Bryans — Robert Bell’s Eclectic Press
  • Warwick Hirst and Nicholas A. Sparks — Two Early Nineteenth-Century Botanical 
    Manuscripts in the Mitchell Library
  • Reviews — The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies: Scholarly Editing and Book History (John K. Young); Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book (James P. Ascher); John Fell’s New Year Books 1666–1686 (B. J. McMullin)

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Latest Issue of Script & Print — Vol. 43 No. 4 (2019)

  • Dirk H. R. Spennemann — Matthäus Merian’s Crocodile in Japan
  • Clare Gleeson — Music Sold and Music Published: An Overview of Publishing by Music Sellers in New Zealand 1840–1940
  • Reviews — Meeting by Accident: Selected Historical Bindings (Darryn Schneider); The Evolution of Editorial Style in Early Modern England
    ( John Feather); At First, All Went Well… & Other Brief Lives (Derek McDonnell); The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One
    Book’s Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey (Michael Scully); Thomas & William Boone’s Library of Australian Travels. A Bibliographical Excursion (Charles Stitz); The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume 7: The Twentieth Century and Beyond ( John Arnold).

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Latest Issue of Script & Print — Vol. 43 No. 3 (2019)

Contents:

  • John Fish — The Cancel in Bligh’s Narrative
  • B. J. McMullin — Scott’s ‘Lying Title-pages’
  • B. J. McMullin — The Publication History of Scott’s Tales of My Landlord, First Series
  • Nicholas A. Sparks — Sydney, University Library, Nicholson Ms. 7 and the Transmission of Boethius’s Philosophiae consolatio
  • Dennis Bryans — English Monotype Down Under
  • Reviews — Books before Print (Anna Welch); Painting the Page in the Age of Print (Véronique Duché); Richard Bentley and the British Empire (Richard Overell); The Book Thieves (Patrick Spedding); The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel (Daniel Wee)

Statement about recent changes at the National Library of New Zealand

The National Library of New Zealand recently announced that they are going “to make more room for the New Zealand, Māori and Pacific collection”. While pleased at the emphasis placed on this important local material, the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand is very concerned about and laments the library’s decision to deaccession hundreds of thousands of books from its overseas published collections in the process.

While we understand the increasing pressures faced by libraries and that difficult decisions must on occasion be made, we find the sheer scale of such loss shocking and the criticism levelled at the library’s actions justified.

BSANZ calls for greater funding and support of physical collections throughout Australasia in order to not only ensure such collections are not further diminished and that other collections do not meet a similar fate.

Véronique Duché

BSANZ President, on behalf of the Executive

Latest Issue of Script & Print — Vol. 43 No. 2 (2019)

S and P 43.2Contents:

  • Mary Coe — Canaries in a Coalmine: The Index and the Page in Ebooks
  • Jacqueline McMillan — The Rise of the Bibliomemoir in the Twenty-First Century
  • Rachel Solomon — George Ivan Smith and Henry Handel Richardson: The Making of a Reader
  • Wallace Kirsop — Some New Documents on Commercial Travelling in the French Book Trade in the Early Nineteenth Century
  • Nicholas A. Sparks — Another French Translation of Watkin Tench’s Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay
  • Reviews — An Actor’s Library: David Garrick, Book Collecting and Literary Friendships (Amanda Laugesen); Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture (Per Henningsgaard); Great Catalogues by Master Booksellers. A Selection of American and English Booksellers’ Catalogues, 19th–21st Century (Colin Steele)

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