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Editorial Apology

The editor wishes to express his sincere apology to the authors of the essay on manuscripts in Hebrew and Arabic in the state of Victoria published in the previous issue. The authors had submitted a further proof removing the Hebrew because the order of characters was problematic as printed, and the editor failed to carry out those revisions. A corrected version of the essay without the confusing Hebrew is on the BSANZ.org site below and incorporated into all digitally published versions of the journal.

Inventorying “Pre-modern” Manuscripts in Victorian Public and Private Collections: Expanding the Cultural Archive

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Paul Tankard “A Musty Extravaganza” Dunedin’s Regent Theatre 24-hour Book Sale, as a Chapter in Book History
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Leila Alhagh, Merav Carmeli, G. Geltner, John Henry, Stephen
J. Joyce, Janice Pinder, Robert Turnbull

Inventorying “Pre-modern” Manuscripts in Victorian Public and Private Collections: Expanding the Cultural Archive

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B. J. McMullin The Inner Workings of the Foulis Press:
The Chevalier Ramsay’s Travels of Cyrus, 1755

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Dennis Bryans Review Essay: Making Printers’ Type:
Man’s 500 Year Quest to Develop Better Methods

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Reviews The Nature of the Page: Poetry, Paper- making, and the Ecology of Texts in Renaissance England (Erin A. McCarthy); Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries (Véronique Duché); Under the Rainbow: The Life and Times of E. W. Cole (Wal Kirsop); The Typewriter Century: A Cultural History of Writing Practices (Des
Cowley)

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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

Dear Members,

Please see the below list of books which may be of interest to some readers who might wish to offer a book review.

Persons wishing to review books should contact Dr Nicholas Sparks, Reviews Editor, Script & Print, St. John’s College, Camperdown, NSW, 2050 (bsanz.reviews@gmail.com). ​

For further information refer to ​the Script & Print Book Review guidelines.

June 2018 – Books for review (PDF file)

Please note that the deadline for submission of abstracts for the BSANZ 2018 Conference, ‘Marginalia: Bibliography at the Margins’, has been extended to Friday 27 April.

Find out more here.

Contents:

• Patricia Thomas — Iconoclastic Effrontery: Rex Fairburn, Bob Lowry and the Printing of Polemics
• Marion Amies — Amelia Carey White: Author of Social Life and Manners in Australia
• B. J. McMullin — Walter Scott’s Ballads and Lyrical Pieces, 1806, and the Collected Works
• John C. Ross — Fleuron: A User’s Report—And Charles Ackers Revisited Again
• Nicholas A. Sparks — Corrigenda to Two Modern Editions of The Peterborough Chronicle
• Reviews — The Fifteenth-Century Printing Practices of Johann Zainer, Ulm, 1473–1478 (B. J. McMullin); The Noblest Roman: A History of the Centaur Type of Bruce Rogers (Dennis Bryans)

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Alternatively, you can read the latest issue of Script & Print at APA-FT.

Contents:

• Chris Vening — William Martin Leggett: The “Bard of New Brunswick” in Australia
• Donald J. Kerr — For the Boys Over There! The Churchill Auction of Books and Pictures in New Zealand, 1942
• Duncan M. Campbell — Henry E. Huntington’s Chinese Book: A Bibliographical Note

You can subscribe to Script & Print by becoming a BSANZ member.

Alternatively, you can read the latest issue of Script & Print at APA-FT.

Contents:

• Paul Eggert — The Long 1890s: Henry Lawson, Francis Adams and the Anglo-Australian Network in London
• J. E. Traue — Eighty Years of Serial Fiction in New Zealand Newspapers: A Snapshot of Writers and their Readers
• Patrick Spedding — Unfortunate Delays in Publishing the Bibliothèque Britannique
• B. J. McMullin — Matthew McLennan Young, Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press: Further Bibliographical Notes

You can subscribe to Script & Print by becoming a BSANZ member.

Alternatively, you can read the latest issue of Script & Print at APA-FT.