Category Archives: book history

Book Production and Distribution, 1625ñ1800

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Reminder for GHW: check out this entry by H. G. Aldis in the Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-1921) at Bartleby.com. I certainly need to learn more about James Lackington, one of the most successful booksellers of eighteenth-century Britain and an ex-Methodist. Megan Benton first told me about Lackington when I met her at SHARP 2003. He published his Memoirs in 1791, and it looks like they’ve been reprinted in a modern edition. Amazon.com also lets me know that Lackington gets a mention by James Raven on page 180 of The Practice and Representation of Reading in England.

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online resources: history of the book

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As I do a little research in the library this afternoon, I’d like to record links to these valuable online resources:

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saturday morning link roundup

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Via Terry Belanger on SHARP-L: Order a copy of the University of Virginia Rare Book School catalog of videotapes and DVDs.

Via Lynne Connolly on C18-L: BBC Radio 4 discussion of “The Sublime.”

Via email correspondence: Harvard University’s H20 discussion environment.

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summer travel plans

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Well, it looks like I’ll be going to France this summer for SHARP 2004. Last year’s conference was in California, as longtime readers will remember. Williamsburg, Virginia in 2001. London in 2002. Claremont, California in 2003. Lyons, France in 2004. Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2005. Not a bad series of destinations.

Oh, and after ASECS 2004 hits Boston next month, it will be be in Las Vegas in 2005.

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new superhero team

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Via SHARP-L: “The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB), representing
nearly 2000 booksellers from all over the world, has launched a powerful
new search engine on its newly improved website. Over 3
million books, maps, prints and autographs are contained in the searchable
database.”

From their secret, underground headquarters in Zurich, ILAB spokesperson Captain Folio pledged to rid the world of evil bibliographers everywhere. “They can run, but they can’t hide,” added Folio’s sidekick, Kid Quarto.

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