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Previous article FreeSociety InformationNews, Programs, Publications, and AwardsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreNewsCall for Society Archives MaterialsShould you have BSA historical material which may be suitable for the BSA Archives in formation, kindly get in touch with Grolier Club Librarian, Meghan Constantinou ([email protected]; 212-838-6690) to make arrangements for sending your material to the Grolier Club Library, which is the repository for the BSA records. The BSA Archive is particularly in need of officer’s records, councilor’s files, and BSA documents from the 1904–1950 era. With the appreciation of the BSA Archives Working Group, R. Dyke Benjamin, Chair, BSA Archives Working Group.Recent BSA EventsAs part of the annual 2016 RBMS conference in Coral Gables, Florida, 21–24 June, the Society offered a seminar on “Linked Data Consumption for the Rare Materials Librarian: An Introduction and How-To.” Moderated by Amy Brown, the presenters included Amber Billey, Brian K. Geiger, and Allison Jai O’Dell.The Society organized a panel on “Teaching Book History and Bibliography” as part of the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, 31 March–3 April in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The panel was chaired by Norbert Schurer and included papers by David Buchanan, Stephen Gregg, and Benjamin Pauley.Recent developments on provenance research were the subject of “Mind the Gap: Recent Provenance and Antiquarian Material,” a conference held on 6–7 November 2015 at the Grolier Club in New York City, and organized by Program Committee members John Crichton, Nina Musinsky, Heather Wolfe, and Marcia Reed. While book history has focused increasingly on the history of collecting and chains of ownership or provenance, these studies still rarely touch on recent ownership. Presentations by an international group of curators, conservators, scholars, librarians, dealers, and collectors—themselves creators of contemporary provenance—featured fascinating historical and bibliographical evidence discovered in the process of researching documentation of the recent histories of works in institutional and private collections. Topics included lost works known only through dealers’ correspondence, sales catalogs, and inventories; a German medieval manuscript broken apart, recently reunited; George Washington’s dispersed correspondence; and manuscripts by Oscar Wilde. Booksellers Nina Musinsky and John Crichton spoke about why the privacy of provenance information is important to their business, but also why they recognize it is important to preserve the information and pass it on. Kathryn Kyes Leab and Laura Aydelotte gave final perspectives on the uses of provenance databases, again emphasizing the significance of recent documentation for both research and collection security. The conference can be viewed online at https://vimeo.com/149137712.Ernst Reichel WebsiteMartha Scotford, Professor Emeritus at North Carolina State University, would like to announce the unveiling of her website dedicated to the American book designer, Ernst Reichl, and his design work from the 1930s through the 1970s. He was active in trade publishing in New York, involved in the American Institute of Graphic Arts activities, and twenty-six of his books made their 50 Books selection. The site was supported in part by the Society’s 2012 Reese Fellowship and can be found at http://www.ernstreichl.org/.Call for Addenda and Corrigenda: A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 through 1820Since its publication in 2012 by the Pennsylvania State University Press for the Bibliographical Society of America, readers have kindly reported several newly discovered editions and a few corrections to Roger E. Stoddard’s American Verse. At Mr. Stoddard’s request, the book’s editor, David R. Whitesell, has assumed responsibility for collecting and disseminating addenda and corrigenda. Readers are encouraged to submit reports of unrecorded editions, additions, and corrections to information published in American Verse, and reports of copies either not noted or not described by Stoddard. Addenda and corrigenda will be published periodically in an appropriate forum, such as the Bibliographical Society of America’s BibSite, http://bibsocamer.org/bibsite-home/.Please submit all information to: David R. Whitesell, Curator, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400110, Charlottesville, VA 22904; [email protected].American Verse encompasses “all the poetry composed in what is now the United States of America and printed, in the form of books or pamphlets, before 1821. No broadside (a single leaf printed on one or both sides) or leaflet (two conjugate leaves) is included. … Also omitted is ‘incidental verse,’ that is, poetry printed in the midst of or appended to a prose work. If, however, a poem is cited on the title-page of a prose work, then that work is described. All languages are included, as well as translations, and there is no limit on place of publication.”❧ProgramsAnnual MeetingThe Bibliographical Society of America will hold its next annual meeting in New York on Friday, 27 January 2017 at 4 pm.New Scholars ProgramThe Bibliographical Society of America each year invites three scholars in the early stages of their careers to present twenty-minute papers on their current, unpublished research in the field of bibliography as members of a panel at the annual meeting of the Society, which takes place in New York City in late January. The New Scholars Program seeks to promote the work of scholars who are new to the field of bibliography, broadly defined to include any research that deals with the creation, production, publication, distribution, reception, transmission, and subsequent history of texts as material objects (print or manuscript). Papers of new scholars are published in the December issue of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America as part of the proceedings of the annual meeting.Junior (i.e., untenured) faculty and graduate students at the dissertation level are eligible, as are professional librarians, members of the book trade, and book collectors who are at the beginning of their careers. Candidates should submit a letter of application, an abstract of not more than 250 words, and a curriculum vitae. Graduate students should also submit a letter of recommendation from their dissertation director. For submissions to be considered for the following January, materials should be received by 31 July.New Scholars selected for the panel receive a subvention of $600 toward the cost of attendance at the annual meeting and a complimentary one-year membership in the Bibliographical Society of America. For further information on the New Scholars Program, see http://bibsocamer.org/awards/new-scholars-program/. Inquiries regarding the program may be directed to John A. Buchtel, Chair, New Scholars Program, at [email protected].❧FellowshipsAnnual FellowshipsEvery year the Society offers a variety of fellowships in support of bibliographical inquiry and research in the history of the book trades and in publishing history:The Katharine Pantzer Senior Fellowship in Bibliography and the British Book Trades ($6,000) supports research in topics relating to book production and distribution in Britain during the hand-press period as well as studies of authorship, reading, and collecting based on the examination of British books published in that period, with a special emphasis on descriptive bibliography. 2016 Winner: J. Christopher Warner, Le Moyne College, “Seditious Books from Across the Sea: John Fowler in the Low Countries’ Book Trade.”The BSA-ASECS Fellowship for Bibliographical Studies in the Eighteenth Century ($3,000). Recipients must be a member of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies at the time of the award. 2016 Winner: Adam Komisaruk, West Virginia University, “Erasmus Darwin’s ‘The Botanic Garden’: A Critical Edition.”The BSA-Harry Ransom Center Pforzheimer Fellowship in Bibliography (two awards at $3,000 each) supports the bibliographical study of early modern books and manuscripts, 1455–1700, held in the Ransom Center’s Pforzheimer Library and in related collections of early printed books and manuscripts, including the Pforzheimer Gutenberg Bible. No 2016 Award.The BSA-Mercantile Library Fellowship in North American Bibliography ($3,000) supports scholarship in North American bibliography, including studies in the North American book trade, production and distribution of North American books, North American book illustration and design, North American collecting and connoisseurship, and North American bibliographical history in general. 2016 Winner: Christy Pottroff, Fordham University, “Early American Women’s Literature, Letters, and the Post Office, 1790–1865.”The BSA-Pine Tree Foundation Fellowship in Culinary Bibliography ($3,000) supports the bibliographical study of printed and manuscript cookbooks (once commonly known as receipt books); medical recipe books that also contain culinary recipes; other types of books, manuscripts, and printed material that include a substantial body of culinary recipes; treatises on and studies of gastronomy; or memoirs, diary accounts, or descriptions of food and cooking. Projects may cover any period or country. 2016 Winner: Hannah Alpert-Abrams, University of Texas, Austin, “Legacies of Colonial Mexican Printing: The Taller Martin Pescador.”The Charles J. Tanenbaum Fellowship in Cartographical Bibliography ($3000) supports projects dealing with all aspects of the history, presentation, printing, design, distribution, and reception of cartographical documents from Renaissance times to the present, with a special emphasis on eighteenth-century cartography. Funded by the Pine Tree Foundation of New York. 2016 Winner: Zoe Langer, Italian Studies, Brown University, “Measuring Dante’s Inferno: Maps of Hell in Renaissance Books and Prints 1500–1750.”The Katharine Pantzer Fellowship in the British Book Trades ($3,000) supports bibliographical inquiry as well as research in the history of the book trades and publishing history in Britain. 2016 Winner: Giles Bergel, University of Oxford, “A Digital Catalogue of the Charnley-Dodd Woodblocks.”The McCorison Fellowship for the History and Bibliography of Printing in Canada and the United States ($3,000). Funded by a gift of Donald Oresman. 2016 Winner: James Poskett, University of Cambridge, “Printing Useful Knowledge in the Transatlantic World, 1828–1845.”The Reese Fellowship for American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas ($3,000). The fellowship may be awarded to any scholar, whether academic or independent, whose project explores the history of print culture in the Western Hemisphere. 2016 Winner: Mike Kelly, Amherst College, “A Bibliography of Samson Occom’s A Sermon Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul.”BSA Short-term Fellowships ($3,000). The Society also offers a number of unnamed, short-term fellowships supporting bibliographical research as described above. 2016 Winners: Pierre Delsaerdt, University of Antwerp, “Researching provenance information in the Arenberg Library, now in the Library of Congress, Washington”; Andrew Keener, Northwestern University, “Staging Translation: Cosmopolitan Vernaculars in Shakespeare’s England”; Sarah Lindenbaum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Reconstructing the Library and Reading Habits of Early Modern Book Collector Frances Wolfreston”; Natale Vacalebre, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, “Books Production and Distribution Between Venice and the Papal States in the Late Sixteenth Century: The Case of Luciano Pasini.”Applications are due 1 December of each year, and winners are announced at the annual meeting of the Society the following January. Details of the program are located at http://bibsocamer.org/awards/fellowships/, or can be had by contacting Gerald Cloud, Chair of the Fellowship Committee, [email protected].❧Triennial AwardsWilliam L. Mitchell PrizeThe Bibliographical Society of America invites submissions for its fifth William L. Mitchell Prize for Bibliography or Documentary Work on Early British Periodicals or Newspapers. The next competition has the deadline of 30 September 2017 and will consider works (including theses, articles, books, and electronic resources) published after 31 December 2010. The winner of the William L. Mitchell Prize will receive a cash award of $1,000 and a year’s membership in the Society.The Mitchell Prize for research on British serials was endowed to honor William L. Mitchell, former librarian at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas, where he was curator of the Richmond P. and Marjorie N. Bond Collection of 18th-Century British Newspapers and Periodicals and of the Edmund Curll Collection. The Prize serves as an encouragement to scholars engaged in bibliographical scholarship on 18th-century periodicals published in English or in any language but within the British Isles and its colonies and former colonies.Submissions for the Mitchell Prize may concentrate on any periodicals or newspapers printed before 1800 in English-speaking countries, but should involve research into primary sources of historical evidence, such as the analysis of the physical objects, whether for establishing a text or understanding the history of the production, distribution, collecting, or reading of serial publications. For examples of the kind of scholarship falling within the Prize’s survey, please see the descriptions of previous winners.Eligible scholarship may take the form of a book or article, a Master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation defended and approved, or research results distributed in another manner, such as on a website or a CD-ROM. Eligible scholarship must have been published or, if a dissertation or thesis, approved during the year of the deadline or the three previous calendar years. If a publication has an incorrect nominal date disqualifying it for submission but an actual date of publication within the prize period, it may be nominated with a letter by the publisher or editor testifying to the actual date of publication. Unpublished dissertations and theses must be accompanied by a letter from their authors’ directors attesting to their having been approved.For further information on the Mitchell Prize and how to apply, see the Society website at http://bibsocamer.org/awards/william-l-mitchell-prize/.Justin G. Schiller PrizeEndowed by Justin G. Schiller, a dealer in antiquarian children’s books and past member of the BSA Council, the Schiller Prize for Bibliographical Work on Pre-20th-Century Children’s Books is intended to encourage scholarship in the bibliography of historical children’s books. It brings a cash award of $3,000 and a year’s membership in the Society. The 2013 winner was Kyle B. Roberts for his essay “Rethinking The New-England Primer.”Works put into nomination, which must be in English, may concentrate on any children’s book printed before the year 1901 in any country or any language. Submissions should involve research into bibliography and printing history broadly conceived and should focus on the physical book as historical evidence for studying topics such as the history of book production, publication, distribution, collecting, or reading. Studies of the printing, publishing, and allied trades, as these relate to children’s books, are also welcome.Eligible scholarship may take the form of a published book or article, a master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation that has been defended and approved, or research results distributed in another manner, such as on a website or a CD-ROM. For further information on the Schiller Prize, including upcoming submission deadlines and how to apply, see the Society’s website at http://bibsocamer.org/awards/justin-g-shiller-prize/.St. Louis Mercantile Library PrizeFunded by the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, an institutional member of the Society, this prize encourages scholarship in the bibliography of American history and literature. Awarded every three years, the prize brings a cash award of $2,000 and a year’s membership in the Society.Submissions for the Mercantile Library Prize should concentrate on some aspect of American history and culture in territories that now comprise the United States, or on literature by American authors, or literature intended for publication in territories that now comprise the United States. They should involve research in bibliography and printing history broadly conceived and focus on the book (the physical object) as historical evidence for studying topics such as the history of book production, publication, distribution, collecting, or reading. Studies of the printing, publishing, and allied trades, as these relate to American history and literature, are also welcome.Submissions may take the form of a published book or article, a master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation defended and approved, or research results distributed in another manner, such as a website or CD-ROM. Submissions must have been published or, if a dissertation or thesis, approved the year of the deadline or the three previous calendar years. If a publication has an incorrect nominal date disqualifying it for submission but an actual date of publication within the prize period, it may be nominated with a letter by the publisher or editor testifying to the actual date of publication. Unpublished dissertations and theses must be accompanied by a letter from the director attesting their approval. For further information on the Mercantile Library Prize, including upcoming submission deadlines and how to apply, see the Society website at http://bibsocamer.org/awards/st-louis-mercantile-library-prize/.❧Publications By Society MembersAvailable through Pennsylvania State University PressKaren Nipps, Lydia Bailey: A Checklist of Her Imprints (2013).Roger E. Stoddard, edited by David R. Whitesell, A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820 (2012).Catherine M. Parisian, ed., The First White House Library: A History and Annotated Catalogue (2010).Available through Oak Knoll PressTrevor Howard-Hill, The British Book Trade 1475–1890: A Bibliography (2009).Andrea Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823–50 (2008).Milton McC Gatch, The Library of Leander van Ess and the Earliest American Collections of Reformation Pamphlets (2007).Brian Alderson and Felix de Marez Oyens, Be Merry and Wise: Origins of Children’s Book Publishing in England 1650–1850 (2006).Kenneth E. Carpenter, The Dissemination of “The Wealth of Nations” in French and in France, 1776–1843 (2002).Sidney F. and Elizabeth S. Huttner, A Register of Artists, Engravers, Booksellers, Bookbinders, Printers & Publishers in New York City, 1821–42 (1993).K. I. D. Maslen, An Early London Printing House at Work: Studies in the Bowyer Ledgers, with a Supplement to the Bowyer Ornament Stock (1973), an Appendix on the Bowyer-Emonson Partnership, and “Bowyer’s Paper Stock Ledger” by Herbert Davis (1993).K. I. D. Maslen and John Lancaster, eds., The Bowyer Ledgers: The Printing Accounts of William Bowyer Father and Son Reproduced on Microfiche, with a Checklist of Bowyer Printing 1699–1777, a Commentary, Indexes, and Appendixes (1991).Staffan Fogelmark, Flemish and Related Panel-Stamped Bindings: Evidence and Principles (1990).C. Paul Christianson, A Directory of London Stationers and Book Artisans 1300–1500 (1990).William B. Todd and Anne Bowden, Tauchnitz International Editions in English 1841–1955: A Bibliographical History (1988).The Bibliographical Society of America, 1904–79: A Retrospective Collection (1980).Sidney L. Gullick, A Chesterfield Bibliography to 1800 (1979).Hazel A. Johnson, A Checklist of New London, Connecticut, Imprints, 1709–1800 (1978).M. A. Shaaber, Check-list of Works of British Authors Printed Abroad, in Languages other than English, to 1641 (1975).Denis B. Woodfield, Surreptitious Printing in England, 1550–1640 (1973).Margaret B. Stillwell, The Beginning of the World of Books, 1450 to 1470: A Chronological Survey of the Texts Chosen for Printing during the First Twenty Years of the Printing Art, with a Synopsis of the Gutenberg Documents (1972).Donald D. Eddy, A Bibliography of John Brown (1971).Roger Bristol, Supplement to Charles Evans’ American Bibliography (1970).Frederick R. Goff, ed., Incunabula in American Libraries: A Third Census of Fifteenth-Century Books Recorded in North American Collections (1964).Jacob Blanck, Virginia L. Smithers, and Michael Winship, eds., Bibliography of American Literature, 9 vols. (1955–91).Available through the Bibliographical Society of AmericaFrederick R. Goff, ed., Incunabula in American Libraries: A Supplement to the Third Census of Fifteenth-Century Books Recorded in North American Collections (1964) (1972).Available through ACLS Humanities E-BooksC. U. Faye and W. H. Bond, Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (1962).Warren S. Tryon and William Charvat, eds., The Cost Books of Ticknor and Fields and their Predecessors, 1832–1858 (1949).Joseph Sabin, continued by Wilberforce Eames and R. W. G. Vail, Bibliotheca Americana : A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time, vols. 20–29 (1928–36).❧BibsiteRecent additions and updates2016Lenore Coral, “British Book Auction Catalogues, 1801–1900: A Preliminary Version of Munby-Coral 2” (update).Craig Kallendorf, “Additions and Corrections to Craig A Bibliography of the Early Printed Editions of E. of Studies of Eighteenth-Century the and in E. on 18th-Century Materials in Library and Collections E. 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