{"title":"The Ownership and Sale of Manuscripts of John Gower's Confessio Amantis in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries","authors":"A. Edwards","doi":"10.1093/library/fpac020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpac020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":188492,"journal":{"name":"The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134333547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sir Daniel Fleming, 1633–1701: Magistrate, Antiquary and Book-Collector","authors":"Nicola J. Barker","doi":"10.1093/library/fpac018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpac018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":188492,"journal":{"name":"The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122743875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
and Lardner, their Moses Lowman, initials providing, an alternative, name for, the series ‘The, Bagwell Papers’, The Lowndes
{"title":"The Authorship of The Occasional Paper (London, 1697–98)","authors":"and Lardner, their Moses Lowman, initials providing, an alternative, name for, the series ‘The, Bagwell Papers’, The Lowndes","doi":"10.1093/library/fpac023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpac023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":188492,"journal":{"name":"The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115445922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Scholars have long suspected the existence of John Day’s independent commercial trade in woodcut prints from the illustrations of Foxe’s Acts and Monuments. This essay supplies bibliographical evidence in support of this hypothesis. The evidence consists of changes in typesetting found within the textblocks and captions used to identify the images, as well as deterioration patterns discernable within Foxe woodcuts used from the first (1563) to seventh (1631–32) editions of Acts and Monuments. By examining surviving examples of prints which Day included within successive editions, the analysis reveals that some prints are almost certainly not original to Day’s manufacture of the books which now preserve them, or to any other known early edition. Instead, some copies of these prints appear to have been inserted within books at the time of manufacture, most likely by Day, who drew upon a pre-existing stock of prints which he had independently manufactured.
{"title":"John Day’s Production of Woodcut Prints from John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments","authors":"M. Rankin","doi":"10.1093/library/22.3.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/22.3.25","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Scholars have long suspected the existence of John Day’s independent commercial trade in woodcut prints from the illustrations of Foxe’s Acts and Monuments. This essay supplies bibliographical evidence in support of this hypothesis. The evidence consists of changes in typesetting found within the textblocks and captions used to identify the images, as well as deterioration patterns discernable within Foxe woodcuts used from the first (1563) to seventh (1631–32) editions of Acts and Monuments. By examining surviving examples of prints which Day included within successive editions, the analysis reveals that some prints are almost certainly not original to Day’s manufacture of the books which now preserve them, or to any other known early edition. Instead, some copies of these prints appear to have been inserted within books at the time of manufacture, most likely by Day, who drew upon a pre-existing stock of prints which he had independently manufactured.","PeriodicalId":188492,"journal":{"name":"The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131367155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This bibliographical note explores a previously unknown lease to the printer Richard Pynson by the Knights of St John of property in St Clement Danes, to the west of the City of London, in 1495. As well as providing further evidence for the location of Pynson’s first press, it also suggests that the date of his first lease of the same property, and hence of his setting up of one of the earliest printing presses in London, was during the summer of 1491.
{"title":"Richard Pynson’s Property in St Clement Danes, 1491–1500","authors":"M. T. Payne","doi":"10.1093/library/22.3.96","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/22.3.96","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This bibliographical note explores a previously unknown lease to the printer Richard Pynson by the Knights of St John of property in St Clement Danes, to the west of the City of London, in 1495. As well as providing further evidence for the location of Pynson’s first press, it also suggests that the date of his first lease of the same property, and hence of his setting up of one of the earliest printing presses in London, was during the summer of 1491.","PeriodicalId":188492,"journal":{"name":"The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128162147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
French Jesuit Joseph Prémare, a missionary to Qing Dynasty China, had completed by the end of 1728 the draft of a book entitled Notitia linguæ sinicæ, intended to assist aspiring Catholic missionaries from Europe in learning the Chinese language. One of the original manuscripts sent from Canton to Paris, now held in the Bibliothæque nationale de France in Paris, was rediscovered in the 1810s by the French sinologist Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, and became the source for some manuscript copies, made mostly before the work’s eventual publication in 1831. This paper examines two of these manuscript copies dated between 1825 and 1830, held respectively in the Archive of the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and the the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, both important in their own ways, and both somewhat misunderstood and largely neglected by recent studies.
1728年底，到中国清朝传教的法国耶稣会士约瑟夫·普雷姆马完成了一本名为《中华语言通报》的书的草稿，目的是帮助有抱负的欧洲天主教传教士学习汉语。其中一份从广州寄往巴黎的原始手稿，现在保存在巴黎的法国国家图书馆(Bibliothæque nationale de France)，在19世纪10年代被法国汉学家让-皮埃尔·阿贝尔-雷姆萨(Jean-Pierre abel - rsamat)重新发现，并成为一些手稿副本的来源，这些手稿大部分是在1831年最终出版之前完成的。本文研究了1825年至1830年间的两份手稿副本，分别保存在伦敦东方和非洲研究学院档案馆和慕尼黑巴伐利亚国家图书馆，两者都以各自的方式重要，但都被最近的研究所误解和忽视。
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While book-piracy is often thought of as an Elizabethan problem, the organized infringement of lucrative copyrights in fact began a few decades earlier, in the reign of Mary Tudor. In this paper the known details are presented of what are probably the two best documented cases from that reign. The first was the repeated commissioning and importation of editions of Lily’s Grammar from Geneva (some of them falsely dated). The second was the reprinting of a collection of sermons whose authorized printer had secured a patent to protect it. In the first case the patentee’s attempts to obtain satisfaction in Chancery were unsuccessful; in the second the author’s interests fared rather better in Star Chamber, and may thus have established a precedent for the prosecution of Elizabethan pirates.
{"title":"Two Tales of Piracy","authors":"Peter W. M. Blayney","doi":"10.1093/library/22.3.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/22.3.3","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 While book-piracy is often thought of as an Elizabethan problem, the organized infringement of lucrative copyrights in fact began a few decades earlier, in the reign of Mary Tudor. In this paper the known details are presented of what are probably the two best documented cases from that reign. The first was the repeated commissioning and importation of editions of Lily’s Grammar from Geneva (some of them falsely dated). The second was the reprinting of a collection of sermons whose authorized printer had secured a patent to protect it. In the first case the patentee’s attempts to obtain satisfaction in Chancery were unsuccessful; in the second the author’s interests fared rather better in Star Chamber, and may thus have established a precedent for the prosecution of Elizabethan pirates.","PeriodicalId":188492,"journal":{"name":"The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society","volume":"76 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123221879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article discusses the book collection of James Caulfeild (1728–1799), first earl of Charlemont in the Irish peerage, with particular reference to his holdings of early English drama and poetry. After the death of Charlemont’s son the library was consigned to Sotheby’s for anonymous sale in July 1865, but was in large part destroyed in the Sotheby warehouse fire of 19 June. The second part of the article explores the provenance of one surviving item, a volume of fifteen manuscript plays composed over four or five decades before 1644, now British Library, MS Egerton 1994. It is among the most interesting survivals known from the slender corpus of pre-Restoration English stage documents. Charlemont’s principal London agent for early English books, the Shakespeare editor Edmond Malone (1741–1812), has long been viewed as the source of the volume. The history of this speculation is traced and disproved.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1093/library/22.4.523
J. Cain
In 1907, Karl Pearson created the Francis Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics at University College, University of London. His ambitions emphasised both discipline building and the assertion of primacy for university research in eugenics over political activism. An academic entrepreneur, Pearson operated the ‘Eugenics Laboratory’ as a publishing house or imprint. It published five series. Because titles in each series were printed as ad hoc private separates for much of their duration, current bibliographic records show considerable variation and error while historical studies of the Eugenics Laboratory tend toward fragmentation. This paper presents a comprehensive inventory for each series associated with the Eugenics Laboratory, and it offers brief analysis of emerging patterns. The series inventoried are: (1) Eugenics Laboratory Lectures, (2) Eugenics Laboratory Memoirs, (3) The Treasury of Human Inheritance, (4) Questions of the Day and of the Fray, and (5) Studies in National Deterioration.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1093/library/22.4.498
Jaime Goodrich
The Poor Clares of Galway are the oldest surviving convent in Ireland, maintaining a small but important collection of rare books from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This essay offers a bibliographical analysis of these rare books in order to sketch the role of reading within the convent from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. By analysing material evidence of reading and circulation practices—signatures, readers’ marks, marginalia, and bookmarks—broader patterns of book usage among the Galway Poor Clares are reconstructed for the first four centuries of existence. The essay concludes with a short bibliographical catalogue of the convent’s special collections.
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