A monthly series of bibliography- or book-related links recommended by members of the Society’s Council. A new series initiated by Margaret Ford, Past President. The March choice for 2021 is by Karen Limper-Herz, our Honorary Secretary and Vice-President. She has written about the digitisation of incunabula at the British Library. http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/news/councils-choice
A monthly series of bibliography- or book-related links recommended by members of the Society’s Council. A new series initiated by Margaret Ford, Past President. The February choice for 2021 is by Vice-President, Richard Linenthal writing on the Takamiya Collection at Yale. http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/news/councils-choice
A monthly series of bibliography- or book-related links recommended by members of the Society’s Council. A new series initiated by Margaret Ford, Past President. The January choice for 2021 is by Past President, Henry Woudhuysen. http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/news/councils-choice
The Bibliographical Society intends to make an award of its Gold Medal in 2021. Nominations of suitable recipients are invited. For further information, see http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/content/gold-medallists.
The next virtual edition of The Library offers 13 articles on Venetian printing, selected with an editorial introduction by guest editor Professor Cristina Dondi (Lincoln College, Oxford). The articles were published in The Library between 1890 and 2016. The articles will remain freely available for three months, but the editorial permanently. To [...]
A monthly series of bibliography- or book-related links recommended by members of the Society’s Council. A new series initiated by Margaret Ford, Past President. The December choice is by our new President, James Raven. http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/news/councils-choice
The Society is pleased to announce the publication of a new electronic publication: A catalogue of the editions of the Elements and other Euclidean works by Benjamin Wardhaugh, with the assistance of Philip Beeley and Yelda Nasifoglu. Link: Euclid in print, 1482–1703
A monthly series of bibliography- or book-related links recommended by members of the Society’s Council. A new series initiated by Margaret Ford, Past President. http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/news/councils-choice
The Society is pleased to announce a new electronic publication: Richard Goulden, A Biographical Dictionary of those engaged in the Book Trade in Kent, 1750–1900. This is a searchable PDF version of the original publication of 2014 together with a file of additions and corrections. This dictionary covers each person's career [...]
A monthly series of bibliography- or book-related links recommended by members of the Society’s Council. A new series initiated by our President, Margaret Ford. http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/news/councils-choice
A monthly series of bibliography- or book-related links recommended by members of the Society’s Council. A new series initiated by our President, Margaret Ford. http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/news/councils-choice
Book Owners Online is a directory of historical book owners, with information about their libraries, and signposts to further reference sources. It currently covers seventeenth-century English owners, with the potential to be expanded. The database is a development from David Pearson's listing of English book owners of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries available [...]