Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art (BASIRA) Visitors to museums, galleries, libraries and churches may have observed that books appear frequently in medieval and Renaissance art. Paintings, sculptures and stained glass provide insights into how books were used, but also how they were perceived. Depictions of books within books have [...]
The (Partial) Return of the Bodleian Broadside Ballads Something about broadside ballads has recommended them as subjects for digital resources. As popular, ephemeral publications they have always promised to yield more in the aggregate than singly, while the apparent simplicity of digitizing a broadside, a single sheet printed on one side [...]
The Bibliographical Society is sad to learn of the recent death of Professor Michael Twyman, emeritus Professor of Typography at the University of Reading. Professor Twyman was awarded the Society's Gold Medal in 2021. For a list of the Society's Gold Medallists, see https://bibsoc.org.uk/about/gold-medallists/.
The Bibliographical Society is pleased to announce the publication of a new e-resource: Benjamin Wardhaugh, Ancient Greek Mathematics in print, 1475–1703. This can be downloaded as a PDF file from https://bibsoc.org.uk/ancient-greek-mathematics/. For other electronic publications by the Society, see Bibliographical Society e-Publications.
The Bibliographical Society is delighted to announce that two new members have been elected to the Society’s Outreach sub-committee. The sub-committee was established to promote the Society and bibliography through activities catering to a variety of audiences, in addition to our regular monthly lectures and summer visit. To gain fresh [...]
Shakespeare portal There is no paucity of Shakespeare bibliography but, even if you are fully immersed in the field, you may still find one e-resource useful as a portal bringing together a lot of information and providing easy avenues for further research. It is the Shakespeare Census, edited by Adam [...]
The Bibliographical Society is sad to learn of the death of James Mosley, former Librarian of St Bride Library (1958–2000). He was the recipient of the Society's Gold Medal in 2017 and a signifcant historian of letterpress printing and its equipment.
At our last Council meeting of the academic year we were very pleased to receive the report of the Committee which meets every year or two to consider the award of the Society’s Gold Medal. We are delighted to report that the Gold Medal will be awarded this year to [...]
The Einbanddatenbank A Key Resource for Identifying German Bookbindings of the 15th and 16th Centuries The Einbanddatenbank, hosted by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, provides access to collections of rubbings held in large German libraries. The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin holds the Schwenke-Schunke Sammlung; the Württembergische Landesbibliothek in Stuttgart has the [...]
According to the Society's constitution, three Council members are due to step down at the Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 28 October 2025. Nominations for Council will therefore be considered at the Council meeting on Wednesday 10 September 2025 and should be submitted to the Hon. Secretary (secretary@bibsoc.org.uk) no later [...]
Buntpapier: Beschreibung, Terminologie, Abbildungen [Coloured paper: description, terminology, illustrations] https://provenienz.gbv.de/Portal:Buntpapier Decorative papers used in the book trade is an area of book history and bibliography that offers the most ambiguity in catalogue and metadata descriptions. Each country or region has different names for different techniques, and no one tool has [...]
The Return of ESTC For many members of the Bibliographical Society, the loss of the ESTC was one of the most keenly felt consequences of the cyber-attack on the British Library in 2023. After a few months the Print & Probability website at Carnegie Mellon University came to the rescue [...]
