Recently added articles from Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada:
The Canadian readers meet: the Canadian Literature Club of Toronto, Donald G. French, and the middlebrow modernist reader.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... SOMMAIRE Pendant de nombreuses decennies, le Canadian Literature Club of Toronto (1915-1973) s'assura une forte presence sur la scene culturelle torontoise. Il s'efforca d'encourager le developpement de la litterature canadienne-anglaise en faisant la promotion de livres ...
"Reckless extravagance and utter incompetence": George Ross and the Toronto textbook ring, 1883-1907.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... SOMMAIRE Un oligopole, cree par trois eminents editeurs de Toronto W.J. Gage, Copp, Clark et la Canada Publishing Company, dirigea de 1885 1907 la publication du lucratif Ontario Readers destind aux lecteurs des ecoles primaires. Cette &ude eucide les circonstances dans ...
Michel Biron, Francois Dumont, Elisabeth Nardout-Lafarge avec la collaboration de Martine-Emmanuelle Lapointe. Histoire de la litterature quebecoise.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Michel Biron, Francois Dumont, Elisabeth Nardout-Lafarge avec la collaboration de Martine-Emmanuelle Lapointe. Histoire de la litterature quebecoise. Montreal: Editions Boreal, 2007, 689 p.; 50$. ISBN 978-2-7646-0529-5 Lors de la publication de l'Histoire de la litterature ...
Julie Roy et Nova Doyon, dir. Le litteraire a l'oeuvre dons les periodiques quebecois du XIXe siecle.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Julie Roy et Nova Doyon, dir. Le litteraire a l'oeuvre dons les periodiques quebecois du XIXe siecle. Coll. << Nouveaux Cahiers de recherche >>, no 3. Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la litterature et la culture quebecoises, Universite de Montreal, 2005, 93 p.; 12,00 $. ISBN ...
Philippe Roy. Le livre francais au Quebec, 1939-1972.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Philippe Roy. Le livre francais au Quebec, 1939-1972. Coll. << Sciences humaines et sociales-Histoire >>. [Paris], Publibook [2008], 316 p.; 36 euros. ISSN 1950-6856 Ce livre, qui etudie la penetration du livre francais au Canada--et particulierement au Quebec--, etait a ...
La Charite, Claude (dir.). Gabrielle Roy traduite.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... La Charite, Claude (dir.). Gabrielle Roy traduite. Quebec: Nota bene, coll. << Seminaires >>, no 18, 2006; 19,95$. ISBN 2-89518-243-4 Cet ouvrage tres interessant se situe dans le prolongement de deux titres publies chez le meme editeur sous la direction de Jane Everett et de ...
James Simpson. Burning to Read." English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... James Simpson. Burning to Read." English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. 368 pp.; US $27.95 ISBN 9780674026711 Few moments in the history of reading are as complex as the Protestant Reformation, and few provide a ...
D.F. McKenzie and Maureen Bell, A Chronology and Calendar of Documents Relating to the London Book Trade 1641-1700.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... D.F. McKenzie and Maureen Bell, A Chronology and Calendar of Documents Relating to the London Book Trade 1641-1700. 3 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Vol. I: xviii, 643 pp.; 85.00 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0198184107. Vol. 2: viii, 458 pp.; 85.00 [pounds sterling] ISBN ...
Andrea Krupp. Bookcloth in England and America, 1823-50.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Andrea Krupp. Bookcloth in England and America, 1823-50. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press / Bibliographical Society of America; London: The British Library, 2008. 102 pp.; US $35.00 ISBN 9781584562139 In her preface to this work, Sue Allen praises Andrea Krupp's ability to build ...
Richard Wendorf. America's Membership Libraries.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Richard Wendorf. America's Membership Libraries. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2007. 352 pp.; US $39-95 ISBN 9871584561996 The richness and diversity of libraries in the United States continue to impress and amaze the world. In addition to having the largest and strongest ...
Mary Hammond and Shafquat Towheed, eds. Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book History.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Mary Hammond and Shafquat Towheed, eds. Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book History. Basingstoke, UK; New York: Palgrave Macmillan / Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2007. xiv, 241 pp.; 45.00 [pounds sterling] / US $69.95 ISBN ...
George A. Walker, ed. Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels by Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward, Giacomo Patri and Laurence Hyde.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... George A. Walker, ed. Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels by Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward, Giacomo Patri and Laurence Hyde. Richmond Hill, ON: Firefly Books, 2007. 424 pp.; $29.95 ISBN 1554072700 There is no doubt that critical and public attention to graphic novels (as ...
Kevin Johnson. The Dark Page: Books that Inspired American Film Noir, 1940-1949.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Kevin Johnson. The Dark Page: Books that Inspired American Film Noir, 1940-1949. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2007. 384 pp. US $95.00 ISBN 9781584562177 When this volume arrived in my mailbox, my immediate reaction was: wow! A giant coffee-table book on a topic that ...
Jack De Bellis and Michael Broomfield. John Updike: A Bibliography of Primary & Secondary Materials, 1948-2007.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Jack De Bellis and Michael Broomfield. John Updike: A Bibliography of Primary & Secondary Materials, 1948-2007. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2007. 624 pp.; US $195.00 ISBN 9781584561958 John Updike's prolificacy is no secret. In addition to nearly sixty books issued by ...
Means and purposes: a suggestion to our members and friends/'Qui veut la fin veut les moyens'.(Bibliographical Society of Canada)
Sep 22, 2008 ... One of the objects of the Bibliographical Society of Canada is to promote the study of bibliography and the publication of works of bibliography with a principal emphasis on those connected with Canada. We should like to suggest to our members, and to all those sympathetic to our aims and ...
Introduction.
Mar 22, 2008; ... The essays in this issue of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada / Cahiers de la Societe bibliographique du Canada proceed from papers delivered at the Fourth National Conference on the State of Canadian Bibliography, held at the Bibliotheque et Archives nationales du Quebec ...
Thoughts on the future of bibliographical analysis.
Mar 22, 2008; ... I have been asked to talk today about the future of analytical bibliography in the computer age. Almost every noun in that mandate poses a challenge. First of all, it would seem far easier to speak instead about the past, and contemplating the past probably would also be more productive ...
National book histories and the legacy of history of the book in Canada/Histoire du livre et de l'imprime au Canada.
Mar 22, 2008; ... The opportunity to explore the legacy of the project, History of the Book in Canada / Histoire du livre et de l'imprime au Canada (HBiC/HLIC), at the Fourth National Conference on the State of Canadian Bibliography honours an anniversary, since the first public consideration of a national ...
L'histoire du livre et de l'imprime au Canada et les percees en histoire culturelle et intellectuelle.(History of the Book in Canada edited by Yvan Lamonde and Patricia Fleming)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Avant d'aborder les percees permises par le projet Histoire du livre et de rimprime au Canada / History of the Book in Canada (HLIC/ HBiC), il convient d'en rappeler quelques grands parametres. Les trois volumes en anglais et les trois volumes en francais du projet s'adressent ...
Book-history studies come of age: the digital legacy of the history of the book in Canada/Histoire du livre et de l'imprime au Canada Project.
Mar 22, 2008; ... In 1990, in her foreword to Freda Waldon's Bibliography of Canadiana Published in Great Britain, 1519-1763, Mabel Thompson wrote: <Pre>Dr. Freda Waldon worked on the compilation for over three decades,but she was unable to find a publisher. Canada was not yet readyfor ...