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Cffcctive 1 January 2007, the Johns Proposed Revisions to the 1993 Open the Book Hopkins University Press will be handling our memberships and subscription SHARP Constitution Open the Mind fulfillment. The Executive Committee chose 11-15 July 2007 JH1JP after careful and lengthy research; the Submitted for SHARP merxlbership Unirjersity of Mnnesota, Mnneapolis, USA Press has an excellent record of serving approval in 2007 other organizations, similar to ours, in simi- It's still not to late to book your place at lar ways. We have become too large for ad- On pages 3-5 of this issue of SHARP the fifteenth annual SHARP conference. The ministrative services to be handled by a vol- Nem, you will find a copy of the proposed conference theme highlights how books unteer. Barbara Brannon has been that he- revisions to the 1993 SHARP Constitution. develop and extend minds and cultures, and roic and faithful volunteer for many years; In addition, we havc provided a ballot to also how they are opened to new media and now the hfembership Secretar): will be freed vote 'yes' in favour of the revisions or 'no' new purposes. A pre-conference of practi- to concentrate on ways of increasing our against thc revisions, plus an envelope to cal workshops and a plenary session de- supporters and providing further services send in your ballot paper by 31 March 2007. voted to book arts and artists' books will for our members. Onc ballot per financial member, please. be held at the Minnesota Center for Book For most of you, this change in our op- This draft of revisions to the original Arts, near the University of Minnesota cam- erations will proceed seamlessly. During the SHARP constitution was drawn up by a com- pus, on Tuesday 10 July 2007. The confer- transition period we will ensure that paper mittee convened in 2005 by the SHARP ence will be held on the Tw~nCities campus and electronic commur~icationsare for- President, Robert Patten, and chaired by the of the University of Minnesota, in warded to the appropriatc pcrson within Vice-President, Leslie Howsam; it was unani- hfinneapolis. Minneapolis-St. Paul Interna- SHARP or atJHUP. For those of you with mously approved by the Executive Council tional Airport is well served by nonstop questions there might be slight delays, espe- in July 2006 and has been available for pe- flights from London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, cially in early lanuary, so please bear with us rusal by the membership. and other major cities. The airport is close for a whilc. At any time you can reach me Briefly, the new constitution is more to the Mall of America, one of the largest via email (
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EDITOR (designed by Jean Nouvel), additions to both at: http://www.helsinki.fi/historia/ Sydney Shtp, Wai-te-ata Press the Walker Art Center (by Herzog & de hibolire/index.html. HIBOLIRE is a mul- Victoria University of Wellington Meuron) and Minneapolis Institute of ,4rts tinational and multidisciplinar network of PO Box 60[! Wellington, New Wchael Graves), the Minneapolis Central scholars in the fields of book history, his- Fax: +64-4-463-5446 Library (Cesar Pelli), as well as the Frederick tory of libraries and history of reading. The [email protected] R. Weisman Art Museum (Frank Gehry). activities of HIBOLIRE are supported by The remarkable Elmer L. Andersen Library Nordforsk, an independent institution op- EDITORIALASSISTANT - 16.1 houses one and a half mdlion books and re- erating under the Nordic Council of Minis- Abby LPtteri, P~ublicatinnAssistant lated archival materials in giant vaults carved ters for Education and Research. The net- Wai-te-ata Press into the banks of the Mississippi River liter- work also works in close cooperation with ally below the campus of the University of the international research school NORSLIS. REVIEWEDITORS Minnesota. The Andersen Library is part of The aim of the network is to enhance co- F* F* Lvy, Book Reuiews - Europe the University of Minnesota Libraries, a sys- operation benveen individual members and Universi~of Washington, WA, USA tem that owns more than 6.2 million books. their organizations, disseminate informa- [email protected] The University of Minnesota is one of the tion, and organize seminars, summer schools largest university campuses in the United and conferences. We seek to create oppor- Gail Sbiz*el;Book Reviews - Amenkas States. Minneapolis, where the conference tunities for an exchange of scholars between University of Miami, FL, USA will take place, is adjacent to St. Paul, the academic institutions, support doctoral stu- [email protected] state capital, where the library of the Min- dents and ultimately, start research and other nesota Historical Society houses extcnsive projects, such as popularization of the re- Sinlone Ilfurray, Book Reviews - Asia/ Pacific print and manuscript records. Both cities search results, and establish an international Monash University, Melbourne, AUS boast fine theaters, concert halls, and restau- scholarly journal. For more information [email protected] rants, as well as outstanding parks, many of about HIBOLIRE, see the webpage or con- which surround lakes. More than 10,000 tact the chairwoman of the HIBOLIRE Lira Pun, Exhibition Rel~iews other lakes lie within a several hours' drive, steering committee: Prof. Tiiu Reimo, De- Southern Methodist University includng vast Lake Superior and the Bound- partmcnt of Information Studies, Tallinn Dallas, TX USA ary Waters Canoe Area \Vilderness, which Pedagogical University, Narva Road 25, [email protected] stretches along the Canadian border. Chi- Tallinn, Estonia. [email protected] cago, with its many cultural attractions, is BIBLIOGRAPHER only 90 minutes away by plane. July is the __ -60 - Robert N. Matuozzi warmest month of the year in the Thin Cit- Washington State University Libraries ies; daily hgh temperatures average 84F (28 Pullman, WA 991 64-5610 USA C). See you then. See you there! The Cambridge University Press journal [email protected] ,Vfodertz Intellectual Histov, launched in 2004, is preparing for publication a forum on the SUBSCRIPTIONS history of the book (the state of the field, The johns Hopkins University Press and possible new directions) which origi- Ivrif- Journals Publishing Division I Libellan'unz, Journaljr the history f the nated as a conference at the University of PO Box 19966 ten word, books andmemoty znstitfitionsis a newly- Edinburgh. It will feature contributions by Baltimore, MD 21211-0966 USA established journal to be published by the Peter Burke, Roger Chartier, Robert [email protected] University of Zadar, Croatia. The first issue Darnton, and David Hall, and promises to will deal with two key areas of book history: be of considerable interest to members of So book history and its methodological issues SHARP. As the journal enters its fourth (%%at isthe book history today? Could it be year, the editors are eager to find and pub- SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the an independent scientific discipline? %%at is lish outstanding work in the fields of inter- quarterly newslerter of the Society for the the state of research in different countries? est to SHARPists such as: scholarship on au- History of Authorship, Reading and Pub- etc.); the use of sources in book history (such thorship as a cultural and institutional prac- lishing. Inc. Set in Adobe Garamond with as bibliographies, printers' catalogues and tice; on the various hnds of print media and Wingdings. advertisements, book dedications and fore- other forms of communication through words, missionary reports, etc.). The editors which ideas are disseminated; on reading COPYDEADLINES are keen to include work which takes an inter- practices and reception history; on censor- 1 March, 1 June, disciplinary approach that productively ship and authors' ways of dealing with it. For 1 September, 1 December combines history, literary, and sociology more information on scope and submission SHARP WEB: with book history methodologies. policies, please check out the CUP website: http://shnrpweb.or,g For further information, please contact
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Section 5. Voting. At any meeting of the of business. Any action permitted to be members, each member present in person taken by the Board of Directors may be shall be entitled to one vote. Upon demand takcn without a meeting if a majority of the of any two members, any vote put bcfore directors consent in writing to a resolution phase read carq5ulb thpfollol~~ing the meeting shall be by secret ballot. authorizing the action. Directors may par- Proposed h~isionsto the ticipate in a meeting of the Board by con- SHARP Constitution (1993) Section 6. Officers. All elected mem- ference telephone, by electronic mail, or by unanimous4 approt'ed by the SHARP bers of the Board of Directors, the Execu- written proxy, and such participants shall be Executive Committee in juh 2006, and tive Council, and the Nominating Commit- counted toward a quorum. The Recording submittedforyour approz~alhere in 2007 tee are officers of the Society. Only mem- ' Secretary shall be advised of all decisions bers of the Society are eligible to serve as taken by the Board of Directors. officers. Any member of the Society may be nominated to any office, except that the Section 6. Notice of Meetings. No- The CONSTITUTION of President must be serving on the Exccutive tice of the time and place of each regular The SOCIETY for the Council or Board of Directors at the time or special meeting of the Board of Direc- HISTORY of AUTHORSHIP, of his/her nomination. No person may si- tors, together with a written agenda, shall multaneously serve as more than one officer. be sent to each director either by electronic READING and Terms of office for all officers begin and end mail or postage prepaid at his or her desig- PUBLISHING, INC. at the conclusion of the Society's annual gen- nated address, at least fifteen days beforc eral meeting. the meeting.
Article I : : Members Article I1 : : Board of Directors Article I11 : : Executive Council
Section 1. Powers and Number. The Section 1. Powers and Number. The Section 1. Purpose. The Society for the Board of Directors, which shall corisist of Society shall be managed by the Executive History of Authorship, Reading and Pub- no fewer than fifteen and no more than twenty Council, elected and voting membership of lishing, Inc. is a non-profit organization for directors, will advise and oversee the work which will consist of the President, the Vice the promotion of teaching and research in of the Executive Council. President, the Treasurer, the Recording Sec- book history. "Book history" is defined as retary, the Membership Secretary, the Ex- the history of the creation, transmission, and Section 2. Term of Office. Each direc- ternal Affairs Director, the Director for reception uf the writtcn and printed word tor shall normally serve for a term of eight Publications and Awards, the Director of in all literatures and languages. years, and the Nominating Committee shall Electronic Resources, and one Member-at- nominate a sufficient number of new direc- Large. The immediate Past-President shall Section 2. Membership. hlembership tors to keep the total at 15 to 20. A director serve ex-officio without a vote. Appointed shall be open to all persons interested in the who has served four years or more may stand hlembcrs (non-elected and non-voting, but purposes of the Society. The Executive again for election after four years havc participating in decision-making by consen- Council may set membership dues, as ~t elapsed since his/her most rccent term. sus) map include the Editors of SHARP- deems appropriate. News and Book History and others provid- Section 3. Removal. Any officer may 1 ing substantial senices, voluntary or paid, Section 3. Meetings. The annual meet- be removed for cause by a majority vote of to the Society. Such members will be ap- ing of the Society shall bc held each year at thc entire Board of Directors. pointed by a majority vote of the elected a time, place, and date to be fixed by the members of the Executire Council, for Executive Council. Special meetings shall Section 4. Meetings. The annual meet- terms of two years, renewable indefinitely be held whenever called by the Executive ing of the Board of Directors shall be held Council, by the Board of Directors, or by a at a time and place fixed by the Executive Section 2. Employees. The Executive petition signed by the lesser of 50 or 1/ 10th Council. Special meetings of the Board of Council shall appoint employees and other of the members. Advance written notice Directors shall be held whenever callcd by agents as ~t shall deem necessary each of of all meetings shall be given to all mem- the Board of Directors or the Executive whom shall hold office durlng the pleasure bers using standard post or electronic mail. Council, at a time and place fixed by the body of the Counc~l,and shall have such author- calling the meeting. Cnless the Board votes 1t1- and perform such dutles and shall reccnre Section 4. Quorum and Adjournment otherwise, members of the Executive Coun- such reasonable compensatton as the Coun- of Meetings. At all meetings of the mem- cil and the Nominating Committee may at- cil may determine. bers, the lesser of 50 members or l/lOth tend meetings of the Board as nonvoting of the membership, present in person, shall participants. Section 3. Vacancies. If the office of constitute a quorum for the transaction of President falls 1-acant, the \'ice Pres~drnt business. In the absence of a quorum, a Section 5. Quorum and Voting. il shall succeed to that nfficr and scrre out majority of the members present in person majority of the entire Board of Directors the unexp~redportlon of thc tcrm. In c~sc may adjourn the meeting. shall constitute a quorum for the transaction
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of a vacancy in any other office on the Board (g) Director for Publications and Article IV : :Committees of Directors, the Executive Council, or the Awards. Thc Director for Publications and Nominating Committee, a successor to fill Awards shall manage the Society's printed Section 1. Nominating Committee. the unexpired portion of the term shall be publications, act as a liaison between their The Nominating Committee shall consist of selected by the Executive Council. editors and the officers of the Society, and three members, each of whom will be establish task forces as necessary At the dis- elected for a four-year non-renewable term. Section 4. Elected Officers cretion of the Executive Council, the Direc- Names and addresses of Committee mem- tor may personally serve as an editor. The bers will appear in any Society publication (a) President. The President shall pre- Director shall also establish a committee for (print or electronic) where officers are listed. side at all meetings of the members, the each award and ensure its timely report to A member who has served a full term may Board of Directors, and the Executive the Executive. stand again for election after six years have Council; shall have general supervision of (h). Director ofElectronic Resources. elapsed since &/her most recent term. The the affairs of the Society; and shall keep the The Director of Electronic Resources shall Nominating Committee will be chaired by members and officers of the Society fully in- oversee the Society's Internet site and its its longest-serving membcr. formed about the activities of the Society. Lstserv, as well as any other electronic or He or she has the power to sign alone, in the digital communications, and establish task Section 2. Conference Committees name of the Socicty, all contracts authorized forces as necessary. At the discretion of the either generally or specifically by the Execu- Executive Council, the Director may per- (a) Local Arrangements Committee. tive Council. sonally serve as the manager of the website For each of the Society's conferences, the (b) Vice President. In the absence of and/or listserv Executive Council will appoint a Local Ar- the Presidcnt, the Vice President shall per- (i)Member-at-Large. The Member-at- rangements Chair (or Co-chairs). They will form the duties of the President. Large shall chair committees or undertake assemble a Local Arrangements Committee, (c) Treasurer. The Treasurer shall keep other duties at the discretion of the Presi- which will be responsible for managing the or cause to be kept full and accurate accounts dent and Executive Council. Such duties may confercnce and for liaison with the host or- of the receipts and disbursements of the be designated by a specific title on an ad hoc ganization, subject to general oversight by Society, and shall deposit or cause to be de- basis. the Executive Council. The Local Arrange- posited all moneys and other valuable effects ments Committee and the host organization of the Society in the name and to the credit Section 5. Terms of Office. Elected will be responsible for any profits or losses of the Society in such banks or depositories members of the Executive Council serve made by the conference. as the Executive Council may designate. At terms of two years. The Presidcnt, Vice- (b) Program Committee. the annual meetings of the members and the President and Member-at-Large may serve For each of the Society's conferences, Board of Directors, the Treasurer shall a maximum of two terms in these positions; there shall be a Program Committee which render a statement of the Corporation's ac- all other elected members of the Executive will circulate a Call for Papers and select a counts. He or she shall at reasonable times Council may serve an unlimited number of conference program from the proposals sub- exhibit the Society's books and accounts to terms. mitted to it. One member of the Executive any member of the Board of Directors or Council shall be appointed to the Program the Executive Council. Section 6: Appointed Members of Committee, which should also include a (d) Recording Secretary. The Record- Executive Council member of the program committee for the ing Secretary shall keep minutes at all meet- following year's conference. The Commit- ings of the members, the Board of Direc- (a) Editor of SHARPNews. The Ex- tee will choose its own chair. tors, and the Executive Council. He or she ecutive Council shall appoint an Editor. to shall also oversee the maintenance and dis- manage the content, publication and distri- Section 3. Other Committees. position of the Society's archives and keep bution of the Society's newsletter, and ap- Other committees and task forces may records of the decisions made by corre- point review editors, a bibliographer and be created by decision of the Executive spondence among the Executive Commit- other contributors as necessary. The ap- Council or the Board of Directors. tee and Board of Directors. The Recording pointee will serve at the pleasure of the Ex- Secretary shall also rcceive the report of the ecutive Council. Nominating Committee. (b) Editor(s) of Book History. The Article V : Elections (e) Membership Secretary. The Mem- , Executive Council shall appoint Editor(s) to bership Sccretan; shall keep and update the 1 manage the content, publication and distri- Section 1. Nominations. The Nominat- Socicty's membership and mailing lists. He ' bution of the Society's journal. They will ing Committee shall solicit nominations or she shall annually compile the Society's work with the journal's publisher and with from the membership for all positions open membership directory and arrange for its 1 their editorial board. The appointee (s) will in any year. Such nominations must be filed distribution to the members. 1 serve at the pleasure of the Executive Coun- with the Chair of the Nominating Commit- (4 External Affairs Director. The Ex- cil. tee by a date (at least 90 days before the date ternal Affairs Director shall manage the So- of the Annual General Meeting) announced ciety$ publicity materials and co-ordinate in the Society's newsletter or journal and on liaison with related organizations.
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the website. The Nominating Committee Section 4. Books. There shall be kept shall nominate at least one candidate, at the office of the Society correct books of has agreed to stand, for each vacancy on the account of the activities and transactions of Board of Directors, the Executive Council, the Society including a minute book, which I Imapininp Environments: - u b and the Nominating Committee. Othcr can- shall contain a copy of the certificate of in- Space and Place in the Early didates for any office may be nominated by corporation, a copy of this constitution, and a petition signed by the lesser of 50 or 1/ all minutes of all meetings- of the members, Atlantic World 10th of the members and addressed to the the Board of Directors, and the Executive 28-30 September 2006 Recording Secretary. Council. I The Second Jam L. dw J'hirLq A. Draper NationaL Graduate St~rdentConierence Section 2. Ballot. Elections for all of- Section 5. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year on Ear!y .American Studies ficers will be conducted at the Annual Gen- of the Society shall be determined by the 1 University of Connecticut & Mystic eral Meeting. For an office filled by accla- Executive Council. Seaport: mation the formal election shall take place The Museum of America and the Sea at the Annual General Meeting. For an of- Section 6. Indemnification. The Soci- fice with two or more nominations, the elec- ety may, to the fullest extent now or hereaf- A graduate student conference focused tion shall be cor~ductedby a ballot sent to ter permitted by law, indemnify any person on the themes of space and place in the early all members, with each member having one made, or threatened to be made, a party to I Atlantic may sound quite peculiar to this vote. Ballots may be circulated by standard any action or proceeding by reason of the newsletter's readers. However, the process or electronic means, but no member is to fact that he, his testator or intestate was a of personalizing both ambiguous and spe- be disenfranchised by such means. Ballots director, officer, employee or agent of the cific locations (spaces and places) is a sub- shall be sent to all tnembers at least 60 days Society, against judgments, fines, amounts ject of increasing public attention. It is also in advance of the Annual Gcncral Meeting, paid in settlement and reasonable expenses, a possible area of exploration for histori- and must be returned to the Chair of the including attorneys' fees. ans where cognitive mapping, reading ex- Nominating Committee at lcast 30 days be- periences, and attachment to one's physical fore the Annual General Mecting, with the I environment can provide a new dimension results being announced at that meeting. Atticle VII : : Ratification and to the formation of reading circles, print- Amendment ing networks, imagined con~n~unities,and public spheres. This conference was an op- portunity for scholars to present and discuss Article VI : : Business Affairs This constitution may be ratiticd or heightened senses of place in history. i amended by the affirmative vote of two- Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Alan Section Checks and Notes- The thirds of those members voting by ballot. Executive Council is authorized to select ( ~~ll~~~may be circulated by post or by Taylor (University of California-Davis) opened the conference with an address on such depositories as it shall deem proper for tronic means but no member is to be discn- property in early America. Taylor's audience the funds of the Society and determine franchised by such means. Amer~dr~lentsmay was glued to their seats as he shllfully traced who shall be authorized in the Society's be- be proposed by the ~~~~d of ~i~~~~~~~or the gradual overlapping of European and half to sign bills, notices, receipts, accept- the Executive Council, or by a petition signed Wative American cultures in the eighteenth ances, endorsements, checks, releases and by the lesser of 50 or l/loth of the mem. other documents. 1 bers. century. Mohawk and Mohican nations be- gan to lease or rent their property rather than Section 2. Investments. The funds of selling it off. Through such methods, Taylor the Society may be retained in whole or in declared, Natives "bludgeoned the settler in- part in cash or be invested in such property, vasion." real, personal or otherwise, including stocks, Voting procedure Jennifer Egloff (New York University) bonds or other securities, as the Executive began the following day's program with her Board may deem desirable. paper on Sir Walter Ralegh. Skeptical of circu- The funds of the Society may be retained Please MZP tbt enclosed ballot paper to fast.your lating information, Ralegh desired an empiri- in whole or in part in cash or be invested in vote atzdport using the enclosed envelope. cally verifiable geographic knowledge of the such property, real, personal or otherwise, Orinoco region (present-day Venezuela) to including stocks, bonds or other securities, ?is = in favour of the proposed rez*stuns support his imperialist ambitions. The six- as the Executive Council may deem desir- No = not infavour cf the proposed r~7:icions teenth century English explorer represented a able I wider European craving for authenticity. One ~otrper financial member, piease. I Experience of place and authority through Section 3. Office. The office of the print were similarly investigated in thc papers Society shall be located at such place as the Ballots must be postmarked of Anya Zilberstein (Massachusetts institute Executive Board may determine. The office 31 March 2007 of Technology) and James Roberts (Johns of the Society shall be located at such place Hopkins University). Their remarkable pres- as the Executive Council may determine. entations describe literar!. elites attracted to
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Hankar at work in his studio. The architects' 1 until February 4,2007), is a knockout at the This paper set an appropriate tone for the tools are used as decorations: set squares, a 1 New York Public Library
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But these are minor criticisms of tion in the Medieval West The separate room in which the Macclesfield what was, ovcrall, a high-powered conference Psalter is displayed also hosts a useful recon- attended by some of the best (and friendli- Fitzwilliam Museum & struction of production techniques, which is est) people working in the broad textual arena University Library, Cambridge, UK supplemented by the exhibition website. This (Hans Gabler, Ronald Schuchard, Peter ]ah - December 2005 includes an entertaining animation, aimed at Robinson, Warwick Gould and Peter a school audience, which is based on an un- Schfingsburg, to name but a few). Add to It is not merely the gold leaf that dazzles finished miniature from the Metz Pontifical. this an awareness of the excellent degree pro- in ths exhibition. Peering at the manuscripts, It should be said that the exhibition is a grammes in textual studies at London, Bir- themselves subtly illuminated by pinpricks tantalizing one; however rewarding the two mingham and De Montfort, and the diversity of light, the visitor is treated to a stunning pages chosen from each manuscript for of topics and places (Iceland to Greece, Fin- show of artistry: ten centuries' worth, in fact, viewing, we are left wanting more. One of land to Portugal), then the sense of a united stretching from the sixth-century St Augus- the gems not selected for display is a page Europe reflecting the paradox of diversity tine Gospels, which are now used at the en- from the collection of Cambridge Univer- became very real indeed. T.S. Eliot once lik- thronement of the Archbishop of Canter- sity documents compiled by Robert Hare ened the individual poet to the anonymous bury. The display constitutes the largest ex- in the late 1580s: a richly illuminated Uni- polyp that secretes and leaves behind its little hibition of medieval manuscripts since that versity charter from none other than King calcified structure, which over the centuries organised by the Burlington Fine Arts Club Arthur, dated 7'h April 531 and transcribed, grows into a reef; this seems a suitable image, in 1908, and yet the entirety of the current so a note in the margin informs us, '[elx both arrogant yet humble, for the collective exhibition is drawn from the holdings of archivis universitatis'. At the foot of the process of textual editing. Eliot also lamented Cambridge colleges, the Fitzwilliam Mu- page, prominently set within some beauti- the fact that after Dante the 'mind of Europe' seum, and the University Library. fully-coloured foliage, is the University coat was no longer one; yet the diversity of intent There are 215 separate items on show, of arms (which has a book, appropriately, and activity within what is nevertheless the arranged not chronologically but according at its centre). Of course, the document is a common pursuit of textual studies and ar- to theme or function. In the Fitzwilliam forgery, and it belongs to a long tradition of chival inquiry may reflect something of the Museum there are five sections: 'The Com- mythologizing Cambridge's traditional privi- wider politics of a united Europe, in which ing of Christianity,' 'The Bible and its Study,' leges and origins -not least as a response to the celebration of cultural diversity within a 'The Liturgy and the Offices,' 'Private Devo- the claims of its elder rival, Oxford. Even in common bond is a formative ideal. For me, tion,' and 'History and Literature.' In the Uni- the late sixteenth century, the arts of manu- as a New Zealander, this was a timely reminder versity Library are another three: 'The Medi- script illumination could be pressed usefully of the European origins of our colonial her- eval Encyclopedia,' 'The Humanistic Manu- into service. But it seems churlish to com- itage, something sometimes in danger of be- script,' and 'Manuscripts and Documents for plain at such decisions by the exhibition cura- ing lost as we (perhaps rightly) celebrate the Cambridge University.' The arrangement in- tors, and in any case the page is reproduced in things that make us different. The sense of vites some fascinat~ngcomparisons. The mag- the excellent accompanying catalogue. Europe, it seemed to me, allows us to cel- nificent twelfth-century Bury Bible, for exam- The catalogue, edited by Paul Binski and ebrate such difference even as we acknowledge ple, rests alongside a composite picture cycle Stella Panavotova (Harvey Miller, 2005), is the bonds of tradition. that includes scenes from the ministry and likely to prove of lasting value as a reference passion of Christ, the style of whch suggests work. Particularly valuable are its sections on Chris Ackerley that it was similarly produced in the Bury the provenance of individual manuscripts, Cinivers* of Otago, Dunedin, NZ scriptorium. Beneath the two lies the Dover inasmuch as this can be pieced together, and Bible, another outstanding, if less lavish, large- its extensive bibliography; there is also an in- format bible that was made at Christ Church, dex of scribes, artists, and printers, as well as Canterbury - where the Eadwine Psalter was the commissioners of manuscripts and their produced, which is also on display. oripal owners. Such expensive objects as il- In 1854,John Ruskin, a renowned propo- luminated books were rarely intended for aca- nent of medieval art, wrote in his diary: 'Cut demic readers, and the extent of the Cam- up missal in evening - hard work.' Attitudes bridge holdings owes much to the activities towards conservation have thankUy changed of later collectors and benefactors. As the cur- since Ruskin's day, although the highlight of rent Parker Librarian, Christopher de Harnel, the exhibition is a book currently in a dis- observes, the transfer of some such manu- membered state while it awaits rebinding. This scripts from monastic libraries saved them is the Macclesfield Psalter, a fourteenth-cen- from the bonfires, and in this respect made tury masterpiece previously unknown to schol- the University a fortunate beneficiary of the
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English reformation. A project is currently and West Galleries, take the place of the former the magnificent recent acquisition, a second- underway that aims to catalogue all of the reading room and effectively double the state print of Albrecht Diirer's Adam andEve illuminated manuscripts in Cambridge; it is Morgan's exhibition space. The East Gallery (1504), set alongside the brown ink wash estimated that well over 3000 exist, ofwhich held music manuscripts from many eras and drawing of the same subject from the same these are only a small proportion. Let us countries, including autograph manuscripts year, bought by Pierpont Morgan In 1910. hope that more treasures are brought to of Mozart. Thc complete score of Drr The books that surround these gems are light. Schauspie/direktor, the only complete Mozart mostly European, literature from the 161h Douglas Paine opera score in this country, is one of the treas- through 20thcenturies. Tnnip Coiiege, Uniuersig of Cambridge ures here. Another interesting Mozart item The Morgan is justly famous for its iUu- was a concerto, dated Fcbruary 1788, when it rninated, literary, and historical manuscripts; was believed to have becn completed. How- early printed books; and old master draw- ever, a study of the papcr types used in the ings and prints. Pierpont Morgan also col- manuscript proves that it actually dates from lected items that were evidence of the early Masterworks from the Morgan a year earlier. history of wriung, such as ancient seals, tab- The West Gallery was the real star though: lets, and papyrus fragments from Egypt and The Morgan Library & Museum illuminated manuscripts, more music manu- the Near East. And manuscripts and printed Onping Rotating Exl~ibition~ scripts, printed books, and literary manu- materials significant to American hstory are scripts filled the space, one spectacular item also a strength. While the collections have The Morgan Library and Museum in New after another. Here are a few highlights: continued to grow and change over the York, closed for three years, reopened to the course of the 20th century and into the 21", public at the end of April 2006. The reno- An illuminated leaf frum the Winchester the focus remains on the written word and vation of the three historic buildings that Bible (c. 1160-80) the history of the book. The exhibits pro- once comprised the Morgan Lbrary, and the The Hours of Cardinal Farnese (1546) gram at the new Morgan certainly reflects construction of three new pavilions that now The Hours of Catherine of Cleves (c. 1440) this important research trove. link and expand the original space were de- Wiham Caxton's Morte Darthur (July 31, signed by award-winning architect Renzo 1485) Sue Waterman Piano. New amenities for researchers and Visconti-Sforza Tarot cards (1450) The Johns Hopkins LJniuersig visitors to the Morgan Library and ,Museum Prayer book from the abbey of Mont-St.- include a new performance and concert hall, a Michel (1060) cafk in the central courtyard, and a dmingroom William Blake's hand colored copy of his located in the former Morgan family dining printing of Songs oflnnocence (1 789) room. Most important though is the 'smart' Galilee's scribblings on a discarded enve- Aul3enAnsichten - reading room built on top of the new Madi- lope, the position ofJupiter on 4January nights Bucheinbande aus tausend son Avenue building, with increased seating, in 1611 Jahren / Exteriorviews - Book- full electronic connectivity, and natural light. Henry David Thoreau's journal from Au- The Morgan Shop was also expanded and re- gust 1852 to January 1853 and the manuscript bindings Through A Thousand located to two period rooms in the historic of Waiden (dated 1845), both describing the Years Morgan house. Behind the scenes, the Thaw same episode. Conservation Center was renovated and ex- Baycrische Staatsbibliothek Miinchen panded, as was office space for staff, and the Retreating through the central courtyard 28 Augu~f28 to i 5 December 2006 new, state-of-the-art vault for storage was re- once more and back to the original library designed and relocated deep in the bedrock and study of Pierpont Morgan, one re-en- The Bavarian State Library in Munich is of Manhattan. ters the 191h century. The library building, home to unique collections of Southern Therc are always treasures on display at the designed by Charles McIOm, was built in German, French, Italian and English books Morgan, and now, four new exhibition galler- 1906. It has been incorporatedinto the cam- of inestimable value, often in their original ies in which they can be viewed. bfast~works pus by its connection to the central court- bindings. Showcasing but a tiny portion of from the Morgan, an ongoing selection from yard; however, it retains its distinctively Be& the extraordinary rarc book collection in the the permanent collections, runs in conjunc- ~po~uecharacter and opulence. The study is Bavarian State Library, the ninety examples tion with various rotating exhibits. In De- richly covered in red and holds decorative in this exhibition documcnt the progression cember 2006, the ncw Clare Eddy Thaw Gal- objects, books, and artwork from Pierpont of binding techniques, style, and form of the lery, a small, cube of a room enclosed within Morgan's original collections. And the li- exterior of the book. Thc displays (as well the central courtyard and inspired by the Ren- brary, connected to the study by way of the as the entries in the accompanying hand- aissance chambers of Italy, held outstanding splendid Rotunda, dazzles the eye with its some, informative and excellently illustrated medieval and Renaissance treasures, such as multi-storied inlaid bookshelves, stained catalogue) are arranged in roughly chrono- the jewel-bou~ldLindau Gospels from the 91h glass ceiling, and colorful frescoes. Here is logical order with the Romanesque and century the Gutenberg Bible, one of three copies Gothic books shown in thc Schatzkammer, The larger, newly renovated, galleries in the (one of which is on vellum) of the 42-line strategically lit to highlight thc books in semi- old Annex building, the Morgan-Stanley East Bible owned by the Morgan. Here too was darkness. The exhibit then continues in the ... / I0
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And it truly deserves a bindings clearly shows trends and develop- mro of the State Library's three girdle books fair amount of time and attention, for it ment in the history of thc Western book. in their original bindings (of only twenty- chronicles thc evolution and inventories the For example, a masterwork of the gold- three such books documented). These girdle incredible variety of ehon, or picture books from smith's art, the book-chest protecting the 11"- books could be suspended from the belt by Japan, from 770 to 2005. Not strictly illus- century collection of Liturgical manuscripts and the extension on the lower edge or carried by trated books, where images are mere accesso- excerpts from the Gospel known as the Uta- grasping this extension. The two on display ries and illustrations of the words of the text, Codex, leads the way into the exhibit. Produced were a breviary from the Benedictine monas- ehon have diverse styles, subjects, and goals. in Regensburg around 1025, the upper cover tery at Tegernsee (catalogue number 16), and They are much closer to what we would call is worked in gold and contains luminous gem- the very large ikkissner lbcbtsDuch, a book cod- artists' books, especially since up unul the late stones, pearls and enameled plates. It shows fpgthe laws of the city of Meissen in Saxony 19Ih century, they were essentially all made by Christ in Majesty with the symbols of the four used by judges and jurors, which was prob- hand, from the paper to the binding. evangelists in the corners of the slightly re- ably carried over the shoulder, or slung over a The NYPL's collection is one of the most cessed central panel. It glows as if illuminated saddle while traveling the circuit (catalogue important in the world and this exhibition from inside and fairly begs the visitor to cnter number 17). draws from two principal sourccs: the Spen- the exhibit. The last entry featurcs a binding We are allowed a glimpse into the eco- cer Collection, which includes about 300 by Parisian binder George Leroux of Andre nomic and social importance of bookbind- manuscripts and 1500 printed books from Breton's Lespasperdus, covered in natural baby ing through various items of historic litera- Japan, and the justly celebrated collection of crocodile skin with a strip of dark brown silk ture about the craft, such as an example of a Japancsc prints that form part of the mriam running down the center of the upper and Journeyman's Certificate, an 1Ph century il- and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, lower boards. To counteract the quite severe lustration of a bookbinding workshop, and and Photographs. impression of this silk strip, the design is en- a 19'h century bookbinder's sample page of The exhibition starts in the W'achenheim livened with evenly spaced cut-outs through decorative fillets and stamps. The well known Gallery, where the Origins of Japanese books which strategically placed characteristic knobs illustration showing a bookbinder dressed in are shown: early Buddhist and secular manu- of the crocodile skin protrude. books and his tools from Martin scripts. In the much more expansive Between the two extremes we find repre- Engelbrechts's Assemblage nouveau des Gottesman Hall, are the four main sections sentatives of all styles of bookbindings. The manourv-ies habiNes. (Augsburg, ca. 1730) of the exhibit, none following a chronologi- jewel-studded gold and silver bindings and rounds out this section of this extraordi- cal order. The sections Hearten, Earth, and elegantly carved ivory covers of the 1lth and nary exhibition. Humanig (the three domains of the I Cbing) 121h centuries are followed by the strong, merge and blend, as one moves from one rather unsophisticated, yet aesthetically very Catalogue: Bettina Wagner, ed. area of the cosmos to another, viewing pleasing, bindings with blind tooled fillet lines AtrJenAnsichten: Bucbcinbande arrs 1000 Jahrpn manuscripts and printed books of great and single stamps of the 13thto 15th centu- aus den Bestanden der Bqetischen .Ttaat.rbibfiothek beauty and intricacy. The Art of the Book in- ries. A printed paper binding embellished Miinchen. Harrassowitz Verlag, Miesbaden, troduces the structure and evolution of Japa- with woodcuts produced in Augsburg after 2006.1 97 p, ill., 30 cm. ISBN 3447054344. nese books and book production, and cases 1512 presents a relatively inexpensive option 38 Euro. with thls theme are to be found throughout for book covers, to be contrasted with the Margir J. Smith the exhibit. This organic arrangement rein- luxurious silver cover produced in the same Universi~oj Sun Diego forces the continuity in nearly 14 centuries place 150 years later. These are followed by of book production. It would be pointless more detailed and realistic depictions of sub- to arrange these books chronologically; they jects, including the two Renaissance bindngs all draw on the same joyful reverence for life; for Duke Albrecht V, bearing his portrait Ehon: The Artist and the Book they all seek to draw the reader in and en- stamped in gold in the center of the upper gage his or her senses. cover. The exhibit is especially rich in exam- in Japan The experience of many ehon begins with ples of I bChand 17Ih century armorial bind- its many covers, or layers. Whole series of ings that reveal the owners' identity by their The New York Public Library elaborate barriers are often interposed be- coats of arms, handsomely tooled or Humanities and Social Sciences Library tween reader and text: protective wrapper, stamped in gold on upper and lower boards. 20 October 2006 to 2 Februav 2007 slipcase, wooden box, cover, frontispiece, Highly decorative seme, filigree and fan de- introduction, all force the reader to gradu- signs of the 17Ih and lgthcenturies have by The first thing to say about the New York ally leave the world behind and enter the the late 1Th century evolved into art nouveau, Public Library's wondrous exhibition, Ehon: realm of the text and pictures. Once inside, art deco and finally the abstract designs of the The Artist and the BookiN Japan, is that one the reader must contemplate the pictures, 2Uthcentury must view it in the morning, not late in the often deciphering allegories or puzzles, and
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figuring out how they are related to the text. months, do just that, experience Ehon for your- The third major exhibition, the one being Then the reader confronts the text, which of- self. reviewed here, is especially appropriate to a ten uses puns or cleverly plays off the images. A splendid exhibit catalogue is available for public university in a state that was once part Scrolls, codices, and accordion books are sale in the Library Shop (USD$50.00).The at- of New Spain. Presently containingover 1,300 only some of the formats to be foundin ehon. tractive and informative brochure (free) not items, Texas A&M's colonial Mexican collec- One of the more fascinating ones is the Prayer only explains and describes the exhibit, but tion lacks the associated resources of the large Tower, tiny folded texts, tucked out of sight also provides a very good bibliography. heritage collections at the John Carter Brown into miniature wooden Buddhist temples. Library, the Bancroft hbrary at the University Like many early Japanese books, these were Catalogue: Roger S. Keyes, Ehon: TheArt- of California at Berkeley, and the Benson Latin never intended to be read, but were produced ist and the Rook in Japan, Seattle and London: American Collection at the University of to be offerings or protective charms.The Prayer University of Washington Press, 2006.320 pp., Texas, but it compares favorably with the Towers held the first printed Japanese 'text,' 250 color illus., index, 9 x 12 in.; $50. Cloth: holdmgs at the Newberry Library, the Univer- dating from the ghcentury, in an edition of ISBN 0-295-986-24-7. sity of Pennsylvania, and the University of one million. Short prayers were block printed Ncw Mexico and is probably unsurpassed in and hidden in the small wooden towers that Sue Waterman its manuscript material. Some forty items served as the 'book's' binding. These one The Johns Hopkins University published between 1556 and 1820 are on dis- million towers were dispersed throughout play in the exhibition, divided into four Japan, as an 'army' of onc million Buddhas groups. First are the Mexican incunables, who would pray for peace and protection from books and documents printed with movable the spirit world. Passages in the New World: type in New Spain before 1600. On display This particular book structure is a good here are books printed by Mexico's first (Juan indication of how the viewer must jettison Books and Manuscripts from Pablos), sccond (Antonio de Espinosa), and traditional European notions of the book, Colonial Mexico, 1556-1820 third (Pedro Ocharte) printers and a broad- and contemplate the objects in the exhibit as side printed by the fourth (Pedro Balli), along distant cousins to the codex normally the fo- Cushing Memorial Library, Texas A&M with a group of interesting cartas de pago cus of Western scholarly inquiry. While many LJniversity (promissory notes) and cartas depoder (pow- of the books here do have pages that turn Octob~r2006 - March 2007 ers of attorney). The second group of items and bindings of some sort, they do not con- are all manuscripts, containing several curtaJ vey texts the way most Western books do, for Several years ago, under the leadership de hidalgiia, elaborate documents which were the aim of the ehon is usually to instill a sense of its Director, Steven Escar Smith, the presented to the authorities in Spain to prove of wonder, space, stillness, delight, and play, Cushing Memorial Library began a collabo- the noble ancestry of the petitioner, along rather than instruct or transmit knowledge. ration with faculty members at Texas A&M with religious, philosophical, surveying, and The reader is to see, not only with his or her University to build several specialized col- musical texts. Next comes a group of docu- eyes, but also with spirit, heart, and body. An lcctions of rare books that complement the ments related to the hfexican Inquisition. example of this affectionate relationship be- research interests of these faculty. Three of Some of them revolve around the identifica- tween an ehon and its readers is The Plg.il these collections have now reached a size tion, trial, and punishment of heretics, with Cranes Anthology, made in 181 8 in honor of and stature to merit exhibitions drawn from special attention being paid to crypto-Jews; the poet, Tsuru no Tomotoshi discussed in them, along with catalogues that describe others assert control over the printing and the well-illustrated companion website, Read- highlights from their holdings. The first ex- distribution of books, listing titles that were ing Ehon, at
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Well represented are the bound up in the struggle to end their misrep- are devoted overwhelmingly to the contents playwrights associated with the Abbey's resentation in the British political system. But of the books rather than to their physical struc- formative years: Yeats, J.M. Synge, and Sean thls struggle was complicated and stymied by ture and copy-specific data. The good news O'Casey. However, some plays in the collec- internecine arguments over what proper rep- here is that Professors Nancy Joe Dyer at Texas tion are unknown bcyond Irish regional resentation was. Singe, O'Casey, and the Ab- A&M University, Blanca Guadalupe L6pez theaters, providing a broader context for re- bey Theatre auQences may have despised the Morales at the Instituto Tecnologico de searchers examining more celebrated pieces. scourge of Sir Lucius O'Triggers, Richard Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, and Dr. The earliest materials attest to the long- Brinsley Sheridan's fiery, ludicrous and bell- Gregory Lee Cuellar, the curator of the col- established significance of Irish playwrights cose Irishman in The Rivals (1 775), but there lection, with funQng from Mexico's Consejo -as well as plays with Irish subjects -in thc agreement ended and v~olentdispute began. Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia British theatrical world, well before Yeats' It had a polite form: Synge's 1907 preface to (CONACYT), are preparing an annotated nationalist call for a schonl of Irish drama The Plyby of the Uyestern World (which, dis- catalogue of the collection, which will un- for Irish audiences. Though the Milberg Col- played on a placard, serves as the epigraph to doubtedly include these data. lection does not include pieces from the the exhibition), praises the Irish as a people If a trip to College Station is not possi- period of Goldsmith and Sheridan, its who have not "shut thcir lips on poetry," thus ble before the exhibition closes in March, I broadsides from the first half of the nine- I facilitatingthe endeavors ofIrish playwrights 2007, the collection, which continues to teenth century reveal, for instance, the popu- and ensuring their positivc reception by Irish grow, is more than enough to justify a later larity of Dion Boucicault in London's audiences. This is in stark contrast to the ex- visit to an easy-to-manage small city whose theater royals. An esteemed actor and au- hibited excerpt from Yeats' 1911 letter to the charms are now sufficient to have merited a thor of over 150 plays, Boucicault, like editor of The Nex~York Timcs. He cxcoriates recent recommendation from The New York Sheridan before him, left Ireland early in life the paper for suggesting that the Abbey Times ('Escapes,' Septembcr 22, 2006). for a career in England, but, unlike Sheridan Theatre's touring repertoire is "poetical," with his token Anglo-Irish characters, he insisting that his loyal Irish audience of "ar- Catalogue: Gregory Lee Cuellar, Passages in composed pieces set entirely in Ireland, such tisans, clerks, shopboys and shopgirls" is not the New Uyor/d Books and Manuscn$ts, from Co- as the wildly popular Colleen Balun (1860) "moved to riot" by what would please "the lonial Mexico, 1556-1820. College Station, and Shaughraun (1 875). The mlberg boasts educated and leisured." Disagreement over TX: Cushing Memorial Library, Texas A&M Boucicault's manuscript playbook for his what misrepresentation entailed could take University Libraries, 2006. 1852 stage adaptation of Dumas's Les Frires more violent form: the notorious "Playboy" Craig Kallendorf Gorses, which has lovely sketches of the stage riots of 1907 that accompanied the run of Tewa~A4 &Ad UniucrsiCy and sets. Synge's play at the Abbey Theatre mani- There are several curiosities and "finds." fested the Gaelic League's concern that the A 1904 edition of Yeats' plays is inscribed play reflected badly on the collective char- by him to Lady Gregory, with a 14-line holo- acter of the western Irish peasantry. The Players & Painted Stage: The graph poem on the-flyleaf. A poster for the Abbey Theatre saw more riots by Republi- Leonard L. Milberg Collection of Abbey Theatre's repertoire during Easter can activists in 1926, when Sean O'Casey's Week 1916 advertises the performance of Tht I'lough and the Stars dared to consider the Irish Theater Yeats' Kathleen ni HouLhan that was cancelled 1916 rebellion in an anti-heroic manner and, due to the ksing. A typescript draft of Lady adding injury to insult, portrayed a prosti- Firestone Library, Princeton University, Gregory's memoirs includes accounts of her tute. One of the Milberg's treasures is the Princeton, NJ conversations with Yeats. An 1893 letter manuscript of O'Casey's unpublished play, 13 October 2006 - 1 April 200 7 from K'ilde to Shaw refers to the latter's The Cooing of Doves, which, originally rejected K'idow~rs'Houm as "Op. 2 of the great Celtic by the Abbey Theatre in 1923, he later in- In October, Princeton University un- school," while first and third arc WildeS corporated in the second act of the offend- veiled the Leonard L. Milberg Collection of own La4 Uyit~dermereiFan and A V'ontan of ing Plough andSfars.The special double-issue lrish Theater. It is one of the largest collec- No Itnportance. A 1903 broadsheet produced of The Princeton Lbray Chronicle dedicated tions of Irish theater material outside of Ire- by the artist Jack Yeats features work by his to the Milberg Collection (vol. lxviii, nos. 1 land and is the fourth major collection of poet brother and hand-colored woodcuts and 2, 2006-2007) publishes The Cboitg of books given by Milberg to Princeton. As- advertising his own miniature theaters for Dot~esfor the first time. sembled with the help of J. Howard children. An example of one of these Signage in the exhibition is sparse and, ' Woolmer, a Pennsylvania-based rare book painted cardboard toys - emblazoned with when found, remarkably terse. The objects specialist, the collection is given in honor of the words, "Jack B. Yeats's Plays in the Old selected for the cxhbition combine to form thc poct and Princeton professor, Paul 1 Manner" -is a 1901 pirate adventure:]m 1 various narrativcs about the development of Flautrg or thc terror of the western seas. Irish theater, but such narratives must be con- https://scholarworks.umass.edu/sharp_news/vol16/iss1/1 12 SHARP NEWSVOL. 16, NO. 1 et al.: Volume 16, Number 1 WINTER2007 c;a 13 - --
strutted by the motivated viewer and inevita- the result being that yet another little maga- ferry from the bohemian urbanity of New ble gaps remain unfilled. Perhaps the clearly zine is founded to survive briefly (the average YorkS Greenwich Village. Members of the harrowing nature of the materials' context Life span is two years) and is forgotten. But community included Kreymborg, Man Ray, convinced the curators they might forego ex- others because of the editorial stance or con- Orrick Johns, William Carlos Wdhams. Pub- tensive walltext. It is a drab vista of cases fied tributors gain a reputation or have such influ- lished over a four year period Others, played a with unadorned book covers, title pages, and ence that they're documentary value out weighs significant role in providing avenue for liter- typescripts. Readers of the accompanyingcata- their brief lives. ary experiment. By glancing at the contribu- logue will enjoy synthesis and broad explana- Frederick Iioffman's 1946 study TheLiftle tors what emerges is an iconic gallery of 20h tion, as well as thoughtful critical studies of Magarine: A History and BibliograpLy remains century modernists: H.D, T.S. Eliot, Mina the collection's playwrights. In an attempt to the classic study of the genre. Hoffman inclu- Loy, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Wallace make the material texts speak, a nod to pro- sion of Carolyn Ulrich's comprehensive an- Stevens, and Wdham Carlos Williams, among viding the same for exhibition viewers would notated bibliography vividly demonstrates not others. not have been amiss. only the large volume of magazines which were Self-financed through subscriptions, do- founded over four decade period, but also the nations and the editors' pockets, Others, like Catalogue: J. Howard Woolmer, The editorial and geographical diversity of little many little magazines led a precarious finan- Leonard L Milberg Irirh Theater Collection. With magazine production in the United States up cial existence. However during the course of essays by Wes Davis, Rebecca Berne, Megan to the beginning of the Second World War. its run, The magazine's editors published 24 Quigley. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univer- Not just an American phenomenon, the little issues regularly. After the demise of the sity Library, 2006. 493pp., ISBN magazine was associated with the birth of the Grantwood Colony, the magazine's editorial 97808781 10490. US $65. modernist movement in England, France, center moved to New York, after a brief stint Amy Haley Germany, Mexico and South America. The in Chicago in 1917 it was relocated in New Princeton Uniuerfi4 transatlantic effect on both sides of the Atlan- York where it remained during its final two tic is one of the important factors in the spread years of operation. The last issue appeared in of the anglo-european "isms": imagism, fu- 1919. Strategies for survival included trans- turism, dadaism and surrealism to name the forming the magazine into a pamphlet series most important to cross-pohnate radical aes- which never appeared. However, three an- thetic theories including the promotion of free thologies were published two by Knopf Suzanne W Churchill. The Little Maga+ne Oth- verse. (1916,1917) and the third by Nicholas Brown ers and the Renovation of American Poetry. Al- For literary and print historians, the little (1919). dershot, Hampshire and Burlington, Vt.: magazine constitutes the artifact of record for In his autobiography, William Carlos Ashgate, 2006. 290pp. ISBN 0754653323. the study of such movements. Given the Williams, who not only contributed regularly $99.95. number and range of tiles which appeared to the magazine and also was among the edi- there are a handful of significant "littles". tors, stated that Others "saved his life". To Without question, the little magazine en- During the free verse wars of the 1910s such that end, Suzanne W. Churchill in her recently dures as the printed legacy and principal lo- little magazines such as Thc Little Review, The published study The Little Magaene Others cus of the intense debates which advanced h4asses, The New Freewoman (later published and the Renovation of Modern Ametiran Poetry the modernist literary aesthetic at the begin- under the title The Egoisd, and Poety: Chicago has made a valiant attempt to invigorate life ning of the twentieth century. Almost a cen- set the tone during the decade. In many re- into the origins and significance Others'con- tury later, the little mag genre continues to spects, Harriet Monroe's Poetry was the pub- tribution to the American free verse debate attract the attention of literary historians, lication of record, but it is also true that such moIrement, but Churchill's study, a rework- theorists and, of course, bibliographers and presuge also betrayed a conservative even prim ing of her PhD dissertation, offers much historians of print and, not least, the many editorial posture against which the more radi- more. tireless practitioners who pay homage to the cal advocates for free verse responded by Structured on the trope implied in the ti- tradition. The latter sweat and toil to pro- founding new magazines which aggressively tle "renovation", Churchill develops a some- duce, small run, individually produced, non- advocated contra Monroe the virtues of liber- times overly complex architectural metaphor commercial literary periodicals dissemi- ating verse from rhyme, meter and orthodox of the house to explore the many "rooms" nated through word of mouth, local liter- spelling and typography. Ezra lJound famously in which she presents a multi-faceted approach ary networks or the annual Dust Books Small broke rank with Monroe after she demon- to the subject. Not only strictly speaking a Press Directory, and which give voice to strated lukewarm support for Pound's Zmagire history of the magazine, its echtorial policies, experimental poetry and prose in both print unorthodoxies. Among the notable little editors, and contributors and its literary and and, increasingly, electronic format. magazines to take up the gauntlet of free verse cultural milieu, Churchill weaves into her text Often these magazines appear as a mat- was Others: The Magurine of the New Verse. an intricate theoretical perspective infused with ter of editorial urgency - and frequently - Founded by Alfred Kreymborg in 1915, the exploration of the role of gender, sexual- they appear in opposition to a competing the first issue appeared in July. A communal ity and the poetics of space in shaping the school, or attempt to fill an apparent effort with Kreymborg serving as editor, Oth- Othersliterary and semantic environment. As vacuum, or represent the desires of the im- ers was the inspiration of members of the valuable as these strategies are, they lead the patient and fervent young whose works are Grantwood Artists Colony ensconced in rural reader through a maze of theory and attenu- ignored by the literary establishment with Ridgefield, New Jersey an hour by bus and ated chscourse. ... / 14
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... / 13 This proves particularly true with three 1 Shakespearean theatre history. Well timed, I focuses on a pivotal moment in Hamlet, whcn chapters exploring the work of \Williams, then, is the series of books (five in all) pub- the eponymous character, seeing his step-fa- Moore, and Loy in the larger context of their ) lislied under the general editorship of Peter 1 ther kneeling in the Chapel, decides against respective relationship to the magazine. At the 1 Holland, of which From ~e$rnlan[.e to Pntrt I killing ~laudius.Underlining the use of psy- conclusion of the final chapter on Mina Loy, in Shakespeilrelr En&ndis the latest. The gen- 1 chological theories newly available to eight- there is hurried attempt provide closure on i era1 aim of the series is to redefine British eenth-century critics, de Grazia argucs how the history of Others that is unsatisfactory it theatre history through historiographical I psychoanalysis continues to affect Haniirt in is clear that a standard publishing history of study: From lJe@rmane to Print itself con- 1 both performance and print. Gordon
Others is woven into her text, but Churchill fronts the historiography-. of Shakespeare 1 bfcMullan continues the theme of altering study is an exper~mentin its own right and ) (and, by extension, other early mddern 1 theoretical perceptions by analysing the for readers who are interested in a close read- ( dramatists), primarily through presenting an ) changing understandings of 'lateness' and ingoi the cultural, literary, and the role par- i important challenge to the near binary du- I authorship in Shakespeare's later works, titularly of women in the pages of O/hcrswill I alism between performance and print. from Malone's biographical parallcls of a find much of value in her chapters on Moore 1 With fifty iuultrations, From Rfomance i retired Shakespeare co~nposingplays 'at lei- and Loy. , to Print consists of a dozen engaging,-- - in- I sure' (246) with characters (supposedly) Churchill's rescarch is exhaustive and she formative, and refreshing essays written by I more dramatically refincd (an understand- has drawn extensively on the papers of established practitioners of Shakespeare's ing also assumed by Henry Hallam and Kreymborg, Moore and Williams to tell the i work. Such is the quality of the conrribu- Edward Dowden) ro Granville Barker's 0ther:r story. The degree to which Others was tions that they are all worth praising, but I avant-gardism in his 1912 production of The the subject of concern itlustrates the challenges I space allows the discussion of only a sclcc- 1B7inter'sTale. From Performanc~h Pint is a re- of documenting the history of a single p&- tion Under 'Performing the Book', Stephcn ( markahly important book, not only in its re- odcal. Churchill usefully appends a full list of Orgel suggests the playbook to be a muta- asscssment of the historiography of British contents, authors, editors and publishers ble, archaeological site upon which numer- theatre history, hut also as a glimpsc into the which adds value for future researchers. like our readers' annotations imply differing 1 furure of pcrfor~ma~lce-basedShakespearean the original editors of Others, Churchill has I performative interpretations, whilst ~abriel1 studies. given us a scrics of "other" theoretical per- I Egan7s painstaking research into tracking 1 Natalie Aldred spectives which amply ~Uustratethe literary and title-page changes in surviving dramatic cultural value of one the most important lit- works to 1610 is extremely informative. 1 tle mags- -published in the trenches of the first I Under 'Editing and Performance', A. R. 1 generation of free verse wars. 1 Braunmuller looks at 'theatrically sensitive' - m -- I punctuation (138) in modern editions of David hlcKnighr I Shakespeare, an approach that will only in- i LTniversig ajl-'ennsyLzlawin I crease in importance with the growing i popularity of performance-based textual Samuel Johnson, The O~vs@the Poets, ed. by 1 scholarship. With a rathcr insightful flour- Roger Lonsdale. Boxed set. I mis. Oxford: -So 1 ish, Wendy Wall draws on the work of I Clarendon Press, 2006. ~i-440p., riii-425 p, I Randall McLeod, Jill Levenson, Steven viii-467 p., ~iii-649p. ISBN~S978-0-19- Urkowitz, and Jotlathan Goldberg to dis- 1 927897.8. $595.00 Peter Holland 2nd Stephen Orgel, eds. From cuss the much debated textual genealogy of ) Pelformanre to Pt-it~tia Shakespeare:r En&tmd. Rorn~oand Jlrliet alongside a number of the I Roger Lonsdale's credentials before the Baringstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xv, debated quartos' differing performative as- publication of this collection were impec- 267 p. ill. ISBN 1-4039-9228-2. ,&50.00 pects. I cable. His The Poems qf Grg Collinj and Gold- Lynne Enterhe, in 'Living Theatre', com- I ~,,~ithcontinues to be a model edition of British theatre histo? is a well-researched pares the Elizabethan curriculum of rhetoric, eighteenth-century poetrp His biog- area of scholarly inquiry, the diversity of imitation and humallism with a number of I raphy of Charles Burney re- which is reflected in books including E. I<. contemporary plaqtexts, stressing the role that I mains definitive, and his more recent an- Chambers's WeE/ix~iOe/han Stag? (1923), R I education played - or rather, the ways in thologies, 7hr~f:iu,OAfardBaiii q" Egbleenth- A. Foakes's Ilhstratiot~soj' the English Singe, I which it was re-enacted - in surviving con- 1 CPntliv LTrrse and E~tPerlth-fPntrr31IVoibmen 1580-1642 (19851, and /I BiographuzllDictiotz- temporary drama. Richard Preiss uses textual 1 poetj, have been llailed as land- nv... 1660-7800 (1973-93). Yet the field's descriptions of Robert Armin (the clown of I mark events, Given his track record, it rather arcane methodologies remain largely the Iung's Men) in order to recover one of I sllould not surprise us that his latest effort, unchallenged; there have been few significant 1,ondon's best known Jacobean performers. a critical edition Samuel studies on theatre history's historiography (a I Significantly, Preiss identifies neglected sur- crowning literar): achievement, ThP notable exception being Initr)~t-r/ingthe That- viving manuscripts that show Armin r;,., ,f ?hepoets, is Surpassing ex- ticdl Pus/: Es.r https://scholarworks.umass.edu/sharp_news/vol16/iss1/1 14 et al.: Volume 16, Number 1 SHARP NEWSVOL. 16, NO. 1 WINTER2007 ca 15 - - Previously students of Johnson have had monumental two-volume A Bibliography oj' hostile or favourable -was used as a politi- recourse to consulting a corrupt, antiquated the W'UT~SOf SanzueIJohn~on(together Fleeman cal football, and while the outbreak of the text: G. B. Hill's 1905 three-volume set. In and Lonsdale sustain Oxford's claim as the civil war in England in 1642 all too frequently many respects an invaluable effort - one center of Johnson scholarship established ear- 1 pushed Ireland into the background it re- still worth owning and consulting - Hill's tier in the century by Oxonian editors David mained, as O'I-Iara sho~vs,ever present in the labors preceded the revolution in textual Nichol Smith, R. W. Chapman, and T,. F. 1 political noise of civil war. studies initiated in the early twentieth cen- Powell). No serious Johnson student can af- As his footnotes and his substantial and tury by McKerrow and Greg, and hence lack ford (despite its obscenely prohibitive price) valuable bibliography demonstrate, O'Hara the critical rigor that we have come to ex- to be without a copy of this magnificent edi- has scoured the surviving material for evi- pect from definitive editions. Based upon my ( tion. I dence. He divides his book, based upon his spot-checking, Lonsdale's text promises to original PhD thesis, into six main chapters offer an enormous improvement upon Hill. Anthony M. Lee that range chronologically from the outbreak Hill's venerable edition does not offer in- I Ke;entuc@ IIT'eslpyan College i, of the rebellion in Ireland in 1641 to the ar- troductions to each life, perhaps because rival of Oliver Cromwell to effectively end Hill, an eminent Victorian, was, chronologi- the Irish rebellion in 1649; however, the chronological arrangement often clouds his cally speaking, much closer to Johnson than I we are today. Lonsdale's edition appreciates I actual argument and its significance. Many the distance that separates modern readers David A. O'Hara. EngIiSb N~wslimnksand Irish i readers keen to learn more about the nature from Johnson's world, and offers a rich mb~Ilion,7647-7649. Dublin: Four Courts Press, I of neasbooks and civil war print culture in contextualization of each life, as well as of 2006 240p ISBN 1-85182-892-3.L55.00 1 general are best advised to turn first to load the collection as a whole. His general intro- Raymond's work The Inz'ention of the Newspa- duction - occupying 185 pages, the size of 1 From 1641 readers of English weekly news I per Enghsh Neu~sbooks, 764 1 -7649 (Oxford a small monograph -canvasses the circum- books were often regaled with damaging im- 1 University Press, 2005) as his account pro- stances surrounding the inception of the I pressions of the Irish. Images of lrish Catho- vides a more in-depth view of the problems Lil~es,the composition process (a section lics 'putting men to the sword, deflowering associated with newsbooks. Nonetheless, which prints a hitherto unpublished letter of 1 women, and dragging them up and downe O'Hara's book will provide a useful quarry Johnson's, to Thomas Cadell, 17 Oct. 1778), / the streets, and cruelly murdering them for future historians of the Anglo-Irish rela- the contributions of various assistants to ...thrusting their speeres through their little tionship as it was represented in the print Johnson, including Mrs. Thrale, John Nichols, infants before their eyes' (36) were particularly culture of the '1640s. Isaac Reed, and George Steevens, Johnson's common. Such accounts clearly raised the tem- ( biographical theory, and Johnson's contribu- perature of the English and, on occasion, they I Alan Marshall I tions to literary history, before concluding may have been deliberately manipulated or Bath Spa Ilnit~ersity with a note on politics and an additional tex- even wholly manufactured for precisely that tual note. purpose. The question of just hoxv the Eng- 1 The glory of this edition, howcver, con- lish newsbooks of the 1640s treated lrish af- sists in its superb textual commentary For I fairs forms the core of David O'Hara's study. I example, the annotation of Johnson's "Life 1 O'Hara argues that the Irish rebellion of I of Pope" occupics some 125 pages of I 1641 acted as a spur to the emergence of many I closely printed type. This will not suit the newsbooks in England and he also describes I taste of all readers - some might urge the in detail the history of English perceptions of ( hfichael Saenger. The Comtnonzj5cation oj'Tex- importance of cleanly and accurately deliv- Ireland and Irish elents as depicted through I tun/ Engapents in the Enqlish Renaissance. Al- ered texts, sans extensive apparatus. Most these newsbooks. He claims that prior to 1641 1 dershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. observers, however, will applaud what there were few references to Irish affairs in the xii, 169 p. ill. ISBN 0-7546-5413-3. L4S / Lonsdale has achieved here. The introduc- print world of Stuart England, reflecting ei- $89.95. tions and notes exhibit a remarkable accu- ther a peaceful Ireland or, morc likely, an unin- mulation of detail gleaned from a lifelong terested English nation rather more eager for I In this generously illustrated book, Michael immersion in eighteenth-century literature, I news of the wars in Europe. With the 1641 Saenger analyses the front matter of an im- culture, and history. Lonsdale's D'LI~Suj the I rebellion, howevcr, Ireland became an issue I pressive range of early modern texts, arguing Poets serves not only as a superb edition of hotly debated in the burgeoning English press. that thcsc pages constitute a system of adver- what many consider to be Johnson's most 1 Then as now, newsbooks both met and cre- tlsing that transforms the book from text into important literary work - it furthermore 1 ated a demand for news as the English nation commodity. Saenger sees frontispieces, title- stands as a summoning encyclopedia of grew ever more hungry for any news at all about pages, and epistles as efforts to both imagine eighteenth-century literature that students the subject. How profoundly this influenced and encompass a wide range of readers, and and scholars will consult well into the new I English perceptions of Ireland and the Irish I he is attentive to the strategies by which millennium. I is difficult to say not least because there was printed books might appeal at once to thc Publication of this set constitutes a ma- I no uniform opinion about Ireland in Eng- literate Latinist and to the less practiced reader. jor event in Johnsonian studies, one matched / land other than varying degrees of hostility. One of the strengths of Saenger's work is his in recent memory only by J. D. Fleeman's What is clear is that news from Ireland - I Published by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst, 2006 15 SHARP News, Vol. 16, No. 1 [2006], Art. 1 16 rn WINTER2007 SHARP NEWSVOL. 16, NO. 1 - - ... j 15 dctcrmination to situate this textual matter I cism and interpretive practice together, ume; in cffect they must not appear elsewhere within the socio-economic and material con- Saenger's decision to discriminate between before July 2009. texts of the book trade, most obviously the reading texts materially, citing early modern A Conference Fellowship is offered to a bustling St. Paul's churchyard. Sadly, howcver, printings, and reading them 'as literary texts' postgraduate scholar whose research falls hslively scene is rendered in little detd; more I (xi), citing modern, scholarly editions, is baf- within the parameters of the Conference's bibliographical research might lead Saenger to I fling. Several typographical errors render bricf, and who wishes to present a paper at qualify his broad-brush assertion that 'it is I Saenger's observation that 'in the modern the conference. The fellowship covcrs the cost I impossible to know in the case of any given I book, the publisher does everything to erase of attending the conference and possibly some book what person or persons play the roles traces of error' (106) poignantly ironic. 1 assistance towards costs of travel. A detailcd that we would now call publisher, printer, com- I submission of the research bring undertaken positor, and so on' (13). This lack of specificity Helen Smith accompanied by a letter of recommendation means that Saenger's valuable presentation of Utziuersi~of lbrk I from a tutor or supervisor should be srnt to 'thc Elizabethan book trade as a thriving, co- 1 I Dr Lisa Pctcrs by 28 February 2007. herent, collaborative (and also competitive) microculture' (10) is at times undercut by the FOR PAPERS bc) assumption that authors and stationers cared -- above all about the imagined response of a ( vaguely defined 'general reading public.' 'This slender volume exemplifies a grow- Print Culture in the Provinces The Culture of the Publisher's ing interest in paratexts (here conflated with Series 1700-2000 front matter), and in the status of author- ship in the early modern pcriod, contribut- 18-19 October 2007 ing to our sense of textual production as in- Institute oJ E~glishJ'tudze~ herently collaborative. It also participates, to The theme for the twenty-fourth annual Uniriersit)j of 1,ondon some extent, in the concerns of the new eco- Pt.intxetworks conference on the History of nomic criticism, demonstrating that book the British Book Trade is Print rulttrre in the In the early 18th century, British publish- trade history can and should be understood $ro~inres:the rrention, clistn'bution, and rlisse?l/ina- 1 ers began gathering books together in themed as a context which shapes interpretation. Ths tion dwrdun(iimage.Provincial-metropolitan series and packaging and marketing them as is an exciting ficld, and Saenger's book is inter-trade connections will be acceptable or distinct, recognisable groups. The effects of sometimes salutary in its attention to ques- on aspects of trade relations with any part of this phenomenon were remarkable; by the tions of genre and tone, marrying more tra- the former colonies & dominions. mid-nineteenth century there were upward of ditionally literary concerns with the study of A selection of the papcrs \*.dlbe published 1 3,000 publishers' series in Britain alone, and the physical text. Nonetheless, the book ulti- in July 2008 as part of the Prinf Nehv0rk.r se- the phenomenon is of course still with us mately remains rather one-dimensional ries, published by the British Library and Oak today. During ths 200-year period the culture thanks to its anachronistic insistence on the I(noll Press. Papers should be of up to 30 of the publishcr's series has opened up new early modern book trade as a system of 'fe- minutes duration. An abstract of the offered 1 possibilities for authors, publishers, distribu- verish capitalism' (58). Saenger's repeated paper and a brief C\< (no longer than one tors and readers, helped to establish a wide reduction of paratexts to an exclusive con- side of A4 in total) of the likely contents rangc of traditions from the establishment cern with saleability and thc market under- should be submitted by 28 February 2007 of national literary canons to the development mines his attcmpts to produce a nuanced to: 1 of feminist lists, and influenced the lands of understanding of the relationship between literature we teach to the next generation of rhetorical affect and the material practices Dr Lisa Peters scholars. of production, dissemination, and reading. Learning Resources I While some publishers' series have been This occasional thinness of interpretation University of Chester I investigated in depth, there have bcen few op- is reflected in the book's rapid movement Parkgate Road portunitics for the work of individual schol- from sub-section to sub-section, and in some Chester CHI 4BJ ars to be placed in meaningful dialogue. This puzzling omissions from the bibliography [email protected] major two-day confercnce seeks to encourage (most obviously Smith on title-pages, Rosc International scholars from all disciplines to on authorship, Stillingcr on collaboration, It is understood that papcrs offered to the ) examine the culture of the publishers' series and \Yic)odmansee on the new economic criti- Confcrcnce will be original work and not de- I with,a vicw to furthering understanding of cism; Henry S. Turner is cited twice in the livered to any similar body before prcsenta- I ~tsh~storical, ideological, generic and gco- body of the text but does not appear in the tion at this Conference. Please be advised that I graphical reach. bibliography). hioreover Saenger's opening presenting your work at conference offers no Confirmed Speakers include Robert Fraser, effr~rtsto establish a critical vocabulary seem guarantee that it will be accepted for publica- I Mary Hammond, Elizabeth James, Andrew clunk!; particularly when key terms such as tion. Furthermore, it is part of the agreement Nash, and John Spiers. 'commodity, 'public' and 'capitalism' are with the publishers that papers will not be We welcome offers of individual papers neither queried nor justified. Similarly, given published in any sillular collection for one year or paper panels from both new and estab- his insistcncc on the need to bring testual criti- after their appearance in the appropriate vol- lished scholars. Topics may include (but are https://scholarworks.umass.edu/sharp_news/vol16/iss1/1 16 SHARP NEWSVOL. 16, NO.1 et al.: Volume 16, Number 1 WINTER2007 na 17 not confined to): the development of incl- vidual or linked publishers' series; National and International copyright law; emergent A. - - readerships and genres worldwide; changes in tory of Books, Libraries and Reading). production and transport methods; changing Birth of the Bestseller: The 19th Scholars researchmg in the history of print literacy rates; notions of literary taste; canon Century Book in Britain, France, culture, communication and knowledge or- formation; education reform; social and po- and Beyond ganisation often confine themselves to niche litical change. colleges of scholarshp within what is a broad, Abstracts of no more than 300 words and developing and, it might be argued, New York short speaker biographies to be sent electroni- increasingly integrated area within the humani- cally by 31 March 2007 to both organisers at 29-31 March 2007 ties. This conferencc aims to bring scholars the following addresses: from these distinct yet overlapping colleges TheBibliOgra~hicalSOcieqOfAmericain-together to exchange ideas and explore Dr Mary Hammond vites you to attend its "Birth of the Bestseller" synergies. conference will be consid- [email protected] conference in Match. 'r'his innovative event will ered for publication in the international jour- gather participants the and nal LibrarJ,Hijtor~,, edited by the chief confer- and from a wide range of disciplines, including art ence organiser fistair ~l~~k. history, literary history, and cultural studies. F~~further information, please contact Professor John Spiers Togetherwe d1explore the terrain 19th- Alistair Black on Published by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst, 2006 17 18 xn WINTER2007 SHARP News, Vol. 16, No. 1 [2006], Art. 1 SHARP NEWSVOL. 16, NO. 1 I brarian of the Biblioth2que municipale de I analyzes how writing, from ideographic sys- Lyon. He was appointed to thls post in 1962, tems to the new media, changed the distri- 1 after having spent three years with the CNRS bution nof power, social orders, and ways of 1 (Centre national de ia recherche scientifique, thinking Such an endeavor, which implies Henri-Jean Martin I Prance's largest and most prominent public extensive research and great erudition, was from LY monde, 23 January 2007 I research organization). Thus hc was able to not without risks. Henri-Jean Martin knew I make great progress in sifting through the how to surmount them by listening to those Henri-Jean Martin died Satur- massive amounts of material necessary for who knew what he did not. da~,!anuar~13, 2007. Born in OnJanu- the thesis he had undertaken on the printed Subsequently, Martin turned back to the ary 14, he in and production and book trade of seventeenth- books which, as a librarian and historian, he publishing history Henri-Jean Martin was entury paris. had catalogued, inventoried or read. From with an that was Completed in the midst of the multiple ( then on, he needed to understand how the barely weakened by the disease that took I tasks involved with the development of an forms of inscription of text on a page pro- and courage he ambitious public reading program and the duced and explained reading practices and pleted, during the suffering of his construction of the new library in Lyons cognitive processes that varied according to months, the hc had lvorking On Part-Dieu, his thesis was defended in 1968 time, genre and reading cornmuni~.In 1990 for Years. Its to~i~ma~ those and published in 1969. [L,n,pou~~i~nioiiti' 1 and 20Nhe devoted two works to the forms I who know above all as the great histo- jpgnj (2~77 siic/t (1598.1701) Eng Tr Ring of "mist rn trvtr (text style]!' The tint was of tile book and publishinF? of Old pwer, undpropie in 17th-crn/ur).Francr,1992], 1 devoted to manuscripts, the second to Regme France. It is a histo7 of human corn- This monumental work was, more than the printed books. The "birth of the modern municauon from the beginning of the spe- i.!pparrSor du Lure, the work that established 1 booL" is linked to the development of the ties, h?xo Jfl*~, until the invelltion of al- a new discipline - the history of the book. , division of texts into paragraphs. [iZIise en phabetical writing. Beginning in 1963, Henri-Jean Martin page rt mist en te.'c/e dm Lure manuscrit, 1999 ;La The project perfectly taught the history of the book in the Fourth ru'aissana dt/ liure modtrrre: iMise m P~geet mise Jean tireless I1e liked to 1 (IVc) section of the Ecule pratique des I en iestr du iimr fm~is@IL'-X1,71 siiclr~), shake up specialized which he always hautes etudes (EPHE). His Monday 5:00 1 2TJQ0) found too narrow in his search for knowl- seminar constituted the veritable crucible of 1 Henri-Jean Martin was well known in the geand his desire to under a 'French school of the lstory of the book." anglophone world. In the United States, in standablc The book would have sure1) 1 It was devoted to inscribing the history of I 1990, hc receivcd the American Printing pleased the man he always recognized as his I printed production into the legacies of ecu- I History Association Award. In 1994 he gave master - T,ucien Febvre (1878-1956) nomic and social history and to creatingnew I the Schouler Lectures at the Johns Hopkins It was Febvre, in fact, who had asked him, paths for a history of the circulation of pub- University. Thrsr lectures were translated by while Martin uas still a young librarian, to 1 rshed works, I his friends l'aul and Nadine Saenger (Tbc work with him lhe devoted to There are few historians whose name can French book: rrl~jjon,allsoltrtirt~z, and readership, the invention of printing in the series "The be associated with the invention of a new 7585-1715.Johns Hopkins University Press, Evolution of Humanity"YFoundations of field of research. Henri-Jean Martin is one 1 1996). In England, he was \varrnly welcomed HistOq'libra~"l.Collaborationthe of those. At the EPf IE, then at the Ecole as a Visiting Fellow at All Souls Cullege. In eminent historian 2nd the Young man was I des chartes, where in 1970 he was elected 1995 hc gave the I,)-ell Lectures at the Brit- Febvre was a founder of the professor of bibliography and history of the ish Library Henrilean Martin always grate- school of The Young aP- book, he developed man!- generations of re- I Flly and sentimentally recalled those times pointed in graduation from the searchers who become librarians or academ- In Oxford 2nd London in the company of Ecole des charter to a position at 1 its. \Vithout them, the four-volumc Hiituire friends and books. fter his retirement in Bibliotheque nationale, was ~~~XPPYcats- & /'idit;o,/,nw, which we directed to- 1993, he began to establish a database of loguing the books in the En!< the library's I gethrr from 1982 to 1986 and which was re- images of old books. The database has been erotica collection. Their collaboration was 1 published in 1'989-91, would have bcen im I bequeathed to the Ecole des Chartes. Time basedontherespectofthc!.oungermanand possible. For Hcnri-Jean Martin, this large spent in English libraries had allowed him, the affection of the older one. undertaking was not a culmination, but a undoubtcdly more easily than in Paris librar- starting point for new inquiries. New inquir- ies, to add to this resource, which includes A Broader Perspcctive ies led him, first, to extend the chronologi- 12,000 images. His 2000 book was based on cal perspective of the history of the book the resources he accumulated for this data- The work that resulted from this collabo- and to place it within the veq long histoq base. ration, L:4ppunn/ioa rlu Iilrrr was published in of written culturc. Henri-Jean Martin was a man of para- 1958, two years after Febvre's death. It be- i doses, which made his friendship valuable came a classic. It mas often republished and I Scholarship and engendered a fascination, sometimes u-as translated into several languages. IEng. I tinged with concern, beforc what he euphe- Tr. Thr3Corr/i~g of thr hook: tl~r////pact of p~t~t- 1, ~i~t~i~~etponuoiri iJiC,jt,published in mi~ticallyreferred to as his "anticonformist itg 1450-1800, 19761. 1988 and republished in 1996 Fng. Tr. The temperament." I mct Henri_jcan ;ZI:~rtinfor the first time ~j~~~~~,dtld of u,ding, 19941, Martin , Politically Martin claimed to be a "man in 1966 in his cnc~)rtnousoffice of head li- of the right." He was born into a "pro- ------/ ------~- https://scholarworks.umass.edu/sharp_news/vol16/iss1/1 18 et al.: Volume 16, Number 1 SHARP NEWSVOL. 16, NO. 1 WINTER2007 c;a 19 -- -- - foundly nationalist" family and was educated Netten from the University of Groningen, After a beautiful lunch at Bistro Jacques within thc rigorous disciplines of the Ecole whose energetic paper was on the printing the group reconvened to be treated to an des chartes. Nonetheless, he never ceased to of science texts in the early seventeenth cen- enthusiastic and passionate talk by Mary mock the empty formalities of the most 1 tuq by the Dutch printing house of Blaeu. I Hammond (Opcn University) discussing her honorable insututions, to procure collabo- 1 Djoke's analysis h&hliRhied the unusually I personal experiences as a 'Book Historian' rations with those who did not think like him I central role that ~laeuhimself playcd in the and sharing her well-proven tips for success and to encourage, by example and support, ( presentation of his tcxts and the extensive I in this area. She reminded us of the impor- intellectual boldness in his students. He re- I intellcctual networks that he was involved in. I tance of getting involved in our discipline spected scholars. He was one of them. But, 1 Harald Braun, a lecturer in the School of I at all levels, be it in reviewing a lecture se- like Febvre, he did not like scholarship only History at the University of Liverpool fol- ries/books, giving conference papers and for its own sake. Henri-Jean Martin had not lowed with a paper focusing on Elgovernador organizing conferences. In an interdiscipli- aged. He knew how to maintain youthful Cbnitiano, a text from early sixteenth century nary area such as Book Histor); making con- enthusiasm, the will to learn, and the feeling Spain which catapulted its author, Juan tacts and ncrworking is a vital skill and one of intellectual resolve. It is now in his books Marquez into an influential court position. which can only enhance your job opportu- that we must listen to his full fervor. Harald laid out the unusual structure nities when (not if!) you finally get your adopted by this text which embraced both PhD. This talk sparked a debate about the Professor Roger Charticr traditional scholastic systems of inquiry and type of support the BHRN and other such Cofl2gedeEronce the Humanistic style to produce a manual organizations can offer alternative non-aca- I of Christian statecraft asBn antidote to the I dekic routes available to Book History trmslatrd b~ Carol Armbruster I rational texts of Machiavelli, and other near I PhD students. French Area Spt-ciali~t,LiOrn'y .f Congr~~~I contemporaries. I The final scssion of the day, 'Shaping the 1 After coffee, the late morning session Tcxt' included three papers considering me- 'Books that Travel' featured Alcx Drace- dieval and early modern topics. Abdullah -- 1 Fr.inci5 iron1 rhc School of Ilisron ar rhc Alger from the University of Manchester BHRN STUDYDAY vnivcrsity of ~.ivcrpoo~2nd ~obSnape discussed the difficulties of interpreting the from rhc L'nivc.rsit\. of Bolton. hlcx dis- date and significance of scribal punctuation cussed his collaborative project which has in the Exeter Book's Christ 11. His detailed Book History Research Network created a 4,500-item bibliography of travel analysis raised questions relating to the role Study Day writing from Eastern Europe. Bob dis- of the scribe and of the functional purpose University of Liverpool cussed his extensive research on the National of punctuation when it is heavily evident in 13 October 2006 Home Reading Union (1889-1930), specifi- some places ofthe text while not so in oth- cally concentrating on its appearance in the ers. The following paper by Florent Hosted by Dr Pollie Bromilow, under the British colonies and dominions. It was clear Noirfalise from the University of Liverpool, auspices of the Liverpool University History / that the character of these far-flung branches 1 continued the theme of para-textual analy- of the Book Research Group, thc second of the Home Reading Union served differ- sis in relation to the early manuscripts of BHRN Study Day of 2006 was a great suc- ent purposes, both socially and nationally, the Chronique dite de Baudouin d'Avesnes. cess. The event attracted speakers and than the British model. The results of this By detailing the differences and the signifi- attendees from across the UK, Ireland and research raise questions of localism, nation- cance of the remaining 52 manuscript cop- the Netherlands. The first session, 'Organ- ality, community and relations with the im- ies. Florent highlighted the importance of izing Knowledge' was started by Djoeke van perial centre. giving more rigorous scholarly attention to Begin your membership in SHARP, and you will receive the annual Book Histoy, JSI-L4Wh'ewg, and the Slt4RPhf~n1bersb~andl'en'odicn/JDirecto~,which is published each summer. Students and unwaged can opt for a rate that does not include a subscripdon to Buok Histov. \Ye accept Visa, MasterCard or chequrs in A~~lericancurrency, made out to SHARP. Please send this form to The Johns Hopkins University Press, Journals Publishing Division, PO Box 19966. Baltimore, MD 3121 1-0966 LISA. You may also use our online membership form at www.sharpu.eb.org. Students and Unwaged Name: -- Cheque enclosed a US/Canada:$55.00 n $20 Address: 0 Visa 0 MasterCard 0 Elsewhere: $60.00 0 $23 Cardholder's Name: Institution: Card Number: Exp.date: E-mail: - -- Research interests: Signature: I am donating to the SHARP Endowment Fund. Check here if you wish your gift to remain anonymous: 0 Check if you prefer not to be included in the SHARP directory and SHARP mailing lists: 0 Published by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst, 2006 19 SHARP News, Vol. 16, No. 1 [2006], Art. 1 20 so WINTER2007 SHARP NEWSVOL. 16, NO. 1 the manuscript sources themselves. The fi- Australia United States nal paper of the clay by Dirk Schoenaers, Craig Munro and Robin Sheehan-Bright, Martin T. Buinicki and Donna Kalmbach also from the University of Liverpool, sug- Paper Empires: a Histo9 cf the Book in Aus- Phillips, Ngotiatitg Copyrighi: Authorship and gested a re-evaluation of Gerard Potter's tralia 1946-2005. Volume 3. St. Lucia, .4us- the Discourst of Literav Propeq kghts in hTine- unprinted manuscript which circulated in tralia: University of Queensland Press, 2006. teerr~b-CtntuvAmerica. New York: NY: upper-Dutch society in the ISthand 1Vh cen- France Routledge, 2006. tury, which has been neglected due to the Sylvie Perez, Cln couple irzj2rnul: l'icrivain et Jacalyn Eddy, Bookwom~n,Creating an Enr- negative comments of the Dutch philolo- son iditeur. Paris, France: Bartillat, 2006. pire in Childreni Book Publishirrg 1919- 1939. gist Muller in the late-nineteenth-century. Madison, E'I: University of Wisconsin Press, Dirk's evidence of contemporary use of this Germany 2006. manuscript and its wide circulation made a Carola Stern, Kommen Sie, Cohn: Friedn'ch Ralph Frasca, Benjr?min Fragklink Printing compelling case for its' continued study as Cohn und CIUM Viebig. Koln, Germany: Network: Disstminahig Virtue in Ear4 Anretica. a significant source for the social history of fiepenheuer & b'itsch, 2006. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Dutch society in this period. Press, 2006. In the final wrap-up the Study Day was India Ron Goulart, Cheap Thrills. London, Eng- considered very useful and a great way to kmi B. Chatterjee, Empires of the Mind: a land: Diamond and New Castle, PA: meet other students. Thanks were given to Histor_y of Ox$rd Lrninil'ersify Press Utrder the Raj. Hermes, 2006. all speakers and particularly to Dr Pollie New Delhi, India and New York, NY Ox- Bruce Michelson, Printer4 Detgil: Mark Bromilow and staff of the Univcrsity of Liv- ford University Press, 2006. Twain and the American Pubbshing Ret*o/ution. erpool involved in the History of the Book Berkeley, Ch: University of California Press, Research Group. Ireland 2006. Johanna Archbold Martin Fanning, Raymond Gillespie and Robert Chadwell W'illiams, Horace Greelg: Trinity College Dublin Michael Adams, Print Culture and Intellectual Chonlpion of Americatr Freedom. Ncw York, life in Ireland 1660-1941: Essays in Honour oj' I NY New York University Press, 2006. AI/lichaelAdams. Dublin, Ireland: VC'oodfield, 2006. Italy - - --- General Chiara Biagioli, L "'opera d'inchiostro'? sforia Laetitia Ciccolini, Kictptions antiques: lec- edjtorialt dellu trurratiua dj ~~~~~~~~i(1827- ture, transmtssion, appropriation intellectuefle. 1899). r;lo soci tg di trice Apologies to Dr Louise Milne of Napier Paris, France: Editions Rue d'Ulm, 2006. fiorentina, 2006. University whose documentary film, Johrr and Angus TheFuture Anna Scannapieco, Curio Go?~i:la scena Calder: a lqi in books, screened at SHARP ?,/ the the DigitalA~e. Oxford, Eng- libro. Venice, Italy: Marsilio, 2006. Hague 2006, and was applauded in our pre- land: Chandos, 2006. vious issue SHARPICTews15.4. Her film was Richard B. Doubleday, Jan Tschichofd, Spain not one minute long but a generous thirty- Designer: tile Penguin Years. Ald ershot, Eng- ( Andres Trapiello, Imprenta modtrna: five. Worth a repeat performance! land: Lurid Humphries, 2006 and New tipografi _y literature en Espalia, 1874-2005. tle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2006. Valencia, Spain: Campagrafic, 2006. Anthony Grafton and Megan b'illiams, -- m ----- Christianity and the Tranformation ofthe Book: United Kingdom E1tsebiusJand the Lil.ra9of Cawarea' David Moore Rergeron, Textual Patronage Dr Simone Murray from hionash Univer- MA: Belknap Press of and English Drama, 1570-1640. Aldcrshot, sity in Melbourne, Australia joins the book University Press, 2006. England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. reviews team, cowring Asia and the Pacific. John Hinks and Cat'1erine Armstrong, Don-John Dugas, Marketing the Bard: Simone was the winner of SHARP'S De '?f Print: Dil'ersity in the Book Trade' .Chakespeare in Petjbrmance utrd Print, 1660- Long Prize in 2005 for her book hlixedhle- British England and New 1740. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri dia. Feminist Presses andP~tbhhingPo/ihhcs (Lon- DE: Oak I(Ilol1 Press, 2006. Press, 2006. don: Pluto Press, 2004). Please don't hesi- Leslic HourSam, Old Books andnT'l'l His- David Finkelstein, Print Ctr/tlrre and the tate to send Simone suggestions of hooks, On 07ie7rta*.on to Book and Print Blacku~ood Tradition, 1805- 1930. Toronto, journals, and print ephemera tn review. Wel- Culture. Toronto, Canada: University of Canada: of Toronto Press, 2006, 1 Lome aboard! Toronto Press, 2006. Mary Hammond, Readirig, P~iblishing,and the Formation of Lterary Taste in England 1880------m -- Argentina 1914. Aldershot, England and Burlington, 1 lose Luis tle Diego, Editores-y Polirictlr VT: A+,,te, 2006, 1 The typographically astute may note some EdilorlNlrs ti/ /Ir~mtinn,1880-2000. Buenos 1 subtle modifications to (HARP hTrivs as a Xires, Argentina: Fonclo de Cultura result of our arrangements with Johns Econcimica, 2006. ( Hoplans University Press. Enjoy! https://scholarworks.umass.edu/sharp_news/vol16/iss1/1 20