Booking Essential Booking essential MESSAGE FROM THE LORD MAYOR OF MELBOURNE The City of Melbourne is proud to be associated with ANZAAB in bringing the Melbourne Rare Book Week 2014 to life. Melbourne Rare Book Week 2014 helps to build on our city’s reputation as a Knowledge City and highlights our status as a UNESCO city of literature. Local libraries, booksellers and book-lovers have joined with the Melbourne Rare Book Week to ensure it’s success. As a free event, open to anyone who is interested in attending, it provides an opportunity to discover Melbourne’s libraries and book shops and the breadth of their collections. It is great to see Rare Book Week reaching out to young people through the Melbourne Libraries event at Federation Square. Thanks must go to ANZAAB for, once again, bringing the Melbourne Rare Book Week to fruition. It is a wonderful way to celebrate books and the pleasure of collecting them. Robert Doyle Lord Mayor MELBOURNE RARE BOOK WEEK PROGRAM EVENTS Thursday July 17 Medium Rare 4 The Wheeler Centre Friday July 18 The Library at The Dock Tours 4 Library at The Dock La Trobe’s other library: Charles La Trobe, Redmond Barry and the Library of the Supreme Court of Victoria 4 The C. J. La Trobe Society Saturday July 19 Rare Book Discovery Day 5 Museum Victoria A Collector’s Journey 5 The Johnson Society of Australia Sunday July 20 ’This Won’t Hurt a Bit’ 5 Old Treasury Building Monday July 21 John Kirtley and the making of Heemskerck Shoals 6 State Library of Victoria Fine Impressions: Artists’ books at the State Library 6 State Library of Victoria On Target Through Time: The Meanings of the Robin Hood Myth 6 Friends of the Baillieu Library Syphilis: a Forerunner of AIDS 7 Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Tuesday July 22 Woodpeckers and Birds of Paradise: Exotic illustrations from either side of the Wallace Line 7 State Library of Victoria ’Age cannot wither them, nor custom stale their infinite variety’ 7 Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne The case behind the Judge Willis Case 8 Royal Historical Society of Victoria Darwin and evolution 8 State Library of Victoria Dust Jackets 8 Matheson Library, Monash University Treasures of a 124-year-old library 9 Royal United Services Institute of Victoria 1 EVENTS Wednesday July 23 S. T. Gill’s ‘Victoria: gold diggings and diggers as they are’ (1852): Fact or fiction? 9 State Library of Victoria Collecting Sport: an under-explored passion 9 Melbourne Cricket Club Library Dancing by the light of the moon: The art and nonsense verse of Edward Lear 10 State Library of Victoria An Anniversary Celebration. Songs in Irish and English from the Nicholas O’Donnell Collection 10 St Mary’s Newman Academic Centre Tunnel Books 10 Melbourne Athenaeum Library A Life with Books 11 Reader’s Feast Bookstore Thursday July 24 The Art of Prayer: Medieval liturgical manuscripts in the State Library collection 11 State Library of Victoria Tunnel Books and other Illuminations 11 Melbourne Athenaeum Library Charting a course: Nautical charts in the State Library’s Map Collection 12 State Library of Victoria The hanged and the saved: death and mercy in colonial Victoria 12 Melbourne Law School Dr Cowlishaw’s Collection 12 Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Friday July 25 Legal Luminaries and their books 13 Supreme Court of Victoria Library An artist’s utopia. Mortimer Menpes, printmaker, author, Japanophile 13 Grainger Museum Friday July 25 – Sunday July 27 Melbourne Rare Book Fair 13–14 Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers Saturday July 26 – Sunday July 27 Cultural Treasures Festival 14 The University of Melbourne Sunday July 27 The print medium employed 15 Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne 2 EXHIBITIONS In the beginning : Gutenberg’s bible on view in the Baillieu Library 15 Special Collections, University Library, University of Melbourne Mirror of the World: Books and Ideas 16 State Library of Victoria ‘Radicals, slayers and villains’ 16 Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne Highlights from an Irish library 16 St Mary’s Newman Academic Centre Kyoko Imazu: Artist in Residence 17 Melbourne Athenaeum Library Eclectic: an exhibit of rare books 17 Library at The Dock re. reading Pound in the Lenton Parr Library 17 Victorian College of the Arts Dust jackets: Judging a book by its cover Matheson Library, Monash University 18 OTHER Future Dates 15 Nite Art 18 Open House Melbourne 18 Sponsors 18 Partners 19 Venue Sponsors 19 MAILING LIST To join the Melbourne Rare Book Week Mailing list and receive information about future events, register your details online at www.rarebookweek.com www.facebook.com/rarebookweek 3 ------------ THURSDAY JULY 17 space, meeting rooms, activity spaces, editing and recording studios, thus enabling people to come together to create, explore, connect, belong, learn and participate. As the first public CLT building in Australia this civic heart is built with a vision for environmental excellence, optimising sustainable performance by using a range of initiatives including a combination of engineered timber and MEDIUM RARE reclaimed hardwood. Presented by: The Wheeler Centre Time 11–11.45am and 2–2.45pm Panellists: Michael Cathcart, Venue Library at The Dock Emily Gale, Louise Swinn, 107 Victoria Harbour Prm, Tony Wilson Docklands Phone +61 3 9658 9998 This year the Wheeler Centre is Bookings melbourne.vic.gov.au/ taking an alternative approach to our melbournelibraryservice celebration of Melbourne Rare Book Week. Host Michael Cathcart, Sleeper’s Publishing’s Louise Swinn and authors Tony Wilson and Emily Gale tell us about the books they wish were rare. The titles they’re sick to death of, the ones that make them shake their literary fists in despair. LA TROBE’S OTHER Join us in the brand new Library LIBRARY at The Dock for the biggest literary takedown of the year. Charles La Trobe, Redmond Barry and the Library of the Supreme Time 6.30–7.30pm Court of Victoria. An illustrated Venue Library at The Dock lecture 107 Victoria Harbour Prm, Docklands Presented by: The C. J. La Trobe Web wheelercentre.com Society Speaker: Dr Sue Reynolds ------------------ FRIDAY JULY 18 Founded in 2001, the La Trobe Society was established to promote recognition and understanding of the achievements in the develop- ment of Victoria of Charles Joseph La Trobe, Superintendent of the Port Phillip District, 1839-1851, and first Lieutenant Governor of the new colony from 1851. Dr Sue Reynolds will present this lecture highlighting the cultural foundations on which Victoria is built, with a focus on the establishment and development of the Supreme Court. THE LIBRARY AT THE Time 6.30–8.30pm DOCK TOUR Venue Morgans at 401 401 Collins Street, Presented by: Library at The Dock Melbourne The Library at The Dock is a Phone +61 3 9646 2112 community hub providing (leave voice message) contemporary library and community Email [email protected] facilities, including a performance Web latrobesociety.org.au 4 Booking Essential ------------ SATURDAY JULY 19 Presented by: The Johnson Society of Australia Speaker: John W. Byrne John Byrne purchased his first book by Samuel Johnson in 1964. 50 years later he has a library of international repute, including first editions, association copies, a Johnson manuscript and more than 250 copies of Johnson’s only novel Rasselas. John is a Governor of Doctor Johnson’s House, London and has been President of Johnsonian Societies in the United Kingdom and the United States of America. He is the current President of the Johnson RARE BOOK Society of Australia (Inc,). DISCOVERY DAY Time 2.30–4pm Is there gold in your garage? Venue Tonic House (Ground Floor) Presented by: Museum Victoria 386 Flinders Lane, Are your family favourites, collected Melbourne items or inherited books of sentimen- Phone +61 3 5470 6644 tal or market value? Visitors may Email [email protected] bring up to three items for discussion ----------------- SUNDAY JULY 20 and informal appraisals from a panel of leading antiquarian book, print and map dealers. The Museum’s paper conservator is also available to offer advice on caring for books and other printed material, and recommenda- tions for correct storage. Time 11am–2pm Venue Melbourne Museum (Activity Room A) 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton Phone +61 3 8341 7777 or 1300 130 152 Email [email protected] Web museumvictoria.com.au/ melbournemuseum/whatson ‘THIS WON’T HURT A BIT’ Presented by: Old Treasury Building Speaker: Robyn Annear From Weston’s Wizard Oil to dentistry-by-verse, Robyn Annear will chart a queasy course through the rich history of quackery and questionable cures in 19th-century Melbourne. Time 1.30–2.30pm Venue Old Treasury Building 20 Spring Street, A COLLECTOR’S Melbourne JOURNEY Phone +61 3 9651 2233 A 50 year adventure in the world Email [email protected] of Johnson and Boswell Web oldtreasurybuilding.org.au Booking Essential 5 --------------- MONDAY JULY 21 Time 2–2.45pm Venue McArthur Gallery State Library of Victoria (meet in front foyer) 328 Swanston Street, Melbourne Phone +61 3 8664 7099 Email [email protected] Web slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on JOHN KIRTLEY AND THE MAKING OF HEEMSKERCK SHOALS Library expeditions 1 Presented by: State Library of Victoria Presenter: John Arnold ON TARGET THROUGH Join our guest speakers and curatorial TIME staff as they delve into our rare and The Meanings of the Robin Hood curious collections. Myth Time 11–11.45am Presented by: Friends of the Venue McArthur Gallery Baillieu Library State Library of Victoria Speaker: Professor Stephen (meet in front foyer) Knight 328 Swanston Street, In this talk, Stephen Knight will look Melbourne Phone +61 3 8664 7099 at the main formations of the mythic Email [email protected] identity of Robin Hood, in turn as Web slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on forest yeoman, Earl of Huntington, Saxon nationalist and international liberal, with the overall purpose of charting briefly the rich and volatile history of this potent and essentially political myth.