Notes on Contributors and Information

Notes on Contributors

W. R. Albury is Emeritus Professor in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia.

Peter W. M. Blayney is Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Toronto. He has published widely on the book trade in early-modern London, and his most recent book is The Printing and the Printers of ‘The Book of Common Prayer’, 1549–1561 (Cambridge University Press, 2022). He is working on a book on the Stationers’ Company in 1557–1616, and was awarded the Bibliographical Society’s Gold Medal in 2023.

Orietta Da Rold is Professor of Medieval Literature and Manuscript Studies in the University of Cambridge, Fellow of St John’s College, and the Academic Director of Cambridge University Library Research Institute (ULRI). She is the Principal Investigator with Dr Suzanne Paul of the ‘Thinking Paper Project’ and has published widely on medieval materiality and manuscript studies.

Mirjam Foot, DLitt, FSA, former Director of Collections and Preservation at the British Library, is Emeritus Professor of Library and Archive Studies at University College, London. She has published extensively on the history of bookbinding and gives papers at conferences in Europe and the USA.

Neil Harris is Professor of Bibliography and Library Studies at the University of Udine in Italy.

Matilde Malaspina is postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen, a member of the Book of Books Project, focusing on Copenhagen, Arnamagnæan Institute, MS AM 377 fol., identified in 2019 as one of the catalogues of the library of Hernando Colón.

Nick Posegay is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies in the University of Cambridge, and an Affiliated Researcher of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library. He has published widely on Middle Eastern manuscript cultures and interfaith exchange in the intellectual history of Semitic languages.

Mark Rankin is Professor of English at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA. He has published widely on English Reformation literature and culture. His co-edited collection, The Elizabethan Catholic Underground: Clandestine Printing and Scribal Subversion in the English Counter-Reformation, is forthcoming from Brill.

REVIEWERS

Brian Alderson has published extensively on the history of children’s literature.

Stephen Clarke is Chairman of the Dr Johnson’s House Trust.

A. S. G. Edwards is a member of the editorial board of The Book Collector.

Arnold Hunt is lecturer in early modern palaeography at Durham University.

David McKitterick is a Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge.

Peter Sabor holds the Canada Research Chair in Eighteenth-Century Studies and is Director of the Burney Centre at McGill University in Montreal.

Information

THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY LIBRARY AND ARCHIVE

The Bibliographical Society Library, for many years housed at Stationers’ Hall in the City of London, moved in January 2007 to Senate House of the University of London. Since July 2017 it has had a new home, The Albert Sloman Library at the University of Essex, where the collection is available in open-access shelving. Full details of contacts and opening hours at The Albert Sloman Library can be found at http://libwww.essex.ac.uk/.

The Bibliographical Society Archive is deposited in the Bodleian Library. It may be used by scholars and by Members of the Society. All researchers wishing to use the Archive must have a valid Bodleian reader’s ticket, but Members of the Society who are not otherwise eligible should bring to Bodleian Admissions their current signed Society’s Programme Card together with proof of identification. The archive covers every aspect of the Society’s activities from its foundation in 1892 to 2008. Comprising the records of a private society without a permanent office and run by honorary officers, the coverage is patchy and at times haphazard, and researchers will find unexpected gaps and equally unexpected inclusions. Further details are available at the Society’s website (http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/content/library-and-archives) and a finding-list is on the Bodleian website: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/modern/bib-soc/bib-soc.html

THE LIBRARY, VIRTUAL ISSUE

The ‘Virtual Issue’ now accompanies the journal’s four print issues every December. It comprises a retrospective gathering of key articles in a particular field that have appeared in the pages of The Library since the journal’s first appearance. These are chosen by a guest editor, who also supplies an editorial reflecting on the field, its history, and its prospects, here and beyond. These virtual issues are available, free of charge to any interested reader, on The Library’s page on OUP’s website (http://library.oxfordjournals.org). The articles are made freely available for three months from the date of publication, but the editorials are available permanently.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY GRANTS

Major grants are awarded annually in February and the deadlines for submissions is usually in mid-January. A limited sum is also available for minor grants of £50 to £300, and for conference subventions of up to £300 to assist conference organizers to fund the attendance of two or more students at appropriate conferences. Minor grants and conference sub ventions are processed throughout the year. Application forms and guidelines relating to all awards may be downloaded from the Society’s website: http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/fellowships

THE ‘TRANSACTIONS’ AND ‘THE LIBRARY’

The Society has published a journal since 1893, originally entitled the Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. In 1920 it took over the pub lica tion of The Library (which had appeared since 1889) and adopted that as the main title of the Transactions.

The different series of the Transactions and The Library are as follows:

Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. Vols 1–15 (1893–1919).

The Library. Vols 1–10 (1889–1898).

The Library. Second/New series. Vols 1–10 (1900–1910).

The Library. Third series. Vols 1–10 (1910–1919).

The Library. Fourth series. Vols 1–26 (1920–1946).

The Library. Fifth series. Vols 1–33 (1946–1978).

The Library. Sixth series. Vols 1–21 (1979–1999).

The Library. Seventh series. Vols 1– (2000– )

The last three years of The Library are always available. Members’ orders for these should be sent to the Hon. Secretary, enclosing an appropriate remittance: single parts, £5.00 each, volumes £19.00 (post age included). Some earlier back issues of Transactions and The Library may also be obtain able by members, who should enquire of the Hon. Secretary as to availability and price.

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