Notes on Contributors

Peter W. M. Blayney is Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Toronto and Distinguished Fellow of the Folger Shakespeare Library. He has published widely on the book trade in early-modern London. His latest book is The Printing and the Printers of ‘The Book of Common Prayer’, 1549–1561 (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Amelia Dale is Associate Professor in eighteenth-century literature at the English Department at Nanjing University. She is the author of The Printed Reader: Gender, Quixotism and Textual Bodies in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Bucknell University Press, 2019).

Christine Ferdinand has worked on book-trade history through much of her career, and is currently writing a biography of James Rivington (1724–1802), controversial bookseller, entrepreneur, royalist newspaper proprietor, and briefly spy for George Washington. She is Emeritus Fellow Librarian of Magdalen College, Oxford.

Nicola Parsons is Senior Lecturer in eighteenth-century literature at the University of Sydney. Her most recent publication is Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century (University of Delaware Press, 2021), edited with Jennifer Milam.

Edward Potten is a Research Associate in the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, Principal Consultant on the AHRC/DFG-funded project ‘Werck der Bücher’– Transitions, Experimentation, and Collaboration in Reprographic Technologies, 1440–1470, and runs Pinakes Rare Books.

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THE BIBLIGRAPHICAL 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 com-prises 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

Applications for major grants to be awarded in February 2023 should be submitted by 6 January 2023 and should be supported by letters from two referees familiar with the applicant’s work. A limited sum is also available for minor grants of £50 to £200, and for conference subventions of up to £250 to assist conference organizers to fund the attendance of two or more students at appropriate conferences. Minor grants and conference subven- tions 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

Further information may be obtained from the Secretary of the Fellowships and Bursaries Sub-Committee, Anthony Davis, The Bibliographical Society, c/o Institute of English Studies, University of London, Senate House, London wc1e 7hu, email: [email protected].

THE ‘TRANSACTIONS’ AND ‘THE LIBRARY’

The Society has published a journal since 1893, originally entitled the Trans- actions of the Bibliographical Society. In 1920 it took over the publication 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 (postage included). Some earlier back issues of Transactions and The Library may also be obtainable by members, who should enquire of the Hon. Secretary as to availability and price.

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