Rare Book School
Episodes
Belanger, Terry - "1998 State of the Bibliographical Nations" (6 August 1998)
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 419 (6 August 1998) Similar versions of this talk were given as lectures 410, 413, and 416.
Winship, Michael - "Uncle Tom Goes Public: Copyright and the Literary Marketplace" (3 August 1998)
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 417 (3 August 1998)
Krummel, D. W. - "Praise the Lord! We Are a Musical Nation: The Bay Psalm Book of 1698"
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 415 (29 July 1998)
Wendorf, Richard - "A Tale of Two Libraries" (27 July 1998)
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 414 (27 July 1998)
Dunlap, Ellen S. - "Changing to Stay the Same: Innovation as Tradition" (22 July 1998)
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 412 (22 July 1998)
Allen, Greer - "'The Hunting of the Snark' Illustrated" (20 July 1998)
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 411 (20 July 1998)
Traister, Daniel - "Dead Books" (15 July 1998)
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 409 (15 July 1998)
Tanselle, G. Thomas - "A Rationale of Collecting" (13 March 1998)
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 408 (13 March 1998)
Belanger, Terry - "Twenty-Five Come Sunday: The Book Arts Press, 1972–" (7 August 1997)
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 402 (7 August 1997) Similar versions of this talk were given as lectures 393, 396, and 399.
Charbeneau, Brett - "How to Succeed in Bibliography Without Really Trying" (6 August 1997)
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 401 (6 August 1997)
Stoddard, Roger E. - "Such White Words; Such Black Signs: Question the Books of Edmond Jabès"
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 400 (4 August 1997) Note: The end of this lecture is cut off; apologies!
Graham, Peter S. - "Post-Modernism and the Barriers to Library Preservation" (30 July 1997)
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 398 (30 July 1997)
Barlow, William P. - "Book Dealers Are from Mercury/Book Collectors Are from Pluto" (28 July 1997)
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 397 (28 July 1997)
Tanselle, G. Thomas - "The Bibliographical Analysis of Book Design" (14 July 1997)
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 391 (14 July 1997)
Belanger, Terry - "1996 State of the Bibliographical Neighborhood Address" (8 August 1996)
25 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 389 (8 August 1996) Similar versions of this talk were given as lectures 380, 383, and 386.
Charbeneau, Brett - "How to Succeed in Bibliography Without Really Trying" (7 August 1996)
25 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 388 (7 August 1996)
Graffagnino, J. Kevin - "Only in Books: Writers, Readers and Bibliophiles on Their Obsession"
25 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 387 (5 August 1996)
Miller, Daniel J. - "Books Go to the Rotunda: Reflections of a First-time Curator"
25 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 385 (31 July 1996)
Winship, Michael - "Pirates, Shipwrecks, and Comic Almanacs" (24 July 1996)
25 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 382 (24 July 1996) Full title: "Pirates, Shipwrecks, and Comic Almanacs: Charles Ellms Packages Books in 19th-Century America"
Allen, Greer - "Berthold Wolpe: The Typographic Artist and the Man" (22 July 1996)
25 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 381 (22 July 1996)
Tanselle, G. Thomas - "Studies in Bibliography on Its Fiftieth Anniversary" (15 July 1996)
25 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 378 (15 July 1996)
Belanger, Terry - "1995 Bibliographical State of the Nation Address" (10 August 1995)
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 377 (10 August 1995) Similar versions of this talk were given as lectures 365, 368, 371, and 374.
Farren, Donald - "Mail Order Bibliography" (9 August 1995)
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 376 (9 August 1995)
Wasserman, Jack - "How a Novice Book Collector Decided to Catalog His Lord Byron Collection ..."
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 375 (7 August 1995) Full title: "How a Novice Book Collector Decided to Catalog His Lord Byron Collection and Went Mad in the Process" Note:...
Graham, Peter S. - "Why There Will Be No Special Collections on the Internet" (2 August 1995)
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 373 (2 August 1995) Note: the beginning of this lecture is omitted.
Grushkin, Philip - "The Design and Printing of Janson’s 'History of Art'"
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 370 (26 July 1995) Note: the beginning of this lecture is omitted.
Traister, Daniel - "‘You Must Remember This’: Librarians and Cultural Memory"
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 369 (24 July 1995)
Huttner, Sidney & Elizabeth - "Lucile‘s Adventures in America, 1860–1910"
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 364 (11 July 1995) Full title: "Lucile‘s Adventures in America, 1860–1910: Orchids, Gold Leaf, and Padded Leather"
Leab, Katharine Kyes - "Rare Book Auctions in an Electronic Age" (10 August 1994)
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 361 (10 August 1994)
Belanger, Terry - "1994 Bibliographical State of the Nation Address" (4 August 1994)
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 359 (4 August 1994) Similar versions of this talk were given as lectures 350, 353, 356, and 362.
Allen, Greer - "Carl Rollins: America’s First University Printer" (13 July 1994)
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 349 (13 July 1994)
Musinsky, Nina - "Pass the Aloe Vera Juice; or, Books on the Block" (27 July 1993)
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 344 (27 July 1993)
Gilbert, Bennett - "Book Magic" (26 July 1993)
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 343 (26 July 1993)
Wendorf, Richard - "Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Dante Gabriel Rossetti" (14 July 1993)
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 339 (14 July 1993) Full title: "Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Visual and Verbal Encounters"
Tanselle, G. Thomas - "Editing Without a Copy-Text" (12 July 1993)
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 337 (12 July 1993)
McGann, Jerome J. - "Scholarly Editing in Virtual Space" (6 July 1993)
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 335 (6 July 1993) Full title: "Scholarly Editing in Virtual Space, With Special Reference to the Work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti"
Johnson, Catherine J. - "Some Strange Ways of Making a Living" (20 April 1992)
20 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 328 (20 April 1992) Full title: "‘Some Strange Ways of Making a Living’: Augustus Toedteberg of Brooklyn and the Art of Extra-Illustratio...
Parker, John - "Red Canaries and a Cage Too Small" (10 July 1991)
20 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 317 (10 July 1991)
Tanselle, G. Thomas - "Issues in Bibliographical Studies Since 1942" (9 July 1991)
20 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 316 (9 July 1991)
Berschin, Walter - "Greek Elements in Medieval Latin Manuscripts: The Example of Verona"
20 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 315 (9 May 1991)
Belanger, Terry - "Format and Collation and Curators: Bibliography in the Library" (29 April 1991)
20 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 314 (29 April 1991)
McKitterick, David - "The Word, The Law, and The Profits: Bible Publishing in 17th-Century England"
20 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 311 (25 March 1991)
Sullivan, Larry E. - "From Prison to LC" (25 February 1991)
20 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 310 (25 February 1991) Full title: "From Prison to LC: Meditations and Reflections on the Administration of Diverse and Special Collections"
Ridgway, Christopher - "My Library and What I Do In It" (11 July 1990)
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 290 (11 July 1990)
Dreyfus, John - "Gerald Meynell and the Westminster Press" (26 November 1990)
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 308 (26 November 1990)
de Hemptinne, Thèrése - "Medieval Chanceries in the Netherlands: Results of Recent Research"
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 307 (14 November 1990)
Esslemont, David - "The Gregynog Press, 1923–1990" (12 November 1990)
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 306 (12 November 1990)
Bearman, Frederick A. - "Triumph, Hope and Tragedy: Preserving the Public Records of England"
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 305 (31 July 1990)
Stoddard, Roger E. - "Deep in the Shed: A Working Paper from a Working Librarian"
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 304 (30 July 1990)
Joyce, William L. - "From the Margins to the Center" (20 July 1993)
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 341 (20 July 1993) Full title: "From the Margins to the Center: The Coming ‘Mainstreaming’ of Rare Books and Special Collections"
Antonetti, Martin - "Goodbye to All That: Education for the Book Arts" (12 July 1990)
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 299 (12 July 1990)
Schlosser, Leonard - "Paper: A Search for Surface" (9 July 1990)
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 297 (9 July 1990)
Sharpe, Richard - "On Getting Published as a New Author in Angevin England" (30 April 1990)
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 295 (30 April 1990)
Willison, Ian - "The Role of the History of the Book in the Humanities" (16 April 1990)
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 294 (16 April 1990) Full title: "The Role of the History of the Book in the Humanities: The History of the Book … and the Study of … Chan...
Clapinson, Mary - "Keeping Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library" (9 April 1990)
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 293 (9 April 1990)
Bourbeau, David - "Bibliotect / Bookbinder: The Nature and Art of a Small Studio/Workshop"
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 292 (2 April 1990)
Pickwoad, Nicholas - "Changing Aesthetics: Indications of Quality and the Arts of Deception"
18 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 290 (19 February 2019)
Pickwoad, Nicholas - "Working Backwards: Guessing Intentions from Results"
18 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 289 (19 February 1990)
Pickwoad, Nicholas - "Reading the Evidence: The Interpretation of Structure and Materials"
18 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 288 (19 February 1990)
Davies, Martin - "Cataloging the Fifteenth Century: The Incunabula Short Title Catalogue"
18 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 286 (23 October 1989)
Koch, Peter Rutledge - "Inkslingers: Printing in San Francisco Post-Grabhorn"
18 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 285 (9 October 1989)
Gullick, Michael - "Why Catalog Medieval Manuscripts? And (If So) How? A Review by a Reader"
18 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 284 (25 September 1989) This is only a partial recording, but the topic is of such interest we thought it best to post it as is.
Corey, D. Steven - "Developing Collections of Fine Printing for Libraries: Further Considerations"
18 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 281 (24 July 1989)
Thomas, James C. - "Early Printing in Bamberg: A New Discovery" (18 July 1989)
18 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 280 (18 July 1989)
Traister, Daniel - "Reluctant Virgins: The Stigma of Print Revisited" (13 July 1989)
18 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 278 (13 July 1989)
Leab, Katharine Kyes - "H. Bradley Martin and Twentieth-Century American Book Collecting"
18 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 277 (11 July 1989)
Belanger, Terry - "Ourselves Observed: Education for Rare Books (With Bells and Whistles): IV"
29 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 282 (25 July 1989)
Belanger, Terry - "Ourselves Observed: Education for Rare Books (With Bells and Whistles): III"
29 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 279 (17 July 1989)
Belanger, Terry - "Ourselves Observed: Education for Rare Books (With Bells and Whistles): I"
29 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 274 (5 July 1989)
Landon, Richard - "Knight Errant of Bibliophily: Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche" (24 April 1989)
29 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 273 (24 April 1989)
Wieck, Roger S. - "Time Sanctified" (30 January 1989)
29 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 270 (30 January 1989) Full title: "Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours; or How an Exhibition of Illuminated MSS Nearly Killed Its Curator"
Ridgway, Christopher L. - "The Sociology of the English Country-House Library, 1700–1918"
28 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 268 (24 October 1988) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.
Zeidberg, David S. - "Growth in the Face of Prosperity: Special Collections at UCLA"
28 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 267 (17 October 1988) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.
Downer, John - "Lecture / Demonstration on Glass Gilding" (30 June 1988)
28 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 265 (30 June 1988) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.
Landon, Richard - "The Outcast Prophet and Other Tales of Rarity from the North" (22 June 1988)
28 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 263 (22 June 1988) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side. The lecture ends abruptly, but as the recording is nearl...
Belanger, Terry - "Lunacy and Pictures in Books: An Extra-Illustrated Lecture" (14 June 1988)
28 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 261 (14 June 1988) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.
Oyens, Felix de Marez - "Dutch Book Auctions, 1599–1824" (13 June 1988)
28 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 260 (13 June 1988) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.
Benson, Charles - "The Fate of the Irish Book Trade, 1801–1850" (2 May 1988)
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 258 (2 May 1988)
Belanger, Terry - "English Collectors and American Libraries, 1876–1911" (25 April 1988)
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 257 (25 April 1988)
Johnston, Alastair - "Nineteenth-Century American Type Specimens" (12 April 1988)
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 255 (12 April 1988) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.
Hall, David D. - "Readers and Writers in 17th-Century New England: The Vernacular Tradition"
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 254 (7 April 1988)
Krummel, D. W. - "The Memory of Sound: The History of Music on Paper" (28 March 1988)
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 253 (28 March 1988) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.
Willison, Ian - "Printing the History of the Book in Britain" (23 November 1987)
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 250 (23 November 1987) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.
Vaisey, David - "The Pleasures (and Perils) of Being Bodley’s Librarian" (26 October 1987)
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 249 (26 October 1987) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.
Schmoller, Tanya - "On Paper Decorating" (19 October 1987)
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 248 (19 October 1987) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.
Dreyfus, John - "A Spectacular View of the Advent of Printing" (12 October 1987)
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 247 (12 October 1987) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.
Rendell, Kenneth W. - "Other People’s Mail" (5 October 1987)
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 246 (5 October 1987) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.
Nord, David P. - "Teleology and News: The Religious Roots of American Journalism, 1630–1730"
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 245 (28 September 1987)
Gatch, Milton McC. - "Signs of Ownership in Fragment Collections: On the Trail of John Bagford"
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 242 (23 July 1987) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.
Gallup, Donald - "Getting the 'Dial' Papers Together at Yale" (21 July 1987)
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 241 (21 July 1987) Note: The audio on this recording is mono only, on the left side.
Spawn, Willman - "Convention into Style: Tracing Bookbinders" (14 July 1987)
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 240 (14 July 1987)
Stoddard, Roger - "'Fidèle à Nos Habitudes Laborieuses': Four Variations on a Theme by J.-C. Brunet"
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 139 (12 December 1983)
Ghosh, Anindita - "Cheap and Bad Books" (29 July 2019)
30 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 637 (29 July 2019) Full title: "Cheap and Bad Books: A Social History of Printing and Publishing in Colonial India" An NEH-GBHI Lecture
Mullaney, Thomas S. - "Revolutionary Spirits" (22 July 2019)
26 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 636 (22 July 2019) Full title: "Revolutionary Spirits: Typescript Books, DIY Zines, and Other Forms of Unsanctioned Publishing in Maoist and ...
Karmiole, Kenneth - "Shakespeare in Virginia" (13 July 2019)
26 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 635 (13 July 2019) Delivered after the July 2019 meeting of the RBS Board of Directors.
O'Donnell, Heather & Rebecca Romney - "The Right and Wrong Ways to Collect"
11 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 634 (10 July 2019) The 2019 Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture
Whitted, Qiana - "Desegregating Comics: Debating Race in Early American Comic Books"
11 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 633 (8 July 2019) Apologies for the quiet audio on this lecture; you may need to turn up the volume higher than usual.
Blassingame, Tia - "Despite Hostile Terrain" (10 June 2019)
20 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 631 (10 June 2019) Full title: "Despite Hostile Terrain: Witness to Racism in the Artists’ Books of Primrose Press"
Chen, Jack - "Information Systems As/In Chinese Literary History" (3 June 2019)
20 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 629 (3 June 2019)
Curtis, Neal - "Forgery and the Rise of Bibliographical Techniques of Detection"
14 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture 628. Delivered at the RBS-UVA Fellowship Luncheon, 10 May 2019. Rare Book School founding director Terry Belanger introduces Neal Curtis as th...