Forthcoming events hosted by the British Library's British and Early Printed Collections
Seminar on Textual Bibliography for Modern Foreign Languages
Monday, 10 June 2013
Eliot Room, Conference Centre, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
PROGRAMME
11.00 Registration and Coffee
11.45 Pablo Alvarez (University of Michigan), The Literary Sources of Alonso Víctor de Paredes’s Institución, y origen del arte de la imprenta, y reglas generales para los componedores [Madrid, 1680]
12.30 Lunch (Own arrangements).
1.45 Alessandro Tedesco (University of Udine), Texts and images in printed editions of accounts of pilgrims’ journeys to the Holy Land: the characteristics and evolution of the editorial genre of Itinera ad Loca Sancta, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century
2.30 Jonathan Hensher (University of Manchester), “Cover Girls” - The representation and changing roles of women in illustrated title pages from Italian and French editions of Orlando furioso, circa 1600-1850
3.15 Tea
3.45 Godfried Croenen (University of Liverpool), Reconstructing a publication history in the manuscript age: identifying and dating authorial and scribal versions of Book I of Jean Froissart’s Chronicles
4.30 Susan Reed (British Library), A tale of two cities: print culture of the 1848 revolution in Berlin and Vienna
The Seminar will end at 5.15 pm.
Please notify us by email or by post using the form below if you are able to attend. If you know of colleagues who might like to attend, please pass on the invitation.
Barry Taylor Tel +44(0)20 7412 7576
Susan Reed Tel +44(0)20 7412 7572
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will be attending the Seminar on Textual Bibliography on 10 June 2013
Early Printed Collections
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB
United Kingdom
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