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Workshop in the History of Books and Printing at Texas A&M University



Texas A&M will host a five day workshop in the history of books and printing this May. Pasted below is a brief announcement with a link to the URL. Please share and link as you like. Thanks. 

Book History at A&M: 
A Workshop in the History of Books and Printing 
May 19-24, 2002 
Cushing Memorial Library and Archives 
Texas A&M University 

This five day workshop provides an intensive introduction to and survey of the history of books and printing. It is intended for librarians, archivists, students, teachers, collectors, private individuals and others who work in areas related to or who have an interest in the subject. The course consists of a unique combination of labs and seminars designed to provide students with practical experience as well as a broad historical survey of the field. The morning sessions involve hands-on exercises in and demonstrations of printing techniques and processes of the hand press period. Students will have the opportunity to see type cast in a hand mould. They will also set type, impose formes, and print on a replica common press. The afternoon sessions provide a chronological survey of book and printing history, beginning briefly with pre-codex structures, concentrating on developments in the hand press era, and concluding with the industrial developments of the 19th century. Evening seminars and lectures will be led by scholars working in various aspects of print culture and are intended to provide participants with examples of current scholarship in book history and bibliography. 

Workshop staff and lecturers include: 

Douglas Brooks (Ph.D., Columbia),16th/17th century, early modern publishing industry, Shakespeare, Early English Bible.
 
Maura Ives (Ph.D., Virginia), associate director of the workshop,19th century, descriptive bibliography, George Meredith, Christina Rossetti. 

Craig Kallendorf (Ph.D., UNC Chapel Hill), 15th/16th century, Virgil, Rhetoric. 

Hilaire Kallendorf (Ph.D., Princeton), 15th/16th century, Spanish book, women readers. 

Stephen Pratt (M.A., BYU), printer/craftsman in residence, Pratt Press Works. 

Steven Escar Smith (Ph.D., Texas A&M), workshop director and organizer, bibliography, history of books and printing. 

Space is limited. Enrollment applications and more information on the workshop are available at: http://library.tamu.edu/cushing/bookhistory 

 

Dr. Charles R. Schultz, CA, SAA Fellow
Clements Professor and Clements Archivist
Cushing Library
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX  77843-5000
c-schultz@tamu.edu
979-862-1555
FAX 979-845-1441

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