Friday, 20 May 2011

ERA and Journal Ranking: A Modest Proposal

Check out this very amusing response to journal ranking madness: increase your journal's ranking by rejecting everything!

Thursday, 19 May 2011

Update for May 2011

Script & Print 35.2 (2011 is now with the printer. It should be delivered to Shef by the end of this week and will be distributed by him shortly afterward.

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Contents of S&P 35.2

Article 1: Jason D. Ensor, “Angus & Robertson and the Case of the ‘Bombshell Salesman’”

Article 2: Mark J. Ferson, “Harrie P. Mortlock and the Beacon Press, Sydney”

Article 3: B. J. McMullin, “Forty Years On: The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand and its Journal”

Article 4: Carlo Dumontet, “Bibliographical Note: An Unrecorded Position of Watermarks in Early Nineteenth-Century English Paper”

Bibliographical Note: B. J. McMullin, “Printing on Silk in Malta”

Reviews: Studies in Bibliography, vol. 58 (reviewed by Keith Maslen); Music Entries at Stationers’ Hall, 1710–1818 (reviewed by Shef Rogers); The Infinity of Lists: From Homer to Joyce (reviewed by Paul Tankard)

Monday, 11 April 2011

Contents of Script & Print, vol. 34 (2010)


Here is a complete contents-list for Script & Print, vol. 34 (2010)

Articles and Bibliographical Notes:
•Keith Adkins, “Convict Probation Station Libraries in Colonial Tasmania” [S&P 34:2: 69–86]
• Keith Adkins, “The Ferrar Diaries: William Moore Ferrar and his Books” [S&P 34:3: 197–215]
• Jim Cleary and Catriona Mills, “‘Ariel’ and Australian Nineteenth-Century Serial Fiction: A Case of Mistaken Attribution” [S&P 34:3: 162–74]
• Carlo Dumontet, “An Eighteenth-Century Italian Indulgence Printed on Mezzo-Median Paper by Giovanni Radix of Turin, with a Checklist of his Printing” [S&P 34:2: 93–118]
• Jason D. Ensor, “A policy of splendid isolation”: Angus and Robertson, George G. Harrap and the politics of co-operation in the Australian book trade during the late 1930s [S&P 34:1: 34–42]
• Edmund G. C. King, “Alexander Turnbull’s ‘Dream Imperial’: Collecting Shakespeare in the Colonial Antipodes” [S&P 34:2: 87–92]
• Helen Hewson, “Richard Bentley: Publishing Godfrey Mundy’s Our Antipodes” [S&P 34:3: 175–86]
• Wallace Kirsop, “An avowal of stop-press correction in 1817” [S&P 34:1: 8]
• David Levy, “Pirates, Autographs, and a Bankruptcy: A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist by Edmond Hoyle, Gentleman” [S&P 34:3: 136–161]
• Ruth Lightbourne, “I wish you to send it to Zaehnsdorf in London for binding”: Alexander Turnbull and his bookbindings [S&P 34:1: 9–33]
• Kevin Molloy, “‘Cheap Reading for the People’: Jeremiah Moore and the development of the New South Wales Book Trade, 1840–1883” [S&P 34:3: 216–39]
• Roger Osborne, “‘Temper democratic; bias offensively Australian’—Published in Chicago: The American Edition of Such is Life” [S&P 34:3: 240–49]

Obituaries
• Jeanne Veyrin-Forrer, 1919–2010 (by Wallace Kirsop) [S&P 34:3: 187–90]

Reviews:
The British Book Trade: An Oral History (Brian McMullin) [S&P 34:3: 254–56]
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume VI: 1830–1914 (Nathan Garvey) [S&P 34:1: 43–49]
The Celebrated George Barrington: A Spurious Author, the Book Trade and Botany Bay (Des Cowley) [S&P 34:1: 53–55]
The Decline and Fall of BBB: A Valedictory Volume. Bibliographie der Buch- und Bibliotheksgeschichte (Wallace Kirsop) [S&P 34:3: 252–54]
The Design and Printing of Ephemera in Britain and America, 1720–1920 (Patrick Spedding) [S&P 34:2: 119–121]
Freedom to Read: A Centennial History of Dunedin Public Library (Ian Morrison) [S&P 34:2: 123–125]
Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children’s Literature (Rebecca-Anne Do Rozario) [S&P 34:1: 56–57]
A Nation of Readers. The Lending Library in Georgian England (Patrick Spedding) [S&P 34:1: 49–53]
Portuguese Writers and English Readers (John N. Crossley) [S&P 34:3: 250–52]
Publishing Drama in Early Modern Europe (Wallace Kirsop) [S&P 34:2: 121–123]

Update for April 2011

Script & Print 35.1 (2011)—an issue dedicated to Teresia Constantia Phillips’s Apology (1748–49)—is now with the printer. It should be delivered to Shef by the end of this week and will be distributed by him shortly afterward.

It appears that we are still only close to having our new website going live. Many members were first delighted, and then disappointed, when news of this website was prematurely reported in our last Broadsheet. So, I won't be reporting it here, or offering any links until it does go live!

An extended call for papers for the BSANZ 2011 Conference "Textual Manipulation" was circulated in March. The conference is at the Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, from 3 to 4 November 2011.

The conference website is here (see also here); enquiries and offers for papers can be sent to Cheryl Hoskin (cheryl.hoskin@adelaide.edu.au), who can also be contacted on 08 83035224.

Conference themes include:
• Textual transmission – translation / editing / anthologising / rewriting / parody / plagiarism
• Censored/censured texts
• Medium of the message - cultural, political, religious, economic, aesthetic, psychological impacts
• Reception studies / reader response / how printing, publishing and graphic design affect reading
• (Re)shaping the book - text as art / textual art / artist books / novelty texts

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Contents of S&P 35.1

Editorial: Shef Rogers, "A Brief Editorial"

Article 1: Caroline Breashears, “Justifying Myself to the World” : Para-textual Strategies in Teresia Constantia Phillips’s Apology

Article 2: Patrick Spedding, The Publication of Teresia Constantia Phillips’s Apology (1748–49)

Wednesday, 15 December 2010

Update for December 2010

Script & Print 34.4 (2010) is now with the printer. It should be delivered to Shef by the end of this week and will be distributed by him shortly afterward. This means that some of you will get your final issue for the year before xmas, some after, but everyone should get their issue in 2010. For this, all BSANZ members should be thankful. The first year as editor is emphatically the most difficult, and I think Shef has done an outstanding job, both in terms of content, and keeping the issues coming. I think we can look forward to another great year for S&P in 2011.


Contents of S&P 34:4

Article 1: Keith Adkins, "The Ferrar Diaries: William Moore Ferrar and his Books"

Article 2: Kevin Molloy, "'Cheap Reading for the People': Jeremiah Moore and the development of the New South Wales Book Trade, 1840–1883"

Article 3: Roger Osborne, "'Temper democratic; bias offensively Australian'—Published in Chicago: The American Edition of Such is Life"

Reviews: Portuguese Writers and English Readers (reviewed by John N. Crossley); The Decline and Fall of BBB: A Valedictory Volume. Bibliographie der Buch- und Bibliotheksgeschichte (reviewed by Wallace Kirsop); The British Book Trade: An Oral History (reviewed by Brian McMullin)