Robert L. Dawson

Bob Dawson passed away in Paris on 3 June 2007.

Bob taught for over 30 years in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Senior Curator at the Harry Ranson Center.

Some of you will recall that Bob was the author of 'Notes on Press-figures in France and the Localization of Books during the later 18th Century', which appeared in BSANZ Bulletin 28.3 (2004), 97-121. What you will not know is Brian McMullin has written an article discussing Bob's contribution to our journal. I sent this article to Bob, who was due to complete his riposte last week.

Rudy de Mattos described Bob thus: "Bob was a great scholar who was a never-ending source of knowledge. His scholarship on the history of book and the permission simple, is crucial to our field. A lover of eighteenth-century books, he had  a collection of over 17000 rare books that is now at Texas A&M. He loved Mme Riccoboni, hence his nickname on [the 18C-List], and many of the French Women authors, such as Olympe de Gouges".

Paradise volume shipped

Paradise: New Worlds of Books and Readers, the inaugural volume of Script & Print, volume 29 (numbers 1–4), was completed and shipped to Australia at the beginning of June for distribution to members.

This volume contains contributions from Alberto Manguel, Rimi Chatterjee, Paul Eggert, Robert Fraser, Michele Grossman, Edward Mack, Peter Marks, Alistair McCleery, Ian Morrison, Roger Osborne, Elizabeth Webby and scholars from the SHARP Regional Conference, Wellington, 2005.

The Paradise volume (ISBN 978 0 9757500 2 3) is 372 pages, and contains twelve colour plates.

ISSN: 1834-9013

The above International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) was allocated to Script & Print: Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand on 4 June 07. From now-on this number will appear on all issues of S&P etc.