Photos from the BSANZ Conference, 2007

Here are a five photos taken at the BSANZ Conference in Hobart last week; each is linked to a larger version of the same photo. The first one is taken in the Royal Society rooms, the following three in the tea-room; and the last one in the luncheon area outside the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.

Melbourne Bibliographical Circle Meeting

Many people will be aware of the fact that, despite other distractions during APEC, the Canadian Prime Minister presented to the Australian Government what appears to be the earliest surviving piece of printing done -- in 1796 -- by George Hughes in Sydney.

A few people in Melbourne have been doing research in recent years on the press in Australia before 1820. Some of them, including Dennis Bryans and Wallace Kirsop, will report informally on their work at the last session of the Melbourne Bibliographical Circle for 2007.

Date: Thursday 22 November 2007
Time: 5.30 p.m.
Place: Rare Book working area of the State Library of Victoria.

Anyone interested is welcome to attend.

Update for November 2007

S&P 30.4 Issued

Script & Print 30.4 went to the printers before the BSANZ Conference in Hobart last week and will be posted my the middle of next week. The contents are unchanged from what was previewed in the Update for September 2007

Article 1: John N. Crossley, "One Man’s Library, Manila, ca. 1611—a first look"

Article 2: Wallace Kirsop, "Museums, Lyceums, Athenaeums and Mechanics' Institutes"

Article 3: Patrick Buckridge, "Bookishness and Australian Literature"

Bibliographical Note: B. J. McMullin, "Silk for Posting: Sir Francis Burdett’s Address to The Constituents of The City of Westminster, 6 October 1812"

Obituary: 'Harold Love' (by Wallace Kirsop)

Reviews: "Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies, and Bibliomania" (reviewed by Simone Murray); Studies in Bibliography 55 (reviewed by B. J. McMullin); "Gender, Society and Print Culture in Late-Stuart England: The Cultural World of the Athenian Mercury" and "The London Journal, 1845–1883: Periodicals, Production and Gender" (reviewed by Roger Osborne).

Progress on S&P 31.1

The contents has not been finalised, but the next issue will contain the following material:

Article 1: Elaine Hoag, "The Earliest Extant Australian Imprint With Distinguish Provenance: Playbill Discovered at Library and Archives Canada"

Article 2: Nathan Garvey, "Selling a Penal Colony: The Booksellers and Botany Bay"

Article 3: Robert Jordan, "The Barrington Prologue"

Article 4: Paul Eggert, "Textual Criticism and Folklore: The Ned Kelly Story and Robbery Under Arms"

Bibliographical Note: Wallace Kirsop, "Printing by Howe and Hughes"

Future Issues

Looking further forward, S&P 31.2 will contain, among other things, an article by Dirk H. R. Spennemann & Jon O’Neill on the deBrum Library on Likiep; an article by Rebecca-Anne Do Rozario on Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief (2005); and a bibliographical note by Brian McMullin on an unrecorded title-page border from 1556.

The Harold Love memorial issue will be S&P 32.1–2. This double issue will be co-edited by Wallace Kirsop and Brian McMullin. Again, further details will appear shortly.

Anyone wishing to contact the the editor with suggestions, submissions etc, for future issues should do so via the following email address: