Nineteenth Century Dust Jackets

Mark R. Godburn is writing a book which will be of great interest to BSANZ members: Nineteenth Century Dust Jackets: An Illustrated History. Those of you who, like me, have read the first part of G. Thomas Tanselle's "Dust-Jackets, Dealers, and Documentation" in the latest volume of Studies in Bibliography, will be particularly pleased to hear that Mark is planning "at least 200 pictures" for his book (although, he has warned that the publisher "may cut down the number").

BSANZ members will also be interested to hear that Mark contacted me because he was trying to obtain a copy of Brian McMullin's article "Precursors of the Dust Wrapper" in the BSANZ Bulletin, 24 (2000), 257-66, which discusses the "Baring horde" (the small collection of copies of two mid-nineteenth-century books, which were bought at auction—and dispersed—by Peter Baring). Copies are held at the State Library of Victoria and Monash University, and one of the Baring horde was displayed at the 1998 Australian Antiquarian Book Fair, where some members will have seen it.

Anyone interested in this subject should check out Mark's site (here). I strongly encourage anyone who has any nineteenth-century wrappers to get in contact with Mark (bookmarkstore@att.net).

Below are some photos I took that previously appeared on Mark's site. NB: I included the bookmark that was in the volume when I purchased it. The list of titles on the bookmark matches that on the wrapper: suggesting the bookmark was picked up at the time of purchase, placed in the volume, and never moved.

Notebooks and Note-Takers Symposium

“Notebooks and Note-takers: da Vinci to Darwin” Symposium, 17–19 July 2008

The State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Opening Public Lecture, Thursday 17 July, 6pm: Professor Ann Blair (Harvard University).

Sponsored by the Australian Research Council and the Network for Early European Research (NEER),
with generous support from the State Library of Queensland, and hosted by the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith University.

Conference website: www.neer.arts.uwa.edu.au/theme_symposium_2008.

Convenors: Professor Michael Bennett (Tasmania) and Professor Richard Yeo (Griffith).

For registration: Jill Jones +61 7 3735 7338 or j.jones@griffith.edu.au

Confirmed speakers

Peter Anstey (Otago)
‘Remembering and dismembering: John Locke as Note-taker’

Michael Bennett (Tasmania)
‘Case-books and data-sharing: Edward Jenner and vaccination networks in the early nineteenth-century’

Ann Blair (Harvard)
‘The New Status of Note-taking in early modern Europe’

Yasmin Haskell (UWA, Perth)
‘Notes in Prose versus Notes in Verse: a Dutch doctor’s observations of eighteenth-century Italy’

Paul Nelles (Carleton University, Ottowa)
‘Information and Anthropology: Observation and Notation in the Early Jesuit Missions’

Margaret Sankey (Sydney)
‘Writing the Voyage of Scientific Exploration: the notes and journals of the Baudin expedition (1800—1804)’

Jacob Soll (Rutgers)
‘Erudite Notebooks and Absolute Power: The Mechanics of J. B. Colbert’s State Information System’

Lyn Tribble (Otago)
Concluding Commentary

Richard Yeo (Griffith University)
‘Remembering and Thinking with Notes in early Modern England’