Harold Love Memorial Issue

Script & Print, vol 33 (2009) will comprise seventeen articles and an extensive bibliography. All seventeen articles are now in hand, and ten of these have passed the stage of sending final proofs to the authors. (The articles are listed below.)

The editors have not yet decided on a title for this quadruple issue, but we are confident of sending it to press on Thursday 5 November. In fact, Meredith Sherlock has cancelled her holidays to make sure that we will can go to press by this date and be able to distribute copies before xmas.

Of course, given the many unforeseen delays with Script & Print 32:4 there are—obviously—no guarantees, but we will do our best, both for members, and for Shef, who should be able to take over as editor on 1 January 2010 completely up to date. (BTW: Script & Print 32:4 has been printed and delivered to us, and will be distributed as soon in the next week).

Contents of S&P 33 (2009)

1. “Harold Love: A Bibliography” by Meredith Sherlock & Brian McMullin

2. “Harold Love: A Personal Memoir” by Lurline Stuart

3. “Advice for Scholarly Editors of Australian Literature: ‘Just Push On’” by Paul Eggert

4. “Queene Mab whats she?” by B. J. McMullin

5. “The English Pamphlet Trade in 1642” by John Emmerson

6. “Mending What Fletcher Wrote: Rochester’s Reworking of Fletcher’s Valentinian” by Nicholas Fisher

7. “Mulgrave, Dryden, and an Essay upon Satire” by John Burrows

8. “Robert Hooke’s Archive” by Felicity Henderson

9. “Players and Scrapers”: Dean Swift Goes Shopping, for Music” by Clive Probyn

10. “Theatre Account Books in Eighteenth-Century London” by Judith Milhous & Robert D. Hume

11. “Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Manuscript Publication and the Vanity of Popular Applause” by Patrick Spedding

12. “Editing Lectures as Performance or Publication: Thackeray’s The Four Georges”by Peter Shillingsburg

13. “Harlequin in Van Diemen’s Land” by Elizabeth Webby

14. “Australia’s Worst Actor? The Life, Art and Business Practices of Mr. Henry Kemble of Drury Lane, Monopolylogist” by Robert Jordan

15. “Adelaide Ristori’s Friends and Admirers in Sydney in 1875: The Story of an Illuminated Address” by Wallace Kirsop

16. “An Essay on Horne” by Wallace Kirsop

17. “William Kirby’s The Chien D’Or / The Golden Dog / A Legend Of Quebec: Translation and Transformation” by Mary Jane Edwards

Contents of Script & Print, vol. 32 (2008)

Here is a complete contents-list for Script & Print, vol. 32 (2008 [issued 2008–9])

Articles and Bibliographical Notes:
• J. McL. Emmerson, “Pamphlets and Pamphleteering: A Review Essay” [S&P 32:4: 240–45]
• Nathan Garvey, “A Dynasty on the Margins of the Trade: The Bailey Family of Printers, ca. 1740–1840, Part 1” [S&P 32:3: 144–62]
• Mark R. Godburn, “The Earliest Dust Jackets—Lost and Found” [S&P 32:4: 233–39]
• Christopher de Hamel, “The Bohun Bible Leaves.” [S&P 32:1: 49–63]
• T. H. Howard-Hill, “W. J. Cameron and the Universal Catalogue of British Literature” [S&P 32:4: 197–211]
• B. J. McMullin, “Patterned Book Cloth: A Review Essay” [S&P 32:3: 163–75]
• B. J. McMullin, “PBSA Turns One Hundred” [S&P 32:4: 219–32]
• Margaret Manion, “Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Australia: Resources, Research and Opportunities.” [S&P 32:1: 7–20]
• Keith Maslen, “Our Part to Name: The Early Book Trade of Dunedin, New Zealand” [S&P 32:3: 133–43]
• Ian Morrison, “The Writings of Theresa Tasmania: Notes on an Investigation into a Nineteenth-Century Literary Pseudonym” [S&P 32:2: 95–105]
• Bernard J. Muir, “Interrogating a Witness: the Case for MS Crouch 10.” [S&P 32:1: 36–48]
• Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario, “Fforde’s Book Upgrades: Downloaded Errata and Metafictional Cancellation” [S&P 32:4: 212–18]
• Alison Rukavina, “‘This is a Wonderfully Comprehensive Business’: The Development of the British-Australian and International Book Trades, 1870–1887” [S&P 32:2: 69–94]
• Lawrence Warner, “The University of Sydney Statuta Angliae (RB Add. MS 39) and the 45,011 Parish Churches: England’s Most Popular Urban Myth, ca. 1327–1606.” [S&P 32:1: 21–35]

Reviews:
• A Companion to the History of the Book (Roger Osborne) [S&P 32:2: 109–11]
• Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature (Paul Tankard) [S&P 32:3: 184–86]
• Books on the Move: Tracking Copies through Collections and the Book Trade (Patrick Spedding) [S&P 32:2: 112–15]
• The Commonwealth of Books: Essays and Studies in Honour of Ian Willison (James Raven) [S&P 32:2: 106–9]
• Fairs, Markets and the Itinerant Book Trade (Patrick Spedding) [S&P 32:3: 179–81]
• The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (Roger Osborne) [S&P 32:2: 120–22]
• From Australia with Love: A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels (Ian Morrison) [S&P 32:2: 122–24]
• Hitler’s Private Library (Patrick Spedding) [S&P 32:4: 251–53]
• Judging a Book By Its Cover (Rebecca-Anne Do Rozario) [S&P 32:3: 181–84]
• Marketing the Bard: Shakespeare in Performance and Print, 1660–1740 (Edmund G. C. King) [S&P 32:2: 115–18]
• The New Bibliopolis: French Book Collectors and the Culture of Print, 1880–1914 (Angus Martin) [S&P 32:4: 246–47]
• Print Culture and the Medieval Author (Lawrence Warner) [S&P 32:3: 176–79]

Update for September 2009

Below you will find details of my final issue as editor, which went to press today after an improbable series of delays (technical, medical, administrative… One of the delays was waiting, and waiting, for a couple of photos of a dust wrapper belonging to Friendship’s Offering for 1830 held at the Bodleian Library. When you see the images you will, I hope, think it was worth the wait: an extra month!)

Since my last update a great deal has happened. There has been a very successful conference in Brisbane, at which there were a few changes to the office-bearers of the BSANZ. The updated list of officers are:

President: John Arnold, National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University, Caulfield 3145.

Immediate Past President: Shef Rogers, Department of English, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054.

Vice-President: Donald Kerr, Special Collections Librarian, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054.

Secretary: Chris Tiffin, English, Media Studies and Art History, University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072.

Treasurer: Pam Pryde, Curator, Special Collections, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, VIC 3010.

Editor: Patrick Spedding, Department of English, ECPS, Monash University, VIC 3800.

There have also been significant changes to the structure and mission of the Centre for the Book (CftB) at Monash. The CftB has supported the publication of S&P these last three years, has co-sponsored the Rare Book School, the Melbourne Bibliographical Circle seminars and a wide range of other events and activities. As a result of the restructuring, the CftB has a new Director (Simone Murray) and new affiliated Staff (such as Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario). Simone and Rebecca are both members of the BSANZ (they both presented papers at the Brisbane conference) and will be familiar to some members.

Although the changes to the CftB resulted in a hiatus in activity, especially of the Melbourne Bibliographical Circle events, this will only be temporary. It is expected that the restructured centre will soon be active in organising an even wider range of events. Stay tuned for more.

Contents of S&P 32:4

Article 1: T. H. Howard-Hill, "W. J. Cameron and the Universal Catalogue of British Literature"

Article 2: Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario, "Fforde’s Book Upgrades: Downloaded Errata and Metafictional Cancellation"

Article 3: B. J. McMullin, "PBSA Turns One Hundred"

Article 4: Mark R. Godburn, "The Earliest Dust Jackets—Lost and Found"

Review Essay: J. McL. Emmerson, "Pamphlets and Pamphleteering: A Review Essay"

Reviews: The New Bibliopolis: French Book Collectors and the Culture of Print, 1880–1914 (Reviewed by Angus Martin); The Professional Literary Agent in Britain, 1880–1920 (Reviewed by Alan Dilnot); Hitler’s Private Library (Reviewed by Patrick Spedding).