Books at Virginia: Rare Book School 1998

University of Virginia in Charlottesville, 13 July - 7 August 1998

Rare Book School is pleased to announce its schedule of courses for the summer of 1998, 26 five-day non-credit courses of bookish interest to be offered on the grounds of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, 13 July - 7 August. Tuition per course for RBS 1998 Summer Session is $595. Applications may be requested via the contact information at the end of this announcement. The complete brochure and Expanded Course Descriptions are available at our Web site:

http://poe.acc.virginia.edu/~oldbooks

Readers of EMLS may find the courses listed below to be of particular
interest:

42 THE USE OF PHYSICAL EVIDENCE IN EARLY PRINTED BOOKS. The use of a wide variety of evidence--paper, type, rubrication and illumination, bindings, ownership marks, and annotations--to shed light both on questions of analytical bibliography and wider questions of book distribution, provenance, and use. There will be a fairly detailed discussion and analysis of both good and bad features in existing reference works on early
printing. The seminar assumes a basic knowledge of descriptive bibliography and some familiarity with Latin. Instructor: Paul Needham.

PAUL NEEDHAM became Curator of the Scheide Collection at the Princeton University Library earlier this year, before which he worked at Sotheby's and the Pierpont Morgan Library. He has given RBS Master Classes on early printed books at the Morgan and at the Huntington.


44 INTRODUCTION TO DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY. An introduction to the physical examination and description of printed books, especially of the period 1550-1875. Designed both for those with little previous formal exposure to this subject and for those with some general knowledge of the field who wish to be presented with a systematic discussion of the elements of physical description. A major part of the course will consist of small, closely supervised laboratory sessions in which students will gain practice in determining format and collation and in writing standard descriptions of signings and pagination. In daily museum sessions, students will have the opportunity to see a wide variety of printed books drawn from the extensive Book Arts Press laboratory collections. Instructors: Terry Belanger and Richard Noble.

TERRY BELANGER founded RBS in 1983 at Columbia University. Since 1992, he has been University Professor and Honorary Curator of Special Collections at the University of Virginia. Last year the Book Arts Press, which he founded in 1972, celebrated its 25th anniversary. For further information, see http://poe.acc.virginia.edu/~oldbooks/tbsvita.html.

RICHARD NOBLE is Rare Books Cataloguer at the John Hay Library, Brown University. He is co-author (with Joan Crane) of _Guy Davenport: A Descriptive Bibliography 1947-1995_ .


Book Arts Press ph: 804/924-8851
114 Alderman Library fax: 804/924-8824
University of Virginia email: biblio@virginia.edu
Charlottesville, VA 22903

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