The Oxford Bibliographical Society's publications are now available from Blackwell's Rare Books in Oxford.
Blackwell's will fulfil orders for new publications, and for those from the back-list, to members (at the special members' prices), non-members, institutions and the book-trade. To order Monographs and titles from the Occasional Publications series please contact:
Blackwell's Rare Books 48-51 Broad Street Oxford OX1 3BQ
The Oxford Bibliographical Society is pleased to announce the publication of the first in its Special Series of Manuscript Catalogues. The volume is Peter Kidd’s much-anticipated Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of The Queen’s College, Oxford. The volume retails at £90, but is free to members, existing and new (annual subscription £30).
Under a new concordat between the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles and the Oxford Bibliographical Society, members of one society are invited to attend the meetings of the other. The meetings of the Bibliophiles will be listed on the OBS website, along with our own, from the beginning of this coming term (Michaelmas 2016).
The author has brought her forty years of letterpress printing experience to the examination of the printing practices of Zainer during his first five years of operation in Ulm. The 1470s were a vital period in the development of printing – new practitioners were taking up the trade and, as they did so, adapting existing methods and developing new ones. The two-pull press was introduced during this decade in most European centres.
It is now nearly twenty years since the Society published The Library of Thomas Cranmer [LTC] and during the intervening period a number of ‘new’ Cranmer items have been reported.
Applications are now open for the 37th Conference on Book Trade History, Words on Paper: Transmission in Manuscript and Print, from the Fifteenth Century, to be held in London’s Stationers’ Hall on 29/30th November 2015. Conference delegates will also have the rare opportunity for a guided tour of the world-famous College of Arms.
An application form and full details can be viewed here:
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