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Week One |
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Introduction to Medieval and Early Renaissance Bookbinding
Structures. An explanation of the diversities of European bookbinding
structures, up to and including the early period of more generalized
practice and division of labor. Topics: identification (where
possible) of the main types of binding structures; their dating and
provenance; the recognition and recording of materials and
techniques. Instructor:
Christopher Clarkson.
See the Expanded Course
Description.
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The Printed Book in The West to 1800. One of a sequence of three new
RBS courses (see no. 41). This course deals with the introduction and
spread of printing in Europe; the development of book design and
illustration; the rise of the publishing industry; freedom and the
regulation of the press; the increase in literacy and its social
consequences; the traffic in printed matter and the growth of personal
and institutional collections; the impact of the Industrial
Revolution. Intended for those who have a limited background--but a
considerable interest--in the history of the book, and who expect,
sooner or later, to take the other two courses in this RBS
sequence. Instructor:
Martin Antonetti.
See the Expanded Course
Description.
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Lithography: The Popularization of Printing in the C19. Aimed at
those concerned with books, prints, and ephemera, especially of the
first two-thirds of the C19. Topics: Senefelder and the discovery of
lithography; lithographic stones and presses; the work of the
lithographic draftsman, letterer, and printer; early lithographed
books and other printing; the development of particular genres,
including music printing; chromolithography. Instructor:
Michael
Twyman.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Publishers' Bookbindings, 1830-1910. The study of publishers'
bindings, chiefly in the US, but with occasional reference to English
and Continental developments. Topics: the rise of the edition binder;
design styles and how they developed; new techniques, machines, and
materials introduced in the C19; the identification of rarities; the
physical description of bindings; the preservation of publishers'
bindings. The course will make extensive use of the Book Arts Press's
collection of C19 and early C20 binding exemplars. Instructor:
Sue
Allen.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Printing Design and Publication. In today's cultural institutions,
the texts for announcements, newsletters--even full-dress
catalogs--are composed on microcomputers, often by staff members with
scant graphic design background. By precept and critical examination
of work, the course pinpoints how available software can generate
appropriate design from laser-printed posters and leaflets through
complex projects with commercial printers. Prime concerns are
suitability, client expectations and institutional
authority. Instructor:
Greer Allen.
See the Expanded Course
Description.
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Rare Book Cataloging. Aimed at catalog librarians who find that
their present duties include (or shortly will include) the cataloging
of rare books and/or special collections materials. Attention will be
given both to cataloging books from the hand-press period and to C19
and C20 books in a special collections context. Topics include:
comparison of rare book and general cataloging; application of codes
and standards (especially DCRB); uses of special files; problems in
transcription, collation and physical description; setting cataloging
policy within an institutional context. Instructor:
Deborah
J. Leslie.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Implementing Encoded Archival Description (Session I). Encoded
Archival Description (EAD) provides standardized machine-readable
access to primary resource materials. This course is aimed at
archivists, librarians, and museum personnel who would like an
introduction to EAD that includes an extensive supervised hands-on
component. Students will learn SGML encoding techniques in part using
examples selected from among their own institution's finding
aids. Topics: the context out of which EAD emerged; introduction to
the use of SGML authoring tools and browsers; the conversion of
existing finding aids to EAD. Offered again in Week 3. Instructor:
Daniel Pitti.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Week Two |
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Introduction to Codicology. The principles, bibliography, and
methodology of the analysis and description of Western medieval and
Renaissance manuscripts. The course includes a survey of the
development of the physical features of manuscript books and practical
work by the students on particular points. This is a course for
non-specialists, but applicants must have considerable background in
the historical humanities; in admitting students to the class, the
instructor will prefer those with at least an introductory knowledge
of Latin and some previous exposure to paleography. Instructor:
Albert
Derolez.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Type, Lettering, and Calligraphy, 1450-1830. The development of the
major formal and informal book hands, the dominant printing types of
each period, and their interrelationship. Topics include: the Gothic
hands; humanistic script; the Renaissance inscriptional capital;
Garamond and the spread of the Aldine Roman; calligraphy from the
chancery italic to the English round hand; the neo-classical book and
its typography; and early commercial typography. The course
presupposes a general knowledge of Western history and some awareness
of the continuity of the Latin script but no special knowledge of
typographical history. Instructor: James Mosley.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Book Illustration to 1890. The identification of illustration
processes and techniques, including woodcut, etching, engraving,
stipple, aquatint, mezzotint, lithography, wood engraving, steel
engraving, process line and halftone relief, collotype, photogravure,
and color printing. The course will be taught almost entirely from the
extensive Book Arts Press files of examples of illustration
processes. As part of the course, students will make their own
etchings, dry-points, and relief cuts in supervised laboratory
sessions. Instructor: Terry Belanger.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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The American Book in the Industrial Era, 1820-1940. Manufacturing
methods, distribution networks, and publishing patterns introduced in
the US during the industrial era. There will be hands-on sessions in
which students examine and describe books produced during the period,
providing an introduction to analytical and bibliographical
practice. Students will also have the opportunity to discuss their own
research projects with the instructor. Instructor: Michael
Winship. See the Expanded Course Description.
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Introduction to Rare Book Librarianship. Overview of the theory and
practice of rare book librarianship. Topics include: the function of
rare books in libraries; the interpretation of rare book collections
to their publics; patterns of use; special collections reference
materials; security; environmental desiderata; exhibitions and
publications; and friends' groups. Instructor: Daniel
Traister. See the Expanded Course Description.
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How to Research a Rare Book. A survey of major reference sources
covering rare and early printed books, and the strategies for working
with them. Aimed at reference librarians and others who need to find
citations and interpret particulars, whether for work in acquisitions,
cataloging or description, captions in an exhibition, or informed work
with readers. Instructor: D. W. Krummel.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Electronic Texts and Images (Session I). A practical exploration of
the research, preservation, editing, and pedagogical uses of
electronic texts and images in the humanities. The course will center
around the creation of a set of archival-quality etexts and digital
images, for which we shall also create an Encoded Archival Description
guide. Topics include: SGML tagging and conversion; using the Text
Encoding Initiative Guidelines; the form and implications of XML;
publishing on the World Wide Web; and the management and use of
on-line texts. See | |
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Week Three |
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Introduction to Latin Paleography, 1100-1500. An introduction to
this neglected field, including reading, transcribing (and expanding
abbreviations), identification, classification, dating and
localization of the principal kinds of Gothic and humanistic book
script. Examples of Latin texts (and, exceptionally, French and
English ones) will be studied from photocopies, slides, and manuscript
fragments. The course is designed for all those who have to deal with
late medieval MSS. Applicants should have a good basic knowledge of
Latin and at least some previous formal exposure to
paleography. Instructor: Albert Derolez.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Japanese Printmaking, 1615-1868. A survey of Ukiyo-e, the art of the
Japanese woodblock print. Ukiyo-e literally means floating world art,
and it is through an exploration of the Floating World that produced
this art that we come to understand it. The course considers how the
Floating World developed in the C17 out of the earlier court culture,
how it created an interest in the courtesans, actors, and famous
places of Japan that became the chief subject matter of C17-C19
printmakers, and how it declined and changed in the late C19. The
course will take advantage of the extensive collection of Japanese
prints owned by UVa's Bayly Museum. Instructor:
Sandy Kita.
See the
Expanded Course Description.
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Managing The Past. This course is intended for librarians and others
for whom the custody and deployment of books printed or written before
1850 is part of the day's work. How to make the most of what you've
got, what to buy, how to buy, whether to sell (and if so, how and
when) is on the agenda; but the core of the course will be the
analysis of copy-specific data: what makes this copy in (or about to
be in) my library different from and more important than anyone
else's? Instructor: Nicolas Barker.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Advanced Descriptive Bibliography. A continuation and extension
of RBS course no.45, Introduction to Descriptive Bibliography, this
course will be based on the intensive examination of a
representative range of books from the 1550-1875 period. The goal
of the course is to deepen students' familiarity with the physical
composition of books; to gain further experience in the use of
Bowers' Principles of Bibliographical Description; and to
consider critically some of the uses of Bowers' method (and its
limitations) in the production of catalogs, bibliographies, critical
editions, and histories of books and reading. Instructor:
Richard
Noble.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Teaching The History of Books And Printing. Aimed at academics and
librarians who are currently teaching undergraduate or graduate
courses dealing with the history of books and printing, this course
will emphasize not history but pedagogy. It will compare a number of
different approaches, including (but not only) printing history as the
history of technology, history of art, intellectual history, business
history, descriptive and historical bibliography, the dissemination of
texts and their reception. The course will consider the varieties of
currently available print and (especially) non-print resources
available to instructors and students in the field. Instructors:
Michael T. Ryan and
Daniel Traister.
See the Expanded Course
Description.
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Book Collecting. This course is aimed at persons who spend a fairly
substantial amount of time, energy, and money on collecting, but who
feel rather isolated from the national (and international) antiquarian
book communities. Topics include: the rationale of book collecting;
developing relations with dealers; buying at auction and via the
Internet; evaluating prices; bibliophile and friends' groups;
preservation, conservation, and insurance options; tax and other
financial implications; what finally to do with your books; and the
literature of book collecting. Instructors:
William P. Barlow, Jr and
Terry Belanger.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Implementing Encoded Archival Description (Session II). This popular
course will be offered twice in RBS 1999. The two sessions will have
identical content. For a description of the course, see
no. 17. Instructor:
Daniel Pitti.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Week Four
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The Codex Book in The West, 500-2000 AD. A new beginning-level
course, intended for non-specialists who have had no previous formal
exposure to the history of the book and want a broad, kaleidoscopic
survey of the entire spectrum of Western book history from the
introduction of the codex form in later antiquity to current
developments in private press bookmaking. The course is particularly
intended for those who are not yet ready to contemplate working their
way through RBS's new sequence of history-of-the-book courses: The
Manuscript Book (to be offered for the first time in 2000), The
Printed Book to 1800 (see no. 12), and The Printed Book since 1800 (to
be offered for the first time in 2000). Instructors:
Eric Holzenberg and
Suzy Taraba.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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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.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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European Bookbinding, 1500-1800. How bookbinding in the
post-medieval period developed to meet the demands placed on it by the
growth of printing; techniques and materials employed to meet these
demands; the development of temporary bindings (for example, pamphlets
and publishers' bindings); the emergence of structures usually
associated with volume production in the C19; the dating of
undecorated bindings; the identification of national and local binding
styles. Instructor:
Nicholas Pickwoad.
See the Expanded Course
Description.
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Publishing History, 1775-1850. An exploration of the changes that
occurred in the publishing and related industries during the late C18
and earlier C19, especially in Great Britain, but with occasional
reference to the United States and elsewhere. Topics include: the
transformation of organizational structures (from bookseller to
publisher, the decline of the Stationers' Company, the rise of
unionism); new technologies (machine-made paper, the power press,
edition binding in cloth); the rise of a mass market. Instructor:
Michael Turner.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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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.
See the Expanded Course Description.
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Introduction to Electronic Texts And Images (Session II). This
popular course will be offered twice in RBS 1999. The two sessions
will have identical content. For a description of the course, see
no. 27. Instructor:
David Seaman.
See the Expanded Course
Description.
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