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Introduction to Medieval and Early Renaissance Bookbinding
Structures. This course is aimed at librarians, archivists, and art
historians specializing in early books and manuscripts, and others who
handle such material. The course will emphasize studies of the
physical book and binding craft techniques of the period. It will
proceed by means of lecture and discussion, and employ a considerable
number of slides, diagrams, and samples. The structurally diverse
products of the period will be explored by general descriptions and
the use of certain carefully chosen case studies. The instructor will
present for discussion his own methods concerning the interpretation
and recording of such binding structures. In the face of the extensive
losses now occurring in Europe to primary source material, problems of
preservation and record photography will be mentioned. There will be a
full-day field trip to a collection with medieval and Renaissance
manuscripts and bindings.
In their personal statement, applicants should indicate their
background, special interests and expectations from the course. The
course presupposes a general knowledge of European history, but not of
binding history. Please note that this course is not designed for
practicing bookbinders (as such).
Christopher Clarkson: 84-95 97
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The Printed Book in the West to 1800. This course will cover the
history of the Western printed book from the development of moveable
type in the mid-C15 to the end of the C18 in chronological and
thematic sessions via a combination of lectures, workshops, slides,
videotapes, and films. This course is intended for those who seek a
general overview of the technical and cultural aspects of the earlier
history of printed books, printing, and the allied arts and who would
like formal classroom exposure to the subject in a well-equipped
environment.
In their personal statement, applicants should describe the nature of
their developing interest in the history of the book and (if relevant)
explain briefly the causes of this interest and the purposes to which
they propose to put the knowledge gained from the course.
Martin
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Lithography: the Popularization of Printing in the C19. This course
aims to approach the subject from several different directions and to
bridge traditional boundaries between printing history, bibliography,
the history of printmaking, design history, and ephemera studies.
Sessions will focus on the first half of the C19. They will cover: the
invention of lithography; equipment and materials; some early
treatises on the process; pictorial prints; lithographed books, music,
and ephemera; the spread of the trade in Europe; and the relationship
of lithography to color printing generally. Also included will be
discussion of: the graphic characteristics of lithography; the
development of the process; pictures and letterforms; some leading
figures; and questions associated with identifying, describing, and
studying lithographed items.
Each topic will be introduced by an illustrated lecture or less formal
talk. In all sessions, however, the aim is to be as interactive as the
situation and size of class permits. There will be plenty of time for
discussion and, wherever possible, items from the University Library
will be made available to provide an opportunity for an element of
connoisseurship. It is hoped that a practical demonstration of
lithography will be arranged.
The course makes no specific requirements of participants, although
some understanding of how lithography works and of the history of
graphic images and printing processes is desirable. In their personal
statement, applicants should give an indication of their background
and interest in the field.
Michael Twyman: 93-
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Publishers' Bookbindings, 1830-1910. The purpose of this course is to
develop skills in recognizing and understanding the technical and
stylistic components of C19 American book covers. As the microforming
and digital imaging of brittle books proceeds in research libraries,
it becomes increasingly important to appreciate the book and its cover
as they were initially manufactured. Each day, significant bookcloths
and endpapers are discarded, because their role in book history is not
understood.
The course will provide laboratory sessions in distinguishing between
graining, stamping, and embossing on leather, paper, and cloth-covered
bindings. The differences between American and English covers will be
explored. The BAP collection of clothbound books, intensively built up
over the last several years and chronologically arranged, will be used
to illustrate the evolution of cover design and its relation to
Victorian decorative art and architecture. Special emphasis will be
given to identifying "signed" bindings, the periods in which they
occur, how to look for them, and the challenges presented by new
evidence in reconstructing manufacturing procedures.
Sue Allen: 84-85
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Printing Design and Publication. This course is directed toward
library and museum staff responsible for the appearance of printed
materials ranging from simple case labels to elaborately illustrated
catalogs.
The course will begin by examining expectations: what constitutes a
document of library or museum quality? what fails? The developing
doctrine of typographic organization and design calls forth an
evaluation of materials, tools, and processes. With the computer's
seemingly infinite choice of type faces and visual approaches, how can
an institution's materials appear assertive, but not commercial,
authoritative, yet not passi? How is the identity of a cultural
institution to be achieved? What software packages can be used to
produce good work on equipment commonly in place? A considerable part
of the course will consist of an evaluation of examples of museum and
library printing supplied by students, the instructor, and the BAP
collections.
In their personal statement, applicants should describe their present
design/production responsibilities, opportunities and aspirations -
and mention topics they would particularly like to see covered in the
course. Greer Allen: 94-
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Rare Book Cataloging. This course - restricted to working catalogers
experienced in AACR2r, MARC, and general cataloging principles and
practices - will provide training in the application of Descriptive
Cataloging of Rare Books (DCRB). Lectures, discussion, and exercises
will center around the following topics: DCRB and the differences
between rare book and general cataloging; basic concepts of edition,
issue, and state; the organization of the cataloging record, including
levels of detail and variety of access points; problems in
transcription, format and collation, and physical description; recent
developments in codes and standards; the uses and requirements of
special files; and setting rare book and/or special collections
cataloging policy within an institutional context. The goal of this
course is to provide an introduction to each of the primary elements
of the rare book catalog record, so that students will be equipped to
begin cataloging their institution's rare book and special collections
materials. Although some attention will be given to post-1800 books,
the primarily focus will be on books of the hand-press era.
In their personal statement, applicants should describe their
experience with machine-readable AACR2 cataloging and provide a brief
description of the types of materials they expect to catalog. They are
also encouraged to mention specific problems they have encountered (or
anticipate encountering) in their work, whether of a concrete nature
or concerning broader issues in cataloging policy. John Lancaster &
Earl Taylor: 83-84; ET: 85; Suzy Taraba & Stephen Young:
86-91; ST:
93-94; Eric Holzenberg: 95-97;
Deborah J. Leslie: 98-
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Implementing Encoded Archival Description. This course will provide a
practical introduction to the application of Encoded Archival
Description (EAD) to the encoding of archive and manuscript library
finding aids.
The course is aimed primarily at archivists who process and describe
collections in finding aids, though it will also be useful to
repository administrators contemplating the implementation of EAD
Version 1.0, and to technologists working in repositories. The course
will cover the following areas: the history of EAD and its theoretical
and technological foundations; an introduction to Standard Generalized
Markup Language (SGML) and Extensible Markup Language (XML) including
discussions of authoring and network publishing tools; a detailed
exploration of the structure of EAD; use of software tools to create
and publish finding aids; discussion of conversion techniques and
methodologies, and templates for creation of new finding aids; and
finally, the integration and management of EAD in an archive or
library.
The class will jointly encode and publish a finding aid that will
illustrate a wide variety of essential EAD and SGML concepts. Students
will also encode one of their own finding aids.
Applicants must have a basic knowledge of archival descriptive
practices as well as experience using word-processing software with a
graphical user interface. Some experience with the World Wide Web and
HTML will aid the learning process.
The course will be offered twice. In their personal statement,
applicants should indicate their relevant archival background, the
extent of their previous experience with computers in general, and
graphical user interfaces and EAD in particular, and describe their
role (present or future) in the implementation of EAD in their home
institution.
Daniel Pitti. 97, 98 (twice)
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Introduction to Codicology. Traditional research on manuscripts of the
Middle Ages and Renaissance is based principally on the study of
script and illumination. Without neglecting these important aspects,
this course will show that there are other - and sometimes more
conclusive - means to approach the codex and to uncover the
information it conveys. The course will deal with MS materials,
structure, layout, script and decoration, showing how to investigate
and describe these features.
It will consist of (1) general and diachronic sessions and (2) work
sessions. The first will cover the principles, bibliography, and
methodology of codicology, i.e. the broad analysis and description of
Western medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, as well as general
information on materials, structures, script and decoration. The
second will comprise a broad survey of the physical features of
manuscript books in late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages,
Carolingian and post-Carolingian times, the Late Middle Ages and the
Renaissance. In the work sessions, students will perform tasks based
eg on printed catalogs of manuscripts. The course will be based on a
discussion of slides; manuscripts, manuscript fragments, and
photocopies; and the specialized literature.
This is an introductory course addressed to non-specialists having
considerable background in the historical humanities. In their
personal statement, applicants should describe their education -
especially whether they have had some introduction to Latin and to
paleography (a recommendation, but not a requirement, for admittance)
- and their current professional status.
Albert Derolez. 97-
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Type, Lettering, and Calligraphy, 1450-1830. This course will attempt
to bring together coherently a number of points about the history of
letterforms during its period, to survey current scholarship in the
field, and to point directions for study. Its presupposition is that
applicants will have a considerable but general interest in the
history of the book, and that they may not have had much previous
formal exposure to typographic history. In their personal statement,
prospective students should describe their background in the field (if
any), and mention what aspects of letterforms (if any) are of
particular interest to them.
James Mosley: 84-86 88 90-
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Book Illustration to 1890. The purpose of this course is to teach
students how to tell the difference between the various relief,
intaglio, and planographic printing methods used in printed book
illustration in the period before the domination of photographic
processes. The emphasis of the course will be on process rather than
on connoisseurship, on execution rather than design, and on the
practical rather than the theoretical.
Almost the sole medium of instruction will be actual examples of
original prints drawn from the substantial BAP collection, many of
them divided into suites or (as they are known locally) packets of
twelve prints all from the same (or a very similar) source. The twelve
students in the class study the packets under close instruction, using
8X loupes and 30X microscopes (both provided), as necessary.
During the course, students will make and print a linoleum cut, a zinc
etching, and an acrylic drypoint. These are exercises in reproductive
- not creative - work: no artistic ability of any kind whatsoever is
either necessary or expected.
In their personal statement, prospective applicants should describe
the extent of their formal and/or informal background in the
field.
Terry Belanger &
Joan Friedman: 83-85 87; TB: 88 90-93
94[twice] 95-- [including W98 twice]
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The American Book in the Industrial Era, 1820-1940. This course will
focus on the production, distribution, and reception of books in the
United States during the industrial era, though British practice will
be discussed as relevant. It is aimed at scholars, catalogers,
collectors, and others whose interest or research is concerned with
the history of the American book in the United States during the
industrial era. As part of the course, students will have an
opportunity to examine bibliographical and other reference works - as
well as photocopies of primary materials - useful to the study of
books published during this period, and they will be introduced to
relevant bibliographical practice and convention (no prior knowledge
of descriptive bibliography is required).
In their personal statement, applicants should briefly summarize their
background in the field, current research projects, and topics or
issues that they would particularly like the course to cover.
Michael Winship: 94-
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Introduction to Rare Book Librarianship. This year, the course is
restricted to those currently practicing special collections
librarianship but who have little or no formal training in the
field. The instructor will assume training (or equivalent experience)
in librarianship and elementary acquaintance with basic
bibliographical description. Class sessions will include lectures,
discussion, and visits to local booksellers and the UVa's Special
Collections department.
Note that this is not in general a hands-on course; its intention is
to give relative newcomers the broadest possible general overview of
the field.
Topics include: (1) definition and purpose of rare books and rare book
collections - the determinants of rarity and of value, the
appropriateness of rare book collections in libraries, developing
criteria for identifying rarities in the general collection, the
commitment to security and quality of the collection; (2) collection
development - ascertaining areas of strength and building to them,
learning the processes of acquisition (the rare book market and its
practices), creating a new field for collecting, building a reference
collection to serve the unit, relating collections within the library
to each other; (3) technical processing: discussion of catalogs,
calendars, and shelflists; describing individual books and
collections; relating the rare book collection to the general
collection of the library; elementary repair techniques; conservation
and planning for growth; lighting; readers' and staff facilities; (4)
relating the rare book collection to its various clienteles and to the
public: special interest groups and their needs, the curator in the
classroom, preparation of exhibits, use of the media for publicity,
Friends of the Library groups, fund-raising activities, publications;
and public relations.
In their personal statement, students should describe as fully as
possible their present position and state what they would like to get
out of this course. John Parker &
Daniel Traister: 83-91;
DT: 93 94-95 (twice) 96-
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How to Research a Rare Book. The determination of the character and
importance of a rare book usually begins with a search for relevant
bibliographical citations. This course will introduce (or
re-introduce) students to some of the most important and useful
reference sources for the study of pre-1900 printed books. Non-English
materials will be emphasized, although no special linguistic facility
is required of students, and the course will not emphasize any
particular periods, subjects, or genres.
Topics for discussion sessions will grow out of assigned citations,
through which the members of the class will learn search strategies
and verification techniques. The class will also develop broad
perspectives on the bibliographical character and citation practices
used for writings from the incunabula period through the c19, and that
are distinctive to the different regional and national areas.
The course should prove useful for reference librarians and others who
need to find citations and interpret their particulars, whether for
purposes of acquisitions, cataloging or description, or captions in
exhibitions or annotations. While the course is not specifically
restricted to persons with library degrees, prospective students
without library degrees should be able to point to a considerable
period of practice in working with bibliographical citations. In their
personal statement, applicants are encouraged to speak briefly to
their subject and language backgrounds, and the extent of their
previous training or experience in bibliographical searching and
verification.
D. W. Krummel: 90-93 95-
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Electronic Texts and Images. This course will provide a wide-ranging
and practical exploration of electronic texts and related
technologies. It is aimed primarily (although not exclusively) at
librarians and scholars keen to develop, use, publish, and control
electronic texts for library, research, or teaching purposes. Drawing
on the experience and resources available at UVa's Electronic Text
Center, the course will cover the following areas: how to create
archival-quality etexts, including digital image facsimiles; the
necessity of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) for etext
development and use; the implications of XML; text analysis software;
and the management and use of Web-based SGML text databases.
As a focus for our study of etexts, the class will create an
electronic version of an archival document, mark its structure with
SGML ("TEI") tagging, create digital images of sample pages and
illustrations, produce a hypertext version, and make it all available
on the Internet.
Applicants need to have some experience with the tagging of HTML
documents. In their personal statement, applicants should assess the
extent of their present knowledge of the electronic environment, and
outline a project of their own to which they hope to apply the skills
learned in this course.
The course will be offered twice (in Weeks 2 and 4) in anticipation of
its usual large number of applications. In your personal statement,
please indicate if you can take the course in either of the two time
slots in which it is offered (by doing so, you will materially
increase your chances of being admitted to the course).
David Seaman:
94 [twice each year]-
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Latin Paleography, 1100-1500. For many years, there has been a
striking contrast in the scholarly attitude toward Latin scripts of
the early and of the later Middle Ages. While the paleography of the
early medieval and Caroline periods has been the object of serious
academic study, late medieval scripts have hitherto mostly been
examined (1) for reading literary and documentary texts and (2) for
dating manuscripts. As manuscripts of the later Middle Ages are
incomparably more numerous than early medieval codices, this is a
paradoxical situation, one that needs to be redressed.
Accordingly, this course will try to systematize our knowledge about
the gothic and humanistic scripts in all their diversity of forms and
styles. It will include: the examination and reading of examples of
Latin texts (exceptionally French or English ones); the study of
abbreviations; the typology and nomenclature of scripts, according to
the Lieftinck-Gumbert system and other systems; the dating and
localization of scripts; the techniques and principles of historical
and diplomatic transcription and editing. Students will be required to
make a series of transcriptions.
The course will have a practical character, concentrating on a broad
range of scripts. Starting from the tangled image presented by late
medieval manuscripts, a much-needed systematization will be developed,
and gothic and humanistic scripts will be given a place in the history
of handwriting in the West.
The course is intended for scholars and researchers, librarians and
antiquarian booksellers with a basic knowledge of Latin who, sooner or
later, are likely to deal with late medieval manuscripts. All students
in this course must have had some previous formal introduction to
paleography; in their personal statement, applicants should indicate
the extent of their previous paleographic training and their knowledge
of Latin, and briefly describe any relevant research projects on which
they are now (or shortly expect to be) working.
Albert Derolez: 88-93
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Japanese Printmaking, 1615-1868. This course will cover the
development of the art of the Japanese woodblock print, via lectures
and through the study of the prints themselves. Lectures will
introduce the major genre of Ukiyo-e, including images of women,
actors, and landscapes. The resources of UVa's Bayly Museum provide an
opportunity to examine works of Ukiyo-e at first hand and to apply the
techniques of connoisseurship by which dating and authenticity can be
determined. Topics include: the world of courtly arts in Kyoto, Osaka,
and Sakai out of which the commoner aesthetic of Edo developed; the
emergence of the tradition of printmaking and painting in Edo that we
call Ukiyo-e; the development of Ukiyo-e itself.
The course is aimed at relative beginners. It seeks to provide both
independent collectors and dealers, and professional rare book
librarians and print curators, with a basic knowledge of the
development of the art of the Japanese woodblock print and exposure to
the main types of Ukiyo-e that they are likely to encounter in their
collecting or work.
No knowledge of the Japanese language is required or expected of those
attending the course. In their personal statement, prospective
students should describe the nature of their interest in Japanese
woodblock prints. Sandy Kita: 98-
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Managing the Past. This course will focus tightly on the various
physical attributes of individual books that make the use of
reformatted substitutes (later editions, reprints, facsimiles,
microforms, photocopies, scanned images, &c.) undesirable or
impossible. Topics include: the non-textual use of books; original
condition v. present condition; provenance and signs of use; cultural
and monetary values; restoration, conservation, and tampering;
dealers, auction houses, and trade expertise; changing conditions in
the antiquarian book trade; and changing conditions in rare book
libraries.
In their personal statements, applicants should explain their specific
reasons for wishing to take this course. Nicolas Barker 93-94
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Advanced Descriptive Bibliography. The method of this course is
essentially the same as that of course no. 45, Introduction to
Descriptive Bibliography: the close examination of a number of books
printed from ca. 1550-ca. 1875, i.e. the second century of the
handpress period through roughly the first half century of the
machine-press period. The course thus picks up where the introductory
course leaves off: it is designed to extend and deepen students'
practical grasp of the formulary developed in Bowers' Principles of
Bibliographical Description as the distillation of a method for
analyzing and describing - for seeing - the physical book. The course
will also cover the analysis and description of such elements as
typography, paper, printed contents, plates, binding, etc. that can
only be dealt with briefly in an introductory course. Its basic
purpose is thus a systematic presentation of the elements of a
full-dress bibliographical description.
Lectures and discussion will also address such matters as the
tailoring of description to various purposes, economizing
bibliographical effort by way of the degressive principle, judging the
integrity of the artifact, uses and abuses - all grounded on the
principle that the more books you see, the better you know each
book. The course will make considerable use of the laboratory
collections of the Book Arts Press, with special emphasis on its
collection of bibliographies and accompanying examples.
It is expected that the course will be useful to, inter alia, scholars
engaged in the production of a descriptive bibliography or similar
project, collectors and dealers who routinely read or write
sophisticated catalogs, and librarians whose duties require the
ability to interpret and/or create complex bibliographical
descriptions.
In their personal statements, applicants should describe any relevant
vocational or avocational work or projects. The instructor will
endeavor to adapt course materials and discussion to particular topics
and periods, as well as professional interests, indicated by students
in their applications.
This course is restricted to students who have had some formal course
work in descriptive bibliography. All applicants - especially those
who have not taken the RBS Introduction to Descriptive Bibliography -
should explain in some detail their previous training and experience
in the field.
Richard Noble. New course
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Teaching the History of Books and Printing. This course will
investigate different ways of thinking about, designing, and
conducting a course on the history of the book. It is a course, not on
the history of books and printing, but on the teaching of that
subject. It will rely, first, on the instructors' many years of
experience in teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses in the
history of the book in several institutional contexts, and, second, on
class discussion of approaches already invented (or now being
re-invented) by course participants.
Three assumptions inform our plan: (1) the current realities of
pedagogy in the academy and the pressing need to identify appropriate
niches for the history of the book define the context in such courses
must be conceptualized and practiced; (2) the distinction between
history of the book courses directed at undergraduate and graduate
students is fundamental; and (3) the range of resources available for
such courses is both large and - primarily as a result of the Web -
growing. Our first purpose will be the assessment of some of the
strengths and weaknesses of differing approaches to the subject. Our
second purpose will be the investigation of resources available to
teachers and students in this field. The Book Arts Press's extensive
collection of resources for teaching the history of the book will play
an integral role in this course. Our third purpose is to help teachers
planning or already engaged in teaching history-of-books-and-printing
courses to find additional techniques or approaches that may help such
courses to be more productive and enjoyable for student and teacher
alike.
Our intention is to consider the options and resources open to
instructors - whether full- or part-time academics or librarians, or
others - who are either currently engaged in teaching such a course,
or who will begin doing so in the coming academic year. In their
personal statement, applicants should describe the courses they are
(or will be) teaching, preferably enclosing a copy of their course
syllabus.
Michael T. Ryan and
Daniel Traister. 97
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Book Collecting. This course is intended for serious but isolated book
collectors who would like to learn more about the current American
rare book scene: about the interlocking professional and social worlds
of antiquarian book collecting, the rare book trade, and research
librarianship. It is aimed at persons who collect energetically but
who currently are not active members of bibliophilic social clubs and
who do not participate to any great extent in library friends'
organizations. The course will have at least something of a
proselytizing bent (the instructors admit to being members of various
social and scholarly bibliophilic and bibliographical organizations,
as well as a good many library friends' groups; and they are well
acquainted with a fair number of book dealers).
Among the questions the course will address: Why do we collect? How
can I most effectively use the services provided by dealers, auction
houses and other agents? How do I know that a price is 'right,' and
what should I do if it isn't? How can I best use bibliographies and
other lists in my collecting? What kind of records should I keep? What
can I do to preserve books on my own? When professional conservation
is required, how do I find it? What should I do about insurance? What
are the benefits of professional and bibliophilic organizations and
cooperation with libraries and scholars? How should I dispose of my
books? What are the tax and collecting implications of sale, gift, and
bequest? How can I establish my own program for learning more about
books and collecting?
In their personal statement, applicants should describe their book
collections and their most active current collecting interests, and
state what they would particularly like to see the course
cover.
William P. Barlow, Jr &
Terry Belanger: 95-
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Implementing Encoded Archival Description. See the ECD for course no. 16.
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The Codex Book in the West, 500-2000 AD. This course will provide a
broad overview of 1500 years of the book. Aimed at librarians,
teachers, collectors, dealers, and others who have had no previous
formal exposure to the history of the book, the course will offer a
brief introduction to the many facets of this discipline. Proceeding
roughly chronologically, the following periods will be covered;
manuscripts of late antiquity and the Middle Ages, the invention of
printing from moveable type in the mid-c15, how books were made from
the c16-c18, the impact of the Industrial Revolution, the return to
fine craftsmanship with the private press movement of the late c19 and
early c20, and developments in the late c20 artist's book. Further
topics will include literacy and the distribution of books,
connoisseurship and book collecting, and research the history of the
book. Lectures, slides, films, "museums" of samples of component parts
of books, and viewings of representative books from the collections of
the Book Arts Press and the Department of Special Collections at UVa
will be used to explore the book as an object of study.
This course is intended to prepare students to go on to pursue more
in-depth study of the periods and topics introduced. In their personal
statements, applicants should describe the nature of their developing
interest in the history of the book and the purposes to which they
propose to put the knowledge gained from the course.
Eric Holzenberg
and Suzy Taraba. New course
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The Use of Physical Evidence in Early Printed Books. This course is
intended to serve as a general introduction to bibliographical
analysis. Its examples and methods are primarily derived from
15th-century printing, as this is a period commonly overlooked or only
summarily treated by the standard guides. Copy-specific features of
books will also be examined, for the same reason that the standard
guides generally neglect them.
Note that this course is not a general historical introduction to
incunabula; the primary purpose of the course is to encourage a way of
bibliographical thinking that should prove useful in the analysis of
all books, early or modern.
Students should have already taken the RBS Descriptive Bibliography
course or its equivalent. Since so many of the books studied will be
in Latin, some familiarity with that language will be an advantage;
and in their personal statement, students should indicate the extent
of their proficiency with this language.
Paul Needham: 88-91 93 96-
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European Bookbinding, 1500-1800. The history of bookbinding is not
simply the history of a decorative art, but also that of a craft
answering a commercial need. This course will follow European
bookbinding from the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of the
Industrial Revolution, using the bindings to illustrate the aims and
intentions of the binding trade. A large part of the course will be
devoted to the identification of both broad and detailed distinctions
within the larger groups of plain commercial bindings and the
possibilities of identifying the work of different countries, cities,
and even workshops without reference to finishing tools. The
identification and significance of the different materials used in
bookbinding will be examined, as well as the classification of
bookbindings by structural type, and how these types developed through
the three centuries covered by the course. The development of binding
decoration will be touched on, but will not form a major part of the
discussion.
There will be slide lectures each day. Actual examples from the BAP
collections will be used to supplement the slides in three afternoon
sessions, and another afternoon will be spent examining finely bound
books in UVa's Special Collections. NB: students will in general not
be able to touch or handle personally the books shown to them in
class, because of the fragility and/or value of the material being
used - an understandably irritating but nevertheless very necessary
policy instituted in order to protect the RBS and UVa collections from
collective overuse.
Students are expected to have a sound knowledge of bookbinding terms
and a basic knowledge of the history of book production in the period
under consideration. The purpose of the course is to encourage an
awareness of the possibilities latent in the detailed study of
bookbindings and is thus aimed at all those handling books bound in
this period, but it has particular relevance for those involved in the
repair and conservation of such materials.
In their personal statement, applicants should describe the nature and
extent of their bench training (if any) in bookbinding and/or related
disciplines, and they should also describe any previous formal or
informal historical study in the field. Nicholas Pickwoad: 87 [three
times]; 88-93 95 [twice each year]; 94 96- [including W98]
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Publishing History, 1775-1850. Students in this course should have a
basic background in the history of the book, either through formal
coursework in the subject, or through their own reading. In their
personal statements, applicants are invited to describe any special
topics within the 1775-1850 period in which they are particularly
interested. Michael Turner 89 91 94
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Introduction to Descriptive Bibliography. This course is intended for
those who want to develop an understanding of the physical description
of books, particularly those books produced before about 1850.
Each class day is divided into four parts: lecture, homework, lab, and
museum. Daily lectures concentrate on methods of determining format
and collation, and of describing type, paper, illustrations, binding,
and the circumstances of publication. Students prepare for daily
laboratory sessions in which they work, under close supervision, with
progressively more difficult examples of various formats and
collations. During the daily museum periods, students have extensive
hands-on access to the celebrated BAP realia collections: tools and
equipment, samples and examples, self-teaching packages, and the
like. Terry Belanger & Donald Farren: 85-87;
TB, Donald Farren & David
Ferris: 88; TB & David Ferris: 90-96; TB
& Richard Noble: 97-
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Introduction to Electronic Texts and Images.
See the ECD for course no. 27.
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