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Sir William Osler: The Man and His Books. Ed. by William Feindel, Elizabeth Maloney and Pamela Miller. Montreal: Osler Library of the History of Medicine McGill University. 2011. 143 pp. $25. isbn 978 0 7717 0709 4.

Sir William Osler’s reputation as a pathologist and physician is well known to medical practitioners across the world. He is closely associated with three medical schools—at McGill, Oxford and, especially, Johns Hopkins where he was one of the four founding professors. He was also a distinguished bibliophile and his collection of key works in the history of medicine became the foundation of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine at McGill University. This series of essays arose from a symposium held in 1999 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Osler’s birth. Includes: Peter F. McNally, Glenn Brown, and Nicolas Savard, ‘Osler and Francis: Creating the Bibliotheca Osleriana’; Adam Gacek, ‘Some Noteworthy Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in the Osler Library, McGill University’; Toby Gelfand, ‘A Monumental Source for the History of Medicine: The Paris Inaugural Theses at the Osler Library’; Pamela Miller, ‘Archives and Artefacts at the Osler Library’.

Jacob Bigelow’s American Medical Botany 1817–1821. An examination of the origin, printing, binding and distribution of American’s first color plate book. With special emphasis on the manner of making and printing its colored plates. By Richard J. Wolfe. 2nd Edition with Corrections and Additions. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press. 2012. 128 pp. $95. isbn 978 1 58456 303 7.

A revised edition of Richard J. Wolfe’s study, which made use of Bigelow’s own papers and other materials to investigate the origin, printing, binding, and distribution through subscription of this landmark work. The new edition incorporates new evidence on the book’s reception in colonial Philadelphia. As in the first edition, this second edition contains two of Bigelow’s original plates, one uncoloured and the other coloured by hand, from the collection of the Boston Medical Library.

Arts and Crafts Book Covers. By Malcolm Haslam. Shepton Beauchamp: Richard Dennis. 2012. 120 pp. £14. isbn 978 0 9553741 8 0.

Produced to accompany the exhibition ‘From Rossetti to Voysey: Arts & Crafts Stamped Book Cover Design’ held at Blackwell, The Arts & Crafts House, near Bowness in the Lake District from 10 May to 15 July 2012. Includes essays on ‘Background’, ‘Designs’, and ‘Some Publishers’, brief biographical entries for fifty-eight artists (covering Britain, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, and USA) and descriptions for ninety-nine books, with accompanying illustrations for each entry.

Manchester
Julianne Simpson

Germany

Kultur- und kommunikationshistorischer Wandel des Liedes im 16. Jahrhundert. Ed. by Albrecht Classen, Michael Fischer and Nils Grosch. (Populäre Kultur und Musik, 3.) Münster; New York; Munich; Berlin: Waxmann. 2012. €29,90. 256 pp. isbn 978 3 8309 2641 2.

Papers given at a conference held at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau in November 2009 focusing on the transmission of popular song through print in the [End Page 487] sixteenth century. Includes: N. Grosch, ‘Lied im Medienwechsel des 16. Jahrhunderts: eine Einleitung’; D. Bellingradt, ‘Fliegende Popularität. Liedflugschriften im frühneuzeitlichen Medienverbund’; A. Classen, ‘Georg Forster—ein Liedersammler als Zeuge des globalen Medienwandels’; M. Fischer, ‘Flugschrift und Volkslied, Zur Sammlungs- und Bestandsgeschichte im Deutschen Volksliedarchiv’; J. L. Flood, ‘Der Lieddruck in Nürnberg im 16. Jahrhundert’; F. J. Götz, ‘Einblattdrucke als Publikations medium für Lieder im 15./16. Jahrhundert im Spannungsfeld zwischen Produktion und Rezeption’; G. Haug-Moritz, ‘ Lieder in der Flugschriftenpublizistik des Schmalkaldischen Krieges’; D. Helms, ‘Die mehrstimmige Musik der Renaissance und der Begriff des “Populären”: eine Kritik’; M. Kirnauer, ‘Lieder ohne Worte—Hans Judenkünigs Lautentabulaturen von 1523’; S. Moisi, ‘Überlegungen zur kommunikativen Bedeutung von Paratexten in den Liedflugschriften der Reformationszeit (1517–1555)’; E. Nehlsen and A. Schlegel, ‘Der Benzenauer—Lied, Ton und Tanz’; N. Schwindt, ‘Elitär oder populär? Polyphone Lieder der ersten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts im Druck’; A. Wittenberg, ‘Zur Erwerbungsgeschichte der Liedflug-schriftenbestände der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin—Preußischer Kulturbesitz’.

‘Die gesammelte Welt’. Wissensformen und Wissenswandel in Zedlers Universal-Lexicon...

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