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New Bibliographical Society Publication

Early in 2009 the Bibliographical Society will be publishing Printing in England in the Fifteenth century, a reprint of E. Gordon Duff, Fifteenth Century English Books: A Bibliography of Books and Documents printed in England and of Books for the English Market printed Abroad, with supplementary material compiled by Dr Lotte Hellinga.

Since its first publication in 1917, Duff's bibliography has been the standard reference for all printing in England and continental printing for the English market before 1501. Its 431 entries include accurate transcriptions; 53 full-page plates illustrate all founts of type used in England, as well as some of the continental founts. This reprint edition is updated by adding 46 full descriptions of items that have come to light since 1917, a new and extensive census of copies, combined with a concordance to the main incunabula bibliographies and catalogues. A new chronological index, based on the results of recent research, replaces Duff's 'Typographical Index'.

This extended reprint, which is published in collaboration with the British Library, is priced at £40; xvi + 274 pages; hardback (buckram). ISBN 978 0948170 17.4; it may be ordered from the Secretary of the Bibliographical Society. Members of the Bibliographical Society will receive a free copy and may order additional copies for £25.

Bibliographical Society Grants

Minor grants

The Fellowships and Bursaries sub-committee of the Bibliographical Society offers small grants of £50 to £200 throughout the year for specific purposes such as travel expenses or the cost of microfilming. Applications for such grants may be submitted on the appropriate form at any time, and should be supported by one referee and a statement that funds are not available from other sources. If the applicant is registered for a research degree, the application should be accompanied by a letter of support from his or her academic supervisor.

Support for student attendance at conferences

Conference organizers are invited to apply at any time during the year for up to £250 in order to support the attendance costs (e.g. travel, accommodation, and conference fee) of one or more postgraduate students (maxi-mum per student £125). The application for these Bibliographical Society Studentships should take the form of a letter explaining the relevance of the conference to the Society's interests, the dates and location of the conference, the structure and content of the programme, and the costs to the students that are to be covered.

Further particulars and application forms relating to both grants and conference support are available from the Secretary of the Fellowships and Bursaries Sub-committee, Dr John Hinks, Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH (email: jh241@le.ac.uk).

Indexes to the Library

The Council of the Bibliographical Society has decided that the index to the contents of The Library for 2007, distributed with the June 2008 issue, should be the last to be published in paper form. The attention of members of the Society (and of other readers) is drawn to the existence of two online guides to the contents of the journal, both available from the web page http://library.oxfordjournals.org/: the Advanced Search facility provided by Oxford Journals, enabling searches of authors, titles, and full text across the complete back run of The Library, and the new Subject Index created by the Society, which lets users call up references to articles by subject area (e.g. Manuscript studies, Book trade history, Bookbinding, Library history), initially from 1999 onwards.

Online Access to the Library

The Library is now also available in online format, from Oxford University Press, via the web address http://www.library.oxfordjournals.org/. Access to the electronic version comes at no extra charge to members of the Bibliographical Society, and is available to those non-member subscribers who have opted for the combined print and online, or online-only, subscription rates.

Earlier volumes have also been converted to electronic format, and members of the Society now have free access to the complete back run of the journal, which reaches back to the late nineteenth century. Current subscribers via Oxford University Press have electronic access back to 1996...