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A collection to mark the retirement of Alison Saunders from her position as Carnegie Professor of French at the University of Aberdeen. The theme is centred on her own area of study — the Renaissance and Baroque emblem. Includes: J. Laidlaw, ‘Le Livre des Quatre Dames. The Case of the “Poor Prisoner”’; A. Armstrong, ‘The Emblematic Afterlife of Jean Bouchet. Piracy, Layout, Interpolation’; D. Russell, ‘Hours and Emblems. Some Thoughts on Early Modern Book Illustration’; A. Moss, ‘Otho Vaenius. Commonplaces into Emblems’; P. Ford, ‘Early Editions of the Essais in the Montaigne Library of Gilbert de Botton. The Role of Marie de Gournay’.
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2010 marked the opening of Strawberry Hill to the public, following a nine million pound restoration, and also a fine exhibition jointly organized by The Lewis Walpole Library, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Victoria & Albert Museum. The Lewis Walpole Library now hosts the ‘Strawberry Hill Collection’, a database encompassing the entire range of art and artefacts from Walpole’s collections, including all items whose location is currently known and those as yet untraced but known through a variety of historical records. The library has in recent years also revived Walpole’s series ‘Miscellaneous Antiquities’ (a second revival after Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis’s previous revival in the 1920s). Stephen Clarke provides a reconstruction of the history of Walpole’s printing enterprise illustrated from the library’s collections, with a few additions from elsewhere. His study opens up the material history of the printing house itself and also sheds light on the press, its publications, and printers.
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Papers from two conferences in 2004 and 2007 sponsored by the Cambridge Project for the Book Trust. Includes: C. Armstrong, ‘Reaction to the 1622 Virginia Massacre: An Early History of Transatlantic Print’; J. Mylander, ‘Fiction and Civility Across Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic: Teaching the History of Faustus’; P. Whitman Hunter ‘Transatlantic News: American Interpretations of the Scandalous and Heroic’; François Melançon, ‘Print and Manuscript in French Canada under the Ancien Régime’; N. Wrightson ‘Bookmen, Naturalists and British Atlantic Communication, c. 1730–60’; J. D. Goodfriend, ‘The Dutch Book Trade in Colonial New York City: The Transatlantic Connection’; J. Raven, ‘Classical Transports: Latin and Greek Texts in North and Central America before 1800’; M. O’Connor, ‘“A Small Cargoe for Tryal”: Connections between the Belfast and Philadelphia Book Trades in the Later Eighteenth Century’; S. Guardini T. Vasconcelos, ‘From the French or Not: Transatlantic Contributions to the Making of the Brazilian Novel’; E. Roldán Vera, ‘“Learning from Abroad?”: Communities of Knowledge and the Monitorial System [End Page 109] in Independent Spanish America’; A. Fyfe. ‘Business and Reading Across the Atlantic: W. & R. Chambers and the United States Market, 1840–60’; R. J. Scholnick, ‘“The Power of Steam”: Anti-Slavery and Reform in Britain and America, 1844–60’.
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An outstanding account of the protracted debate between Johannes Reuchlin (1455–1522), the tireless advocate of the importance of the study of Hebrew as an aid to biblical scholarship, and the converted Jew Johannes Pfefferkorn (c. 1470–after 1521), who campaigned to have Jewish books destroyed. At bottom this was a conflict between the old guard of scholastic theologians...
