4th Australian and New Zealand - Rare Book Summer School
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, 11-15 February 2008

Four five-day courses are on offer:

(1) Lithography: the popularisation of printing in the 19th century Instructor: Michael Twyman, formerly Professor of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, now Professor Emeritus and Director of Ephemera Studies at that institution, is the leading authority on the subject.

(2) The colonial book trade in Australia and Canada: a comparative approachInstructors: Mary Jane Edwards, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University, and Des Cowley, Rare Printed Collections Manager at the State Library of Victoria.

(3) The book in transition, 1750–1850Instructors: Dr Brian McMullin, Honorary Associate in the Centre for the Book at Monash University, and Pamela Pryde, Curator of Special Collections in the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne.

(4) Book collectingInstructor: Professor Wallace Kirsop is Director of the Centre for the Book at Monash University and Past President of the Victorian Branch of the Book Collectors’ Society of Australia.

For further information:e-mail Centre.forthe.Book@arts.monash.edu.au