You are cordially invited to hear Nicolas Barker,
editor of The Book Collector (UK) since 1965, and author of numerous
books and articles about medieval
manuscripts, calligraphy, forgery, the book trade, typography, bibliophily, and
bookbinding.
His talk on 29 May will be ‘Fifty Years On: The Book
Collector and ‘Printing and the Mind of Man’.
Venue and Date: Archway 2, Thursday 29
May, at 5.30 pm
University of Otago
A Centre for the Book at the University of Otago initiative.
THE BOOK COLLECTOR is the only journal in the world that deals with book collecting, but it is much more than that – a bridge that joins together collectors, librarians and booksellers, and all who are interested in books, to have, to read, to enjoy in any way.
Published quarterly, THE BOOK COLLECTOR prints notoriously independent leading articles on matters, ranging from manuscript studies to national heritage policy. It publishes authoritative articles on subjects from medieval libraries to modern first editions, from the still contentious subject of the invention of printing to the crude but charming chapbooks printed today in the Nigerian town of Onitsha. collects news and reviews of auctions, publications and trade catalogues, bibliographies and checklists, private press books, exhibitions, appointments, departures and deaths. It runs series on book collectors past and present, uncollected authors, unfamiliar libraries (public and private) and bookbindings new and old. Its ‘Bibliographical Notes and Queries’ provides an open forum, now on line.
THE BOOK COLLECTOR was founded in 1952, two years before he published Casino Royale, by Ian Fleming. Its first editor, until his death in 1965, was John Hayward, the friend and muse of T. S. Eliot. Since then it has been edited by Nicolas Barker, sometime publisher and first head of conservation at the British Library, abetted by an editorial board drawn from rare-book librarianship and the antiquarian book trade. The tone of THE BOOK COLLECTOR is scholarly, but not oppressively academic, with a plurality of contributors, unparochial in place or profession, whose common aim is to share their enthusiasms and knowledge about books, so as to be accessible to all. Its readers come from every continent.
THE BOOK COLLECTOR is handsomely produced, well designed and printed (it is still largely set from metal type), on high-quality paper with numerous illustrations. After all but sixty years of publication it is established as a major resource of permanent value for book dealers, book scholars and book collectors.
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