A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures are an endowed lectureship in bibliography established in 1928 by rare-book and manuscript dealer A. S. W. Rosenbach at the University of Pennsylvania. [1]
The Rosenbach Lectures are the longest continuing series of bibliographical lectureships in the United States. Individuals appointed as Rosenbach Fellows present three lectures over several weeks.[2]
The 1974 A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography was devoted to the fifth annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies."[3]
The university's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center in collaboration with their Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts are the current location of the lectures.
Lecturers[edit]
The first Rosenbach Fellow was Christopher Morley in 1931 [4] whose lectures were published as Ex Libris Carissimis in 1932.[5] Many of the lectures have been published by the University of Pennsylvania Press including Morley's which was also part of the anniversary collection of the Press.
Other Lecturers include:
- Randolph Greenfield Adams[6]
- Ann M. Blair
- Fredson Bowers[7]
- Clarence S. Brigham [8]
- Curt F. Bühler[9][10]
- Mary Carruthers
- Cass Canfield[11]
- William Charvat [12]
- Robert Darnton.[13]
- Elizabeth Eisenstein[14]
- Bernhard Fabian[15]
- John Farquhar Fulton[16]
- Louis Hanke [17]
- Dard Hunter[18]
- Matthew G. Kirschenbaum[19]
- John Lievsay[20]
- Alberto Manguel
- Peter D. McDonald [21]
- Dorothy Miner-first woman Fellow [22][23]
- Paul Needham
- A. Edward. Newton [24]
- J.H. Powell [25]
- George Sarton[26]
- Leslie Shane[27]
- Brain Stock [28]
- G. Thomas Tanselle[29]
- Archer Taylor[30]
- Eric Gardner Turner[31]
- Robert W. G. Vail[32]
- Roy M. Wilies [33]
- George Parker Winship[34]
- Richard J. Wolfe.[35]
- Lawrence C. Wroth[36]
References[edit]
- ^ “Rosenbach Lectures.” The Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford University Press, 2010.
- ^ The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
- ^ Darnton, Robert, Bernhard Fabian, R. M. Wiles, Paul J. Korshin, A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund, and American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 1976. The Widening Circle: Essays on the Circulation of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Europe. [Philadelphia]: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- ^ Moffett A. "Mr. Morley writes the reminiscences of a reader: EX LIBRIS CARISSIMIS," by Christopher Morley. 134 pp. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania press. $2. New York Times. 1932 May 15, 1932/05/15/:1.
- ^ Morley, Christopher, A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund, and Ralph Ellison Collection (Library of Congress). 1932. Ex Libris Carissimis. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania press.
- ^ Adams, Randolph Greenfield, and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. 1939. Three Americanists : Henry Harrisse, Bibliographer; George Brinley, Book Collector; Thomas Jefferson, Librarian. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- ^ 1954 Lecturer. Bowers, Fredson. 1955. On Editing Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Dramatists. [Philadelphia]: Published for the Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation by the University of Pennsylvania Library.
- ^ Brigham, Clarence S. 1950. Journals and Journeymen : A Contribution to the History of Early American Newspapers. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press.
- ^ Bühler, Curt F., and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. 1949. Standards of Bibliographical Description. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press.
- ^ Bühler, Curt F. 1960. The Fifteenth-Century Book : The Scribes, the Printers, the Decorators. Philadelphia [Pennsylvania]: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- ^ 1968. Lecture. Canfield, Cass, and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. 1969. The Publishing Experience. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- ^ Charvat, William. 1959. Literary Publishing in America, 1790-1850. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- ^ Darnton, Robert: "Trade in the taboo: the life of a clandestine book dealer in prerevolutionary France." in The Widening Circle : Essays on the Circulation of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Europe. Edited by Paul J. Korshin. Reprint 2016. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
- ^ Elizabeth L. Eisenstein to Deliver Rosenbach Lectures at the Penn Libraries. Business Wire. New York: Business Wire, 2010.
- ^ "English books and their eighteenth-century German readers" in The Widening Circle: Essays on the Circulation of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Europe. Edited by Paul J. Korshin. Reprint 2016. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
- ^ Fulton, John F., and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. 1951. The Great Medical Bibliographers: A Study in Humanism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- ^ Hanke, Lewis. 1952. Bartolomé de Las Casas: Bookman, Scholar & Propagandist. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- ^ Hunter, Dard, and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. 1952. Papermaking in Pioneer America. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pa. Press.
- ^ 2016 Lectures. Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. 2021. Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- ^ Lievsay,John Leon, and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. The Englishman’s Italian Books, 1550-1700. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1969.
- ^ Peter D. McDonald, The Secret Life of Books, Lecture 2: The Lure of Literature. 2022 A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography, University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Peter D. McDonald, University of Oxford
- ^ DOROTHY MINER, 68, ARTS SCHOLAR, DIES. New York Times, May 17, 1973.
- ^ Miner, D. (1955). Illuminated Manuscripts at Harvard. College Art Journal, 14(3), 229–235.
- ^ Newton, A. Edward. 2016. Bibliography and Pseudo-Bibliography. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- ^ Powell, J. H., and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. 1957. The Books of a New Nation: United States Government Publications, 1774-1814. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- ^ Sarton, George. 1955. The Appreciation of Ancient and Medieval Science during the Renaissance, 1450-1600. Pp. xvii. 233. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia.
- ^ Leslie, Shane, and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. 1935. The Script of Jonathan Swift, and Other Essays. Philadelphia, London: University of Pennsylvania Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
- ^ Stock, Brian. “Rosenbach Lectures: Minds, Bodies, Readers.” New Literary History 37, no. 3 (2006): 489–524
- ^ 1987 Lecture: Tanselle, G. Thomas, and University of Pennsylvania Press. 1989. A Rationale of Textual Criticism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- ^ Taylor, Archer. 1966. General Subject-Indexes since 1548. Philadelphia - Pa: University Press.
- ^ Turner, E. G. 1977. The Typology of the Early Codex. [Philadelphia]: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- ^ Vail, R. W. G. 2017. The Voice of the Old Frontier. Reprint 2016. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press. The three lectures Vail delivered in 1945 supplemented by descriptions of 1300 bibliographical items covering the North American frontier literature over the period 1542 to 1800,
- ^ "The relish for reading in provincial England two centuries ago in The Widening Circle : Essays on the Circulation of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Europe. Edited by Paul J. Korshin. Reprint 2016. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
- ^ Winship, George Parker, and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. 1940. Printing in the Fifteenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- ^ Wolfe, Richard J. 1989. Marbled Paper: Its History, Techniques, and Patterns: With Special References to the Relationship of Marbling to Bookbinding in Europe and the Western World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.
- ^ WROTH, Lawrence Counselman, and James LOVEDAY. 1934. An American Bookshelf, 1775. [An Account of the Library of James Loveday, as Reflecting the Contemporary Social Background.]. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.