Please join British, Irish and Empire Studies at the University of Texas at Austin for the final session of their Books! virtual speaker series. Two scholars will discuss the roles of printing in history.
Please join British, Irish and Empire Studies at the University of Texas at Austin for the final session of their Books! virtual speaker series. Two scholars will discuss the roles of printing in history.
August 9 to 12, 2023
Hong Kong, China
International Conference
August 9 to 12, 2023
Hong Kong, China
International Conference
I am looking for ways to tell whether a Jewish book whose title page says it was printed in Eastern Europe in the 1800s was actually printed then or is a later photo-offset reproduction. I posted this query previously and received some helpful answers but was also told that my question was not clear. Here is an expanded version with photos to clarify what I am talking about. https://justinjaronlewis.wordpress.com/category/research/ ("Jewish Book Questions").
The Israel Economic History Association — the Forum for the Economic Humanities is proud to host Dr. Ada Gebel (Sha’anan Academic College) for an online workshop (in Hebrew): “Mokher Seforim: on bookselling, culture and society — the case of the Romm Press in Vilna.”
I would like advice from anyone who works with books in terms of their physical material, printing history, and so on, rather than textual content.
I have been cataloguing the book collection of a local synagogue, which includes many Hebrew religious books printed in Eastern Europe in the mid to late 1800s. However there are also photo-offset (I think that is the term?) reprints in the collection, often with just the original date. I often don't know how to tell a reprint from an original printing.
Paula McDowell. The Invention of the Oral: Print Commerce and Fugitive Voices in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. xiv+353 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-45696-6.
Reviewed by Jeremy Black (University of Exeter) Published on H-Albion (October, 2017) Commissioned by Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth
Responding to Print
Aidan Conti, Orietta Da Rold, Philip A. Shaw, eds. Writing Europe, 500-1450. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015. xv + 198 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84384-415-0.
Reviewed by Melissa Sartore (West Virginia University Institute of Technology) Published on H-Teach (August, 2016) Commissioned by Camarin M. Porter
Alison Knowles Frazier, ed. The Saint between Manuscript and Print: Italy 1400-1600. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2015. 494 pp. $49.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7727-2181-5.
Reviewed by David D'Andrea (Oklahoma State University) Published on H-Italy (April, 2016) Commissioned by Matt Vester
