Recently added articles from Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada:
Your name here: the evolution of Bryce's commercial arithmetic.(Le Bryce's Commercial Arithmetic)(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; Dawson, Robert J. MacG. ... SOMMAIRE Le Bryce's Commercial Arithmetic, publie en 1866, fut le premier manuel d'arithmetique commerciale. Les renseignements bibliographiques figurant sur les pages de titre de la plupart des editions sont incomplets, voire inexacts comme le demontre du reste cet article ....
"I think Canada has a future": William Inglis Morse and the Canadian Collection at Yale University Library.(Notes)(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; Little, Geoffrey ... SOMMAIRE La collection canadienne de la bibliotheque de l'universite Yale, consideree comme l'une des deux ou trois meilleures aux Etats-Unis, doit sa croissance durant les decennies 1940 et 50 a William Inglis Morse (1874-1952), un pasteur originaire de la NouvelleEcosse qui ...
Bernard Andres, dir. La Conquete des Lettres au Quebec (1759-1799). Anthologie.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Melancon, Francois ... Bernard Andres, dir. La Conquete des Lettres au Quebec (1759-1799). Anthologie. Collection << Les collections de la Republique des Lettres >>. Quebec : Presses de l'Universite Lavai, 2007. 750 p. ; 49 $ ISBN 978-2-7637-8496-0 Enfin, Bernard Andres entrouvre le coffre aux tresors ...
Jocelyne Murray. Apprendre a lire et a compter. Ecole et societe en Mauricie, 1850-1900.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Dufour, Andree ... Jocelyne Murray. Apprendre a lire et a compter. Ecole et societe en Mauricie, 1850-1900. Cahiers des Ameriques 2, Coll. << Education>>. Sillery : Septentrion, 2003. 350 p.; 27.95 $ ISBN 2-89448-356-2 C'est a une histoire regionale de l'instruction publique que nous convie ...
Janice Fiamengo. The Woman's Page: Journalism and Rhetoric in Early Canada.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Quirk, Linda ... Janice Fiamengo. The Woman's Page: Journalism and Rhetoric in Early Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.256 pp.; $25.95 ISBN 9780802095374 An important new book by Janice Fiamengo examines the "intellectual ferment, questing spirit, rhetorical assertiveness, and ...
Monique Lebrun, dir. Le Manuel scolaire, d'ici et d'ailleurs, d'hier a demain.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Murray, Jocelyne ... Monique Lebrun, dir. Le Manuel scolaire, d'ici et d'ailleurs, d'hier a demain. Quebec: Presses de l'Universite du Quebec, 2007. 144 p.; 325 ISBN 978-2-7605-1481-2 Le Manuel scolaire d'ici et d'ailleurs, d'hier a demain, dirige par Monique Lebrun, rassemble les actes d'un ...
Monique C. Cormier et Jean-Claude Boulanger, dir. Les dictionnaires de la langue francaise au Quebec. De la Nouvelle-France a aujaurd'hui.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Francceur, Aline ... Monique C. Cormier et Jean-Claude Boulanger, dir. Les dictiannaires de la langue francaise au Quebec. De la Nouvelle-France a aujaurd'hui. Collection <<Parametres>>. Montreal: Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 2008.440 p. ; 32,95 $ ISBN 978-2-7606-2087-2 <<Les dictionnaires ...
Yves Frenette, Marcel Martel et John Willis, dir. Envoyer et recevoir: lettres et correspondances dans les diasporas francophones.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Gelinas, Xavier ... Yves Frenette, Marcel Martel et John Willis, dir. Envoyer et recevoir: lettres et correspondances dans les diasporas francophones. Collection << Culture ffancaise d'Amerique>>. Quebec: Presses de l'Universite Laval, 2006. 298 p. ; 39 $ ISBN 2-7637-8391-0 L'etude de la ...
Robert Bringhurst. The Surface of Meaning: Books and Book Design in Canada.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Speller, Randall ... Robert Bringhurst. The Surface of Meaning: Books and Book Design in Canada. Vancouver: CCSP Press, 2008. 240 pp.; $60.00 ISBN 9780973872729 <Pre> The design and manufacture of books can tell us as much about a people or a culture as the condition of its grain fields, ...
Laura J. Murray and Samuel E. Trosow. Canadian Copyright: A Citizen's Guide.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Maclaren, Eli ... Laura J. Murray and Samuel E. Trosow. Canadian Copyright: A Citizen's Guide. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2007. 254 pp.; $24.95 ISBN 9781897071304 Imagine this case. A university instructor makes an electronic copy of some articles or book chapters and posts this on a course web ...
Sian Echard. Printing the Middle Ages.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Bell, David N. ... Sian Echard. Printing the Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 344 PP.; US $65.00 ISBN 9780812240917 There are books one studies with furrowed brow in the confines of one's study, and there are books one reads under a tree in the garden on a ...
Janice G. Schimmelman. Books on Art in Early America: Books on Art, Aesthetics and Instruction Available in American Libraries and Bookstores through 1815.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Skidmore, Colleen ... New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2007. 280 pp.; US $65.00 ISBN 9781584562146 Over the past twenty-five years, art historian Janice G. Schimmelman has collected and collated the literature of art and architecture that circulated in the United States during the eighteenth ...
Robin Myers, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote, eds. Books on the Move: Tracking Copies through Collections and the Book Trade.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Harper, Patti ... New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; London: The British Library, 2007. 180 pp.; US $49.95 ISBN 9781584562191 Before codes and forensics became fashionable in popular media, bibliophiles were tracking historical bibliographic evidence. The complex journeys that books can go on have ...
Ruth Clayton Windscheffel. Reading Gladstone.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Kent, Christopher ... Ruth Clayton Windscheffel. Reading Gladstone. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 330 pp.; US $69.95 ISBN 9780230007659 Reading Gladstone raises interesting questions about books, intellectuals, politics and power. With fully certified intellectuals now occupying the White House ...
Bill Bell, ed. The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Golick, Greta ... Bill Bell, ed. The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland. Vol. 3, Ambition and Industry, 1800-1880. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. 542 pp.; 105.00 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9780748617791 Reading this volume one thinks of Scotland as the little country that could ....
David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery, eds. The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Buurma, Rachel Sagner ... David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery, eds. The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland. Vol. 4, Professionalism and Diversity, 1880-2000. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. 544 pp.; 105.00 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9780748618293 Writing (and for that matter, editing, ...
David Miller and Richard Price, comps. British Poetry Magazines 1914-2000: A History and Bibliography of "Little Magazines.".(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; McKnight, David ... David Miller and Richard Price, comps. British Poetry Magazines 1914-2000: A History and Bibliography of "Little Magazines." New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; London: British Library, 2006. 452 pp.; US $95.00 ISBN 9781584561972 First let it be said that bibliography and ...
David Pearson. Books as History: The Importance of Books Beyond Their Texts.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Holland, Ann Marie ... David Pearson. Books as History: The Importance of Books Beyond Their Texts. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; London: The British Library, 2008. 208 pp.; US $49.95 ISBN 9781584562337 This book offers a fascinating, illustrated narrative on how the material form in which texts ...
Dean Irvine. Editing Modernity: Women and Little-Magazine Cultures in Canada, 1916-1956.(Brief Notices/Notices abreges)(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Dean Irvine. Editing Modernity: Women and Little-Magazine Cultures in Canada, 1916-1956. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. 361 pp.; $55.00 ISBN 9780802092717 A new title in the University of Toronto's Studies in Book and Print Culture series, Dean Irvine's Editing ...
John Hinks and Catherine Armstrong, eds. Book Trade Connections from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries.(Brief Notices/Notices abreges)(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009 ... John Hinks and Catherine Armstrong, eds. Book Trade Connections from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; London: The British Library, 2008. 266 pp.; US $49.95 ISBN 9781584562290 Book Trade Connections is the latest collection of essays in ...
