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From: Todd Samuelson <bookhistoryweek(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 4:21 PM
Registration has opened for the fourteenth annual Book History Workshop at
Texas A&M University, scheduled for May 17-22, 2015. Taking place in
Cushing Memorial Library & Archives, the Workshop provides an intensive,
hands-on introduction to the history of books and printing. Applicants who
are accepted into the program and send their deposit before February 23 will
receive a $100 registration discount.
This five-day workshop allows participants to create a complete facsimile
of an eighteenth-century pamphlet by setting, correcting, and imposing type
on an English common press, then printing the book in three octavo formes.
The Workshop’s projects extend to other handpress-era technologies,
including typecasting, papermaking, bookbinding, and illustration.
Together, these projects provide a unique opportunity for book historians,
literary scholars, librarians, and students to experience a complement of
practices used to create books from the sixteenth to the eighteenth
centuries.
The Workshop acts as an introduction to book history, providing
participants the rare opportunity to learn principles of analytical
bibliography through discussion sessions. Topical lectures about book
production methods will draw from Cushing Library’s extensive historical
collections. Students will also experience hands-on sessions in which they
will cast type from molten lead alloy, pull sheets of paper, and cut relief
illustrations. The activities of the week are incorporated into the
finished project, the pamphlet bound in wrappers of handmade paper,
featuring printers’ devices cut by each member of the Workshop.
The Workshop has traditionally attracted scholars, librarians, archivists,
students, teachers, and collectors, as well as those pursuing personal
interests in book history. Three graduate credit hours are available to
students through the Workshop’s partnership with the Department of Library
and Information Sciences at the University of North Texas.
To register, find out more, examine a brochure, or see photographs from
previous Workshops, please go to: <
http://cushing.library.tamu.edu/events/book-history-workshop>gt;, or contact
Todd Samuelson at todd.samuelson <at> tamu <dot> edu.
Todd Samuelson, Ph.D., C.A.
Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts
Director, Book History Workshop
Cushing Memorial Library & Archives
Texas A&M University
5000 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843
979.845.1951
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