31^st Annual Conference on Book Trade History

PUBLISHING THE FINE AND APPLIED ARTS, 1500-2000

Sunday 29^th and Monday 30^th November 2008

The Foundling Museum

40 Brunswick Square

London, WC1 1AZ

This year's annual conference on book trade history, the 31st in the series, will explore the relationship between the business of print and the practice of art and design across five centuries. There will also be opportunities to visit the Foundling Museum and to see relevant material in the Department of Prints & Drawings at the British Museum.

The Speakers will be:

Malcolm Jones (University of Sheffield): Metal-cut Border Ornaments in Parisian-printed Books of Hours as Design Sources for Sixteenth-Century English Works of Art

Charles Hind (British Architectural Library): Publishing Palladio in England, 1650-1750

Megan Doherty (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Seventeenth-Century Drawing Manuals and their Print Sources

Nick Savage (Royal Academy of Arts): The Formation and Growth of the Library of the Royal Academy of Arts, 1769-1901

Susan Palmer (Sir John Soane's Museum): Building a Library: Evidence from Sir John Soane's Archive

Charles Sebag-Montefiore: The Private Collection and the Auction Sale Catalogue from the 1620s to early 2000s

Abraham Thomas (Victoria & Albert Museum): Colour Printing and Design Reform: Owen Jones and the Birth of Chromolithography

Rowan Watson (National Art Library): Art Publishing and the Leisure Market in the 1860s and 1870s

The conference fee of £80 will include coffee, tea and a buffet lunch on both days.

Full conference details will be published shortly

Previous Conferences "Books on the Move" (available from the BL Bookshop)

Please contact the ABA (by email if possible) if you require information sent by post.

Organised by Michael Harris, Giles Mandelbrote and Robin Myers, in association with the Antiquarian Booksellers Association.