30^th Annual Conference on Book Trade History

BOOKS FOR SALE

The Advertising and Promotion of Print from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries

Saturday 29^th and Sunday 30^th November 2008

The Foundling Museum

40 Brunswick Square

London, WC1 1AZ

Provisional speakers and lectures:

Saturday

Lotte Hellinga

Trade Advertisements for Books Printed before 1501

Julianne Simpson

Selling the Biblia Regia: the Marketing and Distribution Methods for Christopher Plantin's Polyglot Bible

Udo Goellmann

Buying & Selling Rare Books Online - Yesterday & Tomorrow

Sunday

Michael Harris

Advertising Print & Print in Advertising around 1700

Charles Benson

'Mingling Judiciously the Grave & Gay': Advertising books in early nineteenth-century Ireland

Alan Powers

'From Protection to Promotion': the uses of the book jacket

Peter Straus

The Use and Effect of Literary Prizes in the Twentieth Century

Full conference details will be published shortly. Please contact the ABA (by email if possible) to request more information and a booking form:

ABA, Sackville House, 40 Piccadilly, London, W1J 0DR.

Email: admin@aba.org.uk Tel: 020 7439 3118 Fax: 020 7439 3119

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