Bibliographical Society
Founded in 1892, the Bibliographical Society (of London) is the senior learned society dealing with the study of the book and its history.
The objectives of the Society are:
- to promote and encourage study and research in the fields of :
- historical, analytical, descriptive and textual bibliography,
- the history of printing, publishing, bookselling, bookbinding and collecting;
- to hold meetings at which papers are read and discussed;
- to print and publish a journal and books concerned with bibliography;
- to maintain a bibliographical library;
- from time to time to award a medal for services to bibliography
- to support bibliographical research by awarding grants and bursaries.
The Society holds a monthly lecture between October and May, usually on the third Tuesday of the month at University College London. The Society's quarterly journal The Library is issued free to members who also receive a copy of all books published by the Society.
The first fifty years of the Bibliographical Society were documented in Studies in retrospect.[1] The book encompassed, a volume of essays marking the Society's centenary was published in 1992.[2]
Other bibliographical societies
- Cambridge Bibliographical Society[3]
- Edinburgh Bibliographical Society[4]
- Oxford Bibliographical Society[5]
- Welsh Bibliographical Society
- Bibliographical Society of America[6]
- Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia[7]
- Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand[8]
- Bibliographical Society of Canada/La Société bibliographique du Canada[9].
External links
References
- ↑ The Bibliographical Society, 1892--1942: Studies in Retrospect, London (1949)
- ↑ Davison (Peter) ed.: The book encompassed. Pp. xvi, 315. 1992. Cambridge University Press (1992).
- ↑ http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/cambibsoc/
- ↑ http://mcs.qmuc.ac.uk/EBS/
- ↑ http://www.oxbibsoc.org.uk/
- ↑ http://www.bibsocamer.org/
- ↑ http://etext.virginia.edu/bsuva/
- ↑ http://www.csu.edu.au/community/BSANZ/
- ↑ http://www.library.utoronto.ca/bsc/bschomeeng.html