DSM1710 Rare Books Librarianship II
[Please note that this CPD Short Course is not available September 2019 - Summer 2020 because it is being revised.]
This is the second of two short courses on rare-books librarianship. It provides a more detailed introduction to this specialist field, looking in particular at the development of the printed book in continental Europe in the hand-press period (to approximately 1850) and examining the problems involved in creating descriptive bibliographies and catalogues of early printed materials.
This short course will enable students to consider the book as a physical object (typography, bindings, illustration, evidence of ownership) and to understand its place in the modern scholarly context.