Date/Time
Date(s) - 16 Mar 2015 until 19 Mar 2015
5:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Location
Class of 1978 Pavilion, Special Collections Center
Category(ies) No Categories
Penn 2015 Rosenbach Lectures:
William Zachs
*Authenticity and Duplicity: Investigations into Multiple Copies of Books*
Lecture Dates: *March 16**, 17, 19, 2015*
All lectures begin at *5:30pm*
Class of 1978 Pavilion, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, 6th floor, 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA
*LECTURE I: Monday, March 16, 2015*: “Perfection and Imperfection: Stories of Duplicates on a Scholar-Collector’s Bookshelves”
*LECTURE II: Tuesday, March 17, 2015*: “Fortune and Misfortune: Inquiries into the First Editions of *Moll Flanders*”
*SEMINAR: Wednesday, March 18*: Open Seminar with Bill Zachs for members of the History of Material Text Community, Lea Library
*10:00 am – 12:00 pm*
*LECTURE III: Thursday, March 19, 2015*: “Transparency and Deception:
Discoveries of Hidden Irish and Scottish Reprints”
Registration is requested but not required. *Please RSVP HERE*
http://www.library.upenn.edu/forms/eventsresponse14.html
These lectures consider a broad question: “What can we learn from looking at multiple copies of a book?” They are organized around a series of case studies–mainly from 18th-century–books that are either a part of or relate in some way to my own collection. Each case study illustrates different bibliographical and/or book-historical issues that can not be fully understood from the examination of a single copy. William Zachs is an independent scholar and collector who specializes in the English and Scottish book trade of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He is the author of The First John Murray and the Late Eighteenth-Century London Book Trade (Oxford, 1998) and curator of a 2011 exhibition on David Hume at the Edinburgh Writer’s Museum.