This conference is organised by Print Networks in collaboration with CPHC.
VENUE: The Appleby Hub, Chapel Street, Appleby-in-Westmorland UK
This event will take place Face-to-Face; there will be no simultaneous broadcast or post-event video. Conference fee: £80 for two days, inclusive of all talks, lunch and mid-morning and mid-afternoon refreshments, scones and cakes.
The theme for this conference is ‘Around the Text’, and it will consider all those supporting materials and activities created around the design, production, and promotion of a printed text, particularly in the Anglophone world. Papers, will be given on aspects of a book which buttress the central text-block but which exclude the writing and printing of that text.
SPEAKERS: DAY 1 Tuesday 26 April 2022
Tim Pye, Signs of book use and care in Westmorland – two case studies; Teresa Jones, Worcester on the fore-edge; Frances Robertson, James Watt’s 1778 Instruction Book; Sue May, Hartmann Schedel’s 'Nuremberg Chronicle' (1493); its frontispiece in relation to the content of the book and the genre of universal world histories; Liz Woodham, Striding Edge through the pages: from Thomas West to Alfred Wainwright; Jen Baker, Determining Loss and Childhood in the Paratexts of Victorian Consolation Literatures; David Atkinson, Paratexts and the marketing of eighteenth century cookery books; Diana Patterson, Advertising in the back of books: purpose, timing, variety of formats, accuracy; Caroline Archer, Saving the Boulton-Baskerville Bible: reflections on the campaign around the text; Alex Parre, Saving the Boulton-Baskerville Bible: cataloguing and archives the campaign; Martin Killeen, Saving the Boulton-Baskerville Bible: subscribers 1756 and subscribers 2021.
SPEAKERS: DAY 2 Wednesday 27 April 2022
Alastair Wilcox, Religious and temperance society bookplates and book ownership; Barry McKay, The Bookmarker; Martin Killeen, Bookplates, labels, inscriptions, attachments in later-Victorian early-twentieth century women's books; Matthew Day, Headlines, chapter-headlines, running-titles and the rhetoric of mise-en-page and text in early modern print culture; John Jowett, The text/paratext boundary: Jonson’s 'Volpone'; Jenny Buckley, Print afterlives: the materiality of the periodical essay; Michael Durrant, The Remedy of Love (1584): Printed waste and the recovery of a lost early modern book; Jim Pennington, Erratum: the elephant on the page 1515-1530; Neassa Doherty, Subscribers to prints in eighteenth-century Dublin; Karen McAulay, Song Gems (Scots) the Dunedin Collection: a commercial failure?