A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography

A.S.W. Rosenbach, a collector, scholar, and dealer in rare books

The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures are an endowed lectureship in bibliography established in 1928 by rare-book and manuscript dealer A. S. W. Rosenbach at the University of Pennsylvania. [1]

The Rosenbach Lectures are the longest continuing series of bibliographical lectureships in the United States. Individuals appointed as Rosenbach Fellows present three lectures over several weeks.[2]

The 1971 A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography marked the Theodore Dreiser Centenary.[3]

The 1974 A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography was devoted to the fifth annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies."[4]

The university's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center in collaboration with their Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts are the current location of the lectures.

## Lecturers

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The first Rosenbach Fellow was Christopher Morley in 1931 [5] whose lectures were published as Ex Libris Carissimis in 1932.[6] Many of the lectures have been published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, including Morley's, which was also part of the anniversary collection of the Press.[7] Other lecturers have included:

* Randolph Greenfield Adams, "Three Americanists"[8]
* Claude C. Albritton, "Toward the Discovery of Time: Landmarks in Historical Geology"[9]
* Nicolas Barker, "Things Not Reveal 'd: The Mutual Impact of Idea and Form in the Transmission of Poetry, 1500-2002"[10]
* Malachi Beit-Arié, "Unveiled Faces of Medieval Hebrew Books: The Evolution of Manuscript Production"[11]
* Terry Belanger, "The History of American Rare Book Libraries from 1876 to present"[12]
* John Bidwell, "Papermaking in the Delaware Valley at the end of the 18th & beginning of the 19th century."[13]
* Ann M. Blair, "Hidden Hands: Amanuenses and Authorship in Early Modern Europe."[14]
* Fredson Bowers, "On Editing Shakespeare & the Elizabethan Dramatists"[15]
* Clarence S. Brigham, "Journals & Journeymen: Studies in Early American Newspapers"[16]
* Curt F. Bühler, "Incunabula" and "The 15th Century Book"[17][18]
* Charles Burnett, "Arabic and Greek Science and Philosophy: Form and Style in the Transmission to the Latin West"
* Cass Canfield, "The Publishing Experience"[19]
* Mary Carruthers, "Cognitive Geometries: Using Diagrams in the Middle Ages"[20]
* William Charvat, "Literary Publishing in America 1790-1850"[21]
* Roger Chartier, "Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer"[22]
* I. Bernard Cohen, "Words, Images & Ideas"[23]
* Robert Darnton, "The Devil in the Holy Water"[24][25]
* Elizabeth Eisenstein, "Divine Art / Infernal Machine: Western Views of Printing Surveyed"[26]
* Robert H. Elias, "Dreiser: Bibliography and the Biographer"[27]
* Bernhard Fabian, "Literacy & the Reading Public in the 18th century"[28]
* John Farquhar Fulton, "Great Medical Bibliographies: A study in Humanism"[29]
* Carlo Ginzberg, "Fossils, Apes, Humans: A Chapter in the History of Science, Revisited"[30]
* Anthony Grafton, "Books and the Magus: Johannes Trithemius 1462-1516"[31]
* James N. Green, "Book Publishing in Early America" [32]
* David D. Hall, "Pen and Press: Practices of Writing and Publishing in Colonial America"[33]
* Louis Hanke, "Bartolomi de Las Casas"[34]
* Anthony Hobson, "The Bibliomania: English Book Collecting in the Early Nineteenth Century"[35][36]
* Dard Hunter, "Oriental Papermaking, Early American Papermaking"[37]
* Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, "Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage"[38]
* Ludolf Kuchenbuch and Ivan Illich, "The History of Text: Three Dialogues"
* John Lievsay, "The Englishman 's Italian Books"[39]
* Alberto Manguel, "The Traveller, the Tower and the Worm"[40]
* Peter D. McDonald, "The Secret Life of Books"[41]
* James Gilmer McManaway, "Early English Literature"[42]
* Elizabeth McHenry, "Toward a History of Black Print"[43]
* A. Hyatt Mayor, "Prints & People"[44]
* Wolfgang Milde, "The Gospel of Henry the Lion"[45]
* C. William Miller, "From Holy Experiment to Revolution"[46]
* Dorothy Miner, "The Medieval Illustrated Book"[47][48]
* Ruth Mortimer, "L 'Art de Bien Batir: French 16th Century Architecture Books"[49]
* Paul Needham, "The First Quarter Century of European Printing."[50]
* A. Edward Newton, "Bibliography & Pseudo-Bibliography" [51]
* Stanley Pargellis, "Americana Collectors in Europe and England, 1600-1800"[52]
* Nicholas Pickwood, "The Uses of Bookbinding History"[53]
* Donald Pizer, "Dreiser 's Fiction: The Editorial Problem"[54]
* J. H. Powell, "The USA 1774-1816: A Bibliographical Study"[55]
* Leah Price, "Reading from Home.Reader ≠ inessential worker"[56]
* Janice Radway, "Books, Reading and the Struggle for Control of Literary Culture in the Age of Mass Production" [57]
* Richard H. Rouse, "The Development of Aids to Study in the 13th Century"[58]
* Paul Henry Saenger, "The Latin Bible as Codex"[59]
* George Sarton, "The Appreciation of Ancient and Medieval Science "in the Renaissance[60]
* Fred Schreiber, "The French-Scholar Printer of the Renaissance"[61][62][63]
* Leslie Shane, "Swift, Irish Books"[64]
* Peter Stallybrass, "Printing-for-Manuscript" [65]
* Brain Stock, "Minds, Bodies, Readers"[66]
* Michael F. Suarez, S.J. "Printing Abolition:How the Fight to Ban the British Slave Trade Was Won, 1783–1807"[67]
* G. Thomas Tanselle, "Tortured Stem and Tranquil Blossom: A Rationale of Textual Criticism"[68]
* Archer Taylor, "Subject Indexes"[69]
* Eric Gardner Turner, "Towards a Typology of the Early Codex"[70]
* Robert W. G. Vail, "Voice of the Old Frontier"[71]
* Michael Warner, "The Evangelical Public Sphere"[72]
* James L. W. West III, "The Profession of Authorship in America 1900-1950"[73]
* Roy McKeen Wilies [74]
* George Parker Winship, "John Gutenberg, 15th Century Printing, The Bay Psalm Book"[75]
* Edwin Wolf II, "Books and Bookmen of Colonial Philadelphia"[76]
* Richard J. Wolfe, "The Art of Marbling Paper & its relationship to Bookbinding in the West"[77]
* Louis Booker Wright, "Living Libraries"[78]
* Lawrence C. Wroth, "An American Bookshelf in 1755"[79]
* John Cook Wyllie, "Typefaces used in Books"[80]
* William Zachs, "Authenticity and Duplicity: Investigations into Multiple Copies of Books"[81][82]

## See also

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* E. A. Lowe Lectures
* Lyell Lectures
* McKenzie Lectures
* Panizzi Lectures
* Sandars Lectures

## References

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1. ^ “Rosenbach Lectures.” The Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford University Press, 2010.
2. ^ The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
3. ^ Pizer, Donald, and Robert Henry Elias. 1971. Theodore Dreiser Centenary: A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship Lectures in Bibliography. Philadelphia: Library Chronicle, University of Pennsylvania.
4. ^ Darnton, Robert, Bernhard Fabian, R. M. Wiles, Paul J. Korshin, A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund, and American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 1976. The Widening Circle: Essays on the Circulation of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Europe. [Philadelphia]: University of Pennsylvania Press.
5. ^ Moffett A. "Mr. Morley writes the reminiscences of a reader: EX LIBRIS CARISSIMIS," by Christopher Morley. 134 pp. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania press. $2. New York Times. 1932 May 15, 1932/05/15/:1.
6. ^ Morley, Christopher, A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund, and Ralph Ellison Collection (Library of Congress). 1932. Ex Libris Carissimis. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania press.
7. ^ The Rosenbach Lectures, 1931-2006 University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
8. ^ Adams, Randolph Greenfield, and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. 1939. Three Americanists : Henry Harrisse, Bibliographer; George Brinley, Book Collector; Thomas Jefferson, Librarian. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
9. ^ Albritton, Claude C, Gerald M Friedman, History of the Earth Sciences Society (U.S.), and Southern Methodist University Institute for the Study of Earth and Man. 1989. Claude C. Albritton, Jr. (1913-1988) : Memorial Issue. Troy, N.Y: History of the Earth Sciences Society : Published in conjunction with Institute of the Study of Earth and Man, Southern Methodist University.
10. ^ Barker, Nicolas (2003). Form and Meaning in the History of the Book. Selected Essays by Nicolas Barker. London: British Library.
11. ^ Beit-Arié, Malachi. Unveiled Faces of Medieval Hebrew Books : The Evolution of Manuscript Production--Progression or Regression? 2003\. Jerusalem: Hebrew University Magnes Press."This book, apart from chapter V, originated from the Rosenbach Lectures delivered at the University of Pennsylvania in the fall of 2000."
12. ^ Terry Belanger, professor and director of Rare Book School, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, rare book preservationist- “Terry Belanger Wins MacArthur ‘Genius’ Award.” 2005. American Libraries 36 (10): 26.
13. ^ Bidwell, John. University of Virginia Bibliographical Society, Newgen North America (Firm) (active 2019), and Maple Press Company. 2019. Paper and Type: Bibliographical Essays. Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia.
14. ^ Blair, Ann M. "Hidden Hands: Amanuenses and Authorship in Early Modern Europe."The University of Pennsylvania Libraries A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography for 2014.
15. ^ 1954 Lecturer. Bowers, Fredson. 1955. On Editing Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Dramatists. [Philadelphia]: Published for the Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation by the University of Pennsylvania Library.
16. ^ Brigham, Clarence S. 1950. Journals and Journeymen : A Contribution to the History of Early American Newspapers. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press.
17. ^ Bühler, Curt F., and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. 1949. Standards of Bibliographical Description. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press.
18. ^ Bühler, Curt F. 1960. The Fifteenth-Century Book: The Scribes, the Printers, the Decorators. Philadelphia [Pennsylvania]: University of Pennsylvania Press. NOTE: Bühler gave two lectures in 1947 and 1957.
19. ^ 1968\. Lecture. Canfield, Cass, and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. 1969. The Publishing Experience. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
20. ^ Carruthers, Mary J. 2008. The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture. 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
21. ^ Charvat, William. 1959. Literary Publishing in America, 1790-1850. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press.
22. ^ Chartier, Roger. 1995. Forms and Meanings : Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
23. ^ Diagrams and Illustrations in Relation to Scientific Ideas, before and after the Invention of Printing, 1973. delivered by Cohen on November 27, 1973. Tape number: Spec967. RB1
24. ^ Darnton, Robert. 2011. The Devil in the Holy Water, or, the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon. Philadelphia, Pa., Oxford: University of Pennsylvania Press ; Oxford Creative Marketing distributor.
25. ^ Darnton, Robert: "Trade in the taboo: the life of a clandestine book dealer in prerevolutionary France." in The Widening Circle : Essays on the Circulation of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Europe. Edited by Paul J. Korshin. Reprint 2016. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
26. ^ Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. 2011. Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending. Philadelphia: Oxford : University of Pennsylvania Press.
27. ^ Pizer, Donald, and Robert Henry Elias. 1971. Theodore Dreiser Centenary: A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship Lectures in Bibliography. Philadelphia: Library Chronicle, University of Pennsylvania.
28. ^ "English books and their eighteenth-century German readers" in The Widening Circle: Essays on the Circulation of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Europe. Edited by Paul J. Korshin. Reprint 2016. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
29. ^ Fulton, John F., and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. 1951. The Great Medical Bibliographers: A Study in Humanism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
30. ^ Ginzburg, Carlo. 1989. Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press.
31. ^ Blair, Ann, and Anja-Silvia Goeing. 2016. For the Sake of Learning (2 Vols) : Essays in Honor of Anthony Grafton. Leiden: BRILL.
32. ^ Green, James N. Chapter 6. "The book trade in the middle colonies, 1680-1720 " In Amory, Hugh, and David D Hall. 2010. The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, Chapel Hill, N.C: Published in association with the American Antiquarian Society by the University of North Carolina Press.
33. ^ Hall, David D. (2008). Ways of writing: the practice and politics of text-making in seventeenth-century New England. University of Pennsylvania Press.
34. ^ Hanke, Lewis. 1952. Bartolomé de Las Casas: Bookman, Scholar & Propagandist. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
35. ^ Hobson, Anthony, and Dennis E Rhodes. 1994. Bookbindings & Other Bibliophily: Essays in Honour of Anthony Hobson. Verona: Valdonega.
36. ^ De, Hamel, N Pickwoad, M Egremont, N Poole-Wilson, and M.M Foot. 2011. “A Garland for Mr Hobson: Anthony Hobson at 90.” The Book Collector V60 N3 (2011 09 01): 371-375.
37. ^ Hunter, Dard, and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. 1952. Papermaking in Pioneer America. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pa. Press.
38. ^ 2016 Lectures. Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. 2021. Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
39. ^ Lievsay, John Leon, and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. The Englishman’s Italian Books, 1550-1700. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1969.
40. ^ A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography for 2011: Monday, March 21, 2011: "The Traveller, the Tower and the Worm" University of Pennsylvania Scholars Commons.
41. ^ Peter D. McDonald, The Secret Life of Books, Lecture 2: The Lure of Literature. 2022 A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography, University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Peter D. McDonald, University of Oxford-
42. ^ McManaway, James Gilmer. 1949. [Studies 1 and Studies 2, the Works of James G. Mcmanaway].
43. ^ "Toward a History of Black Print" A.S.W. Rosenbach Lecture in Bibliography, 2024.University of Pennsylvania.
44. ^ Mayor, A. Hyatt, and Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). 1971. Prints & People: A Social History of Printed Pictures. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society.
45. ^ Milde was head, manuscript department of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel the largest in Europe in the 17th century, into a modern, internationally recognized study and research center for the Middle Ages and the early modern period. He acquired the Gospel Book of Henry the Lion in 1983.Festschrift Für Wolfgang Heinz Zum 70. Geburtstag. 2012 1. Auflage ed. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
46. ^ (Professor of English at Temple University) Miller, C. William. 1974. Benjamin Franklin’s Philadelphia Printing, 1728-1766 : A Descriptive Bibliography. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.
47. ^ DOROTHY MINER, 68, ARTS SCHOLAR, DIES. New York Times, May 17, 1973.
48. ^ Miner, D. (1955). Illuminated Manuscripts at Harvard. College Art Journal, 14(3), 229–235.
49. ^ Smith College, Ruth Mortimer, James Sacré, and Press of the Sea Turtle. 1994. The Mortimer Rare Book Room: In Honor of Ruth Mortimer Lancaster ’53 Curator of Rare Books 1975-1994, Dedication April 23, 1994. Smith College. Northampton, Mass: Smith College.
50. ^ Needham, Paul, "The First Quarter Century of European Printing." The University of Pennsylvania Libraries A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography for 2013.
51. ^ Newton, A. Edward. 2016. Bibliography and Pseudo-Bibliography. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press.
52. ^ Pargellis, Stanley, 1954. Book Collecting and Scholarship. Oxford University Press: Minnesota University Press.
53. ^ Pickwood, Nicholas. “Unfinished Business : Incomplete Bindings Made for the Booktrade from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century.” 2020. Quaerendo Volume 50, No. 1-2 (2020), Seite 41-80.
54. ^ Pizer, Donald, and Robert Henry Elias. 1971. Theodore Dreiser Centenary: A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship Lectures in Bibliography. Philadelphia: Library Chronicle, University of Pennsylvania.
55. ^ Powell, J. H., and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. 1957. The Books of a New Nation: United States Government Publications, 1774-1814. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press.
56. ^ Material Texts
57. ^ Radway, Janice A, Svenska förläggareföreningen, and Stockholms universitetsbibliotek. 1996. Books and Reading in the Age of Mass Production : The Book-Of-The-Month Club, Middlebrow Culture and the Transformation of the Literary Field in the United States, 1926-1940. Stockholm? Svenska Förläggareföreningen.
58. ^ Rouse, Richard H, Mary A Rouse, Christopher Baswell, and University of California, Los Angeles Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 2011. Medieval Manuscripts, Their Makers and Users: A Special Issue of Viator in Honor of Richard and Mary Rouse. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols.
59. ^ Saenger, Paul Henry and Kimberly Van Kampen.The Bible As Book: The First Printed Editions. 1999 1. publ ed. London u.a: British Library u.a.
60. ^ Sarton, George. 1955. The Appreciation of Ancient and Medieval Science during the Renaissance, 1450-1600. Pp. xvii. 233. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia.
61. ^ Schreiber, Fred.My Life With Books: How One Thing Leads to Another
62. ^ Schreiber, Fred (1982)The Estiennes: an annotated catalogue of 300 highlights of their various presses. New York. Schreiber
63. ^ Taylor, W. Thomas, and Harold B. Lee Library Friends. 1995. We Are Pleased to Announce the Forthcoming Publication of Fred Schreiber, Simon De Colines : An Annotated Catalogue of 230 Examples of His Press, 1520-1546. Austin, Tex: Distributed for Friends of the Brigham Young University Library by W.T. Taylor.
64. ^ Leslie, Shane, and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. 1935. The Script of Jonathan Swift, and Other Essays. Philadelphia, London: University of Pennsylvania Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
65. ^ Peter Stallybrass is Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English and of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory. He directs the seminar on the History of Material Texts, and co-edits the Material Texts series for the University of Pennsylvania Press.
66. ^ Stock, Brian. “Rosenbach Lectures: Minds, Bodies, Readers.” New Literary History 37, no. 3 (2006): 489–524
67. ^ Suarez, Michael F. Printing Abolition: How the Fight to Ban the British Slave Trade Was Won, 1783–1807 A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography. University of Pennsylvania, 2021.
68. ^ 1987 Lecture: Tanselle, G. Thomas, and University of Pennsylvania Press. 1989. A Rationale of Textual Criticism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
69. ^ Taylor, Archer. 1966. General Subject-Indexes since 1548. Philadelphia - Pa: University Press.
70. ^ Turner, E. G. 1977. The Typology of the Early Codex. [Philadelphia]: University of Pennsylvania Press.
71. ^ Vail, R. W. G. 2017. The Voice of the Old Frontier. Reprint 2016. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press. The three lectures Vail delivered in 1945 supplemented by descriptions of 1300 bibliographical items covering the North American frontier literature over the period 1542 to 1800,
72. ^ Warner, Michael. 1990. The Letters of the Republic : Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
73. ^ West, James L. W. 2011. Making the Archives Talk: New and Selected Essays in Bibliography, Editing, and Book History. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.
74. ^ "The relish for reading in provincial England two centuries ago in The Widening Circle : Essays on the Circulation of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Europe. Edited by Paul J. Korshin. Reprint 2016. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
75. ^ Winship, George Parker, and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. 1940. Printing in the Fifteenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
76. ^ Wolf, Edwin. The Book Culture of a Colonial American City: Philadelphia Books, Bookmen, and Booksellers. Oxford, Oxfordshire, England: Clarendon Press, 1988.
77. ^ Wolfe, Richard J. 1989. Marbled Paper: Its History, Techniques, and Patterns: With Special References to the Relationship of Marbling to Bookbinding in Europe and the Western World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.
78. ^ Hard, Frederick, and Folger Shakespeare Library. 1968. Louis B. Wright; a Bibliography and an Appreciation. Charlottesville: Published for the Folger Shakespeare Library by University Press of Virginia.
79. ^ WROTH, Lawrence Counselman, and James LOVEDAY. 1934. An American Bookshelf, 1775. [An Account of the Library of James Loveday, as Reflecting the Contemporary Social Background.]. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
80. ^ John Cook Wyllie Research Notes, 1954-1967. Summary:The collection contains notebooks and research notes compiled by Wyllie as Curator of Rare Books and University Librarian, University of Virginia Library
81. ^ Zachs, William, "Authenticity and Duplicity: Investigations into Multiple Copies of Books" (2015). A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography. 9.
82. ^ Zachs, William. 1992. Without Regard to Good Manners: A Biography of Gilbert Stuart, 1743-1786. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

## External links

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* The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography