10 research outputs found
G. Thomas Tanselle. <em>Portraits and Reviews</em>.
No full textG. Thomas Tanselle is a highly regarded bibliographer, textual editor, critic, and book collector. Following his undergraduate degree from Yale, he received his PhD in 1959 from the Department of English at Northwestern University with a dissertation on the twentieth-century American author Floyd Dell. Between 1960 and 1978, he taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, after which he served as vice president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation from 1978 until 2006. He has also served as an adjunct professor of English at Columbia University and coeditor of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the Writings of Herman Melville as well as president of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, the Bibliographical Society of America, the Grolier Club, and the Society for Textual Scholarship. In recognition of his scholarly contributions in the field of bibliography, Tanselle has delivered numerous prestigious lectures including the Hanes Foundation Lecture at the University of North Carolina, Robert L. Nikirk Lecture at the Grolier Club, the A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography at the University of Pennsylvania, the Sandars Lectures at Cambridge University, and the George Parker Winship Lecture at Harvard University.</jats:p
INTERVIEW WITH BERNARD M. ROSENTHAL
No full textBernard M. Rosenthal is an antiquarian bookseller based in Berkeley, California. His specialties include continental manuscripts and early printed books, the history of scholarship, bibliography, and paleography. Rosenthal was born in Munich in 1920 to a family with many connections to the book trade. His mother was the daughter of Leo Olschki, a renowned Italian bookseller. His father, who specialized in medieval and illuminated manuscripts, was the son of Jacques Rosenthal, a highly regarded seller of rare books in Munich. Other members of his extended family also were involved in the commercial book world as dealers, printers, and publishers.
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<b>Michael Blanding.</b> <i>The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps.</i> New York: Gotham Books, 2014. xvi, [ii], [1], 300 p. ISBN: 978-1592408177. $27.50
No full textThe Map Thief by Michael Blanding is an informative account of the life and crimes of E. Forbes Smiley III, a well-known antiquarian map dealer who stole rare and valuable maps from institutions for several years, selling the materials to other map dealers and directly to private collectors. Apprehended at Yale University in 2005, Smiley eventually confessed to stealing 97 maps valued at over $3,000,000 from six libraries, agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, and was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison. He was released in January 2010.Blanding, a journalist based in Boston, has published articles in regional, national . . .</jats:p
INTERVIEW WITH NORMAN FIERING
No full textNorman Fiering has announced his retirement as director and librarian of the John Carter Brown Library after twenty-two years of service. He has been head of the library, an independently funded and administered research institution located at Brown University, since 1983. During his tenure, the library doubled the size of its building, increased its endowment sevenfold, and established an international research fellowship program that gives awards to as many as thirty scholars a year. More than 5,000 rare books in a dozen different languages have been added to the collection since 1983, all primary sources for the study of the . . .</jats:p
EXIT INTERVIEW: HENRY SNYDER
No full textHenry Snyder was born in Hayward, California in 1929 and did his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving his PhD in history in 1963. He has taught and held administrative positions at University of Kansas, Louisiana State University, and University of California, Riverside. He has been director of the North American English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) project since 1978. In that time, the project has expanded from its original focus on eighteenth-century imprints to include records for letterpress items in any language printed between 1473 and 1800 in England or any of its dependencies, and works . . .</jats:p
INTERVIEW WITH ROGER E. STODDARD
No full textRoger E. Stoddard will retire in December 2004 as Curator of Rare Books in the Harvard College Library after four decades of service in the Houghton Library. To commemorate this event, Stoddard curated an exhibition in Spring 2004 titled “RES Gestae: Libri Manent: A Curator’s Choice of Books Purchased for the Houghton Library from 1965 to 2003,” which explored many of the collecting areas he pursued at Harvard. Acquisitions for Historical Collections, a symposium in the curator’s honor, was also held at Harvard in March 2004.1
Born and raised in New England, Stoddard attended Brown University and received his bachelor’s . . .</jats:p
Johnston, Alastair M. <i>Dreaming on the Edge: Poets & Book Artists in California</i>. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 230, [2] pp. $65.00. Illus. Cloth (ISBN: 978-1-5845-6354-9).
No full text<b>Richard Landon.</b> <i>A Long Way from the Armstrong Beer Parlour: A Life in Rare Books.</i> New Castle, Delaware and Toronto, Ontario: Oak Knoll Books and Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, 2014. 440p. One illustration. ISBN: 978-1-58456-330-3 (Oak Knoll Press) / 978-0-7727-6113-2 (Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library). $49.95.
No full textThroughout the course of his lengthy and remarkable career, Richard Landon successfully developed and promoted the extensive and renowned collections at the University of Toronto Libraries. After receiving his undergraduate and library school degrees from the University of British Columbia, Landon was hired in 1967 as a cataloguer in the libraries‘ Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. In the academic year 1971–1972 he pursued an advanced degree in bibliography and textual criticism at the University of Leeds, returning to Toronto to serve as Assistant Head and Acting Head prior to his appointment as Head of the department in . . .</jats:p
Estrategias dinámicas de posicionamiento de órdenes en el mercado bursátil español
No full textEsta tesis doctoral analiza el proceso dinámico de posicionamiento de órdenes en el mercado bursátil español desde diferentes puntos de vista. Si un agente decide participar en el mercado, debe elegir el tipo de orden que desea introducir. Hemos estudiado este proceso de decisión y las variables que lo afectan. En el capítulo 3 analizamos la velocidad de ejecución de una orden limitada y el impacto de algunas variables (inherentes a la orden emitida o presentes en el mercado) en la velocidad de ejecución. Conociendo las condiciones del mercado el agente puede inferir el tiempo esperado de ejecución de una orden limitada y valorar su conveniencia. En el capitulo 4 el agente selecciona no hacer nada, colocar una orden limitada, de mercado o fleeting (su objetivo es recabar información, tienen una duración corta). También se estudia la situación en que el agente ha introducido una orden y no sabe si cancelarla o no. Esta decisión se modeliza según los cambios en las condiciones de mercado. El capitulo 5 analiza el proceso de introducción de órdenes desde la agresividad. Con una clasificación de la agresividad de las órdenes modelizamos la probabilidad de que el agente opte por una de ellas
Thomas Gainsborough and The Imagery of Passage
No full textABSTRACT
This study aims to look closely at the road in Gainsborough’s landscape paintings, and to establish what they may tell us about passage beyond their accepted recessional or structural role. The clarity of detail in these early landscapes enables us to speculate the likely forms of passage that are being enacted within the context of Gainsborough’s native county of Suffolk; thus isolating them from his later stylistic developments. Understanding the circumstances pertaining to Suffolk’s roads and their uses during the first half of the eighteenth century - how they looked and the volume of traffic they sustained - will inform this investigation.
Coming to terms with the actual historical, rural environment, and applying these findings to the fictional plasticity of the painted road, and the landscape through which it passes, will bring us closer to understanding how Gainsborough’s landscapes may have contributed to a more local process; a preoccupation that was concerned with movement through, or around a particular location. We will seek to establish how particular spatial areas, created through an illusionistic and fictional depth of field, together with the manner of representation, inform passage in a broader sense
