Rare Book School 2002

Rare Book School (RBS) is pleased to announce the schedule of courses for its first summer session, Monday-Friday 8-12 July and Monday-Friday 15-19 July 2002.

Courses offered include:

Monday-Friday, June 3-7 :
Introduction to the History of Typography.

Instructor: Archie Provan
A survey of European and American typographic history from1450 to the present, but concentrating on the period 1480-1950. Topics will include: early German contributions; the development of Roman and italic; from Old Style to Transitional to Modern (Italian, French, Dutch, English, and American developments); the coming of machine composition and the historic revivals; typeface nomenclature; and techniques for dating pre-1885 hand-set typefaces and for naming post-1885 machine-set typefaces. In laboratory sessions, students will have a chance to set type by hand, proof, and print. Offered for the first time in 2002.

Archie Provan is Professor of Typography at the RIT School of Printing Management and Sciences. He is co-author of A Primer of Typeface Identification (1976) and 100 Type Histories (1983).

B-010: Introduction to the History of Bookbinding

taught by Jan Storm van Leeuwen (Keeper of the Binding Collection, Royal Dutch Library, The Hague)

L-075: Electronic Texts in XML

taught by David Seaman, with Christine Ruotolo and Matthew Gibson (all of the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center)

H-010: The History of the Book, 200-2000

taught by John Buchtel (RBS) and Mark Dimunation (Chief, Rare Book & Special Collections Division, Library of Congress)

Monday-Friday, July 15-19 :
Type, Lettering, and Calligraphy, 1450-1830

Instructor: James Mosley
The development of the major formal and informal book hands, the dominant printing types of each period, and their interrelationship. Topics include: the Gothic hands; humanistic script; the Renaissance inscriptional capital; Garamond and the spread of the Aldine Roman; calligraphy from the chancery italic to the English round hand; the neo-classical book and its typography; and early commercial typography. The course presupposes a general knowledge of Western history and some awareness of the continuity of the Latin script but no special knowledge of typographical history.

James Mosely is Visiting Professor in the Dept of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. He retired as Librarian of the St Bride Printing Library in London earlier this year. The founding editor of the Journal of the Printing Historical Society, he has written and lectured extensively on the history of European and English typography.

RBS regulars Greer Allen, Sue Allen, Martin Antonetti, William P. Barlow, Jr, Mirjam Foot, James Mosley, Alice Schreyer, and Michael Twyman will all be on hand doing what they do best.

More information:

Terry Belanger
University Professor
University of Virginia
114 Alderman Library
Charlottesville, VA 22903
T : 434-924-8851
F : 434-924-8824

belanger@virginia.edu
http://www.rarebookschool.org

-- Vincent Golden