Date and location

Tuesday 6 March 2012
Elton-Bowring Room, the Gillespie Conference Centre,
Clare College, Cambridge (in front of CUL)

Programme

9:30 Registration

10:00 Opening Remarks: Ed Potten (Cambridge University Library)

10:10 Production: Chaired by Margaret Lane Ford (Christie’s)

• Satoko Tokunaga (Keio University), ‘Rubrication of Caxton’s Early English Books’
• Paul Needham (Scheide Library, Princeton University), ‘Ulrich Zel’s Printing’

11:20 Tea/Coffee

11:35 Collection: Chaired by Richard Linenthal (Antiquarian Bookseller)

• Eric White (Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University), ‘Gutenberg Bibles on the Move in England, 1789–1834’
• John Goldfinch (British Library), ‘British Museum Incunabula in Cambridge; Cambridge Incunabula in London’

12:50 Lunch

14:00 History: Chaired by Elisabeth Leedham-Green (Darwin College, Cambridge)

• Toshiyuki Takamiya (Keio University), ‘John Oates, Sir Geoffrey, et al.: Bibliophiles in Darwin, 1975−78’
• Lotte Hellinga (formerly British Library), ‘Six Summers at CUL in the 1960s: A Reminiscence’

15:00 Round Table Discussion: Chaired by David McKitterick (Trinity College, Cambridge)

16:00 Tea/Coffee

16:15 Book Viewing at CUL (1)

16:45 Book Viewing at CUL (2)

17:15 End of the Conference

Registration

If you would like to attend, please return your completed registration form and the registration fee (not refundable) to the conference organiser by 14 February. The full registration fee is £30 (£25 for students), which includes lunch and refreshments. For further information and enquiries please contact Dr Satoko Tokunaga.