THURSDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2023
5PM TO 6PM
Format & Location: Hosted in-person in the Umney Theatre at Robinson College, and live-streamed using Zoom. A recording of this lecture will also be made available.
Tickets: Free. Open to all, booking essential.
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'Bookbinders and customers'
The final Sandars lecture from Dr David Pearson will look more closely at binders, at what we can know about them and their trade networks. It will then consider their customers, looking at different groups (such as academics, students, and townspeople) and the kinds of bindings they acquired. It will conclude by returning to questions of methodology and purpose – what evidence can bindings bring to our understanding of the social impact of books? What value do they have for related disciplines of study? What are the key questions we should ask of historic bindings, what are the features we should observe? It will conclude with the hope that this research project will advance opportunities to recognise and date Cambridge bookbindings, while encouraging all those who handle early books to look more closely at what bindings can tell them.
For full information about the Sandars 2023 series and speaker, visit www.lib.cam.ac.uk/sandars.
Image, top left: Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827), ‘Inside View of the Public Library, Cambridge’ (1809). (Classmark: Maps Fr.y.14)