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THE ENGLISH BOOK IN THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM
This year’s series of Pforzheimer Lectures on Printing and the Book Arts addresses the world of the English book in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
These lectures, all at 6 p.m., include:
• Technology, Audience, and Authorship in the Romantic Age
Donald H. Reiman, 21 April• Ruskin and the Romantic Roots of Book Conservation
Paul N. Banks, 28 April• Some Remarks on Early 19th-Century Printing and How a Newfangled Article Became Associated with “The Assassination of Dentatus”
David Pankow, 5 May• Bibliophily and Bibliomania in the Romantic Era
Bernard McTigue, 12 May• The Romantic Reader and His Books
Richard D. Altick, 18 May• Neo-Classicism and the English Book: A Revolution in Typography, Illustration, and Bookbinding
Nicolas Barker, 26 May• The Beginnings of the Private Press in England
Francis O. Mattson, 2 June