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Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal eBooks, Oct 1, 2004
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, 1996
Aucun secteur de l’industrie du livre ne prend racine en Nouvelle-France : le contexte colonial n... more Aucun secteur de l’industrie du livre ne prend racine en Nouvelle-France : le contexte colonial n’est guère favorable à une industrie dont l’exploitation et la commercialisation des produits exigent de lourds investissements
Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada, Volume I, 2004
Étroitement liés à l'histoire du pays que deviendra le Canada, le livre et l'imprimé y on... more Étroitement liés à l'histoire du pays que deviendra le Canada, le livre et l'imprimé y ont fait leur apparition dès l'arrivée des premiers colons. Outils d'évangélisation, de colonisation, d'enseignement, de propagande religieuse et politique, mais aussi moyens d'exploration, de connaissance, de libération, le livre et l'imprimé ont contribué à la création d'une histoire nationale et à la construction de l'identité des peuples qui se côtoient désormais sur le territoire. Ce premier volume de l'Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada retrace le parcours de l'imprimé, depuis le débarquement des premiers colons en Nouvelle-France jusqu'aux Rébellions de 1837 et de 1838, en passant par l'apparition du premier imprimé à Halifax en 1752 et la constitution des premières bibliothèques publiques et privées. Il démontre avec clarté que l'imprimé sous toutes ses formes, que ce soit les placards, journaux, almanachs, illustrés, livres de cuisine ou ouvrages d'érudition, a fait partie intégrante de la vie quotidienne des Canadiens. Enfin, il dresse un portrait vivant de l'auteur et du lecteur, mais aussi de tous les artisans des métiers du livre et de l'imprimerie, de l'apprenti à l'éditeur imprimeur, en les replaçant dans leur contexte social et historique
Mens: Revue d'histoire intellectuelle de l'Amérique française, 2005
En Nouvelle-France, le livre joue un rôle de premier plan dans la rencontre entre l’institution j... more En Nouvelle-France, le livre joue un rôle de premier plan dans la rencontre entre l’institution juridique d’origine européenne et le « vivre ensemble » colonial modulé par un espace étranger, l’Amérique du Nord. Il constitue un support de l’arsenal législatif des autorités monarchiques et un support du droit coutumier parisien qui régit la vie civile de la colonie. C’est pourquoi l’acquisition des livres de judicature est devenue, tôt dans le XVIIIe siècle, une question clé des débats relatifs à la qualité de l’administration judiciaire de la Nouvelle-France et aux compétences juridiques de ses officiers. Laissée traditionnellement à la charge des magistrats, cette démarche va peu à peu être assumée par le gouvernement qui verra à fournir un certain nombre de livres de référence à sa magistrature locale. La bibliothèque du Conseil supérieur de Québec deviendra ainsi la première bibliothèque de collectivité laïque dans la vallée laurentienne avant les années 1760. Le présent article ...
Histoire Sociale-social History, 2005
Histoire Sociale-social History, 2013
No printing press was set up in the Laurentian valley of North America, the colony known as New F... more No printing press was set up in the Laurentian valley of North America, the colony known as New France, until the late date of 1764.1 That date has become important in the historiography of the book and of printing in Canada, a reference point signifying a cultural break between a French past, little affected by print culture, and a very different English future. In fact, the history of the book in Canada under the French colonial regime is still relatively unknown and evidence is scarce (as in other French colonies of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries). The commonplace, and oversimplified, explanation of what was actually a remarkable but complex phenomenon is well illustrated by a passage from the work of a pioneer of research on the book in Canada: ‘Before 1764, there was neither a printing press nor a bookstore in New France, though books were being imported by institutions and individuals. Only after the Conquest did printing presses, the book trade and libraries develop...
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 33 /2 bibliography includes meticulously detailed... more Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 33 /2 bibliography includes meticulously detailed descriptions of the fifty-eight titles printed over a nine-year period. Each entry is accompanied by extensive notes containing additional information about the authors and their texts as well as the distribution of the copies. My questions regarding the relationship between Joyce and the Press were finally laid to rest. The nine appendices provide details relating to the Press' ephemeral items, typefaces preferred by Carlow and the foundries which supplied them, the multitude of papers Carlow experimented with, variations of the design of the Corvinus device, binders, and a list of items printed under the Dropmore Press imprint. Appendix vinI, which is particularly appealing, offers biographical sketches of the authors, subscribers, and other notable recipients of Corvinus Press books. All information in the appendices is crossreferenced to the bibliography, and the index includes titles, authors, illustrators, translators and subjects which lead the reader to the appendices and bibliography. This excellent work provides a fascinating look at a long ignored moment in twentieth-century printinig and firmly establishes the Corvinus Press as an imiportant participant in the tradition of the private press. Although somewhat pricey, this bibliographical study is an essential purchase for collectors or libraries fortunate enough to own Corvinus Press books. Scholars of the history of the book and private printing will also find its contents invaluable.
Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada
Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 36/2 making generalizations, and so translate int... more Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 36/2 making generalizations, and so translate into a call for more of the type of research we find here in its finest: the careful investigation of specific evidence regarding particular codices, communities, and people. The essays are, on the whole, carefully researched and copiously footnoted. They do much to advance our understanding of women and books in the Middle Ages, and point optimistically towards further wo~rk. The large number of illustrations also lend the book a secondary function as reference work: it includes nine glossy, colour plates (including three from the courtly Queen Mary Psalter), and one hundred and three illustrations, forming a sort of miniature conspectus of medieval images of, by, and perhaps specifically for women-a step towards the comprehensive conspectus one of the editors eagerly anticipates. A helpful and lengthy index of manuscripts cited is also included. The remaining three essays not mentioned are: 'Aesop's Cock and Marie's Hen: Gendered Authorship in Text and Image in Manuscripts of Marie de France's Fables' by Sandra Hindman; 'Two Twelfth-Century Women and their Books,' about Hildegard of Bingen and Herrad of Landsberg, by Th6rèse McGuire, and 'Women and Books of Hours' by Sandra Penketh.
Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada
Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada
Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal eBooks, Oct 1, 2004
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, 1996
Aucun secteur de l’industrie du livre ne prend racine en Nouvelle-France : le contexte colonial n... more Aucun secteur de l’industrie du livre ne prend racine en Nouvelle-France : le contexte colonial n’est guère favorable à une industrie dont l’exploitation et la commercialisation des produits exigent de lourds investissements
Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada, Volume I, 2004
Étroitement liés à l'histoire du pays que deviendra le Canada, le livre et l'imprimé y on... more Étroitement liés à l'histoire du pays que deviendra le Canada, le livre et l'imprimé y ont fait leur apparition dès l'arrivée des premiers colons. Outils d'évangélisation, de colonisation, d'enseignement, de propagande religieuse et politique, mais aussi moyens d'exploration, de connaissance, de libération, le livre et l'imprimé ont contribué à la création d'une histoire nationale et à la construction de l'identité des peuples qui se côtoient désormais sur le territoire. Ce premier volume de l'Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada retrace le parcours de l'imprimé, depuis le débarquement des premiers colons en Nouvelle-France jusqu'aux Rébellions de 1837 et de 1838, en passant par l'apparition du premier imprimé à Halifax en 1752 et la constitution des premières bibliothèques publiques et privées. Il démontre avec clarté que l'imprimé sous toutes ses formes, que ce soit les placards, journaux, almanachs, illustrés, livres de cuisine ou ouvrages d'érudition, a fait partie intégrante de la vie quotidienne des Canadiens. Enfin, il dresse un portrait vivant de l'auteur et du lecteur, mais aussi de tous les artisans des métiers du livre et de l'imprimerie, de l'apprenti à l'éditeur imprimeur, en les replaçant dans leur contexte social et historique
Mens: Revue d'histoire intellectuelle de l'Amérique française, 2005
En Nouvelle-France, le livre joue un rôle de premier plan dans la rencontre entre l’institution j... more En Nouvelle-France, le livre joue un rôle de premier plan dans la rencontre entre l’institution juridique d’origine européenne et le « vivre ensemble » colonial modulé par un espace étranger, l’Amérique du Nord. Il constitue un support de l’arsenal législatif des autorités monarchiques et un support du droit coutumier parisien qui régit la vie civile de la colonie. C’est pourquoi l’acquisition des livres de judicature est devenue, tôt dans le XVIIIe siècle, une question clé des débats relatifs à la qualité de l’administration judiciaire de la Nouvelle-France et aux compétences juridiques de ses officiers. Laissée traditionnellement à la charge des magistrats, cette démarche va peu à peu être assumée par le gouvernement qui verra à fournir un certain nombre de livres de référence à sa magistrature locale. La bibliothèque du Conseil supérieur de Québec deviendra ainsi la première bibliothèque de collectivité laïque dans la vallée laurentienne avant les années 1760. Le présent article ...
Histoire Sociale-social History, 2005
Histoire Sociale-social History, 2013
No printing press was set up in the Laurentian valley of North America, the colony known as New F... more No printing press was set up in the Laurentian valley of North America, the colony known as New France, until the late date of 1764.1 That date has become important in the historiography of the book and of printing in Canada, a reference point signifying a cultural break between a French past, little affected by print culture, and a very different English future. In fact, the history of the book in Canada under the French colonial regime is still relatively unknown and evidence is scarce (as in other French colonies of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries). The commonplace, and oversimplified, explanation of what was actually a remarkable but complex phenomenon is well illustrated by a passage from the work of a pioneer of research on the book in Canada: ‘Before 1764, there was neither a printing press nor a bookstore in New France, though books were being imported by institutions and individuals. Only after the Conquest did printing presses, the book trade and libraries develop...
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 33 /2 bibliography includes meticulously detailed... more Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 33 /2 bibliography includes meticulously detailed descriptions of the fifty-eight titles printed over a nine-year period. Each entry is accompanied by extensive notes containing additional information about the authors and their texts as well as the distribution of the copies. My questions regarding the relationship between Joyce and the Press were finally laid to rest. The nine appendices provide details relating to the Press' ephemeral items, typefaces preferred by Carlow and the foundries which supplied them, the multitude of papers Carlow experimented with, variations of the design of the Corvinus device, binders, and a list of items printed under the Dropmore Press imprint. Appendix vinI, which is particularly appealing, offers biographical sketches of the authors, subscribers, and other notable recipients of Corvinus Press books. All information in the appendices is crossreferenced to the bibliography, and the index includes titles, authors, illustrators, translators and subjects which lead the reader to the appendices and bibliography. This excellent work provides a fascinating look at a long ignored moment in twentieth-century printinig and firmly establishes the Corvinus Press as an imiportant participant in the tradition of the private press. Although somewhat pricey, this bibliographical study is an essential purchase for collectors or libraries fortunate enough to own Corvinus Press books. Scholars of the history of the book and private printing will also find its contents invaluable.
Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada
Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 36/2 making generalizations, and so translate int... more Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 36/2 making generalizations, and so translate into a call for more of the type of research we find here in its finest: the careful investigation of specific evidence regarding particular codices, communities, and people. The essays are, on the whole, carefully researched and copiously footnoted. They do much to advance our understanding of women and books in the Middle Ages, and point optimistically towards further wo~rk. The large number of illustrations also lend the book a secondary function as reference work: it includes nine glossy, colour plates (including three from the courtly Queen Mary Psalter), and one hundred and three illustrations, forming a sort of miniature conspectus of medieval images of, by, and perhaps specifically for women-a step towards the comprehensive conspectus one of the editors eagerly anticipates. A helpful and lengthy index of manuscripts cited is also included. The remaining three essays not mentioned are: 'Aesop's Cock and Marie's Hen: Gendered Authorship in Text and Image in Manuscripts of Marie de France's Fables' by Sandra Hindman; 'Two Twelfth-Century Women and their Books,' about Hildegard of Bingen and Herrad of Landsberg, by Th6rèse McGuire, and 'Women and Books of Hours' by Sandra Penketh.
Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada
Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada