A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures are an endowed lectureship in bibliography established in 1928 by rare-book and manuscript dealer A. S. W. Rosenbach at the University of Pennsylvania. [1]
The Rosenbach Lectures are the longest continuing series of bibliographical lectureships in the United States. Individuals appointed as Rosenbach Fellows present three lectures over several weeks.[2]
The University's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center in collaboration with their Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts are the current location of the lectures.
Lecturers
The first Rosenbach Fellow was Christopher Morley in 1931 [3] whose lectures were published as Ex Libris Carissimis in 1932.[4] Many of the lectures have been published by the University of Pennsylvania Press including Morley's which was also part of the anniversary collection of the Press.
Other Lecturers include:
- Ann M. Blair
- Curt F. Bühler
- Mary Carruthers
- Elizabeth Eisenstein[5]
- John Farquhar Fulton
- Alberto Manguel
- Dorothy Miner-first woman Fellow
- Paul Needham
- George Sarton[6]
- Brain Stock [7]
- G. Thomas Tanselle
References
- ^ “Rosenbach Lectures.” The Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford University Press, 2010.
- ^ The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
- ^ Moffett A. "Mr. Morley writes the reminiscences of a reader: EX LIBRIS CARISSIMIS," by Christopher Morley. 134 pp. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania press. $2. New York Times. 1932 May 15 1932/05/15/:1.
- ^ Morley, Christopher, A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund, and Ralph Ellison Collection (Library of Congress). 1932. Ex Libris Carissimis. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania press.
- ^ Elizabeth L. Eisenstein to Deliver Rosenbach Lectures at the Penn Libraries. Business Wire. New York: Business Wire, 2010.
- ^ Dr. Sarton’s Rosenbach Lectures.” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences VIII, no. January (1953): 92–92
- ^ Stock, Brian. “Rosenbach Lectures: Minds, Bodies, Readers.” New Literary History 37, no. 3 (2006): 489–524