Sandars Lectures

{{Short description|Annual lecture series in bibliography given at Cambridge University}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''The Sandars Readership in Bibliography''' is an annual lecture series given at Cambridge University. Instituted in 1895 at the behest of Samuel Sandars of Trinity College (1837–1894),<ref>McKitterick, David. 1983. ''The Sandars and Lyell Lectures: A Checklist with an Introduction.'' New York: Jonathan A. Hill.</ref> who left a £2000 bequest to the University, the series has continued to the present day.<ref name=Readership>{{cite web |title=Sandars Readership in Bibliography |publisher=Cambridge University Library |date=2016 |accessdate=23 Dec 2016 |url=http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/about-library/prizes-and-fellowships/sandars-readership-bibliography}}</ref> Together with the Panizzi Lectures at the British Library and the Lyell Lectures at Oxford University, it is considered one of the major British bibliographical lecture series.<ref name="Bowman2012">{{cite book |author=Bowman, J.H. |title=British Librarianship and Information Work 2001–2005 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gfeiJ0SoeGAC&pg=PA157 |date=1 Oct 2012 |publisher=Ashgate |isbn=978-1-4094-8506-3 |page=157}}</ref>

== Lectures == === 1890s === * 1895: Sir Edward Maunde Thompson. Greek, Latin and English handwriting. * 1896: C. H. Middleton-Wake. The invention of printing. * 1897: W. H. Stevenson. Anglo-Saxon Chancery. * 1898: E. Gordon Duff. The printers, stationers and book-binders of Westminster and London in the 15th century. * 1899: J. W. Clark. The care of books (to the end of the 18th century).

=== 1900–1925 === * 1900: F. G. Kenyon. The development of Greek writing, BC 300–AD 900. * 1901: Henry Yates Thompson. English and French illustrated MSS. of the 13th–15th centuries. * 1902: M. R. James. Manuscripts in Cambridge. * 1903: E. Gordon Duff. The printers, stationers and book-binders of London, 1500–1535. * 1904: H. Y. Thompson. Illustrated MSS. of the 11th century. * 1905: Sir Edward Maunde Thompson. The history of illumination and ornamentation of MSS. * 1906: F. W. Maitland. [Did not lecture] * 1907–1908: F. J. H. Jenkinson. Books printed at Cologne by U. Zell. * 1909: Falconer Madan. The localisation and dating of MSS. * 1910: W. M. Lindsay. Latin Abbreviations. * 1911: E. Gordon Duff. English provincial printers, stationers and book-binders to 1557. * 1912: Arthur Ernest Cowley. The Papyri of Elephantine. * 1913: W. W. Greg. Some bibliographical and textual problems of the English Miracle-play Cycles. * 1914: Elias Avery Lowe. (1) Characteristics of the so-called National Scripts. (2) Punctuation and critical marks as aids in dating and placing MSS. (3) Graeco-Latin manuscripts. (4) The Codex Bezae and the Codex Laudianus. * 1915: A. W. Pollard. The conditions of printing and publishing in Shakespeare’s day in their relation to his text. * 1916–1920: [Lectures suspended] * 1921: E. Wyndham Hulme. Statistical bibliography in relation to the growth of modern civilisation.<ref>Hulme, E. Wyndham, and University of Bristol Library National Liberal Club Collection. 1923. ''Statistical Bibliography in Relation to the Growth of Modern Civilization'': Two Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge in May, 1922. London: Printed for the author by Butler & Tanner.</ref> * 1922: W. C. Bolland. Readings on the Year Books. * 1923: M. R. James. The pictorial illustration of the Old Testament from the 14th Century to the 16th. * 1924: Emery Walker. Printing for book production.<ref>Walker, Emery, and Oak Knoll Press. 2019. ''Printing for Book Production'': Emery Walker’s Three Lectures for the Sandars Readership in Bibliography : Delivered at Cambridge, November 6, 13, & 20, 1924. Edited by Richard Mathews and Joseph Rosenblum. First edition. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press.</ref> * 1925: Ellis Hovell Minns. The influence of materials and instruments upon writing.

=== 1926–1950 === * 1926: A. J. K. Esdaile. Elements of the bibliography of English literature, materials and methods. * 1927: G. D. Hobson. English leather bindings down to 1500. * 1928: R. B. McKerrow. The relationship of English printed books to authors’ manuscripts in the 16th and 17th centuries. * 1929: S. De Ricci. English collectors of books and MSS., 1550–1900, and their marks of ownership. * 1930: Victor Scholderer. The invention of printing: facts and theories. * 1931: Stanley Morison. The English newspaper: some account of the physical development of the journals printed in London from 1622 down to the present day.<ref>Morison, Stanley. 1932. ''The English Newspaper : Some Account of the Physical Development of Journals Printed in London between 1622 and the Present Day.'' [With Facsimile Illustrations]. Cambridge: U.P.</ref> * 1932: J. Dover Wilson. The Hamlet texts, 1604 and 1623. * 1933: Geoffrey Keynes. John Evelyn: a study in bibliography. * 1934: E. G. Millar. Some aspects of the comparative study of illuminated MSS. * 1935: Stephen Gaselee. Bibliography and the Classics. * 1936: C. A. Gordon. Manuscript missals; the English uses. * 1937: Michael Sadleir. Bibliographical aspects of the Victorian novel. * 1938: C. J. Sisson. The judicious marriage of Mr Hooker and the birth of ‘the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity’. * 1939: H. R. Creswick. Some recent work on early English printed books. * 1940–1946: [Lectures suspended] * 1947: John Carter Taste and technique in book collecting: a study of recent developments in Great Britain and the United States.<ref>Carter, John. 1948. ''Taste & Technique in Book-Collecting: A Study of Recent Developments in Great Britain and the United States.'' Camb.: C.U.P.</ref> * 1948: F. Wormald. The Miniatures in the Gospels of St Augustine: Corpus Christi College MS. 286. * 1949: J. Basil Oldham. English blind-stamped bindings.<ref>Oldham, J. Basil, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress). 1952. ''English Blind-Stamped Bindings''. Cambridge: University Press.</ref> * 1950: Harold Herbert Williams. The text of ''Gulliver’s Travels''.

=== 1951–1975 === * 1951: H. S. Bennett. English books and readers 1475 to 1557; being a study in the history of the book trade from Caxton to the incorporation of the Stationers’ Company. * 1952: J. C. T. Oates. The history of the collection of incunabula in the University Library. * 1953: E. P. Goldschmidt. The first Cambridge press in its European setting. * 1954: S. C. Roberts. The evolution of Cambridge publishing. * 1955: N. R. Ker. Oxford libraries in the sixteenth century. * 1956: Wilmarth S. Lewis. Horace Walpole’s Library.<ref>Lewis, W. S., and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress). 1958. ''Horace Walpole’s Library.'' Cambridge [England]: University Press.</ref> * 1957: Fredson T. Bowers. Textual criticism and the literary critic. * 1958: H. Graham Pollard. English market for printed books. * 1959: R. W. Hunt. Manuscripts of the Latin classics in England in the Middle Ages. * 1960: C. H. Roberts. The earliest manuscripts of the Church: style and significance. * 1961: A. H. King. Some British collectors of music, 1600–1960. * 1962: F. J. Norton. Printing in Spain 1500–1520.<ref>Norton, F. J., and Fernando de Rojas. 1966. ''Printing in Spain, 1501-1520''. London: Cambridge University Press.</ref> * 1963: J. H. A. Sparrow. The inscription and the book. * 1964: William T. Stearn. Bibliography in the service of biology. * 1965: J. C. T. Oates. Abraham Wheelock (1593–1653): Orientalist, Anglo-Saxonist and University Librarian. * 1966: S. Smith. The Darwin Collection in Cambridge University Library. * 1967:Howard Millar Nixon. English bookbinding in the Restoration period.<ref>"The Book as Artefact." ''The Book Collector'' 17 (no.2) Summer, 1968: 143-150.</ref> * 1968: Bruce Dickins. Corpus Christi College, the Parker Library. * 1969: A. N. L. Munby. Gothick into art: connoisseurship and medieval miniatures, 1750–1850. * 1970: J. S. L. Gilmour. Some freethinkers and their writings. * 1971: F. J. Stopp. Monsters and hieroglyphs: the broadsheet and emblem book in sixteenth century Germany.<ref>Stopp, Frederick John. 1972. ''Monsters and Hieroglyphs. Broadsheets and Emblem Books in Sixteenth Century Germany, Etc.'' [Cambridge]: F.J. Stopp.</ref> * 1972–1973: M. A. Hoskin. Virtues and vices of scientific manuscripts. * 1973–1974: John Simon Gabriel Simmons. Russian printing from the beginnings to 1917: a view from the West. * 1974–1975: A. R. A. Hobson Some book collectors, booksellers and binders in sixteenth century Italy.

=== 1976–2000 === * 1975–1976: D. F. Mackenzie. The London book trade in the later seventeenth century. * 1976–1977: J. M. Wells. Two hundred years of American printing, 1776–1976. * 1977–1978: D. F. Foxon. The Stamp Act of 1712. * 1978–1979: Philip Gaskell. Trinity College Library: the first 150 years.<ref>Gaskell, Philip. 1980. ''Trinity College Library: The First 150 Years.'' Cambridge England: Cambridge University Press.</ref> * 1979–1980: J. G. Dreyfus. British book typography 1889–1939. * 1980–1981: Wallace Kirsop. Books for colonial readers — The nineteenth century Australian experience. * 1981–1982: W. H. Bond. Thomas Hollis of Lincoln’s Inn: collector, designer, and patron.<ref>Bond, W. H., Stuart B. Schimmel, and Caroline F. Schimmel. 1990. ''Thomas Hollis of Lincoln’s Inn: A Whig and His Books.'' Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press.</ref> * 1982–1983: Ruari McLean. Moxon to Morison: The growth of typography as a profession. * 1983–1984: P. C. G. Isaac. William Bulmer, 1757–1830: ‘fine’ printer. * 1984–1985: J. J. G. Alexander. Artists and the book in Padua, Venice and Rome in the second half of the fifteenth century. * 1986–1987: Professor R. A. Leigh. Unsolved problems in the bibliography of J. J. Rousseau. * 1987–1988: Dorothy Owen. The medieval canon law: teaching, literature and transmission. * 1988–1989: F. W. Ratcliffe. A pre-Lutheran German psalter: A case study of a fourteenth-century work. * 1989–1990: R. I. Page. Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his books. * 1990–1991: D. S. Brewer. The fabulous history of Venus: Studies in the history of mythography from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. * 1991–1992: G. G. Watson. Lord Acton and his library. * 1992–1993: Will Carter. Gutenberg’s legacy. * 1993–1994: Bamber Gascoigne. From priceless perfection to cheap charm: stages in the development of colour printing.<ref>Gascoigne, Bamber, and Thomas Nelson & Sons. 1997. ''Milestones in Colour Printing 1457-1859 : With a Bibliography of Nelson Prints.'' United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.</ref> * 1994–1995: D. J. Bruce. ‘The real Simon Pure’: The life and work of George Cruikshank. * 1995–1996: J. Harley-Mason. The Age of Aquatint: a chapter in the history of English book illustration. * 1995–1996: A. Derolez. Textualis formata. * 1996–1997: G. Thomas Tanselle. Analytical bibliography: an historical introduction. * 1997–1998: G. G. Barber. Bibliography with rococo roses: The 1755 La Fontaine Fables choisies and the arts of the book in eighteenth-century France. * 1998–1999: Patricia Donlon. In Fairyland: Irish illustrators of children’s books. * 1999–2000: Nicolas Barker. Type and type-founding in Britain 1485–1720.

=== 2001–2025 === * 2000–2001: D. J. McKitterick. Printing versus publishing: Cambridge University Press and Greater Britain 1873–1914. * 2001–2002: C. Fahy. Paper in the sixteenth-century Italian printing industry. * 2002–2003: M. Foot. Description, image and reality: aspects of bookbinding history. * 2003–2004: Christopher de Hamel. "Sir Sydney Cockerell and Illuminated Manuscripts." * 2004–2005: Paul Needham. Fifteenth-century printing: the work of the shops. * 2005–2006: James H. Marrow. Word-diagram-picture: the shape of meaning in medieval books. * 2006–2007: Sarah Tyacke. Conversations with maps. * 2007–2008: Peter Kornicki. Having difficulty with Chinese? — The rise of the vernacular book in Japan, Korea and Vietnam.<ref>Kornicki, Peter F. 2008. ''Having Difficulty with Chinese: The Rise of the Vernacular Book in Japan, Korea and Vietnam.'' [New York?]: [Cambridge University Press].</ref> * 2008–2009: Michelle P. Brown. The book and the transformation of Britain, c. 550–1050. * 2009–2010: Gordon Johnson. From printer to publisher: Cambridge University Press transformed, 1950 to 2010. * 2010–2011: James Carley. From private hoard to public repository: archbishops John Whitgift and Richard Bancroft as founders of Lambeth Palace Library. * 2011–2012: Michael Reeve. Printing the Latin Classics — Some episodes. * 2012–2013: James A. Secord. Visions of science: books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian age.<ref>Secord, James A. 2013. ''Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age'' : Sandars Lectures, University of Cambridge, 25-27 February 2013. [Cambridge]: [University of Cambridge].</ref> * 2013–2014: Nigel Morgan. Samuel Sandars as collector of illuminated manuscripts. * 2014–2015: Richard Beadle. Henry Bradshaw and the foundations of codicology. * 2015–2016: Anthony Grafton. Writing and reading history in Renaissance England: some Cambridge examples. * 2016–2017: Toshiyuki Takamiya. A cabinet of English treasures: Reflections on fifty years of book collecting. * 2017–2018: Peter Wothers. Chemical attractions. * 2018–2019: William Noel. The medieval manuscript and its digital image. * 2019–2020: Isabelle de Conihout. French bookbindings and bibliophily, 16th–18th centuries. * 2020–2021: Orietta Da Rold. Paper past and paper future.<ref name="DaRold">{{cite web |publisher=Cambridge University Libraries |title=Sandars Lectures 2020–21 |date=18 Dec 2014 |access-date=14 Oct 2021 |url=https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/sandars/sandars-lectures-2020-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211014083324/https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/sandars/sandars-lectures-2020-21 |archive-date=14 Oct 2021}}</ref> * 2021–2022: Cristina Dondi. Incunabula in Cambridge: European heritage and global dissemination.<ref name="List">{{cite web |publisher=Cambridge University Libraries |title=List of Sandars Readers and lecture subjects |date=2023 |access-date=21 Nov 2023 |url= https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/sandars/list-sandars-readers-and-lecture-subjects}}</ref> * 2022–2023: David Pearson. Cambridge Bookbinding, 1450–1700.<ref name="Pearson">{{cite web |publisher=Cambridge University Libraries |title=Sandars Lectures 2022–2023 |date=2023 |access-date=21 Nov 2023 |url= https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/sandars/sandars-lectures-2022-2023}}</ref> * 2024 Timothy Young. Resistance to Bibliography <ref>https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/whats/sandars-lecture-1-isness-and-aboutness Cambridge University Library page for first lecture by Young, 19 November 2024</ref> * 2025 Joan Winterkorn. What will survive of us - the evolution of buying and selling of archives since the 1970s.<ref>https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/research-instiitute/events/sandars-lectures-2025 Sandars Lectures 2025 at Cambridge University Library</ref>

==See also== *A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography * E. A. Lowe Lectures * Lyell Lectures * McKenzie Lectures * Panizzi Lectures

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/sandars Sandars Readership in Bibliography] * "[http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/about-library/sandars-readership-bibliography/list-readers-and-lecture-subjects List of Sandars Readers and Lecture Subjects]". Cambridge University Library. 2019.

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