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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]

A.S.W. Rosenbach, collector, scholar, and dealer in rare books

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 1971 A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography marked the Theodore Dreiser Centenary.[3]

The 1974 A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography was devoted to the fifth annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies."[4]

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[edit]

The first Rosenbach Fellow was Christopher Morley in 1931 [5] whose lectures were published as Ex Libris Carissimis in 1932.[6] 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.[7] Other Lecturers include:

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References[edit]

  1. ^ “Rosenbach Lectures.” The Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford University Press, 2010.
  2. ^ The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
  3. ^ Pizer, Donald, and Robert Henry Elias. 1971. Theodore Dreiser Centenary: A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship Lectures in Bibliography. Philadelphia: Library Chronicle, University of Pennsylvania.
  4. ^ Darnton, Robert, Bernhard Fabian, R. M. Wiles, Paul J. Korshin, A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund, and American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 1976. The Widening Circle: Essays on the Circulation of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Europe. [Philadelphia]: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ The Rosenbach Lectures, 1931-2006 University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
  8. ^ Adams, Randolph Greenfield, and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. 1939. Three Americanists : Henry Harrisse, Bibliographer; George Brinley, Book Collector; Thomas Jefferson, Librarian. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  9. ^ Albritton, Claude C, Gerald M Friedman, History of the Earth Sciences Society (U.S.), and Southern Methodist University Institute for the Study of Earth and Man. 1989. Claude C. Albritton, Jr. (1913-1988) : Memorial Issue. Troy, N.Y: History of the Earth Sciences Society : Published in conjunction with Institute of the Study of Earth and Man, Southern Methodist University.
  10. ^ Beit-Arié,Malachi. Unveiled Faces of Medieval Hebrew Books : The Evolution of Manuscript Production--Progression or Regression? 2003. Jerusalem: Hebrew University Magnes Press."This book, apart from chapter V, originated from the Rosenbach Lectures delivered at the University of Pennsylvania in the fall of 2000."
  11. ^ Blair, Ann M. "Hidden Hands: Amanuenses and Authorship in Early Modern Europe."The University of Pennsylvania Libraries A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography for 2014.
  12. ^ 1954 Lecturer. Bowers, Fredson. 1955. On Editing Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Dramatists. [Philadelphia]: Published for the Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation by the University of Pennsylvania Library.
  13. ^ Brigham, Clarence S. 1950. Journals and Journeymen : A Contribution to the History of Early American Newspapers. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press.
  14. ^ Bühler, Curt F., and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. 1949. Standards of Bibliographical Description. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press.
  15. ^ Bühler, Curt F. 1960. The Fifteenth-Century Book: The Scribes, the Printers, the Decorators. Philadelphia [Pennsylvania]: University of Pennsylvania Press. NOTE: Bühler gave two lectures in 1947 and 1957.
  16. ^ 1968. Lecture. Canfield, Cass, and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. 1969. The Publishing Experience. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  17. ^ Charvat, William. 1959. Literary Publishing in America, 1790-1850. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  18. ^ Chartier, Roger. 1995. Forms and Meanings : Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  19. ^ Diagrams and Illustrations in Relation to Scientific Ideas, before and after the Invention of Printing, 1973. delivered by Cohen on November 27, 1973. Tape number: Spec967. RB1
  20. ^ Darnton, Robert. 2011. The Devil in the Holy Water, or, the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon. Philadelphia, Pa., Oxford: University of Pennsylvania Press ; Oxford Creative Marketing distributor.
  21. ^ Darnton, Robert: "Trade in the taboo: the life of a clandestine book dealer in prerevolutionary France." in The Widening Circle : Essays on the Circulation of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Europe. Edited by Paul J. Korshin. Reprint 2016. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
  22. ^ Elizabeth L. Eisenstein to Deliver Rosenbach Lectures at the Penn Libraries. Business Wire. New York: Business Wire, 2010.
  23. ^ Pizer, Donald, and Robert Henry Elias. 1971. Theodore Dreiser Centenary: A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship Lectures in Bibliography. Philadelphia: Library Chronicle, University of Pennsylvania.
  24. ^ "English books and their eighteenth-century German readers" in The Widening Circle: Essays on the Circulation of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Europe. Edited by Paul J. Korshin. Reprint 2016. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
  25. ^ Fulton, John F., and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. 1951. The Great Medical Bibliographers: A Study in Humanism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  26. ^ Ann, and Anja-Silvia Goeing. 2016. For the Sake of Learning (2 Vols) : Essays in Honor of Anthony Grafton. Leiden: BRILL.
  27. ^ Hall, David D. (2008). Ways of writing: the practice and politics of text-making in seventeenth-century New England. University of Pennsylvania Press.
  28. ^ Hanke, Lewis. 1952. Bartolomé de Las Casas: Bookman, Scholar & Propagandist. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  29. ^ Hunter, Dard, and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. 1952. Papermaking in Pioneer America. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pa. Press.
  30. ^ 2016 Lectures. Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. 2021. Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  31. ^ Lievsay,John Leon, and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. The Englishman’s Italian Books, 1550-1700. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1969.
  32. ^ A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography for 2011: Monday, March 21, 2011: "The Traveller, the Tower and the Worm" University of Pennsylvania Scholars Commons.
  33. ^ Peter D. McDonald, The Secret Life of Books, Lecture 2: The Lure of Literature. 2022 A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography, University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Peter D. McDonald, University of Oxford-
  34. ^ McManaway, James Gilmer. 1949. [Studies 1 and Studies 2, the Works of James G. Mcmanaway].
  35. ^ Mayor, A. Hyatt, and Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). 1971. Prints & People: A Social History of Printed Pictures. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society.
  36. ^ DOROTHY MINER, 68, ARTS SCHOLAR, DIES. New York Times, May 17, 1973.
  37. ^ Miner, D. (1955). Illuminated Manuscripts at Harvard. College Art Journal, 14(3), 229–235.
  38. ^ Needham, Paul, "The First Quarter Century of European Printing." The University of Pennsylvania Libraries A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography for 2013.
  39. ^ Newton, A. Edward. 2016. Bibliography and Pseudo-Bibliography. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  40. ^ Pargellis, Stanley, 1954. Book Collecting and Scholarship. Oxford University Press: Minnesota University Press.
  41. ^ Pizer, Donald, and Robert Henry Elias. 1971. Theodore Dreiser Centenary: A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship Lectures in Bibliography. Philadelphia: Library Chronicle, University of Pennsylvania.
  42. ^ Powell, J. H., and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. 1957. The Books of a New Nation: United States Government Publications, 1774-1814. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  43. ^ Material Texts
  44. ^ Sarton, George. 1955. The Appreciation of Ancient and Medieval Science during the Renaissance, 1450-1600. Pp. xvii. 233. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia.
  45. ^ Leslie, Shane, and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. 1935. The Script of Jonathan Swift, and Other Essays. Philadelphia, London: University of Pennsylvania Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
  46. ^ Peter Stallybrass is Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English and of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory. He directs the seminar on the History of Material Texts, and co-edits the Material Texts series for the University of Pennsylvania Press.
  47. ^ Stock, Brian. “Rosenbach Lectures: Minds, Bodies, Readers.” New Literary History 37, no. 3 (2006): 489–524
  48. ^ 1987 Lecture: Tanselle, G. Thomas, and University of Pennsylvania Press. 1989. A Rationale of Textual Criticism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  49. ^ Taylor, Archer. 1966. General Subject-Indexes since 1548. Philadelphia - Pa: University Press.
  50. ^ Turner, E. G. 1977. The Typology of the Early Codex. [Philadelphia]: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  51. ^ Vail, R. W. G. 2017. The Voice of the Old Frontier. Reprint 2016. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press. The three lectures Vail delivered in 1945 supplemented by descriptions of 1300 bibliographical items covering the North American frontier literature over the period 1542 to 1800,
  52. ^ "The relish for reading in provincial England two centuries ago in The Widening Circle : Essays on the Circulation of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Europe. Edited by Paul J. Korshin. Reprint 2016. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
  53. ^ Winship, George Parker, and A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund. 1940. Printing in the Fifteenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  54. ^ Wolf, Edwin. The Book Culture of a Colonial American City: Philadelphia Books, Bookmen, and Booksellers. Oxford, Oxfordshire, England: Clarendon Press, 1988.
  55. ^ Wolfe, Richard J. 1989. Marbled Paper: Its History, Techniques, and Patterns: With Special References to the Relationship of Marbling to Bookbinding in Europe and the Western World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.
  56. ^ Hard, Frederick, and Folger Shakespeare Library. 1968. Louis B. Wright; a Bibliography and an Appreciation. Charlottesville: Published for the Folger Shakespeare Library by University Press of Virginia.
  57. ^ WROTH, Lawrence Counselman, and James LOVEDAY. 1934. An American Bookshelf, 1775. [An Account of the Library of James Loveday, as Reflecting the Contemporary Social Background.]. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  58. ^ John Cook Wyllie Research Notes, 1954-1967. Summary:The collection contains notebooks and research notes compiled by Wyllie as Curator of Rare Books and University Librarian, University of Virginia Library

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