the book collector
Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware (who was listed in 2015 as one of the ‘25 top women in higher education’), teamed up to give a joint presentation at the Book Club of California on Monday August 6, 2018. The occasion was the first of the Windle-Loker Lecture series, which we previewed in our last issue. Mark spoke first, outlining the history of fin-de-siècle book illus- tration as represented in his collection. Delivered with a plethora of images and without any notes, it was an absolute tour-de-force by the foremost scholar-collector in his field, who has been legally blind his entire life. Margaret followed with an equally fascinating presentation on Oscar Wilde’s “The Happy Prince” from the first illustrated edition by Walter Crane to the present day. She posed serious and challenging questions about the sexuality of the Prince and how it is represented across the last 130 years. Although the event was capped at 100 over 120 people came. No one was turned away, the Fire Marshall didn’t drop by and a good time was had by all. The Q&A session was exceptional and many people stayed on to chat with Mark and Margaret, making this one of the most successful evenings in the tenure of the new Executive Director Kevin Kosik who is breathing new life into the 106 year-old Club. Forthcoming annual lectures in the series will include Dan de Simone on 16th-century woodcut illustration, Sandra Hindman or Christopher de Hamel on illuminated manuscripts, Michael Suarez on the illustrated book of the future, and Chris Loker on 20th-century American children’s book illustration. We aim to bring you reports on all of them. jeremy griffiths , scholar and dealer in books and manuscripts, died untimely in 1997 at the age of 42. To commemorate his life, his father, John Gri Y ths, first established a Memorial Studentship for a graduate student in the English Faculty and then the Jeremy Gri Y ths Professorship in Medieval English Palaeography. Both of these en- dowments reflect matters close to Jeremy’s heart. John Gri Y ths died on 2 September at the age of 95. His services to scholarship should be remembered with gratitude, not least by all who knew his son. long live lending libraries and long live Leeds Library in particular, which in August 2018 celebrated its 250th anniversary. The Leeds Intelligencer announced the idea in August 1768 and in September the
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