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Date | Name | Topic |
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2006 | Peter Stallybrass | Printing-for-Manuscript |
2005 | Robert Darnton | The Devil in the Holy Water |
2003 | Anthony Grafton | Books and the Magus: Johannes Trithemius 1462-1516 |
2002 | Nicolas Barker | Things Not Reveal 'd: The Mutual Impact of Idea and Form in the Transmission of Poetry, 1500-2002 |
2000 (October) | Malachi Beit-Arie | Unveiled Faces of Medieval Hebrew Books: The Evolution of Manuscript Production |
1999 | Brian Stock | Minds, Bodies, Readers |
1996 | Janice Radway | Books, Reading and the Struggle for Control of Literary Culture in the Age of Mass Production |
1995 (October) | Ivan Illich & Ludolf Kuchenbuch | The History of Text: Three Dialogues |
1994 | Roger Chartier | Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer |
1993 | James Green | Book Publishing in Early America |
1992 | Wolfgang Milde | The Gospel of Henry the Lion |
1991 | Fred Schreiber | The French-Scholar Printer of the Renaissance |
1990 | Anthony Hobson | The Bibliomania: English Book Collecting in the Early Nineteenth Century |
1989 | Nicholas Pickwoad | The Uses of Bookbinding History |
1988 | John Bidwell | Papermaking in the Delaware Valley at the end of the 18th & beginning of the 19th century. |
1987 | G. Thomas Tanselle | Tortured Stem and Tranquil Blossom: A Rationale of Textual Criticism |
1986 | Terry Belanger | The History of American Rare Book Libraries from 1876 to present |
1985 | Ruth Mortimer | L 'Art de Bien Batir: French 16th Century Architecture Books |
1983 | James L. W. West III | The Profession of Authorship in America 1900-1950 |
1981 | Richard Wolfe | The Art of Marbling Paper & its relationship to Bookbinding in the West. |
1978 | C. William Miller | From Holy Experiment to Revolution |
1975 | Richard H. Rouse | The Development of Aids to Study in the 13th Century |
1974 | Bernhard Fabian | Literacy & the Reading Public in the 18th century |
Roy McKeen Wiles | ||
Robert Darnton | ||
1973 (November) | I. Bernard Cohen | Words, Images & Ideas |
1971 | Eric Gardner Turner | Towards a Typology of the Early Codex |
1971 (November) | Donald Pizer | Dreiser 's Fiction: The Editorial Problem |
Robert H. Elias | Dreiser: Bibliography and the Biographer | |
1970 | Claude Albritton, Jr. | Toward the Discovery of Time: Landmarks in Historical Geology |
1969 | John Lievsay | The Englishman 's Italian Books |
1968 | Cass Canfield | The Publishing Experience |
1966 | Louis B. Wright | Living Libraries |
1965 | A. Hyatt Mayor | Prints & People |
1963 | Edwin Wolf 2nd | Books and Bookmen of Colonial Philadelphia |
1962 | Stanley Pargellis | Americana Collectors in Europe and England, 1600-1800 |
1961 | Archer Taylor | Subject Indexes |
1960 | John Cook Wyllie | Typefaces used in Books |
1959 | Curt F. Buhler | The 15th Century Book |
1958 | William Charvat | Literary Publishing in America 1790-1850 |
1956 | John H. Powell | The USA 1774-1816: A Bibliographcal Study |
1955 | Dorothy Miner | The Medieval Illustrated Book |
1954 | Fredson Bowers | On Editing Shakespeare & the Elizabethan Dramatists |
1953 | George Sarton | The Appreciation of Ancient and Medieval Science in the Renaissance |
1951 | Lewis Hanke | Bartolomi de Las Casas |
1950 | John F. Fulton | Great Medical Bibliographies: A study in Humanism |
1949 | Dard Hunter | Oriental Papermaking, Early American Papermaking |
1948 | Clarence S. Brigham | Journals & Journeymen: Studies in Early American Newspapers |
1947 | Curt F. Buhler | Incunabula |
James G. McManaway | Early English Literature | |
Lawrence C. Wroth | Early Americana | |
1945 | R. W. G. Vail | Voice of the Old Frontier |
1940 | George Parker Winship | John Gutenberg, 15th Century Printing, The Bay Psalm Book |
1938 | Randolph G. Adams | Three Americanists |
1936 | A. Edward Newton | Bibliography & Pseudo-Bibliography |
1934 | Shane Leslie | Swift, Irish Books |
1932 | Lawrence C. Wroth | An American Bookshelf in 1755 |
1931 | Christopher Morley | Ex Libris Carissimis |