Michael Aitken in his article “The Leporello and Lorne: A personal story” in the December 2006 (352nd) issue wondered whether Mozart’s character was named after the fold-out publication or vice versa, and Brian Taylor in his item in the March 2007 (353rd) issue cited a source that said that the publication was named after the … Continue reading Leporello again
Category: 2007-June Issue
2007-06
During the period that Jeff Bidgood was Secretary/Treasurer of the Society and assisting with the computer preparation of Biblionews, he religiously listed all the many booksellers’ catalogues he received along with all the contact details etc. and published these lists at the end of each issue of our journal. This was an awful lot of work, and when Jeff gave up all his functions for the Society, it was decided not to publish such listings anymore. And anyway, the Editor now receives regularly only three catalogues sent directly to him. Since some readers may wish to contact these booksellers and perhaps request their catalogues for themselves, it has been decided to pass on information about them just this once.
Fredericka van der Lubbe’s Martin Aedler:You read about him first in BiblionewsReaders may recall a pair of articles in the March 1996 and the September 1996 issues of Biblionews by Fredericka van der Lubbe on “The High Dutch Minerva of 1680 and its author”. In the first of these she refuted the opinion put forward … Continue reading Fredericka van der Lubbe’s Martin Aedler
Thanks for the interesting copy of Biblionews and for your note. There are a few things [in your version of my Show & Tell contribution] to correct, one being that I approached Sprod to illustrate an article!