Patrick Storrs Fox’s response to Brian and correction of Brian Taylor’s ‘Black letter and black patterns’ in Biblionews Issues 365-366 (March–June 2010), pp. 16-18 (and pp. 23-27). Many thanks for the copy of Biblionews which arrived as a pleasant surprise a few days ago. And of course I am enormously flattered that you should have … Continue reading NOTES & QUERIES
Category: 2010-12
We note the death on 2 November of Professor Alan Crown, Emeritus Professor in Semitic Studies at the University of Sydney. A renowned scholar of Samaritan Studies, he wrote or co-wrote some 15 books and co-edited the Archive of Australian Judaica. Holdings to 1985 with Jennifer Alison and Neil Radford with assistance from Sister Marianne … Continue reading Professor Alan D Crown
IT IS WITH GREAT sadness that we mark the death of the oldest member of the Book Collectors Society, Doctor (and Major) Warren Perry. Few Australian scholars and historians could equal his assiduous approach to his life and work. For example, Warren gained his doctorate from The University of Melbourne in his 93rd year — … Continue reading Major EWO (Warren) Perry, MBE, ED, BEc (Sydney), MA (Melb), Litt D (Melb) (28/1/1909–7/11/2010)
OUP. 1,392 pp. $450 IF THE PRINTED BOOK is going to have a memorial to its passing, then The Oxford Companion to the Book (OCB) is perfect timing. It is certainly a monumental work in two small folio volumes with nearly 1,400 pages, bound in red imitation leather, all enclosed in a slipcase. The over … Continue reading 'The Oxford Companion to the Book' Edited by Michael F Suarez and HR Woudhuysen