*All notes transcribed from paper notes
January 27 – Seminar Room
Index/Databases
- Oxford Reference *
- Cambridge History (ies)
Collections represent a person’s interests
Fonds
- represent/are the nature;p bi-products of a person’s life
- anything they accumlated
Research topic ideas
- ABC collections?
- children lit – Alice , RBSC has a ridiculous amount!
- radical movements – US civil rights 1865-67?
- maps
- fonds of interesting person
February 10 – In Seminar Room, didn’t take notes
February 26 – not here for personal exploration in RBSC, in La Grande Oregon for Softball.
March 3 – Seminar Room, most books in old english, focus on early printing!
Our table
- Chaucer, Canterbury tales 1722 –> found locks of hair/string by Pardoners Tale
- Second Folio – Shakespeare
- Ben Johnson Folio
Table 2
- Emblemes Book
- Dunn’s collected poetry
- Fairie Queen
- Hacklets Voyages – travel lit –> popular text, very common
- Psalm’s Book – small personal annotation, coloured in the drawings
–> does that apply a child owned it? trying to connect with text?
Table 3
- Milton – Paradise Lost
- Philip Sydney
- Aphre Bene
Table 4
- Tis a Pity She’s a Whore
- Anti – theatrical text – how evil plays are, downfall of society
- Anatomy of Melancholy
NOTES
- Masques by Ben Johnson –> last pages have been repaired. they are handwritten/typed in
- special type of paper tape used
- new binding but old original pages
March 12/17 – Missed both Seminars. In Arizona for Softball
March 24 – Explored Options for project
- looked into Lang’s Fairy Series and pulled the Blue Fairy Book
- spent majority of the time navigating the library site and learning the procedure or calling books
- IDEA – possibly comparing Lang’s version of “East of the Sun and West of the Moon” to the version in Hallett’s and Karasek version in the Folk and Fairy Tale Anthology
- pg 19 in Lang’s , Little Red Riding Hood pg 51 – cross examine with my text
- language in Lang’s East/West –> simply, run on sentences, plots quickly progresses
- Illustrations seems to be made with fine point black pen? not sure though
** COMPARE FINDINGS WITH HALLET/KARASEK MODERN VERSION
March 26 – Seminar Room
- Count Scott Press – 1890s
- Lion and Unicorn Press – Student Press of College of Art
–> Sir Gawain, the Birds
- King Arthur pg 201-208 –> uncut pages therefore the book was never read
- Le Morte Arthur with Designs by Aubrey Beardsley –> printed with the intention of having custom binding, the purchaser must bind but never bound or even read it
- Papermache books – Parables of Our Lord –> SO HEAVY but small, black lifted/texture book, vibrant/detailed illustrations
–> same guy made: “The Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages” – had huge illustrations, some looked angelic biblical, illustrations appear pasted in/glued in
*Books in this time use caps in narrative to represent chapter titles/new stories in volume; not always at the beginning/top of a page
King Henry IV Part 1, Intro by Roger Planchon, Designs by Rene Allio – Folio Society 1965
- illustrations are like costume design sketches
- blue feather cover with gold metallics
Why is Dorian Gray so big?!
- 2 copies pulled
- rugged pages for aesthetics –> different lengths/widths of pages on purpose
Parables of Our
- gorgeous!
- illustrations distract me from text
- carry around for appearance or actual read the book? probably both
April 2 – Seminar Room, Children’s Lit
Andrew Lang –> collector/editor of Fairy book series
- well known
- “Red Fairy Book
- Blue – 1914 edition but first edition in 1889
- famous Andrew Lang lectures at St. Andrews in his honour
- 12 different books in collection
- cover appearance not necessarily visual pleasing for children / all black and white illustrations
–> evolution of fairy tales – why/how are they different over time? are Lang’s stories like Grimm’s or are they catered for children like in Modern Tales?
POP UP BOOKS –> “The Land of Long Ago” By L.L. Weedon?
- black and illustrations embedded within text and pop-ups are coloured and stunning
- very delicate, must handle with care
“Girls Book of Treasures” –> how to book for young girls, the DOs and DONTS
- acceptable games, stories, activities and life lessons e.g.. Almond and the Raisin
Chapbooks
- Sleeping Beauty – stunning illustrations
Greenway Pictures to Paint
- Illustrations separated by lines – horizontal and vertical
- colouring book – aid to intrigue kids to interact with books?
**Officially devoted research and project to Lang and The Blue Fairy Book
April 7 – Absent for Big Block Athletic Banquet
April 11/12 – Research
- Lang’s life/Bio
- Start reading Hallett’s and Karasek’s book –> focus on distinction, evolution of folk & fairy tale
April 16-22 – Research, Writing
- Wrote paragraphs/sections for blog
- Toyed with blog site, learnt/got familiar with layout and started project
April 21 – Research
- Took photos of Fairy Books
- Read stories to compare to Hallett’s / focus on East and West