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The Panizzi Lectures 2023: Thomas Hearne: A Life of Books
Lecture Three: Hearne’s Publications
This event took place on 14 December 2023. The information below is correct as of the publication date.
Professor Henry Woudhuysen's third 2023 Panizzi Lectures.
Although described as being the grumpiest man in Oxford – not just of his time, but of all times - Thomas Herne (1678–1735) was one of England’s earliest historians of the book as a physical object. The 2023 Panizzi lectures survey his copious notebooks, letters, books and manuscripts to reconstruct his life and work as a librarian, collector, and publisher.
For his third and final 2023 Panizzi Lecture, entitled ‘This Studier and Preserver of Monkish-Trumpery’, Henry Woudhuysen surveys Hearne’s more than 70 publications in 130 volumes and their execution and financing. His publications were all richly illustrated with engraving, etching, and typographically unusual features which shows his careful planning about how images from books, as well as inscriptions on coins and monuments, might be displayed in type, woodcuts, and on copper plates. These books were often sought out by collectors and their prices increased; making Hearne particularly gratified as his life of books came full circle.
Henry R. Woudhuysen FBA has been Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, since 2012. Before then, he spent thirty years in the English Department at University College London. His academic interests lie in English literature, bibliography, palaeography, and editorial theory and practice. He has been President of the Bibliographical Society and of the Oxford Bibliographical Society. In 2014, he gave the Lyell lectures at Oxford.
The Panizzi Lectures are a series of annual lectures given at the British Library by "eminent scholars of the book" and named after the librarian Anthony Panizzi (1797 – 1879)
The Panizzi Lectures 2023: Thomas Hearne: A Life of Books
Lecture Three: Hearne’s Publications
This event took place on 14 December 2023. The information below is correct as of the publication date.
Professor Henry Woudhuysen's third 2023 Panizzi Lectures.
Although described as being the grumpiest man in Oxford – not just of his time, but of all times - Thomas Herne (1678–1735) was one of England’s earliest historians of the book as a physical object. The 2023 Panizzi lectures survey his copious notebooks, letters, books and manuscripts to reconstruct his life and work as a librarian, collector, and publisher.
For his third and final 2023 Panizzi Lecture, entitled ‘This Studier and Preserver of Monkish-Trumpery’, Henry Woudhuysen surveys Hearne’s more than 70 publications in 130 volumes and their execution and financing. His publications were all richly illustrated with engraving, etching, and typographically unusual features which shows his careful planning about how images from books, as well as inscriptions on coins and monuments, might be displayed in type, woodcuts, and on copper plates. These books were often sought out by collectors and their prices increased; making Hearne particularly gratified as his life of books came full circle.
Henry R. Woudhuysen FBA has been Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, since 2012. Before then, he spent thirty years in the English Department at University College London. His academic interests lie in English literature, bibliography, palaeography, and editorial theory and practice. He has been President of the Bibliographical Society and of the Oxford Bibliographical Society. In 2014, he gave the Lyell lectures at Oxford.
The Panizzi Lectures are a series of annual lectures given at the British Library by "eminent scholars of the book" and named after the librarian Anthony Panizzi (1797 – 1879)
