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Wallace Kirsop Wallace Kirsop i(A25441 works by) (a.k.a. W. K.)
Born: Established: 1933 ;
Gender: Male
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1 [Review] A Companion to the History of the Book Wallace Kirsop , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Script and Print , vol. 45 no. 1 2021; (p. 42)

— Review of A Companion to the History of the Book 2007 anthology essay
1 BSANZ : Beginnings and Aspirations Wallace Kirsop , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Script and Print , vol. 43 no. 1 2019; (p. 9-19)

'It is possible to view with some sympathy the complaint made by a recent review in La Bibliofilia that centenaries provoke bursts of not altogether convincing publication about subjects that are then neglected till the next significant date comes around. However, there are stronger reasons for recording at commemorative intervals the work of a learned society and for submitting it to critical analysis. If one takes the two entities on which we have quite explicitly based our own programmes - the Bibliographical Society (London) and the Bibliographical Society of America - it is clear that the members thought it necessary to set down an ample record of achievements and problems at jubilee moments. At the end of World War II the London body issued a volume edited by Frank Francis, The Bibliographical Society 1892-1942: Studies in Retrospect. Half a century later, Peter Davison, who taught bibliography amongst other things at the University of Sydney in the early 1960s, edited the more ambitious The Book Encompassed: Studies in Twentieth-Century Bibliography. Very properly debates and the identification of gaps were not absent from these pages. On the other side of the Atlantic Hope Mayo was working on a history of the Bibliographical Society of America and presented a substantial overview of the topic in her presidential address to the annual general meeting in January 2004. Alongside this one could put Brian McMullin's article four years later on the hundredth anniversary of that Society's Papers.' (Publication abstract)

 

1 An Early Australian Dust-jacket Wallace Kirsop , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Script and Print , vol. 42 no. 3 2018; (p. 170-173)
'The present decade has brought us major contributions to the history of dustjackets, notably G. Thomas Tanselle, Book-Jackets: Their History, Forms, and Use and Mark. R. Godburn, Nineteenth-Century Dust-Jackets. As one might expect, Tanselle's monograph is an exhaustive, admirably informed and impeccably organised introduction to a subject that is now regarded as of central importance in the history of publishing over the last two centuries in the English-speaking world. Predictably Australia plays a minor role in this study, as in Godburn's. Australian sources, individual and institutional-Brian McMullin, Patrick Spedding, Hordern House, Monash University Library and State Library Victoria-, are duly acknowledged for information about items produced in the United Kingdom. One genuine Australian imprint-J. H. Maiden, The Useful Native Plants of Australia (Sydney: Turner and Henderson, 1889)-is listed from a copy in the Ransom Center at the University of Texas. Reference is also made to the loan exhibition "Australian Dustwrappers" curated by Jonathan Wantrup for the 25th Australian Antiquarian Book Fair held in Melbourne in November 1998. This included a sole example from the Australian colonies in the nineteenth century: Edward Dyson, Rhymes from the Mines (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1896). Dust-jackets are not mentioned in Jennifer Alison's account of this book, including the detailed statement of costs. One has to assume that their production was subsumed in the printing or binding figure. It would seem that study of the practice of Angus and Robertson and of other Australian publishers of the period has to rely essentially on the very rare preservation-in private rather than public collections-of the material objects themselves. In Paul Eggert's analysis of the advertising of While the Billy Boils he is reduced to conjecture about the exact nature of the "wrappers" ordered for the book since "none appears to have survived."' (Publication abstract)
1 Jack Frederick Bradstreet Wallace Kirsop , 2015 single work obituary (for Jack Bradstreet )
— Appears in: Biblionews and Australian Notes & Queries , June no. 386 2015; (p. 90-91)
1 Richard Overell : An Appreciation Wallace Kirsop , 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: Biblionews and Australian Notes & Queries , March no. 385 2015; (p. 35-36)
1 Ivan Page, 1938-2012 Wallace Kirsop , 2013 single work obituary (for Ivan Jones Page )
— Appears in: Script and Print , March vol. 37 no. 1 2013; (p. 58-60)
1 Nancy Enid Kent Perry Wallace Kirsop , 2011 single work obituary (for Nancye Kent Perry )
— Appears in: Biblionews and Australian Notes and Queries , September - December no. 371 2011; (p. 168-169)
1 y separately published work icon Catering for the Empire : Reactions to Macmillan's Colonial Library Cheap Books for Colonial Readers. Wallace Kirsop , Caulfield : The Ancora Press, Monash University , 2009 Z1703430 2009 single work criticism Includes extract from Walch's literary intelligencer, no. 528, Tasmania, July 1886, "Cheap books for colonial readers", including letter from Macmillan's to J. Walch & Sons, dated January 1886, announcing the publication of the first of the series of colonial editions, and a list of the early titles.
1 'Romancing the Stone': R. H. Horne, Daniel Deniehy and Lithography Wallace Kirsop , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Script and Print , vol. 33 no. 1-4 2009; (p. 217-221)
Discusses the book history of Richard Henry (later Hengist) Horne's Exposition of the False Medium and Barriers Excluding Men of Genius from the Public (1832-33).
1 Selling Books at Auction in 19th-Century Australia : The 2009 Ferguson Memorial Lecture Wallace Kirsop , 2009 single work essay
— Appears in: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society , November vol. 95 no. 2 2009; (p. 198-214)
1 Christopher Brennan's Reading Wallace Kirsop , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 68 no. 3 2008; (p. 229-243)

A 'brief and schematic view of the ways in which the exploration of book use has evolved must precede a characterisation of the various approaches adopted by the author of Poems (1913) in dealing with material in his own library or in others' collections' (229). Brennan's books are discussed as well as his annotations and marginalia with the argument that 'Brennan's margins are the necessary extension of his intellectual and literary work' (238) and therefore indispensable to all who study him seriously. Finally, Kirsop emphasises the necessity to compile a checklist of all the attested titles in Brennan's library, as well as an edition of his correspondence.

1 Tristan Buesst, First President of the Friends of the La Trobe Library Wallace Kirsop , 2007 single work biography
— Appears in: The La Trobe Journal , Spring no. 80 2007; (p. 14-19)
1 1 y separately published work icon The Commonwealth of Books: Essays and Studies in Honour of Ian Willison Wallace Kirsop (editor), Meredith Sherlock (editor), Melbourne : Centre for the Book, Monash University , 2007 Z1577126 2007 single work biography
1 Hunting for Australia's Nineteenth-Century Book Collectors Wallace Kirsop , 2007 single work essay
— Appears in: Biblionews and Australian Notes & Queries , September and December no. 355 and 356 2007; (p. 124-128)
1 Harold Halford Russell Love 1937-2007 Wallace Kirsop , 2006 single work obituary (for Harold Love )
— Appears in: Script and Print , vol. 30 no. 4 2006; (p. 241-249)
1 Cole's Book Arcade Wallace Kirsop , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Worlds of Print: Diversity in the Book Trade 2006; (p. 31-40)
1 Paul Maistre's First Farewell Wallace Kirsop , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Explorations : A Journal of French-Australian Connections , December no. 31 2001;

— Review of Table Talk 1885 periodical (215 issues)
1 From Curry's to Collins Street, or How a Dubliner Became the 'Melbourne Mudie' Wallace Kirsop , 2001 single work prose
— Appears in: The Moving Market: Continuity and Change in the Book Trade 2001; (p. 83-92)
1 Collecting Fashions : A Melbourne Book Sale in 1885 Wallace Kirsop , 2000 single work essay
— Appears in: Fellows of the Book : a volume of essays commemorating the 50th anniversary of Biblionews 2000; (p. 163-67)
1 John Holroyd 1911-2000 Wallace Kirsop , 2000 single work obituary (for John Holroyd )
— Appears in: HOBA Newletter , September no. 6 2000; (p. 10-12)
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