BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:513@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251119T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251119T173000 DTSTAMP:20251020T195250Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/karmiole-2025/ SUMMARY:Scotland’s Gutenberg: William Ged and the Invention of Stereotype Printing\, 1725–49 DESCRIPTION:Twentieth Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book T rade\n\nLecture by William Zachs\, Director of the Blackie House Library a nd Museum\n\nStereotyping\, print production from metal plates rather than moveable type\, is known in a handful of examples before the nineteenth c entury. From the middle of that century\, it was introduced as a more cost -effective manner of book and newspaper production. In his lecture William Zachs first outlines the origins of stereotype printing and then turns hi s focus to the ‘non-moveable type’ productions of Edinburgh goldsmith William Ged (c. 1683–1749). Taking a forensic look at Ged’s few known works\, in particular his pocket editions of Sallust from 1739 and 1744\, Zachs hypothesizes the existence of a group of previously unknown stereot yped books\, thus offering a revised history of the nature of alternative methods of book production in Britain in the first half of the eighteenth century.\n\nDr. William Zachs is the Director of the Blackie House Library and Museum\, a registered Scottish charity with a mission to bring Scotti sh culture to a wider audience through events\, publications\, exhibitions loans and collaborative projects. Housed in a seventeenth-century tenemen t in the heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town\, the collection of some forty th ousand items includes rare books and manuscripts\, paintings\, prints\, sc ulpture and photography – along with antiquities\, decorative objects\, textiles\, furniture and items from nature. Hailing from Hartford\, Connec ticut\, Bill has lived in Edinburgh for over forty years. He is the author of The First John Murray and the Late Eighteenth-Century London Book Trad e (1998)\, Without Regard to Good Manners: A Biography of Gilbert Stuart\, 1743-1786 (1992)\, and numerous other shorter works. In 2013\, the Univer sity of Edinburgh awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters for his contri butions to book historical studies and book curation. He is a Fellow of th e National Library of Scotland and an Honorary Fellow at the universitie s of Edinburgh and Stirling.\n\n\n\nThe lecture is free to attend with adv ance registration. It will be held in-person at the Clark Library and live streamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel. No registration is required to watch the livestream. Seating is limited at the Clark Library\; walk-in r egistrants are welcome as space permits.\nLoading…\n\n\n\nImage: Excerpt from William Ged’s Proposals\, 1736. Courtesy of Dr. William Zachs. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://1718.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08 /IMG_1749_Proposals_Crop-for-Publicity-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Lectures LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream\, 252 0 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=UCLA Willi am Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR