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URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/odious-in-woollen/
SUMMARY:“Odious! In Woollen!”: Blank Precedents and the London Statione
 rs\, 1690-1830
DESCRIPTION:\nTwenty-First Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the B
 ook Trade\nLecture by Dennis Duncan\, Associate Professor\, University Col
 lege London\nThis paper begins with a collection of four dozen Burying in 
 Woollen affidavits from the village of Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire\, dati
 ng from the first decade of the eighteenth century to the last. Each affid
 avit testifies to a burial in the village\, and an oath taken by a relativ
 e of the deceased that the body was wrapped in nothing other than wool. Th
 ese are roughly-printed\, single-sheet forms\, illustrated with crude wood
 cuts of skulls and cadavers. They were printed seventy miles away in Londo
 n.\n\nWhat can the stationery of a country rector tell us about the practi
 ces of the London printers\, how they advertised\, and how the blank prece
 dent – what we might today call a form – offered rich\, ever-changing 
 opportunities to supplement their book work?\n\nDennis Duncan is a writer 
 and Associate Professor in English at University College London. His books
  include Book Parts (with Adam Smyth\, Oxford University Press\, 2019)\, a
 nd Index\, A History of the (W. W. Norton\, 2022). The latter was a New Yo
 rk Times bestseller and was listed as one of the Books of the Year in the 
 New York Times\, TIME magazine\, the Washington Post\, and the Financial T
 imes. It has been translated into nine languages. He writes regularly for 
 the New York Times\, the London Review of Books\, the Guardian\, and the T
 imes Literary Supplement. His current research concerns ephemera and the h
 istory of collecting. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.\n\n\
 n\nThis event is free to attend with advance registration and will be held
  in-person at the Clark Library. Seating is limited. Walk-in registrants a
 re welcome as space permits. Registration will close on Monday\, November 
 2\, 2026.\n\nThe lecture will be livestreamed and the recording will be av
 ailable to watch on the Center’s YouTube channel for one year following 
 the event. Registration is not required to watch the livestream.\n\n\n\nLo
 ading…\n\n\n\nImage: Jacob Giles\, The Modern Justice (London: J. Tonson
 \, 1720)\, p. 90 [Clark Library Rare Book Stacks\; K J15mo 1720].
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LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream\, 252
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