Are you a lover of books, a book collector, perhaps an aspiring author or, simply someone who enjoys fascinating facts?  Dare you miss Burnt Toast Editorial’s autumn talk in partnership with BCP Libraries?

Hiding in Plain Sight. A brief, glorious history of the elements of a book. 

Facsimile of the original title page for the Restoration comedy The Way of the World, William Congreve, 1765. Epigraph, Horace’s Satires.

Dust jacket design for “Money: A suicide note” by Martin Amis, 1984.

A goodly dysputatyon betwene a Christen Shomaker, and a Popysshe Parson, The University of Manchester John Rylands Library, R17502, USTC 518050.

“Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005”, Phil Baines (2005).

No book is the work of a singular endeavour but the sum of several collaborations and conventions. Dr Susan England will unveil the hidden history of the anatomy of a book and how its presentation has been shaped over time.

From incipts, colophons, imprints and readers’ addresses to chapter heads, page numbers, epigraphs, back ends and front ends this talk guarantees those who attend will see the book in a completely new light.

The talk will last 45 minutes followed by a short Q&A session and a pop-up publishing consultancy clinic for attendees who are aspiring authors.

Ticket price: FREE  Maximum capacity: 20 attendees

Libraries, dates and times:-

2019

Westbourne Library: Saturday, 16^th November 2019, 2.00 to 3.30 p.m. To book your ticket go to http://buytickets.at/burnttoasteditorial/302464

Bournemouth Library: Saturday, 14^thDecember 2019, 2.00 to 3.30 p.m.  To book your ticket go to http://buytickets.at/burnttoasteditorial/302469   

2020 

Poole Library: Saturday, 25th April 2020, 2.30 to 4.00 p.m. To book your ticket go to https://buytickets.at/burnttoasteditorial/352015