Season 1 Episode 10: Calling All Bibliophiles

Hosted By Vanessa Warne and Anne Hung

With Guests Kirsten MacLeod, Denae Dyck, and Elizabeth Bassett

In this episode, we invite you to indulge your bibliophilic tendencies. Join us as we explore the material history of some beautiful, one-of-a-kind books.

Transcript

Read a complete transcript of the episode here!

Transcript created by Natalie LoVetri.

References & Resources

Learn more about Kirsten MacLeod’s work. 

Explore the 1928 French illustrated edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. 

View the binding by Madeline Gras, privately commissioned for the Société Edition “Le Livre” edition of Le Portrait de Dorian Gray. c.1925-1935. La Gazette Drouot. 

View the binding by Louise Leveque, privately commissioned for the Société Edition “Le Livre” edition of Le Portrait de Dorian Gray. c.1933-38. Ader Nordmann and Dominique auction house.

Learn more about Denae Dyck’s work.

Explore the Armstrong Browning Library collection. 

See more of The Works of George MacDonald.

To learn more about bookplates, visit The Victorian Web or The Bookplate Society

See more examples of Book Traces.

Check out “George MacDonald’s Copy of ‘Aids to Reflection’” at Victorian Things

Visit Elizabeth Bassett’s digital exhibit “Yes, this is my album”: Victorian Collections of Scraps, Signatures, and Seaweed

View Lilian L. Kidman’s album and her sister Ella Kidman’s album

To learn more about Ghost Signatures, check out Cecil Henland’s The Ghost of My Friends

View Edward Morell Holmes’ seaweed album.  

Try your hand at scrapbooking with the Crafting Communities’ Victorian Scrapbooking Workshop!

Victorian Samplings was recorded and produced on the territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən and SENĆOŦEN speaking communities of the Songhees, Esquimalt, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples, and on Treaty One Territory, traditional Land of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples and homeland of the Métis Nation.


Our podcast theme is “Happy Jazzy Ragtime Piano” by Praded, licensed by AudioJungle; our podcast stinger was made and donated by Brandon Christopher.

Louise Leveque, privately commissioned for the Société Edition “Le Livre” edition of Le Portrait de Dorian Gray. c.1933-38. Ader Nordmann and Dominique auction house.

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