XVIII * Bibliography and Textual Criticism

Abstract

Notably absent from this year’s account is Studies in Bibliography, which is becoming increasingly late in its production. So we begin in alphabetical order of title with The Beckford Society Annual Lectures, 2004–2006, edited by Richard Allen. They contain David Watkin’s ‘Thomas Hope, Designer, Collector, Patron: New Links with Beckford’ (BSAL [2008] 3–18). Watkin, Professor of the History of Architecture and a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, considers ‘the many links between Beckford and Hope’ (p. 4): both were ‘early pioneers of the oriental taste’ (p. 15). Kim Sloan’s ‘ “Amusements of solitude” and “talismans of transport”: William Beckford and Landscape Painting in Britain and Abroad’ (BSAL [2008] 19–52) is the Beckford Society’s tenth annual lecture delivered on Thursday, 17 November 2005 at the Travellers Club, 106 Pall Mall, London SW1 (p. 19). Her account is accompanied by interesting black and white illustrations. In her lecture, Sloan...