The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures are an endowed lectureship in bibliography established in 1928 by rare-book and manuscript dealer A. S. W. Rosenbach at the University of Pennsylvania. [1]
The Rosenbach Lectures are the longest continuing series of bibliographical lectureships in the United States. Individuals appointed as Rosenbach Fellows present three lectures over several weeks.[2]
The 1971 A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography marked the Theodore Dreiser Centenary.[3]
The 1974 A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography was devoted to the fifth annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies."[4]
The university's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center in collaboration with their Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts are the current location of the lectures.
- ^ “Rosenbach Lectures.” The Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford University Press, 2010.
- ^ The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
- ^ Pizer, Donald, and Robert Henry Elias. 1971. Theodore Dreiser Centenary: A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship Lectures in Bibliography. Philadelphia: Library Chronicle, University of Pennsylvania.
- ^ Darnton, Robert, Bernhard Fabian, R. M. Wiles, Paul J. Korshin, A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Fund, and American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 1976. The Widening Circle: Essays on the Circulation of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Europe. [Philadelphia]: University of Pennsylvania Press.