After Hours with the Listers

September 11, 2024, at the Linda Hall Library
Professor Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln) joins Finch Collins (Linda Hall Library) to explore one of the most fascinating and challenging early modern scientific books: Martin, Anna, and Susanna Lister’s Historiae Conchyliorum (1685-1692). Anna Marie and Finch share the story of the books’ production as embodied in the Library’s copy and discuss some of the bibliographical challenges of the book that bedevil scholars today. Copies of the Historiae from the Linnean Society of London, the Bodleian, and Jesus College, Oxford libraries are featured as comparative examples, as will the copperplates used to print the book.