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Feather, John P. "Studies in the history of books and the book trade." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1985. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/32889.
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The books and papers offered in this submission are concerned with the history of books and the book trade. Three papers (nos. 1, 2, 3) offer a theoretical and conceptual framework for historical studies of the book. In essence, it is argued that since the book is a societal object it can only be understood in a societal context. Consequently historical studies of books are concerned with far more than physical bibliography, important as that is. The writing, publishing and reading of books are activities which develop out of, and influence the further development of, political and economic systems. The political context of publishing and its legal status is of central concern to the book historian (nos. 12, 14, 15); so too are the mechanisms of sale and distribution (nos. 9, 10, 11, 16) and the relationships between the author who is the primary producer, and the publisher who provides his commercial link with the reader (no. 13). More specifically, the central group of works is concerned with the provincial book trade in 18th-century England. The general study (no. 8) is a wide-ranging survey, largely based on primary sources, of the development and operation of the complex systems which allowed the printed word to permeate English society at every level and in every part of the country between 1700 and 1800. Shorter studies consider some more detailed aspects of the same subject (nos. 4, 6, 7) and survey previous work in the field (no. 5 ).
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Wyllys, Rufus Kay, and Sidney Kartus. "Book Reviews." Arizona State Historian (Phoenix, AZ), 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623690.
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Tabor, Sarah Owen. "Creative Book Arts Preserving Family History." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2002. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/TaborSO2002.pdf.
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Maxson, Brian Jeffrey. "Book Review of Angelica's Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2676.
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Armstrong, Samantha-Jo. "The Book of Kindness : Social Reformers Use of Kindness: 1760-1800." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Historiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-322960.
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In the English socio-cultural landscape of the late eighteenth-century, the concept of kindness inhabited a place of importance for its proponents. For kindness was regarded as actions derived from the capacity of humans to do good. Which resulted in the experience and creation of good qualities, situations, and interactions. Kindness’ dictates allowed for its followers to argue the need to encourage better behavioural qualities in others. The dictates of kindness that allowed for this regulating ability came around due to the tightly entwined religious and social tenets of kindness. In the religious sphere, kindness was tied to being Christian through the ‘Law of Kindness.’ The ‘Law of Kindness’ argued that Christians must show kindness to every human being and creature despite everything. Christian theologians argued that kindness is part of humanity, which must be shown through the correct actions, mannerisms, and feelings of everyday life. Kindness fit neatly into the culture of sensibility and its associated philosophies of moral and sensibilities. In the social sphere proponents argued that kindness acted as a means of reinforcing social hierarchy and behavioural boundaries of English society. This occurred through dictates to people showing kindness and infuse kindness into their behaviour that varied according to social position and gender.
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DiCuirci, Lindsay Erin Marks. "History's Imprint: The Colonial Book and the Writing of American History, 1790-1855." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1280362004.
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Maxson, Brian Jeffrey. "An Unfinished Letter Book from Renaissance Italy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5462.
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Powell, Anne Catherine. ""Miss Rebecca Story's Book" / "Marrying a Minnister"." W&M ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550153857.
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"Miss Rebecca Story's Book": A Portal to a Boundless World This paper examines the geographic, literary, and personal connections displayed in a commonplace book of a young girl in the early years of the American republic. A close textual analysis of the commonplace book of Rebecca Story of Marblehead, Massachusetts, in combination with a study of her surrounding environment, offers a methodological approach that simultaneously individualizes and contextualizes a nearly obscured life. This study attempts to reconstruct the world in which she lived, studied, read, and wrote, a world that was inherently informed by her contemporaries' experiences but that also was uniquely her own. The intellectual imagination that created Rebecca Story's world depended on her capacity to envision events, ideas, institutions, and places that superseded the concrete borders of Massachusetts and the abstract borders of gender roles at the turn of the century. an analysis of the literature she read, the people she met, and the places she lived shows Rebecca Story's connections to an expansive network of wider geographic, political, and intellectual worlds in the late eighteenth-century. Creating a record of these linkages that span the Atlantic world and beyond demonstrates how the expansive nature of the early American world could touch even the most provincial lives. "Marrying a Minnister": Esther Burr's Letter-Journal and Identity as a Colonial Minister's Wife This paper is an exploration into the private and public roles of the wives of colonial American clergymen. Although the subject of the colonial minister once received an abundance of scholarly attention, new questions still emerge from surrounding community and familial networks. Using the experience of Esther Edwards Burr as a case study, with her writings in a unique letter-journal format as an evidentiary base, this study identifies the wives of colonial clergymen as occupying a distinct public role within their community as conduits between the private lives of parishioners and the public expressions of their religious life. Defining the specificities of the role of the colonial minister's wife nuances previous explanations of gender roles and public identities, and shows that further exploration into the roles of these women is necessary for fuller comprehension of the gendered communities of early America.
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Maxson, Brian Jeffrey. "Book Review of The Black Prince of Florence." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2679.
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Huggins, Linda Wreford. "Techniques in contemporary book illustration." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008567.
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Introduction: Although the hackneyed adage "one picture is worth a thousand words" defies proof and begs argument, the basic value of illustration in graphic communications is beyond dispute. Without attempting to put a relative value on illustration as compared with words, we can still be aware of the special effectiveness of images, in accomplishing communication goals. The roots of illustration go hack to prehistoric pictorial art of engraved or painted figures done on stone. The hand print can be interpreted as one of the first attempts at drawing. Prehistoric pictorial art depicted visually what could not be expressed by word or gestures some had religious significance, some the presence of myth, others plainly diadactic, showing daily life, social communication, the magic of the hunt, death, birth, group life and sexual symbolism. Little is known of the vast lapse of time between prehistoric art and the imagery that man devised in the service of developing civilisations at the dawn of history. With steadily increasing demands upon his skills, the artisan's mastery of the tools and materials progressed, so that by the beginning of recorded time he was in possession of the potential elements for printmaking. Yet the importance of communication, as we know it today, only developed centuries later with the motivating force of religion. The print could tell its story to those who could not read or write but could quickly grasp the meaning of a picture.
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Maxson, Brian Jeffrey. "Book Review of The Medici: Citizens and Masters." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2661.
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Eve, Matthew. "A history of illustrated children's books and book production in Britain during the Second World War." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.275721.
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Galbraith, Steven K. "Edmund Spenser and the History of the Book, 1569-1679." The Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1150074228.
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Hinks, John. "The history of the book trade in Leicester to c1850." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2002. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/6818.
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A study of the history of the book trade (printing, bookselling, stationery and publishing) in Leicester, from the medieval beginnings of the trade (parchment making etc. ) up to cl 850. The development of the book trade is examined in its local, regional and national contexts, including cultural, social and economic aspects, with the aim of contributing to the growing corpus of historical study of the provincial book trade in England, which has developed considerably over the last thirty years. Extensive use has been made of primary source material, not least the Borough Records of Leicester including the registers of freemen and apprentices, newspaper advertisements, extant locally-printed books and other material. More than three hundred book-trade individuals have been identified. The activities of the leading practitioners are explored, including the stock and services they provided, the economics of their trading activity, their standing in the town (many held civic office), and their interaction within the business community. The impact of the book trade and the printed word in Leicester are discussed, as are other significant aspects of the trade such as the importance of family businesses, the role of women, and the handing on of trade skills from master to apprentice. In the last decade of the eighteenth century and the first part of the nineteenth, the striking contrast between the conservatism of the old Corporation and the strident radicalism, and religious dissent, of many Leicester people provides a vibrant setting for the activities of booksellers, printers and newspaper publishers. Many of the town's leading book-trade practitioners were politically radical - an interesting and historically important dimension to the later development of the book trade in Leicester, to a degree seldom found elsewhere.
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Field, Hannah C. "Toying with the book : children's literature, novelty formats, and the material book, 1810-1914." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:02077b56-4e3e-4bf3-92b0-6c59fce771df.
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This thesis examines the book in the nineteenth century by way of an unusual corpus: movable and novelty books for children, drawn from the Opie Collection of Children’s Literature at the Bodleian Library. It argues that these items, which have been either ignored or actively dismissed by scholars of children’s literature, are of two-fold significance for the history of the book: they encourage a sense of the book as a constitutively (rather than an incidentally) material object, and they demand an understanding of reading as not just a mental activity, but a physical one as well. Each of the first five chapters of the thesis centres on a different format. The opening chapter discusses the Regency-era paper doll books produced by Samuel and Joseph Fuller, exposing the tension between form and content in these works. The second chapter looks at Victorian panorama books for children, showing how the panorama format affects space, time, and the structure of any text accompanying the image. The third chapter reads the pop-up book’s key tension—the tension between surface and depth in the pursuit of an illusion of three dimensions—in terms of flat, theatrical, and stereoscopic picture-making, three other nineteenth-century pictorial modes in which an illusion of three-dimensionality is important. The fourth chapter traces self-reflexive accounts of printing, publishing, and the material book in dissolving-view books produced by the German publisher and printer Ernest Nister at the end of the nineteenth century. The fifth chapter positions the late nineteenth-century mechanical books designed and illustrated by Lothar Meggendorfer in terms of two material analogies, the puppet and the mechanical toy or automaton. The final chapter synthesizes evidence as to how the movable book could and should be read from across formats, foregrounding in particular the ways in which the movable embodies reading.
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Maxson, Brian Jeffrey. "Book Review of The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2659.
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SHARP, (Society for the History of Authorship Reading & Publishing). "SHARP News." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105116.
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null<br>This is the Spring 1992 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc.
Editor: Jonathan Rose.
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SHARP'S ELECTRONIC DISCUSSION AND INFORMATION CENTER GOES ONLINE; HISTORY OF THE BOOK: ON DEMAND SERIES (HOBODS); OTHER VENTURES IN BOOK HISTORY; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCES; RECENT PUBLICATIONS; FIRST SHARP CONFERENCE: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS; HOW WE ARE DOING.
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HOW WE ARE DOING, by Jonathan Rose (p. 6).
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SHARP, (Society for the History of Authorship Reading & Publishing). "SHARP News." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105199.
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This is the Summer 2004 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Set in Adobe Garamond with Wingdings.
Editor: Sydney Shep; Book Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Chuck Johanningsmeier; Bibliographer: Padmini Ray Chaudhury.
CONTENTS:
MUNBY FELLOWSHIP; SHARP 2006; PRIZES & FELLOWSHIPS; THE SHARP EDGE; NEW BOOK REVIEWS EDITOR; BOOK REVIEWS; FORTHCOMING EVENTS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; MUNBY FELLOWS; SYMPOSIUM REPORT; SHARPIST HONOURED; BIBLIOGRAPHY; THE SHARPEND.
This issue includes the following contributions:
An Antipodean Affair (MUNBY FELLOWSHIP), by Alexandra Gillespie (p. 1); Jo Ann Boydston Essay Prize (PRIZES & FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 2); Munby Fellowship in Bibliography (PRIZES & FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 2); BSANZ Travel Grants (PRIZES & FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 2); From Book Development to Book History: Some Observations on the History of the Book in Africa (THE SHARP EDGE), by Isabel Hofmeyr (pp. 3-4); BOOK REVIEWS, by Catherine Dille, Wallace Kirsop, Karen Carney, Lisa Gitelman, Charles Johanningsmeier, Jennifer J. Connor, Peter R. Frank (pp. 5-8); Popular Science: Nineteenth-Century Sites & Experiences, York University, Toronto, 2-3 August 2004 (FORTHCOMING EVENTS) (p. 9); Detecting the Text: Fakes, Forgery, Fraud, & Editorial Concerns, University College, University of Toronto, 5-6 November 2004 (FORTHCOMING EVENTS) (p. 9); Reaching the Margins: The Colonial & Postcolonial Lives of the Book, 1765-2005, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London, 3-5 November 2005 (FORTHCOMING EVENTS) (p. 9); Material Cultures & the Creation of Knowledge, University of Edinburgh, 22-24 July 2004 (CALL FOR PAPERS) (p. 9); Maintaining the Heritage, Rhodes University & University of Fort Hare, 12-15 September 2005 (CALL FOR PAPERS) (pp. 9-10); The French Place in the Bay of Islands (SYMPOSIUM REPORT), by Kate Martin (p. 10).
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SHARP, (Society for the History of Authorship Reading & Publishing). "SHARP News." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105226.
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null<br>This is the Autumn 1998 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc.
Editor: David Finkelstein; Associate Editor: Linda Connors; Book Review Editor: Fiona Black.
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IN MY VIEW: WOMEN AND BOOK HISTORY; TEACHING WOMEN AND TEXT: MEDIEVAL TO RENAISSANCE; BUILDING A DATABASE OF AMERICAN WOMEN BOOKSELLERS; MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROJECT COMPLETED AT BROWN; NEW CENTRE TO MAP 18TH CENTURY LONDON BOOK TRADE; CONFERENCE REPORTS; CALL FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS; FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT; SCHOLARLY LIAISONS; SEMINARS AND LECTURES; WEBWATCH; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARPEND.
This issue includes the following contributions:
IN MY VIEW: WOMEN AND BOOK HISTORY, by Leslie Howsam (pp. 1-2); TEACHING WOMEN AND TEXT: MEDIEVAL TO RENAISSANCE, by Maureen Bell (pp. 2-4); BUILDING A DATABASE OF AMERICAN WOMEN BOOKSELLERS, by Barbara A. Brannon (pp. 4-5); Annual Conference on the History of the Provincial Book Trde in Britain; Postgraduate Conference on the History of the Book (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 5-7); Library History Round Table; Research Society for Victorian Periodicals; American Literature Association; Western Journalism Historians Conference (CALL FOR PAPERS) (pp. 7-8); Annual Conference on Book Trade History; Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS) (p. 8); Department of English at the University of Otago (FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT) (p. 8); American Historical Association convention (SCHOLARLY LIAISONS) (pp. 8-9); Scottish Centre for the Book at Napier University; Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh Fall 1998 Seminar Programme (SEMINARS AND LECTURES) (p. 9); BOOK REVIEWS, by Maureen Bell, Elizabeth Hagglund, Heidi Thomson, Alexis Weedon, Rosemary E. Johnsen, Valerie Edden, Linda Dryden (pp. 10-15).
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SHARP, (Society for the History of Authorship Reading & Publishing). "SHARP News." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105297.
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This is the Spring 2003 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Set in Adobe Garamond with Wingdings.
Editor: Sydney Shep; Book Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Chuck Johanningsmeier; Bibliographer: Padmini Ray Chaudhury.
CONTENTS:
SHARP REGIONAL 2003; NEW SHARP AWARD; BSA MITCHELL PRIZE; THE SHARP EDGE; EXHIBITION; CALL FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCE REPORTS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY.
This issue includes the following contributions:
Books and Empire: Textual Production, Distribution and Consumption in Colonial and Postcolonial Countries, University of Sydney, Australia, 30 January to 1 February 2003 (SHARP REGIONAL 2003), by Elizabeth Morrison (pp. 1, 5) and Another Viewpoint (SHARP REGIONAL 2003), by Shef Rogers (p. 5); Bibliographical Society of America's Mitchell Prize (BSA MITCHELL PRIZE) (pp. 2, 12); Why Book Arts Matter (THE SHARP EDGE), by Kathleen Walkup (pp. 3-4); New Work in Printing History, New York, 24-25 October 2003 (CALL FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Private Libraries Day, Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury, England, 13 November 2002 (CONFERENCE REPORTS), by Keith Manley (pp. 5-6); Celebration of 200 Years of Newspapers in Australia, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 1 March 2003 (CONFERENCE REPORTS), by Victor Isaacs (pp. 6-7); and BOOK REVIEWS, by Jeffrey Barr, Jane Potter, Harold Love, Tom Berger, Richard B. Sher, Peter R. Frank (pp. 7-12).
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SHARP, (Society for the History of Authorship Reading & Publishing). "SHARP News." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105335.
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This is the Spring 1994 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc.
Editor: Jonathan Rose.
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BOOK HISTORY PROJECTS ADVANCE ON ALL FRONTS; 1994 SHARP CONFERENCE UPDATE; TEACHING THE HISTORY OF LITERACY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS TO LAUNCH A NEW MAGAZINE; COURSES; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTORS; CONFERENCES; EXHIBITIONS & LECTURES; NOTES & QUERIES; FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS; RECENT PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING.
This issue includes the following contributions:
TEACHING THE HISTORY OF LITERACY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, by Harvey J. Graff (pp. 3-4).
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SHARP, (Society for the History of Authorship Reading & Publishing). "SHARP News." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105352.
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This issue was erroneously labeled as volume 6, number 2 (Spring 1997) but is in fact volume 6, number 4 (Autumn 1997). Subsequently, a replacement sheet for pp. 1-2/15-16 giving the correct volume, issue, season, and date was included in SHARP News 7:1 (Winter 1997-98).<br>This is the Autumn 1997 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc.
Editor: David Finkelstein; Associate Editor: Linda Connors; Book Review Editor: Fiona Black.
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PUBLISHER BACKS THE BOOK; THIRTY YEARS OF MACMILLAN ARCHIVES; IN VISIBLE LANGUAGE; LOOSE GOWNS FOR MACKEREL: MAKING, DISTRIBUTING AND READING BOOKS; SHARP BOOK HISTORY PRIZE; CHARTIER INTERVIEW; CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS; CALL FOR PAPERS; CALLS FOR BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS; MACKENZIE TRUST APPEAL--ERRATA; FELLOWSHIPS; LECTURES AND SEMINARS; SCHOLARLY LIAISONS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARPEND.
This issue includes the following contributions:
IN VISIBLE LANGUAGE, by Lydia Wever (p. 2); CHARTIER INTERVIEW, by Roger Chartier and Sue Waterman (pp. 4-6); The Sociomaterial Turn: Excavating Modernism; English Short Title Catalogue (CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS) (p. 6); Scenes of Writing 1750-1850; Book, Text and Image: Great Britain, 18th-20th Centuries; Expertise Constructed: Didactic Literature in the British Atlantic World, 1500-1800; American Studies Association; Research Society for Victorian Periodicals; AEJMC Magazine Division; 33rd International Congress on Mediaeval Studies; Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500: Fragments and Their Problems; 16th Seminar on the British Book Trade (CALL FOR PAPERS) (pp. 6-7); Special Issue of Victorian Periodical Review on The Cornhill Magazine; Makers of Western Culture (CALLS FOR BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS) (pp. 7-8); BOOK REVIEWS, by Gillian Fenwick, Simon Stern, Gretchen Galbraith, S.G.F. Spackman, Wayne A. Wiegand, Robert N. Matuozzi, W.A. Kelly, Leon Jackson (pp. 9-14).
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SHARP, (Society for the History of Authorship Reading & Publishing). "SHARP News." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105420.
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Masthead date for this issue reads: Winter 1994-95.<br>This is the Winter 1994-95 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc.
Editor: Jonathan Rose; Book Review Editor: Patrick Leary.
CONTENTS:
DREW UNIVERSITY CENTER TO COORDINATE NEW YORK BOOK HISTORY CONSORTIUM; READING HISTORY PROJECTS OPEN TO RESEARCHERS; THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK IN MODERN BRITAIN: A GRADUATE COURSE SYLLABUS; BOOK REVIEWS; LETTERS TO THE EDITOR; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTORS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCES; COURSES; EXHIBITIONS & LECTURES; NETWORKS; EMPLOYMENT NOTICES; NOTES & QUERIES; RECENT PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING.
This issue includes the following contributions:
THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK IN MODERN BRITAIN: A GRADUATE COURSE SYLLABUS, by Jonathan Rose (pp. 2-3); BOOK REVIEWS, by Martyn Lyons, Kate Levin, Kyle Grimes (pp. 3-5); Comments on the Robert Darnton Interview (LETTERS TO THE EDITOR), by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein (p. 5).
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SHARP, (Society for the History of Authorship Reading & Publishing). "SHARP News." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105601.
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null<br>This is the Autumn 2001 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc.
Editor: Fiona Black; Associate Editor & Bibliographer: Linda Connors; Book Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Paul Gutjahr.
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SHARP NEWS OF NOTE; ACTIVITIES ROUND-UP; SCHOLARLY EDITING; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; CONFERENCES; AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS; PRIZES; LECTURES AND COURSES; EXHIBITIONS; CONFERENCE REPORTS; AFFILIATE ACTIVITIES; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARP REPORTS.
This issue includes the following contributions:
SHARP Prize Awarded (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 1); SHARP Student Essay Prize Awarded (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 1); SHARPWeb.org, by Patrick Leary (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 1); Leiden Centre for the Book, by Adriaan van der Weel (ACTIVITIES ROUND-UP) (pp. 1-3); The Child Writer and the Juvenilia Press, by Juliet McMaster (SCHOLARLY EDITING) (pp. 3-4); The Versatile Text: New Histories of the Book, University of Edinburgh, 19-21 April 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); The New Information Order, University of Edinburgh, 21-23 March 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Borders and Crossings III: An International Conference on Travel Writing, 10-13 July 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 4-5); Transatlantic Type: Anglo-American Printing in the Nineteenth Century, American Printing History Association Twenty-sixth Annual Conference, Washington University, St. Louis, 19-21 October 2001 (CONFERENCES) (pp. 5-6); Inaugural Colloquium for the European Society for Textual Scholarship, DeMontfort University, Leicester, UK, 22-23 November 2001 (CONFERENCES) (p. 6); Printing Historical Society Conference 2002, Printing History: New Criteria, Reading, UK, 11 January 2002 (CONFERENCES) (pp. 6-7); John Carter Brown Library Research Fellowships: 2002-2003 (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 7); Justin Winsor Prize for Library History Essay (PRIZES) (pp. 7-8); SHARP Book History Prize (PRIZES) (p. 8); The Edinburgh Book History Seminar Programme 2001-2002, Edinburgh Univ. Library (LECTURES AND COURSES) (pp. 8-9); Toronto Centre for the Book Programme 2001-2002 (LECTURES AND COURSES) (p. 9); The Reader Revealed: New Folger Exhibition Highlights Renaissance Reading Habits, Folger Shakespeare Library (EXHIBITIONS) (pp. 9-10); SHARP at Colonial Williamsburg (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (p. 10); Book Studies at SHARP, by Eleanor Shevlin (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (p. 11); SHARP at ASECS, by Eleanor Shevlin (AFFILIATE ACTIVITIES) (p. 11); BOOK REVIEWS, by Nicholas Dew, Hannah Thompson, Elisabeth-Christine Muelsch, Alexandra Gillespie (pp. 11-14); Treasurer's Report, by Robert Patten (SHARP REPORTS) (p. 16); Membership Report, by Barbara A. Brannon (SHARP REPORTS) (p. 16).
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SHARP, (Society for the History of Authorship Reading & Publishing). "SHARP News." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105692.
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This is the Autumn 1993 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc.
Editor: Jonathan Rose.
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THE READING EXPERIENCE DATABASE (RED); THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA; SHARP 1994 WASHINGTON CONFERENCE FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS; NEW BOOK STUDIES JOURNAL LAUNCHED; FELLOWSHIPS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; RECENT PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING.
This issue includes the following contributions:
THE READING EXPERIENCE DATABASE (RED), by Simon Eliot (pp. 1-3); THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA, by Gordon B. Neavill (pp. 3-5).
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SHARP, (Society for the History of Authorship Reading & Publishing). "SHARP News." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105773.
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null<br>This is the Summer 2002 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc.
Editor: Fiona Black; Associate Editor & Bibliographer: Linda Connors; Book Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Paul Gutjahr.
CONTENTS:
CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCES; AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS; CONFERENCE REPORTS; BOOK HISTORY SOCIETIES; OBITUARY: PETER ISAAC; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARP END; CORRECTIONS.
This issue includes the following contributions:
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies: The Global Trade in Books, Periodicals and Other Forms of Print in the Long Eighteenth Century, University of California, Los Angeles, 3-8 August 2003 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 1); 17th Annual DeBartolo Conference on Eighteenth-Century Studies: The History of Manners, Tampa, Florida, 20-22 February 2003 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 1-2); The History of Medicine, University College, London, 20-21 June 2003 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 2); Literary London: 1660 to 1830, Mayfair, London, 13 September 2002 (CONFERENCES) (pp. 2-3); History of the Maritime Book, Princeton University, NJ, 4-5 October 2002 (CONFERENCES) (p. 3); The Future History of the Book, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, Netherlands, 7-8, (9) November 2002 (CONFERENCES) (pp. 3-4); Cambridge University Library Munby Fellowship in Bibliography, 2003-2004 (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 4); William L. Mitchell Prize for Research on Early British Serials (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 4); The History of Libraries in the United States: Hosted by the Library Company of Philadelphia, 11-13 April 2002, by Michael A. Baenen (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 4-5); American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, by Eleanor Shevlin (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (p. 5); The Ticknor Society (BOOK HISTORY SOCIETIES) (pp. 5-6); BOOK REVIEWS, by Margaret Beetham, Caroline Davis, Anne MacKinnon, Anne Marie Lane, George L. Parker, Alexis Weedon (pp. 6-10); Editorial News (SHARP END) (p. 12).
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SHARP, (Society for the History of Authorship Reading & Publishing). "SHARP News." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105910.
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null<br>This is the Summer 2000 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: Fiona Black; Associate Editor: Linda Connors; Book Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Paul Gutjahr. CONTENTS: GUEST COMMENT; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; CONFERENCES; AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS; CONFERENCE REPORTS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARP NEWS OF NOTE; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: The Critical Importance of Slovenian Book History: A Journey to the Heart of a Nation, by Miha Kovaè (GUEST COMMENT) (pp. 1-3); Shakespeare Association of America Convention, Miami, Florida, 12-14 April 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 3); The Production of Culture: The Scottish Press in a National and International Context 1800-1880, University of Stirling, Scotland, 28-29 July 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 3); History of the Book: The Next Generation, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, 16 September 2000 (CONFERENCES) (p. 4); Under the Hammer: Book Auctions Since the Seventeenth Century, Birkbeck College and Waterstone's Piccadilly, London, 25-26 November 2000 (CONFERENCES) (pp. 4-5); Bibliographical Society (UK) Grants and Fellowships 2000-2001 (AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 5); SHARP2000 Celebrates Gutenberg's Birthday, by Linda Connors (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 5-6); SHARP Membership Report, 1 July 1999-30 June 2000, by Barbara A. Brannon (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (p. 6); SHARP 2000 Preconference Session on Global Bibliography, by Jonathan Rose (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (p. 6); Les mutations du livre et de l'édition dans le monde du XVIIIe siècle a l'an 2000/Worldwide Changes in Book Publishing from the 18th Century to the Year 2000: Colloque international/International Colloquium, Sherbrooke, May 2000, by Peter F. McNally (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 6-8); BOOK REVIEWS, by Scott E. Casper, Susanna Ashton, Warwick Gould, Alison M. Scott (pp. 8-10); SHARP Book History Prize (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 12).
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SHARP, (Society for the History of Authorship Reading & Publishing). "SHARP News." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106088.
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null<br>This is the Summer 1999 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc.
Editor: David Finkelstein; Associate Editor: Linda Connors; Book Review Editor: Fiona Black.
CONTENTS:
SHARP99 SAILS INTO MADISON; JOHNS A WINNER; ARCHIVE PRESERVATION PROJECT INITIATED; SHARP AFFILIATES WITH MLA; CAMBRIDGE TO PUBLISH THE BRITISH BOOK; ROUTLEDGE COMMISSIONS READER; ILH DICTIONARY TO BE PUBLISHED; MAINZ 2000 CALLING; CAN BOOK HISTORY BE TAUGHT AT A SMALL COLLEGE?; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS; EXHIBITIONS; FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENTS; WEBWATCH; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; IN MEMORIAM: JOHN CURTAIN, MICHAEL TREADWELL; SHARPEND; SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF AUTHORSHIP, READING AND PUBLISHING, INC. ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT: YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1998.
This issue includes the following contributions:
SHARP99 SAILS INTO MADISON, by Leon Jackson (p. 1); ARCHIVE PRESERVATION PROJECT INITIATED, by Trysh Travis (pp. 1-2); CAN BOOK HISTORY BE TAUGHT AT A SMALL COLLEGE?, by Jonathan Rose (pp. 3-4); Local History, Local Identities, Chiltern, Victoria, Australia, 1-3 October 1999 (CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS) (p. 5); Impressions: 250 Years of Printing in the Lives of Canadians, National Library of Canada, Ottawa (EXHIBITIONS) (p. 5); WEBWATCH, by Patrick Leary (pp. 6-7); BOOK REVIEWS, by Robin Alston, Elisabeth-Christine Muelsch, Leslie Howsam, Patricia Fleming (pp. 7-10).
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SHARP, (Society for the History of Authorship Reading & Publishing). "SHARP News." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106116.
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This is the Spring & Summer 2006 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Set in Adobe Garamond with Wingdings.
Editor: Sydney Shep; Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Gail Shivel, Lisa Pon, Tina Ray Murray; Bibliographer: Robert N. Matuozzi.
CONTENTS:
CREATIVITY & THE LAW; SHARP KOLKATA 2006; TEXT MATTERS; BOOKS IN THE CITY; SHARP SOUTH AFRICA 2007; EXHIBITION REVIEWS; MITCHELL PRIZE 2006; BOOK REVIEWS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; OBSERVING TRENDS; BIBLIOGRAPHY.
This issue includes the following contributions:
Creativity and the Law: Copyright, Censorship, Authorship, Publishing (CREATIVITY & THE LAW), by Eli MacLaren (p. 1); SHARP KOLKATA 2006, by Peter Kornicki (pp. 1-2); Ink on Screen, Light on Paper: Text Matters, Inaugural International Conference of the Danish Book History Forum, Graphic Arts Institute of Denmark, Copenhagen, 20-21 April 2006 (TEXT MATTERS), by Charles Lock (pp. 3-4); BOOKS IN THE CITY, by Geneviève de Viveiros, Jenny Gilbert, Ruth-Ellen St. Onge (pp. 4-5); A World Elsewhere: Orality, Manuscript and Print in Colonial and Post-Colonial Cultures, Centre for the Book, Cape Town, 2-4 April 2007 (SHARP SOUTH AFRICA 2007) (pp. 5-6); The Poetry of Shijo Surimono, Joel and Carole Bernstein, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 17 September-11 December 2005 (EXHIBITION REVIEWS), by Kay Shelton (p. 6); Six Centuries of Master Bookbinding, Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Galleries, Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, 10 February-29 April 2006 (EXHIBITION REVIEWS), by Craig Kallendorf (pp. 6-7); Claire Van Vliet and the Janus Press: Celebrating Fifty Years, Grolier Club, New York, 22 February-29 April 2006 (EXHIBITION REVIEWS), by Larry E. Sullivan (pp. 7-8); Kelmscott Press Book Display, Lilly House, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 25 September 2005-22 January 2006 (EXHIBITION REVIEWS), by Kay Shelton (pp. 8-9); BOOK REVIEWS, by Carl Spadoni, Stephen R. Reimer, Andrew Piper, Hilde De Weerdt, Lindsay Gledhill, Alan Bryson, David Mallia, M.O. Grenby, S.L. Harrison, Ann R. Hawkins, Peter Kornicki, Douglas Martin, Andrew Hadfield, Joseph Dennis, Charles Johanningsmeier, Martyn Ould, Barbara Mittler, Margaret F. Nichols, Consuela Metzger, Betty Hagglund, David Chambers, Adam Rounce, Martin J. Heijdra, Jane Potter, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Peter Know-Shaw, Elizabeth Falsey (pp. 10-26); The Books of Venice: A Conference on the Book in Venice, Venice, Italy, 9-10 March 2007 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 26); Communication and Information in the 18th Century: The Habsburg Monarchy, Austrian National Library, Vienna, 26-28 April 2008 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 26); OBSERVING TRENDS, by Alexis Weedon (pp. 26, 28).
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SHARP, (Society for the History of Authorship Reading & Publishing). "SHARP News." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106158.
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This is the Winter & Spring 2005 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Set in Adobe Garamond with Wingdings. Editor: Sydney Shep; Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Gail Shivel, Lisa Pon; Bibliographer: Padmini Ray Chaudhury. CONTENTS: CONFERENCE REPORTS; SHARP DONORS 2004-5; SHARP CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 2005; NATALIE ZEMON DAVIS PRIZE; THE SHARP EDGE; CALLS FOR PAPERS; ADVANCE WARNING; BOOK REVIEWS; IN SHORT; FORTHCOMING EVENTS; BHRN REPORT; BIBLIOGRAPHY; THE SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: Hunters and Gatherers: Building Collections of Books, Melbourne, Australia, 16 October 2004 (CONFERENCE REPORTS), by Susan Woodburn (pp. 1, 4-5); Letter from Lyons (THE SHARP EDGE), by Robert Fraser (pp. 3-4); Detecting the Text: Fakes, Forgery, Fraud & Editorial Concerns, University of Toronto, 5-6 November 2004 (CONFERENCE REPORTS), by Eli MacLaren (pp. 5-6); Culture of Lithuanian Book & Public Word: From the Ban of Press to the Pillar of Democracy, Vilnius, Lithuania, 18-20 November 2004 (CONFERENCE REPORTS), by Jyrki Hakapää (pp. 6-7); The History of Books & Intellectual History, Princeton University, 3-5 December 2004 (CONFERENCE REPORTS), by Jonathan Rose (pp. 7-8); Paradise: New Worlds of Books & Readers, Wellington, New Zealand, 27-29 January 2005 (CONFERENCE REPORTS), by Paul Eggert (pp. 8-9); The Third International Conference on the Book, Oxford Brookes University, 11-13 September 2005 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 9); New Word Order: Emerging Histories of the Book, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 30 January-1 February 2006 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 9); Second Australian and New Zealand Rare Book School, Melbourne, Australia, 13-17 February 2006 (ADVANCE WARNING) (p. 9); BOOK REVIEWS, by David Pearson, Margaret Nichols, Randy Silverman, Susanna Ashton, Ian Jackson, M.M. Smith, Alison Ryley, Consuela Metzger, B.F.R. Edwards, Kathryn A. Lowe, Kathleen Kamerick, Gowan Dawson, Marilyn Randall, John R. Turner, Lee N. McLaird, Nicole Greenspan, Valerie Holman, John Edwards, Jeffrey Barr, Sondra Cooney, Lindsay Gledhill (pp. 10-21); 5th Annual Craft, Critique, Culture Conference: Reading Readers/Reading Cultures, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 8-10 April 2005 (FORTHCOMING EVENTS) (p. 21); The Handwritten Worlds of Early Modern England, Folger Institute, Washington, DC, 20 June-29 July 2005 (FORTHCOMING EVENTS) (p. 21); Book History Research Network (BHRN REPORT), by John Hinks (p. 22).<br>This is the Winter & Spring 2005 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Set in Adobe Garamond with Wingdings.
Editor: Sydney Shep; Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Gail Shivel, Lisa Pon; Bibliographer: Padmini Ray Chaudhury.
CONTENTS:
CONFERENCE REPORTS; SHARP DONORS 2004-5; SHARP CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 2005; NATALIE ZEMON DAVIS PRIZE; THE SHARP EDGE; CALLS FOR PAPERS; ADVANCE WARNING; BOOK REVIEWS; IN SHORT; FORTHCOMING EVENTS; BHRN REPORT; BIBLIOGRAPHY; THE SHARPEND.
This issue includes the following contributions:
Hunters and Gatherers: Building Collections of Books, Melbourne, Australia, 16 October 2004 (CONFERENCE REPORTS), by Susan Woodburn (pp. 1, 4-5); Letter from Lyons (THE SHARP EDGE), by Robert Fraser (pp. 3-4); Detecting the Text: Fakes, Forgery, Fraud & Editorial Concerns, University of Toronto, 5-6 November 2004 (CONFERENCE REPORTS), by Eli MacLaren (pp. 5-6); Culture of Lithuanian Book & Public Word: From the Ban of Press to the Pillar of Democracy, Vilnius, Lithuania, 18-20 November 2004 (CONFERENCE REPORTS), by Jyrki Hakapää (pp. 6-7); The History of Books & Intellectual History, Princeton University, 3-5 December 2004 (CONFERENCE REPORTS), by Jonathan Rose (pp. 7-8); Paradise: New Worlds of Books & Readers, Wellington, New Zealand, 27-29 January 2005 (CONFERENCE REPORTS), by Paul Eggert (pp. 8-9); The Third International Conference on the Book, Oxford Brookes University, 11-13 September 2005 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 9); New Word Order: Emerging Histories of the Book, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 30 January-1 February 2006 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 9); Second Australian and New Zealand Rare Book School, Melbourne, Australia, 13-17 February 2006 (ADVANCE WARNING) (p. 9); BOOK REVIEWS, by David Pearson, Margaret Nichols, Randy Silverman, Susanna Ashton, Ian Jackson, M.M. Smith, Alison Ryley, Consuela Metzger, B.F.R. Edwards, Kathryn A. Lowe, Kathleen Kamerick, Gowan Dawson, Marilyn Randall, John R. Turner, Lee N. McLaird, Nicole Greenspan, Valerie Holman, John Edwards, Jeffrey Barr, Sondra Cooney, Lindsay Gledhill (pp. 10-21); 5th Annual Craft, Critique, Culture Conference: Reading Readers/Reading Cultures, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 8-10 April 2005 (FORTHCOMING EVENTS) (p. 21); The Handwritten Worlds of Early Modern England, Folger Institute, Washington, DC, 20 June-29 July 2005 (FORTHCOMING EVENTS) (p. 21); Book History Research Network (BHRN REPORT), by John Hinks (p. 22).
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SHARP, (Society for the History of Authorship Reading & Publishing). "SHARP News." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106278.
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null<br>This is the Summer 1996 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc.
Editor: Jonathan Rose; Associate Editor: Linda Connors; Book Review Editor: Philip A. Metzger.
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WORCESTER CONFERENCE HOSTS RECORD TURNOUT, CREATES FUND TO AID GRADUATE STUDENTS; CALL FOR PAPERS AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION: 1997 CONFERENCE AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY; NEW SHARP SCHOLARLY JOURNAL NOW SOLICITING CONTRIBUTIONS; NOMINATIONS SOUGHT FOR 1997 ELECTIONS OF SHARP OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS; SCHOLARS HONOR D.F. MCKENZIE WITH ANNUAL LECTURE AND TEACHING AWARD; THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK IN AUSTRALIA: A REPORT FROM THE FIELD; BOOK REVIEWS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTORS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCES; COURSES & SEMINARS; LECTURES; FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS; RESOURCES; NEW PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING.
This issue includes the following contributions:
BOOK REVIEWS, by Germaine Warkentin (pp. 5-6).
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Smith, Leslie. "A view of affect: a treatise on the heart and other significant hearts." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1758.
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The purpose of my thesis project, A View of Affect has been two fold: to engage closely with an early modern book, and to experiment with the idea that self-examination as a legitimate way to gain knowledge about the body. Working with Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, (1621) has opened to view the extensive constellation of ideas that were part of the philosophical universe of the time. I engaged with the Anatomy of Melancholy by immersing myself in the prose, responding to Burton's writing with my own writing. I also studied and made drawings from early modern anatomical illustrations, and I drew shapes found in nature that seemed analogous to shapes in the body. All the while, I relied firmly on my own observations. The shapes found in nature, and the line quality in the early modern prints influenced my drawings, but I only drew what I saw. A View of Affect is not a historical model, but I did fully embrace Burton's belief in the importance of direct observation. The purpose of my treatise on the how emotions exist and function in the body is not to specify what is there for others, but to encourage readers to look carefully at their own internal life.
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Winters, Jennifer. "The English provincial book trade : bookseller stock-lists, c.1520-1640." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3449.
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The book world of sixteenth-century England was heavily focused on London. London's publishers wholly dominated the production of books, and with Oxford and Cambridge the booksellers of the capital also played the largest role in the supplying and distribution of books imported from Continental Europe. Nevertheless, by the end of the sixteenth century a considerable network of booksellers had been established in England's provincial towns. This dissertation uses scattered surviving evidence from book lists and inventories to investigate the development and character of provincial bookselling in the period between 1520 and 1640. It draws on information from most of England's larger cities, including York, Norwich and Exeter, as well as much smaller places, such as Kirkby Lonsdale and Ormskirk. It demonstrates that, despite the competition from the metropolis, local booksellers played an important role in supplying customers with a considerable range and variety of books, and that these bookshops became larger and more ambitious in their services to customers through this period. The result should be a significant contribution to understanding the book world of early modern England. The dissertation is accompanied by an appendix, listing and identifying the books documented in nine separate lists, each of which, where possible, has been matched to surviving editions.
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Perkins, Nancy. "The Book of Enoch and Second Temple Judaism." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1397.
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This thesis examines the ancient Jewish text the Book of Enoch, the scholarly work done on the text since its discovery in 1773, and its seminal importance to the study of ancient Jewish history. Primary sources for the thesis project are limited to Flavius Josephus and the works of the Old Testament. Modern scholars provide an abundance of secondary information. These scholars include R. H. Charles, D. S. Russell, Albert Baumgarten, Seth Schwartz, George Nickelsburg, and James VanderKam. The Book of Enoch was composed from roughly 300 BCE to 10 BCE. The Book of Enoch stands as substantial proof that there was not a single Judaism practiced in Palestine during the Second Temple period, but rather multiple Judaisms that interacted with one another, and out of that both post-Destruction Judaism and apocalyptic Christianity emerged.
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Moreton, Melissa N. ""Scritto di bellissima lettera": nuns' book production in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Italy." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6480.
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This dissertation examines the cultural, intellectual and artistic contributions religious women made in the production of secular and religious books in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Italy. It presents the first comparative study of nuns' book production across Italy and introduces new manuscripts to the canon of nuns' bookwork. Though the scholarship of the last fifty years has increased our understanding of the institutional and individual lives of nuns, little research has been done on their production and exchange of texts. Nun-scribes and manuscript painters produced liturgical, devotional and administrative books for use in-house, as well as for secular and religious communities and individuals outside the walls of the convents. Evidence of their bookwork repositions them as active participants in a rich spiritual, intellectual and artistic life and broadens their sphere of activity and influence to include a wide community of secular and religious patrons, artistic collaborators, scholars, family members, and book-buying clientele.
Through a close examination of the material evidence in their manuscripts, this study illustrates how nuns used the production and exchange of texts to further their individual and institutional goals. This dissertation makes an important contribution to the current understanding nuns' spiritual, artistic and intellectual life and practice and significantly reshapes the current understanding of women's education and learning in Renaissance and early modern Italy (1400-1650).
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Smith, Greta Lynn. "Imagining Aesop: The Medieval Fable and the History of the Book." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1469455774.
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Jurilla, Patricia May Bantug. "Tagalog bestsellers and the history of the book in the Philippines." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2006. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28810/.
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The thesis is a study on the history of the book in the Philippines with a focus on literary publishing and Filipino literary bestsellers of the twentieth century. It begins with a survey on the publishing of books in the Philippines from 1593 when the first book was printed in the country to 2003 when the first nationwide study on reading attitudes and preferences was conducted. The survey pays special attention to literary forms and texts that have played a significant role in the development of Philippine culture and history. It is followed by an examination of literary publishing in the Philippines, in which the local bestselling literary forms of the twentieth century are identified. These types of literary texts are subsequently taken up in case studies that explore the publishing, manufacturing, distribution, reception, and survival of the bestselling books and their relation to the conditions and circumstances in Philippine culture, society, politics, and economics during their time. The case studies, which are centred on specific publishers who were particularly successful in producing the literary bestsellers, are on Tagalog metrical romances (in awit and corrido forms) published by Juan Martinez during the 1900s to the 1920s; on Tagalog novels published by Palimbagang Tagumpay (Victory Publishing) under the Aliwan (Entertainment) series from 1945 to 1947; on the comic books (komiks) series published by the group of companies owned by Ramon Roces from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s; and on Filipino romance novels published by Books for Pleasure and by Precious Pages Corporation from 1985 to 2000. This thesis seeks to introduce the History of the Book to Philippine scholarship, where the discipline is still a largely unexplored if not totally unheard of area of study.
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Mayo-Bobee, Dinah. "Book Review of A Companion to James Madison and James Monroe." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/725.
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Mullins, Sophie. "Latin books published in Paris, 1501-1540." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6333.
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This is a study of the Parisian Latin book industry in the first four decades of the sixteenth century. It challenges the assumption that the Reformation brought about a profound change in the European print world. Luther's engagement with a mass audience is believed to have led to an increase in the number of vernacular publications produced by printers throughout Europe. This was not the case in Paris. Parisian booksellers traded on their established expertise with certain genres, such as theological texts, educational books, and works by classical authors, to maximise their readership both in Paris and farther afield. Working in close proximity inspired the Parisian bookmen to unity and collaboration rather than enmity and direct competition. When printers, booksellers and publishers collaborated they were able to undertake bigger and riskier projects. Such projects might have involved testing new markets or technologies (such as Greek or music printing), or simply producing a book which required a high capital investment. The familial unity extended to the widows of printers, some of whom were able to capitalise on this and build substantial businesses of their own. This high level of collaboration and the continued focus on the established Latin market give the Parisian book world its very specific character. It also helped Paris build an international reputation for high-quality books.
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Maxson, Brian Jeffrey. "Book Review of Everyday Renaissances: The Quest for Cultural Legitimacy in Venice." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2680.
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Montijo, Virginia L. "Reprinting Culture: Book Publishing in the Early Republic." W&M ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626318.
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Maxson, Brian Jeffrey. "Book Review of Making and Moving Sculpture in Early Modern Italy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2678.
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Maxson, Brian Jeffrey. "Book Review of Secretaries and Statecraft in the Early Modern World." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2677.
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Horuz, Semra. "The Book, The Body And Architectural History In Peter Greenaway'." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612644/index.pdf.
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This thesis is an attempt to explore the &ldquo<br>axis of innumerable relationships&rdquo<br>of the book which Jorge Luis Borges touches upon. In doing this, it deals with the questions of &ldquo<br>whats&rdquo<br>, &ldquo<br>whos&rdquo<br>, &ldquo<br>whens&rdquo<br>and &ldquo<br>wheres&rdquo<br>of the reading activity. While scrutinizing these aspects of reading, the main concern is to reach the &ldquo<br>whys&rdquo<br>and &ldquo<br>hows&rdquo<br>of it. Referring to Roger Chartier&rsquo<br>s definition of reading, there are three main components of this activity, as the content of the book, the material form of the book and the practice itself and they are aimed to be analyzed in detail. In this context, the questions of &ldquo<br>wheres&rdquo<br>and &ldquo<br>whens&rdquo<br>and their various answers create an intertwined area of history of reading and history of architecture.
Within this theoretical framework, the scope of the thesis is shaped by Peter Greenaway&rsquo<br>s cinematography. The questions of &ldquo<br>who reads/writes what book&rdquo<br>, &ldquo<br>where and when&rdquo<br>are searched in the director&rsquo<br>s three films<br>The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover (1989), Prospero'<br>s Books (1991) and The Pillow Book (1996) by devoting one chapter to each film. Accordingly, the question of &ldquo<br>who&rdquo<br>orients the study to the bodies of the books/readers/writers, and those of &ldquo<br>where&rdquo<br>and &ldquo<br>when&rdquo<br>to architectural history. In connection to the director&rsquo<br>s multidisciplinary interests, the thesis seeks to trace how this topic is intertwined not only with history of architecture but also with the history of art and literature. Hence, it is an attempt to utilize Greenaway&rsquo<br>s cinematography as a tool to juxtapose the two/three dimensional representations of the book, the body and the spaces onto each other.
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Kitzinger, Beatrice. "Cross and Book: Late-Carolingian Breton Gospel Illumination and the Instrumental Cross." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10183.
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Crosses made in metal, paint, or stone stand at a singular intersection of past, present and future in the early medieval period. The historical cross of Golgotha is the source of such manufactured crosses’ form and power. Most also represent the theology of the Cross through their form and decoration, describing the soteriology of the crucifixion and anticipating its consummation at the end of time. As manufactured crosses recount the past and look forward to the eschaton, they concurrently function in the age of the Church, offering specific, contemporary points of access to all the larger cross-sign represents. In its multivalent identity, the cross’ status as the Church’s central sign reflects the Church’s own temporal position, simultaneously commemorating sacred history, functioning in the present day, and preparing for the Second Coming. Although rarely recognized, the Church-time form of the cross—which I term the “instrumental” cross—is often a discernable component of early medieval cross-objects and images. I argue that we can recognize the instrumental cross among the commemorative and proleptic aspects of the sign because a formal and conceptual language developed to articulate it. In its instrumental form, the cross becomes the sign of the Church in its role as mediator between Christians, Christ and the eschaton, affirming the indispensable place of man-made artwork in that project. The instrumental cross, in turn, signals the instrumentality of the many artworks into which it is incorporated. It plays a particularly important role in manuscripts. In the first half of the dissertation I define a class of visual strategies that communicate the instrumental identity of the cross. I treat works in many media in Chapter 1 and focus on manuscripts in Chapters 2–3. The second half of the dissertation concentrates upon the case studies of four complex, hitherto neglected gospel codices from ninth–tenth century western France. In each, the deep relationship between Church-time cross and gospel book drives a pictorial program that is crafted to define a specific codex as an manufactured instrument, made to integrate its community with the larger project of the Church for which the cross-sign stands.<br>History of Art and Architecture
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Kelly, Luke. "The Value of Books: : The York Minster Library as a social arena for commodity exchange." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Historiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-341086.
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To the present-day reader texts are widely available. However, to the early modern reader this access was limited. While book ownership increased in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it was not universal – even libraries were both limited in their collections and exclusive to the communities they served. Libraries were to be found all over Early Modern England, from city libraries to town subscription libraries. One could gain access to books but these collections were often rather limited in the variety and number of books they offered. Undoubtedly many libraries purchased books for their collections, but frequently books were also given to them by benefactors. One fine example of a community library which reflects its readers and members is the library of St Peter’s Cathedral, York Minster. York Minister library owes its existence to traceable benefactors and donations. One could study the collection to give an insight into reading practices and interests of the Early Modern Period. But in doing so we fall foul of becoming static and failing to develop the historiography of Book History. Instead, we can re-evaluate this collection by drawing from the old focus of genres but shifting this focus and approach the collection from a different path: a material path. These books resonate value. Not solely due to their genres and subject matter, but their value is also generated in how the books became accessible, through generosity and donation. As donations from benefactors these books should not be considered solely as works of literature, but as gifts from one agent to another. Gifts given with both intention and purpose.
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Maxson, Brian Jeffrey. "Book Review of Il ritorno dei Classici nell’Umanesimo: Studi in memoria di Gianvito Resta." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1086/693188.
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Il ritorno dei Classici nell’Umanesimo: Studi in memoria di Gianvito Resta. Gabriella Albanese, Claudio Ciociola, Mariarosa Cortesi, and Claudia Villa, eds. With Paolo Pontari. Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2015. xxxii + 700 pp. €75.
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Maxson, Brian Jeffrey. "Book Review of A New Sense of the Past: The Scholarship of Biono Flavio." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2662.
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Review of Mazzocco, Angelo, and Marc Laureys, eds. A New Sense of the Past: The Scholarship of Biondo Flavio (1392–1463). Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2016. pp. 288. ISBN: 9789462700482 (paperback).
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Coates, Alan Edward. "The origin, growth and dispersal of the book collections of Reading Abbey." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.316835.
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Wilson, John Lambert. "Publishers and purchasers of the photographically-illustrated book in the nineteenth century." Thesis, University of Reading, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.283277.
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