null / This is the Summer 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. CONTENTS: SHARP NEWS OF NOTE; NATIONAL ACTIVITIES; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCES; LECTURES & COURSES; CONFERENCE REPORTS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; OBITUARY: ANGUS MCKAY FRASER; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: New Sharp Officers (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 1); Book Research in Germany: Deutsche Buchwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (German Book Research Society), by Mark Rectanus (NATIONAL ACTIVITIES) (pp. 1-2); Institut d'histoire du livre (NATIONAL ACTIVITIES) (pp. 2-3); SHARP 2002, University of London, 10-13 July 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 3); The Community Library: An International One Day Conference on a Local Theme, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Scotland, 19 August 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 3); Lives in Print: Biography and the Book Trade from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century, Society of Antiquaries and Birkbeck College, London, 1-2 December 2001 (CONFERENCES) (p. 3); University of London School of Advanced Study, Institute of English Studies, MA in the History of the Book (LECTURES & COURSES) (p. 4); APHA American Printing History Association 2001 Lieberman Lecture, National Museum of American History, Washington, DC, 25 September 2001 (LECTURES & COURSES) (p. 4); Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada/History of the Book in Canada Open Conference for Volume II (1840-1914), Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, Montreal, 18-19 May 2001, by Carl Spadoni (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (p. 5); BOOK REVIEWS, by Paul Arblaster, Alexandra Franklin, Emily B. Todd, David Chambers, William Noblett, Yannick Portebois, Peter R. Frank, Jonathan Rose, Graeme Gooday, Robert Matuozzi, Jon Topham, Linda K. Hughes, Priscilla Coit Murphy, Amy M. Thomas, Martin Harris (pp. 5-14).

This is the Summer 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: BIBLIOPHILY EXTRAORDINAIRE; THE SHARP EDGE; CALL FOR PAPERS; UPCOMING UK CONFERENCE; WORKSHOP REPORT; NEH FELLOWSHIP; MUNBY FELLOWSHIP 2004-5; BOOK REVIEWS; GIS WORKSHOP; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARP END. This issue includes the following contributions: International Association of Bibliophiles Conference, Cape Town, 2002 (BIBLIOPHILY EXTRAORDINAIRE), by Donald Kerr (pp. 1-2); Crossing the Book History/Publishing Studies Divide (THE SHARP EDGE), by Simone Murray (pp. 3-4); Print Culture & the City, McGill University, Montréal, Can, 26-27 March 2004 (CALL FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Culture & the Literary Prize, Oxford Brookes University, UK, 4-5 October 2003 (UPCOMING UK CONFERENCE) (p. 4); WORKSHOP REPORT, by John Gouws (p. 5); NEH FELLOWSHIP, by Barbara Hochman (p. 5); MUNBY FELLOWSHIP 2004-5 (p. 5); BOOK REVIEWS, by M.W. Jackson, Kathleen Kamerick, Jane Maienschein, Dorina Miller Parmenter, James McLaverty, Isabelle Lehuu, Marie-Luise Spieckermann, Graham Parry (pp. 6-11); and GIS in the Arts & Humanities, University of Portsmouth, UK, 8-11 September 2003 (GIS WORKSHOP) (p. 11).

This is the Autumn 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 & Bibliographer: Linda Connors; Book Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Paul Gutjahr. CONTENTS: NOTES & QUERIES; RESOURCES ONLINE; POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTS; SHARP NOMINATIONS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCES; AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS; LECTURES & COURSES; EXHIBITIONS; CONFERENCE REPORTS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARP NEWS OF NOTE; SHARPEND; SHARP FINANCIAL REPORT. This issue includes the following contributions: Bibliographical Society of America Archives and History (NOTES & QUERIES) (p. 1); James Esdall, Irish Printer-Bookseller (NOTES & QUERIES) (p. 1); R[esearch]S[ociety for]A[merican]P[eriodicals] Update, by Ellen Gruber Garvey (RESOURCES ONLINE) (pp. 1-2); SHARP Annual Conference, Richmond and Williamsburg, Virginia, 19-22 July 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 3); History of the Book in Canada Project Open Conference for Volume 2, 1840-1918, McGill University and Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, Canada, 18-19 May 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 3-4); Canadian Library Association, Library History Interest Group, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 13-17 June 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) 2001 Conference Rethinking the 19th-Century Press in the 21st Century, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY, 14-15 September 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); American Historical Association, San Francisco, CA, 3-6 January 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); American Printing History Association 25th Annual Conference "On the Digital Brink", Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, 20-21 October 2000 (CONFERENCES) (pp. 4-5); History of the Book in Canada Open Conference for Volume 1 (Beginnings to 1840), Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, Canada, 24-25 November 2000 (CONFERENCES) (p. 5); American Historical Association: SHARP Sessions, Boston, MA, 5 January 2001 (CONFERENCES) (p. 5); Bibliographical Society of America Fellowship Program 2001 (AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 6); International League of Antiquarian Booksellers $10,000 Prize for Best Bibliography/Book about Books (AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 6); John Carter Brown Library Research Fellowships, 2001-2002 (AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS) (pp. 6-7); History of Reading Thesis or Dissertation Award (AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS) (pp. 7-8); SHARP Book History Prize (AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 8); Gutenberg 2000 at the British Library Guided Tours, British Library, 27 September-13 December 2000 (LECTURES & COURSES) (p. 8); Toronto Centre for the Book Program 2000-2001 (LECTURES & COURSES) (pp. 8-9); The Edinburgh Book History Seminar Programme 2000-2001, Edinburgh University Library (LECTURES & COURSES) (p. 9); Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, 8 September-25 November 2000 and Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 11 December 2000-4 March 2001 (EXHIBITIONS) (p. 9); Fritz Kredel Centennial Exhibition, Grolier Club, New York, NY, 20 September-18 November 2000 (EXHIBITIONS) (pp. 9-10); The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, 20-22 July 2000, by Patrick Leary (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (p. 10); Material Cultures: The Book, the Text, and the Archive, 28-30 July 2000, by Claire Squires (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 10-11); 18th British Book Trade Seminar, 25-27 July 2000, by Paul Morgan (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 11-12); BOOK REVIEWS, by Thomas Augst, Berry Dongelmans, Ian McGowan (pp. 12-14).

This is the Winter 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: APHA CONFERENCE REPORT; FORTHCOMING EVENTS; THE SHARP EDGE; CALLS FOR PAPERS; SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT; BOOK REVIEWS; MORE BOOK PRIZES; FELLOWSHIPS; BIBLIOGRAPHY. This issue includes the following contributions: New Work in Printing History (APHA CONFERENCE REPORT), by Eugene G. Schwartz (pp. 1-2); From Truffle Hunter to Gourmet Shopper (THE SHARP EDGE), by Beth Luey (p. 3); Second Annual Conference on the Future of the Book, Beijing, China, 29-31 August 2004 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Religion and the Culture of Print in America: Authors, Publishers, Readers and More Since 1876, Madison, Wisconsin, 10-11 September 2004 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Digital Preservation and Electronic Scholarly Editions, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 27-30 December 2004 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Paradise: New Worlds of Books & Readers, Wellington, New Zealand, 27-30 January 2005 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); BOOK REVIEWS, by David McKitterick, John Edwards, Rimi B. Chatterjee, Nicholas Pickwoad, Michael L. Turner, Paul Arblaster, Gowan Dawson, Ittai J. Tamari (pp. 5-10).

Masthead date: Winter 1992-1993. / This is the Winter 1992-1993 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. CONTENTS: OUR INAUGURAL CONFERENCE: WHAT WE HAVE PLANNED; THE PROGRAM; SUMMER SEMINAR IN THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK IN AMERICAN CULTURE; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTORS; CONFERENCES; PUBLIC LECTURES; RECENT PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING.

This is the Summer 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. CONTENTS: SHARP 1997 CONFERENCE REPORT; SHARP 1998 16-20 JULY IN VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA; CANADIAN HISTORY OF THE BOOK PROJECT LAUNCHED; REPORT ON THE SECOND ANNUAL D.F. MCKENZIE LECTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD; TEACHING THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY; CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT; CALL FOR PAPERS; FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENTS; JOURNAL ANNOUNCEMENTS; SCHOLARLY LIAISONS; WEB WATCH; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: CANADIAN HISTORY OF THE BOOK PROJECT LAUNCHED, by Patricia Fleming (pp. 2-3); REPORT ON THE SECOND ANNUAL D.F. MCKENZIE LECTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, by Ian Gadd (p. 3); TEACHING THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, by Sherry Lee Linkon (pp. 3-5); Voice, Text, and Hypertext at the Millennium (CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT) (p. 5); 1998 ASECS Conference; Popular Culture Association: Reading and Publishing Popular Literature (CALL FOR PAPERS) (p. 5); GK Hall Award for Outstanding Contribution to Library Literature; American Antiquarian Society: Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellowship; Research Fellowships in American History and Culture for 1998-1999 (FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENTS) (p. 5); Media History; ATQ (JOURNAL ANNOUNCEMENTS) (p. 6); SHARP/ASECS News; American Antiquarian Society Reprints Gross's SHARP Keynote Speech; McKenzie Trust Appeal Continues (SCHOLARLY LIAISONS) (p. 6); Journal of Electronic Publishing (WEB WATCH) (pp. 6-7); BOOK REVIEWS, by Maureen Bell, Elizabeth Morrison, Thomas A. Vogler, D.R. Woolf (pp. 7-9).

null / 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).

This is the Spring 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 & Bibliographer: Lind Connors; Book Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Paul Gutjahr. CONTENTS: GUEST COMMENT: "FOR THE LETTER ... GIVETH LIFE"; SHARP NEWS OF NOTE; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; CONFERENCES; AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS; LECTURES & COURSES; EXHIBITIONS; CONFERENCE REPORTS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: GUEST COMMENT: "FOR THE LETTER ... GIVETH LIFE", by Graham Law (pp. 1-3); Society for the Study of American Women Writers, San Antonio, Texas, 14-18 February 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 3); The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), New Orleans, Louisiana, 18-22 April 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Umbrella 6, The Library Association, University of Science and Technology in Manchester, UK, 4-7 July 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); John Stow (1525-1605): Author, Editor & Reader, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 30 March-1 April 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Colonial and Post-Colonial Cultures of the Book, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, 6-8 August 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Mid-America American Studies Association, Madison, Wisconsin, 20-21 April 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 5); Material Cultures: The Book, the Text, and the Archive, University of Edinburgh, UK, 28-30 July 2000 (CONFERENCES) (p. 5); Munby Fellowship in Bibliography, Cambridge University Library, 2001-2002 (AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 5); Rare Book School (RBS), University of Virginia (LECTURES & COURSES) (pp. 5-6); Stunning Books: A Selection of Modern Private Press Books, Auckland City Library, New Zealand, 18 March-17 June 2000 (EXHIBITIONS) (p. 6); The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), by Eleanor Shevlin (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (p. 6); London-Londres-Londra: Foreign Lnaguage Printing in London, 1500-1900, British Library, UK, 8 May 2000, by Marcella Leembruggen, et al. (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 6-8); BOOK REVIEWS, by Trysh Travis, Leah Price, Charles Johanningsmeier (pp. 8-10).

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).

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). / 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).