This is the Autumn 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; Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Chuck Johanningsmeier, Lisa Pon; Bibliographer: Padmini Ray Chaudhury. CONTENTS: SHARP LYON 2004; THE SHARP EDGE; BOOK HISTORY PRIZE; NEW SHARP AWARD; GRADUATE ESSAY PRIZE; SHARP HALIFAX 2005; NEW EXHIBITIONS REVIEWER; BOOK REVIEWS; CONTRIBUTIONS WANTED; CONFERENCE REPORT; BIBLIOGRAPHY. This issue includes the following contributions: SHARP LYON 2004, by Frank de Glas (pp. 1-2), Gary Kelly (pp. 2, 4-5), Bertrum H. MacDonald (p. 5); Rethinking Book History in France (THE SHARP EDGE), by Christine Haynes (pp. 3-4); DeLong Family Endows SHARP Book History Prize (BOOK HISTORY PRIZE) (p. 5); Navigating Texts & Contexts (SHARP HALIFAX 2005) (p. 6); BOOK REVIEWS, by Erin A. Smith, Kathleen Lynch, Christine Pawley, Peter Hoare, Raymond N. MacKenzie (pp. 7-9); Print Culture Research in the 21st Century (CONTRIBUTIONS WANTED) (p. 10); British Book Trade History Conference, University of Edinburgh, 27-29 July 2004 (CONFERENCE REPORT), by Noel Waite (pp. 10-11).

null / 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. CONTENTS: 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).

This is the Spring 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: IN MY VIEW; THE TITLE AS A TEACHING TOOL; CALL FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS; CALL FOR BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS; SCHOLARLY LIAISONS; EXHIBITIONS; COURSE ANNOUNCEMENTS; LECTURES AND SEMINARS; BOOK REVIEWS; BRIEF NOTICES; NEW PUBLICATIONS; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: IN MY VIEW, by Robert L. Patten (pp. 1-2); THE TITLE AS A TEACHING TOOL, by Eleanor Shevlin (pp. 2-4); Printed Matters: Printing, Publishing and Urban Culture; American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch Conference; History of the Book in Australia (HOBA) 1997 Conference (CALL FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); History of the Book in Canada; Re-reading the Past: New Methodologies and Approaches to the History of the Book; School of Criticism and Theory; Sources, Exemplars, and Copy-Texts: Influence and Transmission, 1350-1550; Canterbury Tales Project; Defining Print Cultures for Youth: Children and Reading Since 1876; National School of Information & Library Science; Writing and New Technologies in South-Mediterranean Countries; In Visible Languages: The Visible Dimensions of Print Culture; Macmillan Archive; International Association of Scholarly Publishers (CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS) (pp. 4-5); SHARP/ASA Caucus; American Literature Association (SCHOLARLY LIAISONS) (pp. 5-6); Edward Clark Seminars; Habits of Reading in Early Modern England; Old English Literature in Its Manuscript Context; 1997 Programme of Events of the Printing Historical Society (LECTURES AND SEMINARS) (p. 6); BOOK REVIEWS, by Brian Hillyard, David Hunter, Lee N. McLaird, Kate Levin, D.R. Woolf (pp. 6-9).

null / This is the Summer 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. Set in Monotype Bodoni. Acting Editor: Linda E. Connors. CONTENTS: THE INTERNATIONAL LEIPZIGER ARBEITSKREIS ZUR GESCHICHTE DES BUCHWESENS; OTHER VENTURES IN BOOK HISTORY; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTORS; CONFERENCES; NOTES AND QUERIES; RECENT PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING. This issue includes the following contributions: New Center for the History of the Book (OTHER VENTURES IN BOOK HISTORY) (p. 2); Three Sister Publications (OTHER VENTURES IN BOOK HISTORY) (p. 2); Book History Projects in St. Petersburg (OTHER VENTURES IN BOOK HISTORY) (p. 2); Book History Exhibit (OTHER VENTURES IN BOOK HISTORY) (p. 3); New Book and Graphic Arts Organization (OTHER VENTURES IN BOOK HISTORY) (p. 3); HOW WE ARE DOING, by Jonathan Rose (p. 7).

This is the Winter 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 CONFERENCE 2003; SHARP AWARDS; LECTURES AND COURSES; EDITOR'S NEWS; THE SHARP EDGE; CALLS FOR PAPERS; RELATED SOCIETY; CONFERENCE REPORT; ELECTRONIC RESOURCES; CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY. This issue includes the following contributions: SHARP Conference 2003, by James L.W. West III (p. 1); Surveying the (Battle) Field: Book History, SHARP, and the Guerilla Tactics of Research (THE SHARP EDGE), by Eva Hemmungs Wirtén (pp. 3-4); The Community Library: Library History Group of the Chartered Institute of Librarians and Information Professionals, Glasgow, Scotland, 19 August 2002. (CONFERENCE REPORT), by Chris Baggs (pp. 5-6); The British Book Trade Index (ELECTRONIC RESOURCES), by John Hinks (p. 6); An International History of the Book? (CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS), by Simon Eliot (p. 7); and BOOK REVIEWS, by Betty Bright, Oliver B. Pollak, Carol Percy, Jeffrey Brooks, Mary Lu MacDonald, Janet Sorenson, Maureen E. Mulvihill (pp. 8-12).

Masthead date for this issue reads: Winter 1995-96. / This is the Winter 1995-96 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: Philip A. Metzger. CONTENTS: ULSTER COLLOQUIUM TO PLAN A HISTORY OF THE IRISH BOOK; SHARP WILL SPONSOR SESSIONS AT AHA, ASECS, AND MLA CONFERENCES; COLUMBIA BEGINS UNIVERSITY SEMINAR ON "THE BOOK IN HISTORY"; BOOK AND LIBRARY HISTORY PROGRAM AT LUND UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN; BOOK HISTORY FOR UNDERGRADUATES: A COURSE SYLLABUS; PRINT, LITERACY, AND POWER IN AMERICA: A COURSE SYLLABUS; BOOK REVIEWS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTORS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCES; COURSES & SEMINARS; EXHIBITIONS & LECTURES; FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS; ON THE INTERNET; NOTES & QUERIES; NEW PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING. This issue includes the following contributions: BOOK AND LIBRARY HISTORY PROGRAM AT LUND UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN, by Steingrimur Jonsson (pp. 2-3); BOOK HISTORY FOR UNDERGRADUATES: A COURSE SYLLABUS, by Daniel Traister (pp. 3-4); PRINT, LITERACY, AND POWER IN AMERICA: A COURSE SYLLABUS, by Mary Kay Duggan (pp. 4-6); BOOK REVIEWS, by Richard W. Clement (p. 6); ON THE INTERNET, by Patrick Leary (pp. 9-10).

null / This is the Spring 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: GUEST COMMENT; LETTERS; RESOURCES; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; CONFERENCES; AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS; EXHIBITIONS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARP NEWS OF NOTE; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: Post-Colonial Reflections on the Late Victorian Fiction Business, by Elizabeth Morrison (GUEST COMMENT) (pp. 1-4); From London to St. Louis: The Contents of Eighteenth-Century Periodicals, by James E. Tierney (RESOURCES) (pp. 5-6); The Spectator Project: A Hypermedia Research Archive of Eighteenth-Century Periodicals, by Joseph Chaves (RESOURCES) (pp. 6-7); Study Meeting on the City and the Book, Florence, Italy, 30 May-1 June 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 7); Facts and Fictions: Ireland and the Novel in the Nineteenth Century, Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research, Cardiff University, 14-16 September 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 7-8); Printing History: New Criteria, Reading, UK, 11 January 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 8); Cambridge Project for the Book Trust New Colloquia, London, UK, 8 September 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 8); Women Editing Periodicals (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 8); Remembering Don McKenzie, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand, 12-14 July 2001 (CONFERENCES) (p. 9); Print Culture in the Age of the Circulating Library, 1750-1850, Gronigen and Sheffield Hallam Universities, Sheffield, UK, 19-22 July 2001 (CONFERENCES) (p. 9); SHARP 2001 Ninth Annual Conference, Richmond and Williamsburg, Virginia, 19-22 July 2001 (CONFERENCES) (pp. 9-10); Munby Fellowship in Bibliography, 2002-2003, Cambridge University Library (AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 10); History of the Book in Latvia, by Peter Mitham (EXHIBITIONS) (pp. 10-11); BOOK REVIEWS, by Kathryn Sutherland, Ronald Huebert, Marija Dalbello, Gene Kannenberg, Jr., Genelle Gertz-Robinson, Paul Morgan (pp. 11-15); Book Award: George Palmer Putnam: Representative American Publisher, by Ezra Greenspan (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 16); SHARP Election (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 16).

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The objectives of this study are threefold: to describe and analyse what reading material was available in Canada; to explain the business methods by which it was made available; and, to delineate by specific criteria the Scottish contribution to such availability. The study is the first to use newspaper advertisements, circulating library catalogues and business records to examine book availability, at the individual title level, in selected colonial Canadian towns. The primary research material is analysed by means of a customized database, BOOKSCAN, which includes bibliographic, business and geographic information in a single database. BOOKSCAN is a union catalogue with one record for each title, and multiple repeatable fields which detail where, when, how (for sale or loan, at what price, etc.) and by whom the title was made available. Narrative and graphical analyses include: intellectual content, occupation of book provider, geographic route of acquisition, business practice and, country of origin of shipment. Scottish contributions in terms of authorship, publishers, wholesalers and book trade personnel are examined in detail, and some preliminary comparisons are drawn between the trade in the Canadian colonies and that in provincial Scotland. The principal findings question previous assumptions about the role of Scots in the early Canadian book trade. Scottish general merchants were frequently retailers of books in Canada, but Scottish publishers were not proactive in seeking Canadian markets, and Scottish printers tended not to emigrate to Canadian towns in this early period, as they did to American towns. The key business factor which determined whether Scottish publishers and booksellers exported to Canada was having a known contact in a Canadian town. Case studies of several Scots include: Alexander Morrison, bookbinder and stationer in Halifax; Richard, William, James and Alexander Kidston, general merchants in Halifax; and, John Neilson, printer in Quebec. The greatest quantities of books shipped from Scotland were not those works of the Scottish Enlightenment, which tended to be shipped from London, but were school books, Bibles and chapbooks, categories supplied by stationers. The role of wholesaling stationers in book exports, uncovered in this study, suggests that previous surveys of book exports from Scotland may greatly underestimate the total, as stationers' shipments were entered in the Customs Accounts generically as "stationery" rather than as "books". Wholesaling stationers in Scotland and Scottish general merchants in Canada are the two principal groups of Scots who contributed to early Canadian book availability. This study contributes new information to the book histories of both Scotland and Canada, and provides a methodological model for future comparative research.