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).

null / 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. CONTENTS: 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).

null / This is the Autumn 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. CONTENTS: PROGRESS REPORT: A COLLABORATIVE HISTORY OF THE BOOK IN AMERICAN CULTURE; TWO FORTHCOMING ENCYCLOPEDIAS OF PUBLISHING; GETTING BOOK HISTORY INTO PRINT; CONFERENCES; PUBLIC LECTURES; RECENT PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING. This issue includes the following contributions: HOW WE ARE DOING, by Jonathan Rose (p. 7).

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).

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. CONTENTS: 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).

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). / 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. CONTENTS: 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).

Masthead date for this issue reads: Winter 1997-98. / This is the Winter 1997-98 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: THE ELIOT-PHELIPS COLLECTION CATALOGING PROJECT; STUDENTS INTO SCHOLARS--SORT OF; CALL FOR ESSAY PROPOSALS; CALL FOR PAPERS; JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS; LECTURES AND SEMINARS; SCHOLARLY LIAISONS; WEB WATCH; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: STUDENTS INTO SCHOLARS--SORT OF, by D.J. Trela (pp. 1-3); Periodical Literature in Eighteenth-Century America (CALL FOR ESSAY PROPOSALS) (p. 3); Midwest Modern Language Association; William Morris Society; Tenth International Congress on the Enlightenment (CALL FOR PAPERS) (pp. 3-4); Printing Historical Society; From Text to Book; Scottish Centre for the Book (LECTURES AND SEMINARS) (pp. 4-5); American Society of Church History/American Historical Association; History of the Book in Canada; SHARP/American Studies Association Caucus; Popular Culture Association: Reading and Publishing Popular Literature (SCHOLARLY LIAISONS) (pp. 5-6); BOOK REVIEWS, by John Feather, Robert N. Matuozzi, Richard W. Clement, David Finkelstein, Graham Law (pp. 7-10).

Masthead date for this issue reads: Winter 1994-95. / 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).

null / This is the Summer 1995 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: EDINBURGH CONFERENCE ENDORSES PLAN TO PUBLISH A SHARP YEARBOOK; CALL FOR PAPERS: 1996 CONFERENCE AT THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY; SHARP INAUGURATES INTERNET RESOURCE CENTER ON WORLD WIDE WEB; LIBRARY HISTORY PROJECTS UNDER WAY IN BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES; SHARP TO SPONSOR SESSIONS AT AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION MEETINGS; ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS CREATE NEW MONOGRAPH SERIES IN MEDIA HISTORY; BOOK HISTORY IN BULGARIA: A REPORT FROM THE FIELD; RUSSIAN SCHOLARS TO HOST INTERNATIONAL PRINT CULTURE CONFERENCE; BOOK REVIEWS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTORS; CONFERENCES; EXHIBITIONS & LECTURES; FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS; RESOURCES; NOTES & QUERIES; NEW PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING. This issue includes the following contributions: BOOK HISTORY IN BULGARIA: A REPORT FROM THE FIELD, by Krassimira Daskalova (pp. 3-5); BOOK REVIEWS, by Robin Alston, Jeffery Triggs (pp. 5-8).

Masthead reads: Winter 1991-92 / This is the Winter 1991-92 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: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF AUTHORSHIP, READING AND PUBLISHING; THE FIRST SHARP CONFERENCE ON BOOK HISTORY; ABOUT SHARP NEWS; ABOUT THE SHARP LISTSERV; OTHER CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS; HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN SHARP. This issue includes the following contributions: ABOUT THE SHARP LISTSERV, by Jonathan Rose (p. 4).