null / This is the Summer 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: VANCOUVER HOSTS OVER 200 SHARPISTS; NOMINATIONS SOUGHT FOR 1999 ELECTION OF SHARP OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS; UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN TO HOST SHARP 1999; RESEARCHING THE HISTORY OF THE PRINTED BOOK IN THE NETHERLANDS; PENN LIBRARY ACQUIRES MAJOR COLLECTION; SEASECS PERRY ADAMS ANNUAL ARTICLE PRIZE; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT; COURSES; FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENTS; SCHOLARLY LIAISONS; SEMINARS AND LECTURES; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: Journal of the Early Book Society; Makers of Western Culture, 1800-1914 (CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS) (pp. 3-4); Second English Culture Conference; Pressing Matters: The Politics of Print; Popular Culture Association; Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand; Early Book Society; Self-Representation in Literature and the Arts; DeBartolo Conference on 18th-Century Studies (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 4-5); Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT) (p. 5); Drew University MA Programme in Book History; Centre for the History of Print Culture PhD Minor in Print Culture History (COURSES) (p. 5); American Antiquarian Society; Alicia Monti Research Fellowship (FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENTS) (pp. 5-6); American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCHOLARLY LIAISONS) (p. 6); Centre for the History of Print Culture in Modern America (SEMINARS AND LECTURES) (p. 6); BOOK REVIEWS, by Raymond Birn, Leslie Howsam, Linda K. Hughes, A.S. Hargreaves (pp. 6-10).

null / 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. CONTENTS: 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).

This is the Summer 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: TWO HUNDRED ATTEND WASHINGTON CONFERENCE; CALL FOR PAPERS: 1995 SHARP EDINBURGH CONFERENCE; BOOK HISTORY, THE STATE OF PLAY: AN INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT DARNTON; UPDATE: NEW YORK BOOK HISTORY CENTER; TWO NEW BOOK HISTORY SOCIETIES ORGANIZED IN HOLLAND; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTORS; CONFERENCES; EXHIBITIONS & LECTURES; FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS; RECENT PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING. This issue includes the following contributions: BOOK HISTORY, THE STATE OF PLAY: AN INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT DARNTON, by Robert Darnton and Krassimira Daskalova (pp. 2-4).

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. CONTENTS: 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).

null / This is the Spring 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: QUEBEC COLLOQUIUM SET FOR 2000; SECOND EDINBURGH CENTRE LAUNCHED; BOOKS GO DUTCH; BOOKTRADE IN AUSTRIA AS A FIELD FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES; TEACHING THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK AND A TEXTBOOK FOR BOOK HISTORY; CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; CALL FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCE; COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT; SCHOLARLY LIAISONS; WEB WATCH; BOOK REVIEWS; SHARP CORRESPONDENCE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: BOOKS GO DUTCH, by Adrian van der Weel (pp. 1-2); BOOKTRADE IN AUSTRIA AS A FIELD FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, by Peter R. Frank (pp. 2-3); TEACHING THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK AND A TEXTBOOK FOR BOOK HISTORY, by Richard W. Clement (pp. 3-4); Eighteenth-Century Novel; Reading Experience Database; English Studies in Canada (CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS) (pp. 4-5); History of the Book in Australia (CALL FOR PAPERS) (p. 5); Library History Round Table (CONFERENCE) (p. 5); History of the Book MA (COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT) (pp. 5-6); American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies; Aberystwyth Centre for the Book (SCHOLARLY LIAISONS) (p. 6); BOOK REVIEWS, by Richard B. Sher, John C. Crawford, Robert A. Shaddy, Eric H. Reiter (pp. 6-10).

null / 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).

Masthead reads: Winter 2001-02 / This is the Winter 2001-02 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 A. Black; Associate Editor & Bibliographer: Linda Connors; Book Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Paul Gutjahr. CONTENTS: GUEST COMMENT; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS; LECTURES AND COURSES; EXHIBITIONS; CONFERENCE REPORTS; ELECTRONIC RESOURCES; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY. This issue includes the following contributions: English Studies and the Trouble with History, by Bill Bell (GUEST COMMENT) (pp. 1-3); American Historical Association, Chicago, 2-5 January 2003 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 3); New Frontiers in Early American Literature, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 8-10 August 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Modern Language Association, Irish Women Writers before the Great Hunger c. 1700-1845: Purpose and Politics, New York City, December 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Books and Empire: Textual Production, Distribution and Consumption in Colonial and Postcolonial Countries (SHARP Regional Conference), University of Sydney, 30 January-1 February 2003 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 4-5); Newberry Library Fellowships in the Humanities (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 5); Sue Allen Lecture: Publishers' Bookbindings 1830-1910, Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 23 March 2002 (LECTURES AND COURSES) (p. 5); The Harvard Theatre Collection, Grolier Club, NYC, 27 February-27 April 2002 (EXHIBITIONS) (p. 6); "Darkness Echoing": An Exhibition of Irish Literature, 1950-2000, Grolier Club, New York, 15 May-27 July 2002 (EXHIBITIONS) (p. 6); History of the Book in Canada/Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada: Open Conference for Volume III/Colloque préparatoire au volume III (1918-2000), Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre, Vancouver, 15-17 November 2001, by Carl Spadoni (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 6-7); HoBo Website Moves, New URL: http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/hobo (ELECTRONIC RESOURCES) (p. 7); BOOK REVIEWS, by Lane Stiles, Julia M. Williams, Margaret Nichols, Jane Millgate, Melissa McFarland Pennell, William E. Lenz, Philip Round, Stephen R. Reimer, Pavlí¬na Vimrová, Peter R. Frank, Marcy Wheeler, Alexandra Franklin, David Stoker (pp. 7-15).

null / This is the Spring 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: THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WALES; NEW DOCTORAL PROGRAM IN HISTORY OF THE BOOK AND AUTHORSHIP; 1993 CUNY CONFERENCE UPDATE; APHA RECEPTION, LECTURE AND AUCTION; RARE BOOK SCHOOL 1993; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTORS; CONFERENCES; RECENT PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING. This issue includes the following contributions: THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WALES, by John R. Turner (pp. 1-3).

This is the Autumn 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 CLAREMONT 2003; FELLOWSHIPS; STOP PRESS; THE SHARP EDGE; BOOK HISTORY PRIZE; SHARP LYONS 2004; LOCAL INITIATIVES; CONFERENCE REPORT; NEW PUBLICATIONS; BOOK REVIEWS; REVIEW ROUNDTABLE; CALLS FOR PAPERS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; THE SHARP END. This issue includes the following contributions: SHARP CLAREMONT 2003, by Marija Dalbello, Lydia Wevers, Megan Benton, and Stephen Colclough (pp. 1, 4-6); Library & Archives Visiting Fellowships, 2004-2005, King's College London (FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 2); APHA 2004 Fellowship in Printing History (FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 2); Book History in Calcutta: A Few New Developments (THE SHARP EDGE), by Rimi B. Chatterjee (pp. 3-4); Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies (LOCAL INITIATIVES) (p. 7); SHARP at ISECS (CONFERENCE REPORT), by Eleanor Shevlin (pp. 7-8); BOOK REVIEWS, by Susan Waterman, Ian Gadd, Joad Raymond, Lorah D. Vole [i.e., Harold Love], Ann Veenhoff, A.S.G. Edwards, Karen Schiff, Jason Peacey, Margaret Nichols (pp. 8-14); REVIEW ROUNDTABLE, by James Raven (p. 14); Printing and the Worlds of Learning, Downing College, Cambridge, 5-6 January 2004 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 14); Serious Pleasures, University of Iowa, 1-4 April 2004 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 14-15); From the Outside In: The Library in the Life of Its Historical Users, Orlando, Florida, 23-30 June 2004 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 15).

null / This is the Autumn 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: SHARP BEGINS SEARCH FOR BOOK HISTORY YEARBOOK EDITORS; 1996 WORCESTER CONFERENCE UPDATE: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS; COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS IN BOOK HISTORY DISCUSSED AT LIBRARY OF CONGRESS; COURSE SYLLABUS: A GRADUATE SEMINAR IN THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK; SHARP ORGANIZES ASECS SECTION, SEEKS INFORMATION ON RESEARCH PROJECTS; 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: COURSE SYLLABUS: A GRADUATE SEMINAR IN THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK, by James L.W. West III and Michael Anesko (pp. 2-3); BOOK REVIEWS, by Roberta L. Dougherty, Philip A. Metzger, W.A. Kelly (PP. 3-5); ON THE INTERNET, by Patrick Leary (p. 7).