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).

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).