This is the Summer 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: "COULD BE THE START OF SOMETHING BIG"; BOOK HISTORY AND PUBLISHING STUDIES AT PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY; HOW WELL DOES BOOK HISTORY SELL?; RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN BOOK HISTORY; NETWORKS; CONFERENCES; PUBLIC LECTURES; RECENT PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING. This issue includes the following contributions: BOOK HISTORY AND PUBLISHING STUDIES AT PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY, by Megan Benton (pp. 2-3).

Masthead reads: Winter 2000-01 / This is the Winter 2000-01 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: SMILLA RULES: EXPLORING TRANSLATION STUDIES AND BOOK HISTORY; NATIONAL ACTIVITIES; RELATED SOCIETIES; NOTES & QUERIES; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; CONFERENCES; LECTURES & COURSES; CONFERENCE REPORTS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARP NEWS OF NOTE. This issue includes the following contributions: GUEST COMMENT: SMILLA RULES: EXPLORING TRANSLATION STUDIES AND BOOK HISTORY, by Eva Hemmungs Wirtén (pp. 1-4); The Great New Zealand Round-up, by Sydney Shep (NATIONAL ACTIVITIES) (p. 4); Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Update on Activities, by Laurel Brake (RELATED SOCIETIES) (p. 5); Call for ASECS/SHARP Research Entries (NOTES & QUERIES) (p. 5); The Impact of the Journalist-Critic, 1900-40: Panel for MLA 2001, New Orleans, LA, 27-30 December 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 5-6); Rosamond Lehmann and the Craft of Letters, Université de Marne La Vallée and Université Paris VII-Denis Diderot, Paris, France, 28-29 September 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 6); History of the Book in Canada/Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada: Open Conference for Volume III (1918-2000), Simon Fraser University, Harbour Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 15-18 November 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 6); Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand (BSANZ) Conference, Adelaide University, South Australia, Australia, 27-28 September 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 6); People of the Book: Explorations in Jewish Publishing and Bibliography, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, 4 March 2001 (CONFERENCES) (pp. 7-8); American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) SHARP Panel, New Orleans, LA, 18-22 April 2001 (CONFERENCES) (p. 8); History of the Book in Canada Open Conference: Volume 2, 1840-1918, McGill University and Bibliothéque nationale du Québec, Montreal, Canada, 18-19 May 2001 (CONFERENCES) (p. 8); The Centre for Writing, Publishing and Printing History at the University of Reading Public Lecture Series, Spring 2001 (LECTURES & COURSES) (p. 8); Sandars Lectures 2001, University Library, Cambridge, 28 February, 7 and 14 March 2001 (LECTURES & COURSES) (p. 8); History of the Book: The Next Generation, Drew University, 16 September 2000, by Jonathan Rose (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 8-9); American Printing History Association (APHA) Conference, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, NY, 20-21 October 2000, by Judy Donnelly (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 9-10); Professional Readers: Libraries for the Church and the Professions to 1850, Institute of English Studies, University of London, England, 28 October 2000, by Keith Manley (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 10-11); History of the Book in Canada/Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada Open Conference for Volume 1: Beginnings to 1840, University of Toronto, 24-25 November 2000, by Carl Spadoni (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 11-12); BOOK REVIEWS, by Candy Gunther Brown, Ralph Hanna, Maureen Bell (pp. 12-14); Library History Group of the Library Association (UK) (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 16); SHARP Wins APHA Award (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 16).

This is the Winter 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: MODERN BOOK HISTORY; HIGHAM ARCHIVE; THE SHARP EDGE; THE BOOK COLLECTOR; PRIZES; BOOK REVIEWS; EDITORS' REPLY; BOOK REVIEWS EDITOR; EXHIBITION REVIEWS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; SHARPIST APPOINTED; FORTHCOMING EVENTS; BIBLIOGRAPHY. This issue includes the following contributions: MODERN BOOK HISTORY, by Patrick Buckridge (p. 1); HIGHAM ARCHIVE, by Noah Mass (pp. 1-2); Literary Replication: James Secord's Victorian Sensation & Models of Book History (THE SHARP EDGE), by Leslie Howsam (pp. 3-4); THE BOOK COLLECTOR, by Nicolas Barker (pp. 4-5); Justin Winsor Prize (PRIZES) (p. 5); Robert A. Colby Prize (PRIZES) (p. 5); BOOK REVIEWS, by Douglas Martin, Andrew Piper, Caroline Sumpter, Ronald Lieberman, Claire Squires, Catherine Dille, Ittai Joseph Tamari, William Hughes, Madison U. Sowell, Diana Kichuk (pp. 6-11); EDITORS' REPLY, by Betty S. Travitsky and Anne Lake Prescott (p. 11); The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 13 September 2005-15 January 2006 (EXHIBITION REVIEWS), by Arlene Shaner (p. 12); Two Exhibitions of the Gutenberg Bible (EXHIBITION REVIEWS), by Elizabeth Ross (pp. 12-13); Education & the Culture of Print in Modern America: Authors, Publishers, Readers, & More Since 1876, Madison, Wisconsin, 29-30 September 2006 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 13-14); Media in the Enlarged Europe: An International Conference on Policy, Industry, Aesthetics & Creativity, University of Luton, UK, 5-6 May 2006 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 14); 1968: Global Resistance/Local Knowledge, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, 3-4 November 2006 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 14); Further Transactions of the Book, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, USA, 9-11 March 2006 (FORTHCOMING EVENTS) (p. 15).

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).