Book History:
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BOOK HISTORY is a scholarly journal devoted to every aspect of the history of the book, broadly defined as the creation, dissemination, reception, and use of script, print, and mediacy. The journal publishes research on authorship, editing, printing, publishing, media, the book arts, the book trade, periodicals, newspapers, ephemera, copyright, censorship, literary agents, libraries, literary criticism, canon formation, literacy, literary education, reading habits, and reader response. The journal is open to all disciplines and methodologies, and it will consider articles dealing with any literary culture and any historical period.

Volume One - 1998

The Editors. An Introduction to Book History

Ian Donaldson. The Destruction of the Book

Fiona A. Black. Bertrum H. MacDonald, and J. Malcolm Black, Geographic Information Systems: A New Research Method for Book History

Richard B. Sher. Corporatism and Consensus in the Late Eighteenth-Century Book Trade: The Edinburgh Booksellers Society in Comparative Perspective

Sherry Lee Linkon. Reading Lind Mania: Print Culture and the Construction of Nineteenth-Century Audiences

Alice Fahs. The Market Value of Memory: Popular War Histories and the Northern Literary Marketplace, 1861-1868

Amy M. Thomas. There Is Nothing So Effective as a Personal Canvass: Revaluing Nineteenth-Century American Subscription Books

Michael Hancher. Gazing at The Imperial Dictionary

Shef Rogers. Crusoe among the Maori: Translation and Colonial Acculturation in Victorian New Zealand

Priya Joshi. Culture and Consumption: Fiction, the Reading Public, and the British Novel in Colonial India

Emily Jenkins. Trilby: Fads, Photographers, and Over-Perfect Feet

Arlen Viktorovich Blium. Forbidden Topics: Early Soviet Censorship Directives

The State of the Discipline: Wallace Kirsop. Booksellers and Their Customers: Some Reflections on Recent Research
 
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Book History is co-edited by Ezra Greenspan (Southern Methodist University) and Jonathan Rose (Drew University). It is published by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) as a hardcover annual and distributed by Johns Hopkins University Press. Tables of contents can be browsed here:

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