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 Two - 1999

Germaine Warkentin. In Search of "the Word of the Other": Aboriginal Sign Systems and the History of the Book in Canada

T. H. Howard-Hill. "Nor Stage, nor Stationers Stall Can Showe": The Circulation of Plays in Manuscript in the Early Seventeenth Century

Eleanor F. Shevlin. "To Reconcile Book and Title, and Make 'em Kin to One Another": The Evolution of the Title's Contractual Fucntions

K. A. Manley. Rural Reading in Northwest England: The Sedbergh Book Club 1728-1928

Melanie Archangeli. Subscribing to the Enlightenment: Charlotte von Hetzel Markets Das Wochenblatt fur's schone Geschlecht

Nancy A. Mace. Litigating the Musical Magazine: The Definition of British Music Copyright in the 1780s

Leon Jackson. The Reader Retailored: Thomas Carlyle, His American Audiences, and the Politics of Evidence

Daniel Barrett. Play Publication, Readers, and the "Decline" of the Victorian Drama

Alexis Weedon. From Three-Deckers to Film Rights: A Turn in British Publishing Strategies 1870-1930

Joan Shelley Rubin. The Boundaries of American Religious Publishing in the Early Twentieth Century

Beth Luey. "Leading the Public Gently": Popular Science Books in the 1950s

The State of the Discipline:
Edward Kasinec, with Robert H. Davis, Jr. The Rise and Decline of Book Studies in the Soviet Union
 
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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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