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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 Three - 2000

Andrea Finkelstein. Gerald de Malynes and Edward Misselden. The Learned Library of the Seventeenth-Century Merchant

Stephen Colclough. Procuring Books and Consuming Texts: The Reading Experience of a Sheffield Apprentice, 1798

James J. Barnes and Patience P. Barnes. Reassessing the Reputation of Thomas Tegg, London Publisher, 1776-1846

Simon Eliot. "Hotten: Rotten: Forgotten"?: An Apologia for a General Publisher

Julie F. Codell. Serialized Artists' Biographies: A Culture Industry in Late Victorian Britain

Samantha Matthews. Psychological Crystal Palace?: Late Victorian Confession Albums

Bill Bell. Beyond the Death of the Author: Matthew Arnold's Two Audiences 1888-1930

Peter France and Sian Reynolds. Nelson's Victory: A Scottish Invasion of French Publishing 1910-1914

Erin A. Smith. How the Other Half Read: Advertising, Working-Class Readers, and Pulp Magazines

Ann Haugland. Book Propaganda: Edward L. Bernays's 1930 Campaign Against Dollar Books

Trysh Travis. What We Talk About When We Talk About *The New Yorker*

Laura J. Miller. The Best Seller List as Marketing Tool and Historical Fiction

The State of the Discipline:
Eike Barbara Durrfeld. Terra Incognita: Towards a Historiography of Book Fastenings and Book Furniture
 
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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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Membership in SHARP includes a subscription to SHARP News and all other SHARP publications. For more information about the benefits of membership, see our Membership page. Institutions may order subscriptions to our annual publication, Book History through Johns Hopkins University Press or phone 1-800-548-1784, or 410-516-6987.