Book History:
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OOK 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 Four - 2001

John Barnard. London Publishing 1640-1660: Crisis, Continuity, and Innovation

Eugenia Roldan Vera. Reading in Questions and Answers: The Catechism as an Educational Genre in Early Independent Spanish America

Thomas J. Cragin. The Failings of Popular News Censorship in Nineteenth-Century France

Elaine Hoag. Caxtons of the North: Mid-Nineteenth Century Arctic Shipboard Printing

Helen Williams. Ringing the Bell: Editor-Reader Dialogue in Alexander Herzen's *Kolokol*

Robert Darnton. Literary Surveillance in the British Raj: The Contradictions of Liberal Imperialism

Eric Lupfer. Before Nature Writing: Hougton, Mifflin and Company and the Invention of the Outdoor Book, 1880-1900

Troy Bassett and Christina M. Walter. Booksellers and Bestsellers: British Book Sales as Documented by *The Bookman*, 1891-1906

Matthew Skelton. The Paratext of Everything: Constructing and Marketing H. G. Wells's *The Outline of History*

Chris Baggs. How Well Read Was My Valley? Reading, Popular Fiction, and the Miners of South Wales, 1875-1939

Rimi B. Chatterjee. Canon without Consensus: Rabindranath Tagore and "The Oxford Book of Bengali Verse"

The State of the Discipline:
Paul Gutjahr. Sacred Texts in the United States