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 Eleven - 2008

Joanne Filippone Overty. The Cost of Doing Scribal Business: Prices of Manuscript Books in England, 1300-1483

Margaret Schotte. "Books for the Use of the Learned and Studious": William London's catalogue of Most Vendible Books

Nicole Howard. Marketing Longitude: Clocks, Kings, Courtiers, and Christiaan Huygens

Mark R. M. Towsey. "Patron of Infidelity": Scottish Readers Respond to David Hume, c. 1750-c. 1820

Ross Alloway. Cadell and the Crash

David Faflik. Authorship, Ownership, and the Case for Charles Anderson Chester

Lize Kriel. From Private Journal to Published Periodical: Gendered Writings and Readings of a Late Victorian Wesleyan's "African Wilderness"

Janice Cavell. In the margins: Regimental History and a Veteran's Narrative of the First World War

Mary A. Nocholas and Cynthia A. Ruder. In Search of the Collective Author: Fact and Fiction from the Soviet 1930s

Robert Franciosi. Designing John Hersey's The Wall: W. A. Dwiggins, George Salter, and the Challenges of American Holocaust Memory

Trysh Travis. The Women in Print Movement: History and Implications

The State of the Discipline:
Matt Cohen. The History of the Book in New England