Category: Issues
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Survey of Indigenous-Owned Publishers in Canada and Report for Government Stakeholders in Canada’s Guest-of-Honour Campaign at the Frankfurt Book Fair, 2020/21
Jody Mason and Sarah Pelletier’s article “‘Singular Plurality’: Settler Colonial Transcendence and Canada’s 2021 Guest-of-Honour Campaign at the Frankfurt Book Fair,” published in the Fall 2023 issue of Book History, uses qualitative data drawn from a survey the authors sent to Indigenous-owned publishers in Canada in the winter of 2022. The authors identified eight such…
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“The Lost Erotica of James West”: Additional Material
Patrick Spedding’s article “The Lost Erotica of James West” in Book History 23 (2020) offers a close analysis of the significant erotica in the library assembled by James West (1703–72) and sold at auction in 1773. Dr. Spedding is Head of Literary Studies at Monash University and associate-director of the Centre for the Book. He…
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Dataset of Four Clandestine European Pornography Publishers
Colette Colligan’s article “Digital Discovery and Fake Imprints: Unmasking Turn-of-the-Century Pornographers in Paris” draws on archives and data to uncover the activities of clandestine European publishers of pornography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The corresponding datasheet models bibliographical data on the underground publications of four such publishers: August Brancart, Aimé-Charles Duringe, Jules Eugène Gauché, and…
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Livre d’Artiste Database 1874-1939 by Artist and by Year
Rodney T. Swan’s article “The Post-Liberation Resurgence of the Livre d’artiste in France: A Quantitative Analysis” was published in the 2019 volume of Book History.
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Chicago Publisher A.C. McClurg and Co: An Interactive Timeline
Lucas Dietrich’s article “‘At the Dawning of the Twentieth Century’: W.E.B. Du Bois, A.C. McClurg & Co. and the Early Circulation of The Souls of Black Folk” traces the initial publication and reception of Du Bois’ 1903 book. Research for the project was supported by a Northeast Modern Language Association fellowship at the Newberry Library.…
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An Appleton Archive
Kristen Doyle Highland’s article “In the Bookstore: The Houses of Appleton and Book Cultures in Antebellum New York City” combines archival scholarship with cutting-edge DH methods and a deep knowledge of New York City history. Dr. Highland’s article won the Graduate Essay Prize for the 2016 issue of BOOK HISTORY. She is a graduate of…
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“Between Quandary and Squander”: A List of Added Online Content
Graziano Krätli’s article “Between Quandary and Squander: A Brief and Biased Inquiry into the Preservation of West African Arabic Manuscripts” provides a critical overview of major initiatives undertaken to identify, describe, and preserve Arabic manuscripts in West Africa. He is a librarian at Yale University and a scholar of the the material, technological, economic, and…