This is the Autumn 2005 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Set in Adobe Garamond with Wingdings. Editor: Sydney Shep; Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Gail Shivel, Lisa Pon, Tina Ray Murray; Bibliographer: Robert N. Matuozzi. CONTENTS: SHARP HALIFAX 2005; FELLOWSHIPS; PRESIDENT'S REPORT; SHARP PRIZES 2005; SHARP HAGUE 2006; SHARP MINNESOTA 2007; FORTHCOMING EVENTS; CONFERENCE REPORTS; KOLKATA BOOK FAIR; BOOK REVIEWS; EXHIBITION REVIEW; CALLS FOR PAPERS; MACARTHUR FELLOW; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NEW BIBLIOGRAPHER; E-RESOURCES REVIEWER; STOP PRESS; THE SHARP END. This issue includes the following contributions: SHARP HALIFAX 2005, by Ronald Tetrault, Nikki Hessell, Alexis Weedon, Shelley Beal (pp. 1, 3-6); Princeton University Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts (FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 2); Bibliographical Society (UK) (FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 2); PRESIDENT'S REPORT, by Bob Patten (p. 3); George A. & Jean S. DeLong Book Prize (SHARP PRIZES 2005), by Ellen Gruber Garvey, Mary E. Hammond, James Kelly (p. 6); Graduate Student Essay Prize (SHARP PRIZES 2005) (pp. 6-7); Trading Books, Trading Ideas, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag, Nederlands, 11-14 July 2006 (SHARP HAGUE 2006) (p. 7); Syon Abbey & Its Books c.1400-1700, University of Exeter, 7-8 October 2005 (FORTHCOMING EVENTS) (pp. 7-8); First Annual Conference in Modern Book History, University of Oxford, 26 November 2005 (FORTHCOMING EVENTS) (p. 8); Word and/as Power: Author and Authority in American Culture, Moscow State University, 16-21 December 2005 (FORTHCOMING EVENTS) (p. 8); Creativity and the Law: A Graduate Student Colloquium, University of Toronto, 21 January 2006 (FORTHCOMING EVENTS) (p. 8); DeBartolo 2006: The Book, University of South Florida, 16-18 February 2006 (FORTHCOMING EVENTS) (p. 8); From Woodblocks to the Internet: Chinese Publishing and Print Culture in Transition, Ohio State University, 3-7 November 2004 (CONFERENCE REPORTS), by Cynthia Brokaw, Christopher A. Reed (p. 9); The History of the Book: International Comparisons/Le livre, l'édition et la lecture dans le monde contemporain, University of Sydney, 10-12 July 2005 (CONFERENCE REPORTS), by Simon Eliot (pp. 9-10); Material Cultures & the Creation of Knowledge, University of Edinburgh, 22-24 July 2005 (CONFERENCE REPORTS), by Ross Alloway (p. 10); BOOK REVIEWS, by Carl Ostrowski, Matt Cohen, Kinohi Nishikawa, Gillian Wright, Joanie Crandall, Trysh Travis, David Knight, Andrew Piper, Philip Baker, Jennifer Harris, Lynne M. Thomas, James Wald, Kay Amert, Stephen Colclough, Robert Singerman (pp. 11-19); Sartre, Grande Galerie, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 9 March 2001-21 August 2005 (EXHIBITION REVIEW), by Brigitte Ouvry-Vial (p. 19); Rare Book School (FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 19); American Antiquarian Society (FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 20); Bibliographical Society of America (FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 20); American Printing History Association (FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 20); Media History in Canada, Ryerson University, Toronto, 31 May-1 June 2006 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 20); International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Malta, 17-22 July 2006 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 20-1); Magazines and Modernity in Australasia, University of Queensland, 8-9 December 2006 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 21).

This is the Winter 2001-02 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: Fiona A. Black; Associate Editor & Bibliographer: Linda Connors; Book Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Paul Gutjahr. CONTENTS: GUEST COMMENT; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS; LECTURES AND COURSES; EXHIBITIONS; CONFERENCE REPORTS; ELECTRONIC RESOURCES; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY. This issue includes the following contributions: English Studies and the Trouble with History, by Bill Bell (GUEST COMMENT) (pp. 1-3); American Historical Association, Chicago, 2-5 January 2003 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 3); New Frontiers in Early American Literature, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 8-10 August 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Modern Language Association, Irish Women Writers before the Great Hunger c. 1700-1845: Purpose and Politics, New York City, December 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Books and Empire: Textual Production, Distribution and Consumption in Colonial and Postcolonial Countries (SHARP Regional Conference), University of Sydney, 30 January-1 February 2003 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 4-5); Newberry Library Fellowships in the Humanities (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 5); Sue Allen Lecture: Publishers' Bookbindings 1830-1910, Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 23 March 2002 (LECTURES AND COURSES) (p. 5); The Harvard Theatre Collection, Grolier Club, NYC, 27 February-27 April 2002 (EXHIBITIONS) (p. 6); "Darkness Echoing": An Exhibition of Irish Literature, 1950-2000, Grolier Club, New York, 15 May-27 July 2002 (EXHIBITIONS) (p. 6); History of the Book in Canada/Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada: Open Conference for Volume III/Colloque préparatoire au volume III (1918-2000), Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre, Vancouver, 15-17 November 2001, by Carl Spadoni (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 6-7); HoBo Website Moves, New URL: http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/hobo (ELECTRONIC RESOURCES) (p. 7); BOOK REVIEWS, by Lane Stiles, Julia M. Williams, Margaret Nichols, Jane Millgate, Melissa McFarland Pennell, William E. Lenz, Philip Round, Stephen R. Reimer, Pavlí¬na Vimrová, Peter R. Frank, Marcy Wheeler, Alexandra Franklin, David Stoker (pp. 7-15).

This is the Winter 1998-99 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: David Finkelstein; Associate Editor: Linda Connors; Book Review Editor: Fiona Black. CONTENTS: IN MY VIEW: "EASING INTO BIOGRAPHY"; 1999 SHARP BOOK HISTORY PRIZE COMPETITION; AUSTRIAN BOOK HISTORY ON THE GO; STUDYING GERMAN BOOK HISTORY; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS; EXHIBITIONS; FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENTS; NEW JOURNAL ANNOUNCEMENT; SCHOLARLY LIAISONS; SEMINARS; 1998 INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF THE BOOK PROJECTS ROUNDUP; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: IN MY VIEW: "EASING INTO BIOGRAPHY", by James L.W. West III (pp. 1-2); AUSTRIAN BOOK HISTORY ON THE GO, by Peter R. Frank and Murray G. Hall (p. 2); Lost Libraries; Drawing from Nature: Art and Illustration in the Natural History Science; Australian Media Traditions: Historical Perspectives; Children's Books History Society; Libraries and the Book Trade; "La Bibliofilia" (CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS) (p. 4); Women of the Book: Jewish Artists, Jewish Themes; The Popular Print in England (EXHIBITIONS) (pp. 4-5); Mellon Resident Research Fellowships; John Hill Burton Fellowship; Norman MacCaig Fellowship (FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENTS) (p. 5); Winter 1999 Book History Seminar Programme; Spring Term 1999 Sociology of Texts Seminar Series; Spring 1999 series of Edward Clark Seminars (SEMINARS) (p. 6); 1998 INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF THE BOOK PROJECTS ROUNDUP, by Ian R. Willison, John Y. Cole (pp. 6-7); BOOK REVIEWS, by Sharon Hamilton, Barbara Hochman, David Hunter, Elizabeth Morrison, Philip Girard, Leon Jackson (pp. 7-11).

This is the Summer 1998 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: David Finkelstein; Associate Editor: Linda Connors; Book Review Editor: Fiona Black. CONTENTS: VANCOUVER HOSTS OVER 200 SHARPISTS; NOMINATIONS SOUGHT FOR 1999 ELECTION OF SHARP OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS; UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN TO HOST SHARP 1999; RESEARCHING THE HISTORY OF THE PRINTED BOOK IN THE NETHERLANDS; PENN LIBRARY ACQUIRES MAJOR COLLECTION; SEASECS PERRY ADAMS ANNUAL ARTICLE PRIZE; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT; COURSES; FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENTS; SCHOLARLY LIAISONS; SEMINARS AND LECTURES; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: Journal of the Early Book Society; Makers of Western Culture, 1800-1914 (CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS) (pp. 3-4); Second English Culture Conference; Pressing Matters: The Politics of Print; Popular Culture Association; Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand; Early Book Society; Self-Representation in Literature and the Arts; DeBartolo Conference on 18th-Century Studies (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 4-5); Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT) (p. 5); Drew University MA Programme in Book History; Centre for the History of Print Culture PhD Minor in Print Culture History (COURSES) (p. 5); American Antiquarian Society; Alicia Monti Research Fellowship (FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENTS) (pp. 5-6); American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCHOLARLY LIAISONS) (p. 6); Centre for the History of Print Culture in Modern America (SEMINARS AND LECTURES) (p. 6); BOOK REVIEWS, by Raymond Birn, Leslie Howsam, Linda K. Hughes, A.S. Hargreaves (pp. 6-10).

This is the Autumn 1994 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: Jonathan Rose; Book Review Editor: Patrick Leary. CONTENTS: 1995 EDINBURGH CONFERENCE UPDATE: EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS; SHARP WEIGHS PLANS TO EXPAND PUBLICATIONS PROGRAM; SCHOLARS BEGIN WORK ON A HISTORY OF THE BOOK IN AUSTRALIA; NEW BOOK HISTORY ENTERPRISES MOVE FORWARD IN SEVERAL NATIONS; THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE EMPIRICAL STUDY OF LITERATURE; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTORS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCES; EXHIBITIONS & LECTURES; FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS; NOTES & QUERIES; RECENT PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING.

This is the Summer 2002 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: Fiona Black; Associate Editor & Bibliographer: Linda Connors; Book Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Paul Gutjahr. CONTENTS: CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCES; AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS; CONFERENCE REPORTS; BOOK HISTORY SOCIETIES; OBITUARY: PETER ISAAC; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARP END; CORRECTIONS. This issue includes the following contributions: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies: The Global Trade in Books, Periodicals and Other Forms of Print in the Long Eighteenth Century, University of California, Los Angeles, 3-8 August 2003 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 1); 17th Annual DeBartolo Conference on Eighteenth-Century Studies: The History of Manners, Tampa, Florida, 20-22 February 2003 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 1-2); The History of Medicine, University College, London, 20-21 June 2003 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 2); Literary London: 1660 to 1830, Mayfair, London, 13 September 2002 (CONFERENCES) (pp. 2-3); History of the Maritime Book, Princeton University, NJ, 4-5 October 2002 (CONFERENCES) (p. 3); The Future History of the Book, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, Netherlands, 7-8, (9) November 2002 (CONFERENCES) (pp. 3-4); Cambridge University Library Munby Fellowship in Bibliography, 2003-2004 (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 4); William L. Mitchell Prize for Research on Early British Serials (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 4); The History of Libraries in the United States: Hosted by the Library Company of Philadelphia, 11-13 April 2002, by Michael A. Baenen (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 4-5); American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, by Eleanor Shevlin (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (p. 5); The Ticknor Society (BOOK HISTORY SOCIETIES) (pp. 5-6); BOOK REVIEWS, by Margaret Beetham, Caroline Davis, Anne MacKinnon, Anne Marie Lane, George L. Parker, Alexis Weedon (pp. 6-10); Editorial News (SHARP END) (p. 12).

This is the Spring 1993 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: Jonathan Rose. CONTENTS: THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WALES; NEW DOCTORAL PROGRAM IN HISTORY OF THE BOOK AND AUTHORSHIP; 1993 CUNY CONFERENCE UPDATE; APHA RECEPTION, LECTURE AND AUCTION; RARE BOOK SCHOOL 1993; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTORS; CONFERENCES; RECENT PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING. This issue includes the following contributions: THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WALES, by John R. Turner (pp. 1-3).

This is the Autumn 1998 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: David Finkelstein; Associate Editor: Linda Connors; Book Review Editor: Fiona Black. CONTENTS: IN MY VIEW: WOMEN AND BOOK HISTORY; TEACHING WOMEN AND TEXT: MEDIEVAL TO RENAISSANCE; BUILDING A DATABASE OF AMERICAN WOMEN BOOKSELLERS; MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROJECT COMPLETED AT BROWN; NEW CENTRE TO MAP 18TH CENTURY LONDON BOOK TRADE; CONFERENCE REPORTS; CALL FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS; FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT; SCHOLARLY LIAISONS; SEMINARS AND LECTURES; WEBWATCH; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: IN MY VIEW: WOMEN AND BOOK HISTORY, by Leslie Howsam (pp. 1-2); TEACHING WOMEN AND TEXT: MEDIEVAL TO RENAISSANCE, by Maureen Bell (pp. 2-4); BUILDING A DATABASE OF AMERICAN WOMEN BOOKSELLERS, by Barbara A. Brannon (pp. 4-5); Annual Conference on the History of the Provincial Book Trde in Britain; Postgraduate Conference on the History of the Book (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 5-7); Library History Round Table; Research Society for Victorian Periodicals; American Literature Association; Western Journalism Historians Conference (CALL FOR PAPERS) (pp. 7-8); Annual Conference on Book Trade History; Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS) (p. 8); Department of English at the University of Otago (FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT) (p. 8); American Historical Association convention (SCHOLARLY LIAISONS) (pp. 8-9); Scottish Centre for the Book at Napier University; Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh Fall 1998 Seminar Programme (SEMINARS AND LECTURES) (p. 9); BOOK REVIEWS, by Maureen Bell, Elizabeth Hagglund, Heidi Thomson, Alexis Weedon, Rosemary E. Johnsen, Valerie Edden, Linda Dryden (pp. 10-15).

This is the Spring 1992 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: Jonathan Rose. CONTENTS: SHARP'S ELECTRONIC DISCUSSION AND INFORMATION CENTER GOES ONLINE; HISTORY OF THE BOOK: ON DEMAND SERIES (HOBODS); OTHER VENTURES IN BOOK HISTORY; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCES; RECENT PUBLICATIONS; FIRST SHARP CONFERENCE: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS; HOW WE ARE DOING. This issue includes the following contributions: HOW WE ARE DOING, by Jonathan Rose (p. 6).

This is the Spring 2004 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Set in Adobe Garamond with Wingdings. Editor: Sydney Shep; Book Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Chuck Johanningsmeier; Bibliographer: Padmini Ray Chaudhury. CONTENTS: CONFERENCE REPORT I; ELECTRONIC RESOURCES; THE SHARP EDGE; AAS TURNS 21; SHARPIST HONOURED; CONFERENCE REPORT II; COURSES & PROGRAMMES; BOOK REVIEWS; NEW BSA FELLOWSHIP; CALLS FOR PAPERS; FORTHCOMING EVENTS; SHARPISTS WANTED; BIBLIOGRAPHY; THE SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: The Colonial & Postcolonial History of the Book (CONFERENCE REPORT I), by Mary Hammond & Robert Fraser (pp. 1-2); Future of the Booke (THE SHARP EDGE), by Gary Frost (pp. 3-4); AASI TURNS 21, by John B. Hench (p. 4); 4th Annual Craft Critique Culture Conference (CONFERENCE REPORT II), by Stephanie Gowler (p. 5); BOOK REVIEWS, by Geoffrey Beare, Margaret Nichols, Elizabeth Morrison, Andrew Piper, Anne Henry, Scott E. Casper, Marja Smolenaars (pp. 6-10); The Justin G. Schiller Prize for Bibliographical Work on Pre-20th Century Children's Books (NEW BSA FELLOWSHIP) (p. 10); The Jacobean Printed Book: Authors, Printers, Readers, Queen Mary, U. of London, 2-4 September 2004 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 10); Picture This: The Art and Technique of Illustration, University of Delaware, Newark, 30 September-1 October 2004 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 10); British Book Trade History (FORTHCOMING EVENTS) (p. 11); Roughing It: Printing & the Press in the West (FORTHCOMING EVENTS) (p. 11).