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 Autumn 2001 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: SHARP NEWS OF NOTE; ACTIVITIES ROUND-UP; SCHOLARLY EDITING; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; CONFERENCES; AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS; PRIZES; LECTURES AND COURSES; EXHIBITIONS; CONFERENCE REPORTS; AFFILIATE ACTIVITIES; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARP REPORTS. This issue includes the following contributions: SHARP Prize Awarded (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 1); SHARP Student Essay Prize Awarded (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 1); SHARPWeb.org, by Patrick Leary (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 1); Leiden Centre for the Book, by Adriaan van der Weel (ACTIVITIES ROUND-UP) (pp. 1-3); The Child Writer and the Juvenilia Press, by Juliet McMaster (SCHOLARLY EDITING) (pp. 3-4); The Versatile Text: New Histories of the Book, University of Edinburgh, 19-21 April 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); The New Information Order, University of Edinburgh, 21-23 March 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Borders and Crossings III: An International Conference on Travel Writing, 10-13 July 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 4-5); Transatlantic Type: Anglo-American Printing in the Nineteenth Century, American Printing History Association Twenty-sixth Annual Conference, Washington University, St. Louis, 19-21 October 2001 (CONFERENCES) (pp. 5-6); Inaugural Colloquium for the European Society for Textual Scholarship, DeMontfort University, Leicester, UK, 22-23 November 2001 (CONFERENCES) (p. 6); Printing Historical Society Conference 2002, Printing History: New Criteria, Reading, UK, 11 January 2002 (CONFERENCES) (pp. 6-7); John Carter Brown Library Research Fellowships: 2002-2003 (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 7); Justin Winsor Prize for Library History Essay (PRIZES) (pp. 7-8); SHARP Book History Prize (PRIZES) (p. 8); The Edinburgh Book History Seminar Programme 2001-2002, Edinburgh Univ. Library (LECTURES AND COURSES) (pp. 8-9); Toronto Centre for the Book Programme 2001-2002 (LECTURES AND COURSES) (p. 9); The Reader Revealed: New Folger Exhibition Highlights Renaissance Reading Habits, Folger Shakespeare Library (EXHIBITIONS) (pp. 9-10); SHARP at Colonial Williamsburg (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (p. 10); Book Studies at SHARP, by Eleanor Shevlin (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (p. 11); SHARP at ASECS, by Eleanor Shevlin (AFFILIATE ACTIVITIES) (p. 11); BOOK REVIEWS, by Nicholas Dew, Hannah Thompson, Elisabeth-Christine Muelsch, Alexandra Gillespie (pp. 11-14); Treasurer's Report, by Robert Patten (SHARP REPORTS) (p. 16); Membership Report, by Barbara A. Brannon (SHARP REPORTS) (p. 16).

This is the Winter 1997-98 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: THE ELIOT-PHELIPS COLLECTION CATALOGING PROJECT; STUDENTS INTO SCHOLARS--SORT OF; CALL FOR ESSAY PROPOSALS; CALL FOR PAPERS; JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS; LECTURES AND SEMINARS; SCHOLARLY LIAISONS; WEB WATCH; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: STUDENTS INTO SCHOLARS--SORT OF, by D.J. Trela (pp. 1-3); Periodical Literature in Eighteenth-Century America (CALL FOR ESSAY PROPOSALS) (p. 3); Midwest Modern Language Association; William Morris Society; Tenth International Congress on the Enlightenment (CALL FOR PAPERS) (pp. 3-4); Printing Historical Society; From Text to Book; Scottish Centre for the Book (LECTURES AND SEMINARS) (pp. 4-5); American Society of Church History/American Historical Association; History of the Book in Canada; SHARP/American Studies Association Caucus; Popular Culture Association: Reading and Publishing Popular Literature (SCHOLARLY LIAISONS) (pp. 5-6); BOOK REVIEWS, by John Feather, Robert N. Matuozzi, Richard W. Clement, David Finkelstein, Graham Law (pp. 7-10).

This is the Summer 1995 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: Philip A. Metzger. CONTENTS: EDINBURGH CONFERENCE ENDORSES PLAN TO PUBLISH A SHARP YEARBOOK; CALL FOR PAPERS: 1996 CONFERENCE AT THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY; SHARP INAUGURATES INTERNET RESOURCE CENTER ON WORLD WIDE WEB; LIBRARY HISTORY PROJECTS UNDER WAY IN BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES; SHARP TO SPONSOR SESSIONS AT AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION MEETINGS; ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS CREATE NEW MONOGRAPH SERIES IN MEDIA HISTORY; BOOK HISTORY IN BULGARIA: A REPORT FROM THE FIELD; RUSSIAN SCHOLARS TO HOST INTERNATIONAL PRINT CULTURE CONFERENCE; BOOK REVIEWS; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTORS; CONFERENCES; EXHIBITIONS & LECTURES; FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS; RESOURCES; NOTES & QUERIES; NEW PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING. This issue includes the following contributions: BOOK HISTORY IN BULGARIA: A REPORT FROM THE FIELD, by Krassimira Daskalova (pp. 3-5); BOOK REVIEWS, by Robin Alston, Jeffery Triggs (pp. 5-8).

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 Autumn 1997 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: PUBLISHER BACKS THE BOOK; THIRTY YEARS OF MACMILLAN ARCHIVES; IN VISIBLE LANGUAGE; LOOSE GOWNS FOR MACKEREL: MAKING, DISTRIBUTING AND READING BOOKS; SHARP BOOK HISTORY PRIZE; CHARTIER INTERVIEW; CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS; CALL FOR PAPERS; CALLS FOR BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS; MACKENZIE TRUST APPEAL--ERRATA; FELLOWSHIPS; LECTURES AND SEMINARS; SCHOLARLY LIAISONS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: IN VISIBLE LANGUAGE, by Lydia Wever (p. 2); CHARTIER INTERVIEW, by Roger Chartier and Sue Waterman (pp. 4-6); The Sociomaterial Turn: Excavating Modernism; English Short Title Catalogue (CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS) (p. 6); Scenes of Writing 1750-1850; Book, Text and Image: Great Britain, 18th-20th Centuries; Expertise Constructed: Didactic Literature in the British Atlantic World, 1500-1800; American Studies Association; Research Society for Victorian Periodicals; AEJMC Magazine Division; 33rd International Congress on Mediaeval Studies; Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500: Fragments and Their Problems; 16th Seminar on the British Book Trade (CALL FOR PAPERS) (pp. 6-7); Special Issue of Victorian Periodical Review on The Cornhill Magazine; Makers of Western Culture (CALLS FOR BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS) (pp. 7-8); BOOK REVIEWS, by Gillian Fenwick, Simon Stern, Gretchen Galbraith, S.G.F. Spackman, Wayne A. Wiegand, Robert N. Matuozzi, W.A. Kelly, Leon Jackson (pp. 9-14).

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 Summer 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. CONTENTS: TWO HUNDRED ATTEND WASHINGTON CONFERENCE; CALL FOR PAPERS: 1995 SHARP EDINBURGH CONFERENCE; BOOK HISTORY, THE STATE OF PLAY: AN INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT DARNTON; UPDATE: NEW YORK BOOK HISTORY CENTER; TWO NEW BOOK HISTORY SOCIETIES ORGANIZED IN HOLLAND; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTORS; CONFERENCES; EXHIBITIONS & LECTURES; FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS; RECENT PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING. This issue includes the following contributions: BOOK HISTORY, THE STATE OF PLAY: AN INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT DARNTON, by Robert Darnton and Krassimira Daskalova (pp. 2-4).

This is the Autumn 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; Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Chuck Johanningsmeier, Lisa Pon; Bibliographer: Padmini Ray Chaudhury. CONTENTS: SHARP LYON 2004; THE SHARP EDGE; BOOK HISTORY PRIZE; NEW SHARP AWARD; GRADUATE ESSAY PRIZE; SHARP HALIFAX 2005; NEW EXHIBITIONS REVIEWER; BOOK REVIEWS; CONTRIBUTIONS WANTED; CONFERENCE REPORT; BIBLIOGRAPHY. This issue includes the following contributions: SHARP LYON 2004, by Frank de Glas (pp. 1-2), Gary Kelly (pp. 2, 4-5), Bertrum H. MacDonald (p. 5); Rethinking Book History in France (THE SHARP EDGE), by Christine Haynes (pp. 3-4); DeLong Family Endows SHARP Book History Prize (BOOK HISTORY PRIZE) (p. 5); Navigating Texts & Contexts (SHARP HALIFAX 2005) (p. 6); BOOK REVIEWS, by Erin A. Smith, Kathleen Lynch, Christine Pawley, Peter Hoare, Raymond N. MacKenzie (pp. 7-9); Print Culture Research in the 21st Century (CONTRIBUTIONS WANTED) (p. 10); British Book Trade History Conference, University of Edinburgh, 27-29 July 2004 (CONFERENCE REPORT), by Noel Waite (pp. 10-11).

This is the Summer 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; Bibliographer: Padmini Ray Chaudhury. CONTENTS: WORKSHOP REPORT; FELLOWSHIPS; DUNEDIN RARE BOOK SCHOOL; CASBC/ACEHL; SHARPIST HONOURED; BOOK REVIEWS; EXHIBITION REVIEW; CONFERENCE WEBSITE; NEW SCHOLARS PROGRAM; BIBLIOGRAPHY; BIBLIOGRAPHER WANTED. This issue includes the following contributions: The Early Development of Print Culture in China, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, 29-30 April 2005 (WORKSHOP REPORT), by Hilde De Weerdt & Joe Dennis (pp. 1-2); DUNEDIN RARE BOOK SCHOOL, by Shef Rogers, Mark Houlahan, Caitlin Stone, Noel Waite (pp. 3-4); Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture/Association canadienne pour l'étude de l'histoire du livre (CASBC/ACEHL) (p. 4); Ian Roy Willison, CBE (SHARPIST HONOURED), by Terry Belanger (p. 4); BOOK REVIEWS, by Roberta Anderson, Alexandra Gillespie, Gordon B. Neavill, A.S.G. Edwards, Janine Barchas, Noel Waite, Barbara Ryan, Niki Sioki, Paul Arblaster (pp. 5-10); The Art of the Book: A Centennial Tribute to Stanley Marcus, Bibliophile, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 20 April-31 July 2005 (EXHIBITION REVIEW), by Ezra Greenspan (pp. 10-11).