SHARP News

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This is the Spring 2003 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: SHARP REGIONAL 2003; NEW SHARP AWARD; BSA MITCHELL PRIZE; THE SHARP EDGE; EXHIBITION; CALL FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCE REPORTS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY. This issue includes the following contributions: Books and Empire: Textual Production, Distribution and Consumption in Colonial and Postcolonial Countries, University of Sydney, Australia, 30 January to 1 February 2003 (SHARP REGIONAL 2003), by Elizabeth Morrison (pp. 1, 5) and Another Viewpoint (SHARP REGIONAL 2003), by Shef Rogers (p. 5); Bibliographical Society of America's Mitchell Prize (BSA MITCHELL PRIZE) (pp. 2, 12); Why Book Arts Matter (THE SHARP EDGE), by Kathleen Walkup (pp. 3-4); New Work in Printing History, New York, 24-25 October 2003 (CALL FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Private Libraries Day, Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury, England, 13 November 2002 (CONFERENCE REPORTS), by Keith Manley (pp. 5-6); Celebration of 200 Years of Newspapers in Australia, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 1 March 2003 (CONFERENCE REPORTS), by Victor Isaacs (pp. 6-7); and BOOK REVIEWS, by Jeffrey Barr, Jane Potter, Harold Love, Tom Berger, Richard B. Sher, Peter R. Frank (pp. 7-12).