SHARP News

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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).