SHARP News

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This is the Autumn 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; Book Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Chuck Johanningsmeier; Bibliographer: Padmini Ray Chaudhury. CONTENTS: SHARP ELECTIONS; EDITORIAL NEWS; SHARP AWARDS; ELECTRONIC RESOURCES; NOTES & QUERIES; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; CONFERENCES; AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS; LECTURES AND COURSES; EXHIBITIONS; CONFERENCE REPORTS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARP TREASURER'S REPORT; SHARP END. This issue includes the following contributions: Call for Nominations (SHARP ELECTIONS) (p. 1); New Editor, by James L.W. West III (EDITORIAL NEWS) (p. 1); Sharp Book Award (SHARP AWARDS) (pp. 1-2) Graduate Student Essay Prize (SHARP AWARDS) (p. 2); Book History Online, by Paul van Capelleveen (ELECTRONIC RESOURCES) (pp. 2-3); Children of the Code (NOTES & QUERIES) (p. 3); SHARP 2003, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA, 9-12 July 2003 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 3); New Technologies, Old Texts, DeMontfort University, Leicester, UK, 7-9 July 2003 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Colloquium Sponsored by the European Society for Textual Scholarship, University of Antwerp, 6-7 December 2002 (CONFERENCES) (p. 4); American Historical Association (AHA) SHARP Panel, Chicago, 3 January 2003 (CONFERENCES) (p. 4); Keats-Shelley Association Grants (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 5); American Printing History Association (APHA) Fellowship in Printing History (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 5); The Bibliographical Society Grants and Fellowships for Research (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 5); Centre for the History of the Book University of Edinburgh Fellowships (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (pp. 5-6); History of Reading Special Interest Group Outstanding Thesis/Dissertation of the Year Award (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 6); John Carter Brown Library Research Fellowships 2003-2004 (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 6); 2003 Virginia Historical Society Research Fellowship Program (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 6); The American Printing History Association (APHA) On the Road Events 2002: A Conversation with Jack Stauffacher, The 2002 J. Ben Lieberman Memorial Lecture, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, 24 October 2002 (LECTURES AND COURSES) (p. 6); A New England Wayzgoose, Museum of Printing, North Andover, MA, 27 October 2002 (LECTURES AND COURSES) (p. 7); Toronto Centre for the Book 2002-2003 Program (LECTURES AND COURSES) (p. 7); Edinburgh Book History Seminar Programme 2002-2003 (LECTURES AND COURSES) (p. 7); Tyndale's Testament, Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp, Present-1 December 2002 (EXHIBITIONS) (p. 7); Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera and Books, Grolier Club, New York, NY, Present-23 November 2002 (EXHIBITIONS) (p. 7); Thys Boke is Myne, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 13 November 2002-1 March 2003 (EXHIBITIONS) (p. 7); SHARP Pre-Conference National Book History Projects, by James L.W. West III (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 7-8); SHARP's 10th Conference (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (p. 8); BOOK REVIEWS, Wendy Moffat, Mary Helen McMurran, Robert J. Wilson, Les Belikian, Judith Hawley, Paul Morgan, Craig S. Abbott, Matthew Woodcock, Lotte Hellinga, Elisabeth-Christine Muelsch (pp. 8-14).