SHARP News

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This is the Winter & Spring 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: CONFERENCE REPORTS; SHARP DONORS 2004-5; SHARP CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 2005; NATALIE ZEMON DAVIS PRIZE; THE SHARP EDGE; CALLS FOR PAPERS; ADVANCE WARNING; BOOK REVIEWS; IN SHORT; FORTHCOMING EVENTS; BHRN REPORT; BIBLIOGRAPHY; THE SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: Hunters and Gatherers: Building Collections of Books, Melbourne, Australia, 16 October 2004 (CONFERENCE REPORTS), by Susan Woodburn (pp. 1, 4-5); Letter from Lyons (THE SHARP EDGE), by Robert Fraser (pp. 3-4); Detecting the Text: Fakes, Forgery, Fraud & Editorial Concerns, University of Toronto, 5-6 November 2004 (CONFERENCE REPORTS), by Eli MacLaren (pp. 5-6); Culture of Lithuanian Book & Public Word: From the Ban of Press to the Pillar of Democracy, Vilnius, Lithuania, 18-20 November 2004 (CONFERENCE REPORTS), by Jyrki Hakapää (pp. 6-7); The History of Books & Intellectual History, Princeton University, 3-5 December 2004 (CONFERENCE REPORTS), by Jonathan Rose (pp. 7-8); Paradise: New Worlds of Books & Readers, Wellington, New Zealand, 27-29 January 2005 (CONFERENCE REPORTS), by Paul Eggert (pp. 8-9); The Third International Conference on the Book, Oxford Brookes University, 11-13 September 2005 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 9); New Word Order: Emerging Histories of the Book, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 30 January-1 February 2006 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 9); Second Australian and New Zealand Rare Book School, Melbourne, Australia, 13-17 February 2006 (ADVANCE WARNING) (p. 9); BOOK REVIEWS, by David Pearson, Margaret Nichols, Randy Silverman, Susanna Ashton, Ian Jackson, M.M. Smith, Alison Ryley, Consuela Metzger, B.F.R. Edwards, Kathryn A. Lowe, Kathleen Kamerick, Gowan Dawson, Marilyn Randall, John R. Turner, Lee N. McLaird, Nicole Greenspan, Valerie Holman, John Edwards, Jeffrey Barr, Sondra Cooney, Lindsay Gledhill (pp. 10-21); 5th Annual Craft, Critique, Culture Conference: Reading Readers/Reading Cultures, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 8-10 April 2005 (FORTHCOMING EVENTS) (p. 21); The Handwritten Worlds of Early Modern England, Folger Institute, Washington, DC, 20 June-29 July 2005 (FORTHCOMING EVENTS) (p. 21); Book History Research Network (BHRN REPORT), by John Hinks (p. 22).