SHARP News

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This is the Winter 2006 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, Tina Ray Murray; Bibliographer: Robert N. Matuozzi. CONTENTS: MODERN BOOK HISTORY; HIGHAM ARCHIVE; THE SHARP EDGE; THE BOOK COLLECTOR; PRIZES; BOOK REVIEWS; EDITORS' REPLY; BOOK REVIEWS EDITOR; EXHIBITION REVIEWS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; SHARPIST APPOINTED; FORTHCOMING EVENTS; BIBLIOGRAPHY. This issue includes the following contributions: MODERN BOOK HISTORY, by Patrick Buckridge (p. 1); HIGHAM ARCHIVE, by Noah Mass (pp. 1-2); Literary Replication: James Secord's Victorian Sensation & Models of Book History (THE SHARP EDGE), by Leslie Howsam (pp. 3-4); THE BOOK COLLECTOR, by Nicolas Barker (pp. 4-5); Justin Winsor Prize (PRIZES) (p. 5); Robert A. Colby Prize (PRIZES) (p. 5); BOOK REVIEWS, by Douglas Martin, Andrew Piper, Caroline Sumpter, Ronald Lieberman, Claire Squires, Catherine Dille, Ittai Joseph Tamari, William Hughes, Madison U. Sowell, Diana Kichuk (pp. 6-11); EDITORS' REPLY, by Betty S. Travitsky and Anne Lake Prescott (p. 11); The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 13 September 2005-15 January 2006 (EXHIBITION REVIEWS), by Arlene Shaner (p. 12); Two Exhibitions of the Gutenberg Bible (EXHIBITION REVIEWS), by Elizabeth Ross (pp. 12-13); Education & the Culture of Print in Modern America: Authors, Publishers, Readers, & More Since 1876, Madison, Wisconsin, 29-30 September 2006 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 13-14); Media in the Enlarged Europe: An International Conference on Policy, Industry, Aesthetics & Creativity, University of Luton, UK, 5-6 May 2006 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 14); 1968: Global Resistance/Local Knowledge, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, 3-4 November 2006 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 14); Further Transactions of the Book, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, USA, 9-11 March 2006 (FORTHCOMING EVENTS) (p. 15).