SHARP Web

"The goal in the next decade or so should be to prepare students to be discerning users of, and contributors to, all media. An excellent starting point on the Web is the site of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing." (Edward Tenner, Chronicle of Higher Education, March 9, 2007)

About SHARP: The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing
Join SHARP online! Becoming a member has never been easier, or brought so many benefits. Already a member? Manage your membership online.
SHARP Copenhagen : "Published Words - Published Pages," Sept. 10-11, 2008, call for papers. Print out a SHARP flyer (in English or in French) for your library or department bulletin board
The SHARP Book Prize: a prestigious annual award for best work in book history
SHARP Award for Distinguished Achievement: nominations now being accepted for 2008
SHARP-L: The Electronic Conference of Book Historians, with searchable archives
Book History: SHARP's award-winning journal
SHARP News: SHARP's lively quarterly newsletter Publishers' Records || Research Resources || Projects and Societies || Exhibits || Teaching || Programs || Announcements || Series|| Journals
Publishers' Records: Finding Lists and Special Collections: Publishers' Archives: Weedon List (19th c., UK); Publishers' Archives: Albinski List (19th & 20th c., US); Canadian Publishers' Records Database; Accessions to UK Repositories: 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002. 2003, 2004, 2005; Reading University Library collections (19th & 20th c., UK); Scottish Book Trade Archive Inventory (; The John Murray Archive, National Library of Scotland; Princeton University Library; The John Rylands University Library; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Am. & Brit.); Lilly Library, Indiana University; Guide to Sale Catalogues in the British Library; The Weedon Guide to Research in Victorian Publishing Records

Research Resources Online
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Research Resources Online: Book History Online: An International Bibliography (Koninklijke Bibliotheek); Bibliopolis: History of the Printed Book in the Netherlands; British Book Trade Index (BBTI); National Archives (UK) Research Guide to Stationers' Hall Copyright Records; National Archives (UK) Research Guide to Newspapers and the Press; NYPL Research Guide for Book History (bibliography); Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945; Bibliography for Western Book History (Richard Clement, University of Kansas); "Histories of U.S. Publishers" and "Index of Modern Paperback Publishers" (Russell Barnes, Hyde Park Books, Idaho); Macmillan News Archive, 1962-91; Private Libraries in Renaissance England; HENRIK: Books and their Owners in Finland to 1809 (Finnish Lit. Soc. & Project Hendrik); Hibolire: The Nordic-Baltic-Russian Network on the History of Books, Libraries and Reading; Book Sales Catalogues of the Dutch Republic, 1599-1800 (Gruys and de Kooker); Library History Database: British Isles to 1850 (Robin Alston); Database of American Libraries before 1876 (Davies Project, Princeton); Scottish Book Trade Index, National Library of Scotland; American Library Association archives (University of Illinois); The Atlas of Early Printing (U. of Iowa Libraries); Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815-1930 (University of Alabama); Database of Bookbindings (British Library); Waddleton Chronology of Colour Printed Illustrations (Norman Waddleton); Database of Mid-Victorian Wood-Engraved Illustrations (Cardiff University); Historybooks: British Historians & the Book 1850-1950 (Leslie Howsam); At the Circulating Library: A Database of Three-Volume Victorian Fiction (Troy Bassett); British Fiction, 1800-29: A Database of Production, Circulation & Reception (Cardiff University); 19th-c. American Children's Book Trade Directory (American Antiquarian Society); Bibliography of British Books for Children & Adolescents 1470-1770 (Ruth Bottigheimer, SUNY); The Dicey and Marshall Catalogue (London, 1764) (R. C. Simmons); Recent Studies of 18th-c. Book Culture (James E. May); Women Printers and Booksellers: A Checklist of Sources (Laura Sue Fuderer); The Quarterly Review Archive (Jonathan Cutmore); Obscure Contributors to 19th-century Periodicals; The Curran Index to Wellesley Revisions (Victorian periodicals); Index to reviews and reviewers in the Athenaeum: 1830-70 and 1872-86; Internet Library of Early Journals; The Spectator Project: A Hypermedia Research Archive of 18th-c. Periodicals; "The Image of France," (database of 19th c. prints); The Edmonton Collection of Street Literature (Gary Kelly, Alberta); The Broadsides Collection (John Hay Library, Brown); Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts (KB and Museum Meermano); The Chapbook Collection (Lilly Library, Indiana); The Digital Scriptorium, database (UC Berkeley); Biblia Sacra bibliography of bibles printed in the Netherlands and Belgium; 19th-c. Books on Publishing and the Book Trade (searchable catalogue); British Library Newspaper Archives at Colindale, a brief guide

Book History Projects and Scholarly Societies
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Book History Projects and Scholarly Societies: Research Society for Victorian Periodicals; British Periodicals at Minnesota: The Early 19th Century; Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (NCSE); Research Society for American Periodicals; American Journalism Historians Association; J-HISTORY, journalism history discussion; The American Newspaper Repository (Nicholson Baker. Repository now moved to Duke.); Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 (Duke University); International Association of Paper Historians; American Museum of Papermaking
British Association of Paper Historians

Center for the Book, Library of Congress

American Printing History Association Linotype & Linotipisti (Giorgio Coraglia); Typefoundry: Documents for the History of Types and Letterforms (James Mosley); Early Book Society; "Book History and Literacies at Minnesota" (Michael Hancher); Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America; Program in the History of the Book in American Culture, American Antiquarian Society; University of Iowa Center for the Book; Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies; Centre for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh; Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History (Ian Maxted); Scottish Centre for the Book, Napier University; Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records; Scottish Book Trade Index, National Library of Scotland; History of the Book in Scotland; History of the Irish Book Project; The National Print Museum of Ireland; Making Books, Shaping Readers, University College Cork; The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220 (Universities of Leeds and Leicester); Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies, Institute of English Studies, U of London; Centre for Writing, Publishing, and Reading History, University of Reading; Print Culture in New Zealand: The Otago Project; History of the Book in Canada; History of the Book in Australia; Society for Book Research in Austria; Chronology of French publishing in the 20th century (Pascal Fouch); Institut d'histoire du livre, Lyons; Pecia: le manuscrit m�di�val (Jean-Luc Deuffic); Leiden Centre for the Book; Il libro antico (Angela Nuovo, Aldo Coletto e Graziano Ruffini); Bibliotheca Eruditionis , history of books and reading in Hungary; Gutenberg Institute for the History of the Book (Mainz, Germany); Bibliographical Society of America; Bibliographical Society (Great Britain); Bibliographical Society of Canada; Bibliographical Society, University of Virginia; Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand; Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research (Cardiff University); The Grolier Club; Library History Group (Great Britain); Historic Libraries Forum (UK); IFLA Round Table on Library History; Library History Roundtable (ALA; with extensive online bibliographies); Archives of the American Library Association; Libraries Today (Canadian library history; Lorne Bruce); St Bride Printing Library, London; Early Printed Books Project, University of Oxford; HoBo (formerly "History of the Book@Oxford"), book history events in the UK; Textual Studies, 1500-1800 (Kevin Curran); Oxford Bibliographical Society; The Bookdealer Interviews (Sheila Markham); Book Trade History Group (UK); Cambridge Project for the Book Trust; Stationers' Hall, London; Printing Historical Collections, London College of Printing; Printing Historical Society, London; The London Book Trades Project: Researching 18th-c. London Book Production; The King's Printer Project: Politics, Power and the Printed Word in the Reign of James I; History of Reading Special Interest Group (HRSIG) (discusion list); Recent and Current ASECS/SHARP Projects in 18th-c. print culture; Urban Manuscripts Project (Ctr. for Medieval Studies, U. of York); Traditions of the Book, 1300-1600 (Queens University, Belfast); Research Centre for Illuminated Manuscripts; 19th-Century Schoolbooks: A Demonstration Project (Digital Research Library); American Historical Print Collectors Society; International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media; Association for the Recording and Reconstruction of Historical Bookbindings; Directory of Cartoon Research Libraries (Randall Scott, MSU Libraries); Melbourne Museum of Printing; William Morris Society; Museu Virtual da Imprensa (Porto, Portugal); "Biases of the Ear and Eye" Daniel Chandler; "The World of the Renaissance Print Shop," (Merry Wiesner-Hanks, U. Wisc.-Milwaukee); "Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press in a Changing World," (Jones and Mukerji, UCSD); Book History Timetable (Cremers/Knops)

Online Exhibits
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Online Exhibits: The Gutenberg Bible at the Ransom Center; The Duke Papyrus Archive; Images of Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece; Illuminated Manuscripts at the Bodleian; A Medieval Blockbook (Marianne Hansen); Incunabula: The Dawn of Western Printing (National Diet Library, Japan); The Infancy of Printing (Golda Meir Library); The Legacy of Aldus Manutius and His Press; American Museum of Papermaking; Graphic Design: Typography (Jeffrey Barr, University of South Florida Libraries); BibliOdyssey; Cultural Readings: Colonization & Print in the Americas (Penn); "Nineteenth-Century American Children & What They Read" (Pat Pflieger); "Nineteenth-Century Girls' Series" (Deidre Johnson); Typographical Collections, University of Amsterdam Library; Books Go to War: Armed Services Editions in WWII (Book Arts Press); Modern Fine Printing, 19th and 20th c. (William S. Peterson); "The Word on the Street," broadsides in the collection of the National Library of Scotland; Concise History of the British Newspaper since 1620; "Unseen Hands: Women Printers, Binders, & Book Designers" (Rebecca W. Davidson, Princeton University Library); Public Libraries in the U.S., Images from the 1876 Report (Charles Seavey, U. of Missouri-Columbia); Color Printing in the 19th Century (U. of Delaware); Finales de libro: Exposici? de colofones (University of Salamanca); The Illustrated Book, 1780-1830 (Univ. of Pennsylvania); The Keepsake for 1829 (Romantic Circles); Forget Me Not: A Hypertextual Archive (Katherine Harris); The Wonderful World of Pop-Up and Movable Books, 1811-1996 (U. of North Texas); A History of Wood Engraving (University of North Texas Libraries); Letterpress Museum, Briar Press; Women Printers in Great Britain, 1475-1700 (Lynne Fors, UIUC); PUNCH: A History Project (Anthony Wohl and students, Vassar); Victorian Periodicals and the Empire; "Plants in Print: The Age of Botanical Discovery," Chicago Botanic Garden; Bodleian Library: A Brief History; The Mosher Press (Millersville University); The History of Chinese Bookbinding (Colin Chinnery, British Library); Printing: Renaissance and Reformation (Thomas Cooper Library , Univ. of SC); Cary Graphic Arts Collection, library of printing history, Rochester Institute of Technology; Tiny Tomes: The Charlotte M. Smith Collection of Miniature Books (Iowa); Is it a Book? (Karen Drayne, Barbara Davison, Emily-Jane Dawson, U. Maryland); Bibliotheca Canadiana: A Historical Survey of Canadian Bibliography (McGill University Library)

Teaching Resources in the History of Print Culture
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Teaching Resources in the History of Print Culture: "The Book" (John Bodel, Rutgers); "History of the Book" (Erik Delfino, Catholic University); "History of Books and Printing, 1800-1950," undergraduate syllabus (Daniel Traister); "Topics in the History of Books and Printing, 1400-1800," graduate seminar (Ryan and Traister, UPenn); "History of the Book, 1450 to the Present" (Joel Silver, Indiana); "Theoretical Approaches to Print Culture"<.a> (Leith Davis, Simon Fraser); "Popular Fictions: Bestsellers from the Greeks to Grisham," (Ryan and Traister, UPenn); "History of the Book" (Kate Martinson, Luther College); "History of the Book," [.pdf file] (Tamara Goeglein, Franklin & Marshall College); "History of the Book," (William C. Robinson, U. of Tennessee, Knoxville); "History of the Book" (Bertrum MacDonald); "History of Books and Libraries" (Drew Wertheimer, Hawaii); "The Culture of the Book," (Nancy Mace, U.S. Naval Academy); "Technology of the Book" and web ring (Dino Felluga, Purdue University); "Cultures of the Book," bibliography and syllabus (James O'Donnell, Univ. of Pennsylvania); "The History of the Book and Its Forms," (Deborah McGrady, Tulane University); "Technologies of the Word (Robert M. Fowler, Baldwin-Wallace College); "Survey of Publishing, Text to Hypertext" (James C. Morrison, Harvard University); "History of the Book in the Industrial Age" (Aileen Fyfe, National University of ireland, Galway); "History of the Book in Britain and Europe" (Jonathan Rose); "History of the Book in France, from the Ancien Regime to the Present" (Willa Silverman, Penn State University); "Readers and Reading in History" (David Nord, Indiana University); "Print and American Culture," (William Wortman, Miami University); "Print, Literacy & Power in America to 1900," (Mary Kay Duggan, U.C., Berkeley); "History of Reading" (David Pearson and Nell Duke, Michigan State University); "History of Libraries and Print Culture" (Fiona Black, University of South Florida); "The Profession of Authorship in 19th-Century America," (Sherry J. Linkon, Youngstown State Univ.); "The Journalist as Novelist: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America," (Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Texas); "American Literary Circles: The Atlantic Monthly Circle" (Sherry J. Linkon, YSU); "American Literary Genres: The Bestseller" (Sherry J. Linkon, YSU); "Bestsellers in America, 1790 to the Present" (Paul Gutjahr, Indiana University); "Street Ballads" (Michael Hancher, University of Minnesota); Knowledge, Literacy, and the Politics of Information in Early Modern England" (Sabrina Baron, University of Maryland); "Medieval Orality & Literacy" (Gadi Algazi, Tel Aviv); "Shakespeare and the Material Book" (Douglas A. Brooks, Texas A&M); "Victorian Studies: Illustrated Periodicals," syllabus, bibliography (Michael Hancher, Univ. of Minnesota); "Authorship, Collaboration, and Literary Property" (Michael Gamer, U. Penn); "Authorship, Publishing, and the Production of Romantic Poetry, 1785-1800" (Michael Gamer, U. Penn); "The History of Publishing in Britain" (Caroline Davis, Oxford Brookes University); "Anglo-Scottish Book Culture, 1700-2007" (Adam Budd, University of Edinburgh); "Transitions in Media: Manuscript to Print, 1450; Print to Digital, Today," (Mary Kay Duggan, Berkeley); "The Book as Technology and Trope," (Terry Harpold, U. of Florida); "The Rhetorics of Print/Digital Culture" (Dickie Selfe and Bill Powers, Michigan Tech); "Literacy and Technology" (Bob Whipple, Creighton Univ.)

Programs in Book History
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Programs in Book History: Postgraduate Study in Material Cultures and the History of the Book, CHB, University of Edinburgh; Graduate Program in Book History and Print Culture, University of Toronto; Book and Media Studies undergraduate program, University of St. Michael's College, U. of Toronto; Master's Programme: 'Text and Book', University of Birmingham; MA in Literature and Publishing National University of Ireland at Galway; Ph.D. minor in Print Culture History, CHPCM, University of Wisconsin; MA Program in Modern History and Literature: Book History Concentration, Drew University; MA in the History of the Book Institute of English Studies, University of London; Annual summer workshop in the history of books and printing, Cushing Memorial Library, Texas A&M University; Rare Book School at the University of Virginia; Rare Book and Special Collections concentration Palmer School; Book History Program, Erlangen University

Rare Book Summer School, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; "Book and Byte: Book and Digital Media Studies," Master's Programme at Leiden University; Book and Manuscript Studies, MA Programme at University of Amsterdam; Traditional graduate degree programs with strong "book studies" components, Center for the Book, University of Iowa; MA in Publishing, with book history modules Oxford Brookes University; Planned postgraduate program in History of Text Technologies Florida State University

Notices and Calls for Papers
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Notices and Calls for Papers: SHARP 2008: "Teaching and Text," the 16th annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, Oxford Brookes University, June 24-28, 2008. Registration is now open.; "Characters of the Press", Research Society for Victorian Periodicals conference, London, July 4-5, 2008; "Published Words - Published Pages": SHARP Copenhagen, Sept. 10-11, 2008, call for papers; "Reading After Empire: Local, Global and Diaspora Audiences", September 3-5, 2008, University of Stirling, Scotland, call for papers; "Evidence of Reading, Reading the Evidence" conference, Institute of English Studies, London, July 21-23, 2008, call for papers; Reading Experience Database project, charting the history of reading in Britain, 1450-1945. Now live, still seeks contributors.

Publishers' Series in Book History
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Publishers' Series in Book History: History of the Book (Pickering and Chatto, London); Series on Palaeography, Manuscript Studies and Book History (Brepols Publishers, Belgium); Studies in the History of MSS and Printed Books (EBS); British Library Studies in the History of the Book (British Library); Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History (Devon County Council, England); Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book (University of Massachusetts Press); Material Texts (Penn Press); Penn State Series in the History of the Book (Penn State Press); Studies in Book and Print Culture (University of Toronto Press)

Selected Journals
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Selected Journals: American Periodicals; Bibliologia : An International Journal of Bibliography, Library Science, History of Typography and the Book; The Book Collector; Book History, SHARP's journal seeks submissions; Cardiff Corvey; Convergence: A Journal of Research into New Media; Discipline del libro; Fine Books & Collections (formerly OP); Journal of the Early Book Society; Journal of the Printing Historical Society; Journalism History; Libraries and the Cultural Record; The Library; The Library Quarterly; Library History; Media History; Media History Monographs, online journal; Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America; Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada (now freely available online in full text); Paradigm: Journal of the Textbook Colloquium; Printing History, journal of the APHA; Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society; Publishing History (with article index); Quadrat; Rare Book Review; Studies in Bibliography; Victorian Periodicals Review

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SHARP Web

About SHARP: The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing

Join SHARP online! Becoming a member has never been easier, or brought so many benefits. Already a member? Manage your membership online.

SHARP 2008: "Teaching and Text," June 24-28, 2008 in Oxford, England. Registration is now open! Please plan to join us.

SHARP Copenhagen : "Published Words - Published Pages," Sept. 10-11, 2008, call for papers.

Print out a SHARP flyer (in English or in French) for your library or department bulletin board

SHARP Copenhagen : "Published Words - Published Pages," Sept. 10-11, 2008, call for papers.

The SHARP Book Prize: a prestigious annual award for best work in book history

SHARP Award for Distinguished Achievement: nominations now being accepted for 2008

SHARP-L: The Electronic Conference of Book Historians, with searchable archives

Book History: SHARP's award-winning journal

SHARP News: SHARP's lively quarterly newsletter
Publishers' Records || Research Resources || Projects and Societies || Exhibits || Teaching || Programs || Announcements || Series|| Journals

Publishers' Records: Finding Lists and Special Collections

Research Resources Online

Book History Projects and Scholarly Societies

Online Exhibits

Teaching Resources in the History of Print Culture

Programs in Book History

Notices and Calls for Papers

Publishers' Series in Book History

Selected Journals

SHARP Web

About SHARP: The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing

Join SHARP online! Becoming a member has never been easier, or brought so many benefits. Already a member? Manage your membership online.

SHARP 2008: "Teaching and Text," June 24-28, 2008 in Oxford, England. Registration is now open! Please plan to join us.

SHARP Copenhagen: "Published Words - Published Pages," Sept. 10-11, 2008, call for papers. Print out a SHARP flyer (in English or in French) for your library or department bulletin board

SHARP Copenhagen: "Published Words - Published Pages," Sept. 10-11, 2008, call for papers.

The SHARP Book Prize: a prestigious annual award for best work in book history

SHARP Award for Distinguished Achievement: nominations now being accepted for 2008

SHARP-L: The Electronic Conference of Book Historians, with searchable archives

Book History: SHARP's award-winning journal

SHARP News: SHARP's lively quarterly newsletter Publishers' Records || Research Resources || Projects and Societies || Exhibits || Teaching || Programs || Announcements || Series|| Journals

Publishers' Records: Finding Lists and Special Collections

Research Resources Online

Book History Projects and Scholarly Societies

Online Exhibits

Teaching Resources in the History of Print Culture

Programs in Book History

Notices and Calls for Papers

Publishers' Series in Book History

Selected Journals

SHARP Copenhagen : "Published Words - Published Pages," Sept. 10-11, 2008, call for papers.

Print out a SHARP flyer (in English or in French) for your library or department bulletin board

SHARP Copenhagen : "Published Words - Published Pages," Sept. 10-11, 2008, call for papers.

SHARP News: SHARP's lively quarterly newsletter
Publishers' Records || Research Resources || Projects and Societies || Exhibits || Teaching || Programs || Announcements || Series|| Journals