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    • Issue 10 (2024): Armando Petrucci and Franca Nardelli: Shedding Light on Italian Book History
      • Armando Petrucci and Franca Nardelli: Shedding Light on Italian Book History
      • The Origins of the Modern Book: Desk Books, Pouch Books, and Paperbacks
      • Copyists and Manuscript Books after the Rise of Printing
      • Subaltern Print Production in Unified Italy: Typologies, Functions, Circulation
      • The Image of the Book: A Method and Three Examples
      • The Image and the Letter: “Talking” Lettrines in Venetian and Italian Typography
      • Functions of Binding and Shelving Practices
    • Issue 9 (2023): Book History in the Persianate World from the Samanid Dynasty to the Present Day
      • Introduction: Book History in the Persianate World from the Samanid Dynasty to the Present Day
      • Libraries and Librarianship in Iran During the Samanid Dynasty, 819-999 CE / 204-389 AH
      • The Art of Bookbinding in Fifteenth-Century Khorasan
      • The Development of Persian Libraries under Timurid Patronage
      • The Transfer of Typographic Printing Technology to Iran in the Early Qajar Period (1782-1861)
      • Translation Status, Actors and Dimensions in the Qajar Era (1789-1925)
      • Romantic Novels in Daily Life: The Experience of Female Readers
      • Festival of Reading Clubs for Children: New Adventures in Social Reading
    • Issue 8 (2022) 1922 in Soviet Ukrainian Book Studies / Soviet Russian Book Studies from the 1920s
      • Introduction to Part I: 1922 in Soviet Ukrainian Book Studies
      • An Immediate Task of Historical-Literary Scholarship: Studying the History of the Reader
      • From the History of Ukrainian Book Studies: On the Centenary of the Ukrainian Research Institute of Book Studies
      • Introduction to Part II: Soviet Russian Book Studies from the 1920s
      • Literature and the Writer
      • Literary Domesticity
      • Illustrations
      • List of Names
    • Issue 7 (2021) Across the Ibero-Atlantic: Written Culture and the Circulation of Ideas in the Portuguese and Spanish Worlds
      • Introduction: Across the Ibero-Atlantic: Written Culture and the Circulation of Ideas in the Portuguese and Spanish Worlds
      • The Enlightenment and Colonial Projects in Angola (1797-1802)
      • Publishing Projects and the Transatlantic Book Trade between Portugal and Brazil: Circulation and Asymmetry, 1930-1960
      • The Atlantic Space and Global Civilization: The History and Development of the Book in Latin America
      • Ibero-America in Writing
      • Manuscript Cultures in the Print Era: The New Kingdom of Granada in the Early Seventeenth Century
      • Not Just Books. Ephemeral Papers in Spanish Society in the Early Modern Period
      • Travelling Journalists and Textual Migrations in Buenos Aires’ La Nueva España Newspaper: María L. Carnelli and Raúl G. Tuñón, 1937
      • Much More than a Metaphor: Translation in Anthropology
    • Issue 6 (2020) Publishing for Daily Life in Early Modern East Asia
      • Introduction: Publishing for Daily Life in Early Modern East Asia
      • Lifestyles, Knowledge, and Cultural Products: Fujian Daily-Use Encyclopedias of the Late-Ming Dynasty and Their Painting and Calligraphy Sections
      • Imagined Imperial Tribute: Descriptions of Foreign Lands in the “Barbarians” Sections of Late-Ming Dynasty Daily-use Encyclopedias
      • The Transmission of Wanbao quanshu to Japan in the Early Edo Period: Their Role in the Compilation of Educational Texts
      • The Transmission and Translation of the Wanbao quanshu in Chosŏn Korea
    • Issue 5 (2019) Ottoman Print Culture
    • Issue 4 (2018) Emerging Histories of the Book
    • Issue 3 (2017) Jean-Yves Mollier – The History of Modern French Publishing
    • Issue 2 (2016) Eastern Europe and the Baltic States
    • Issue 1 (2015) Varia

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