Reviews
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Jamie Kamph. Tricks of the Trade: Confessions of a Bookbinder. Kristina Lundblad. Bound to be Modern: Publishers’ Cloth Bindings and the Material Culture of the Book, 1840–1914
Jamie Kamph. Tricks of the Trade: Confessions of a Bookbinder. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2015. viii, 136p., ill. ISBN 9781584563341. US $24.95 (paperback). Kristina Lundblad. Bound to be…
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Jessica DeSpain. Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Reprinting and the Embodied Book
Jessica DeSpain. Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Reprinting and the Embodied Book. Farnham, UK & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. xiv, 210p., ill. ISBN 9781409432005. £60 (hardback). Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Reprinting and the Embodied Book…
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“A True Friend of the Cause”: Lafayette and the Antislavery Movement
“A True Friend of the Cause”: Lafayette and the Antislavery Movement at The Grolier Club, New York City (7 December 2016–4 February 2017).
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Struggle and Story: Canada in Print
Struggle and Story: Canada in Print at The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto (20 March–9 September 2017).
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Paulette M. Rothbauer, Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad, Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie, and Knut Oterholm, eds. Plotting the Reading Experience: Theory, Practice, Politics
Paulette M. Rothbauer, Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad, Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie, and Knut Oterholm, eds. Plotting the Reading Experience: Theory, Practice, Politics. Waterloo, Canada: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2016. ix, 404p. ISBN…
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Janet Neary. Fugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives
Janet Neary. Fugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017. 222p., ill. ISBN 9780823272891. US$ 27.00 (paperback), US$ 95.00 (hardcover). I have written…