book trade
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Ann-Marie Hansen and Arthur der Weduwen, eds. Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650-1750.
This collection sheds new light on an understudied period of book history and interrogates commonly held assumptions about the Enlightenment’s impact on the European book trade.
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Jane McLeod. Print, Politics and Trade in the French Atlantic: The Labottière Family as Eighteenth-Century Cultural Brokers.
A microhistory of 31 members of a French provincial printing/bookselling family, this book examines the Labottières’ rise to prominence, the works they printed and imported, their business and familial connections…
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Andrew Pettegree. The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading.
Andrew Pettegree’s new study investigates the multifaceted ways that books shape and are shaped by conflicts, as well as how wars have influenced writing, publishing, reading and collecting practices.
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Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires. The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition.
Four years after releasing their novella, The Frankfurt Kabuff, an erotic thriller set at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires (alias Blaire Squiscoll) have published this unique…
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Ex Libris. Designed by Adam P. McIver with art by Jacqui Davis, Adam P. McIver, and Anita Osburn.
The story of Ex Libris is that the Mayor needs to assign a new Grand Librarian, and he’s invited all the town’s book collectors to be considered for the role.…
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Andie Silva, The Brand of Print: Marketing Paratexts in the Early English Book Trade.
*Disclaimer: the author of the book is the current editor of SHARP News, however she did not procure nor edit this review in any way.* In a year where bookcase…
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Introducing Early Editions: Conversations with Emerging Researchers
In the absence of in-person conferences and networking opportunities due to COVID-19, SHARP News is pleased to present a new feature, Early Editions: Conversations with Emerging Researchers. Early Editions pairs…
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Gayle Garlock. Canadian Binders’ Tickets and Booksellers’ Labels
Gayle Garlock. Canadian Binders’ Tickets and Booksellers’ Labels. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2015. 158p., ill., CD. ISBN 9781584563372. US $95.00 (hardback). At first glance, Gayle Garlock’s Canadian Binders’…