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Book History, vol. 2
280 pages | 7 illustrations | 6 x 9 | 1999
ISBN 978-0-271-02006-8 | cloth: $56.00 sh
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Book History is the annual journal of the Society for the Historyof Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. (SHARP).
Book History is devoted to every aspect of the history of thebook, broadly defined as the history of the creation, dissemination,and the reception of script and print. Book History publishes researchon the social, economic, and cultural history of authorship, editing,printing, the book arts, publishing, the book trade, periodicals,newspapers, ephemera, copyright, censorship, literary agents, libraries,literary criticism, canon formation, literacy, literacy education, reading habits, and reader response.
Ezra Greenspan is Edmund and Louise Kahn Chair in Humanities and Professor of English, Southern Methodist University. Among his many publications is George Palmer Putnam: Representative American Publisher (Penn State Press, 2000).
Jonathan Rose is William R. Kenan Professor of History at Drew University. He was the founding president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. His publications include The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation; The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes; and (with Simon Eliot) A Companion to the History of the Book.