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Book History, vol. 10
328 pages | 14 illustrations/1 map | 6 x 9 | 2006
ISBN 978-0-271-02766-1 | cloth: $57.00 sh
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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.
The Secrets of Success: Microinventions and Bookselling in the
Seventeenth-Century Netherlands
Laura Cruz
Thomas Lechford's Plain Dealing: Censorship and Cosmopolitan
Print Culture in the English Atlantic
Jeffrey Glover
Lost Encyclopedias: Before and After the Enlightenment 47
Richard Yeo
Contesting the Page: The Author and the Illustrator in France,
1830-1848
Keri A. Berg
Composing the First Leaves of Grass: How Whitman Used His Early
Notebooks
Matt Miller
"Sir, It Is an Outrage": George Bentley, Robert Black, and the
Condition of the Mid-List Author in Victorian Britain
Solveig C. Robinson
Geneva v. Saint Petersburg: Two Concepts of Literary Property and
the Material Lives of Books in Under Western Eyes
Shafquat Towheed
"What Would Jesus Do?": The Social Gospel and the Literary
Marketplace
Erin A. Smith
Books Are Weapons: Wartime Responses to the Nazi Bookfires
of 1933
Matthew Fishburn
Book History in Premodern China: The State of the Discipline I 253
Cynthia Brokaw
Modern Chinese Print and Publishing Culture: The State of the
Discipline II
Christopher A. Reed
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