Penn State Series in the History of the Book

New and Bestselling Books

Publishing Plates

Stereotyping and Electrotyping in Nineteenth-Century US Print Culture

Jeffrey M. Makala

Notes on Footnotes

Annotating Eighteenth-Century Literature

Edited by Melvyn New and Anthony W. Lee

One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s “Ulysses”

Edited by Colm Tóibín, with forewords by Michael D. Higgins and Colin B. Bailey

The Politics of the Book

A Study on the Materiality of Ideas

Filipe Carreira da Silva and Monica Brito Vieira

An Empire of Print

The New York Publishing Trade in the Early American Republic

Steven Carl Smith

Henry James and American Painting

Colm Tóibín, Marc Simpson, and Declan Kiely

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wall-paper” and the History of Its Publication and Reception

A Critical Edition and Documentary Casebook

Edited by Julie Bates Dock

The Rise of Sinclair Lewis, 1920–1930

James M. Hutchisson

Imaging the Early Medieval Bible

Edited by John Williams

Publisher to the Decadents

Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley, Wilde, and Dowson

James G. Nelson

As Ever Yours
Edited by Rodger L. Tarr
A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820
Compiled by Roger E. Stoddard, and Edited by David R. Whitesell
Biography of a Book
Paul Eggert
Books and Religious Devotion
Allan F. Westphall
Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England
Randy Robertson
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wall-paper” and the History of Its Publication and Reception
Edited by Julie Bates Dock
Conrad Richter
David R. Johnson
An Empire of Print
Steven Carl Smith
Everyday Life in the German Book Trade
Pamela E. Selwyn
The First White House Library
Edited by Catherine M. Parisian
George Palmer Putnam
Ezra Greenspan
Graphic Passion
John Bidwell
Henry James and American Painting
Colm Tóibín, Marc Simpson, and Declan Kiely
The House of Blackwood
David Finkelstein
How Books Came to America
John Hruschka

Imaging the Early Medieval Bible
Edited by John Williams
The Impossible Craft
Scott Donaldson
Into Print
Edited by Charles Walton
Licensing Loyalty
Jane McLeod
Lydia Bailey
Karen Nipps
Making the Archives Talk
James L. W. West III
Notes on Footnotes
Edited by Melvyn New and Anthony W. Lee
One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s “Ulysses”
Edited by Colm Tóibín, with forewords by Michael D. Higgins and Colin B. Bailey
The Politics of the Book
Filipe Carreira da Silva and Monica Brito Vieira
Publisher to the Decadents
James G. Nelson
Publishing Plates
Jeffrey M. Makala
The Rise of Sinclair Lewis, 1920–1930
James M. Hutchisson
Textuality and Knowledge
Peter Shillingsburg
William Parks
A. Franklin Parks

About this Series

This series publishes books that employ a mixture of approaches: historical, archival, biographical, critical, sociological, and economic. Topics include professional authorship and the literary marketplace, the history of reading and book distribution, book-trade studies and publishing-house histories, and examinations of copyright and literary property.

Editor:
James L. W. West III

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