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

The Four Shakespeare Folios, 1623–2023

Copy, Print, Paper, Type

Edited by Samuel V. Lemley

The Declaration in Script and Print

A Visual History of America’s Founding Document

John Bidwell

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 Mónica 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

Conrad Richter

A Writer’s Life

David R. Johnson

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
The Declaration in Script and Print
John Bidwell
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
The Four Shakespeare Folios, 1623–2023
Edited by Samuel V. Lemley
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 Mónica 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

The Penn State Series in the History of the Book publishes award-winning titles that examine the material history of making and using books. Titles in the series are unified in their pursuit of book history’s enduring question–what is a book? In doing so, they draw on diverse disciplinary perspectives, exploring the material text’s conceptual, visual, and tactile dimensions, including its designs, formats, parts, and interactivity, across different cultures and periods of time.

Questions and submissions:
Series Editor, Julie Park,
or
Maddie Caso, Acquisitions Editor,

Editor:
Julie Park

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