The History of the Book

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This monograph series examines the history of the book, defined broadly to include non-book texts and manuscript studies. Drawing on historicist schools of literary theory, social history, bibliography, and history of libraries, this series offers cross-disciplinary approaches to questions of authorship, readership, and publication.

We welcome proposals and manuscripts on, but not limited to, the following areas:

Authorship; Canon Formation; Censorship; Copyright and Piracy; Coterie production; Cultural, Economic and Social History of Books, Authorship, etc.; Book Arts; Bookbinding and Binders; Book Collectors and their Libraries; Book Design and Designers; Book Trade; Calligraphy; Education; History of Printing and Printing Materials; Illustration; Illustrated Books; Illustration Methods; Illustrators; Paper Trade; Paper Makers; Papermaking; Periodical Press; Legal Aspects of Publishing Libraries; Literary Agents; Literary Criticism; Literacy and Reading Practices; Manuscript Culture and Manuscript Publication; Print Culture; Publishing; Publishing History; Reading; Reader Responses; Relations between Authors, Agents and Publishers; Relations between Authors and their Readers; Technologies of Book Production; Textual Criticism and Editing; Typography and Typographers; Type Design and Typefounding

We are also interested in seeing studies that expand on these categories to include non-book texts as well as studies of manuscripts or manuscript materials.

Initial queries about manuscript submission should be directed to:

Ann R Hawkins
Series Editor
Department of English
Texas Tech University
Lubbock TX 79409
USA
ann.hawkins@ttu.edu

Or

Mark Pollard
Publishing Director
mark@pickeringchatto.co.uk

Editorial board

Ann R Hawkins is at the Texas Tech University. She is editor of Teaching Bibliography, Textual Criticism and Book History, published by Pickering & Chatto.

Published titles

• Conservatism and the Quarterly Review : A Critical Analysis
• Contributors to the Quarterly Review : A History, 1809–25
• Wilkie Collins’s American Tour, 1873–4

Forthcoming titles

• Negotiated Knowledge: Medical Periodical Publishing in Scotland, 1733–1832

  Fiona A Macdonald

  (May 2009)
• Reading in History: New Methodologies from the Anglo-American Tradition

  Editor: Bonnie Gunzenhauser

  (2010)
• William Blake and the Art of Engraving

  Mei-Ying Sung

  (January 2009)

Download leaflet pdfs

• The History of the Book: leaflet pdf

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