Book History is the annual journal of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. (SHARP).
Book History is devoted to every aspect of the history of the book, broadly defined as the history of the creation, dissemination, and the reception of script and print. Book History publishes research on 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.
- ISBN10 0271029676
- ISBN13 9780271029672
- Publish Date 27 September 2006
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 January 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pennsylvania State University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 328
- Language English