A Companion to the History of the Book (2 page)

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A companion to the history of the book / edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose,

p. cm.—(Blackwell companions to literature and culture; 48)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4051-9278-1 (pbk.: alk. paper)—ISBN 978-1-4051-2765-3 (hardback : alk. paper)

1. Books—History. 2. Printing—History. 3- Book industries and trade—History. I. Eliot,

Simon. II. Rose, Jonathan, 1952–

Z4.C73 2007

002.09—dc22

2006102104

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Notes on Contributors

Michael Albin
was an acquisition specialist for Islamic books, most recently as Director of the Library of Congress office in Cairo, Egypt. He is now an independent scholar and teacher of Arabic.

Martin Andrews
is a senior lecturer in the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, where he teaches the history of printing. He is Deputy Director of the Centre for Ephemera Studies at the university and curator of the department’s extensive lettering and printing collections. He is also the author of
The Life and Work of Robert Gibbings
(2003).

Rob Banham
is a lecturer in the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, where he teaches the history of graphic communication and practical design. He is Chairman of the Friends of St. Bride Library, and edits and designs
The Ephemerist,
the journal of the Ephemera Society.

Megan L. Benton
is a fellow of the Humanities Faculty at Pacific Lutheran University. She is the author of
Beauty and the Book: Fine Editions and Cultural Distinction in America
(2000), and co-editor of
Illuminating Letters: Typography and Literary Interpretation
(2001).

Michelle P. Brown,
formerly Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library, is Professor of Medieval Manuscript Studies at the Institute of English Studies in the School of Advanced Studies, University of London. She is also a lay canon and member of the chapter of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. Her publications include
A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600
(1990),
The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe
(2003),
Painted Labyrinth: The World of the Lindisfarne Gospels
(2004), and
The World of the Luttrell Psalter
(2006).

Marie-Françoise Cachiri
is Professor Emerita of British Literature and Literary Translation at the University of Paris
VII.
Her current research and publications concern British publishing in the Victorian period, and she is in charge of a research group working on various aspects of book history in the English-speaking world. She has recently co-edited a special issue of the
Cahiers Charles V
entitled
Histoire(s) de livres
with a preface by Roger Chartier.

Hortensia Calvo
has a PhD in Spanish from Yale University (1990) and is currently Doris Stone Director of the Latin American Library at Tulane University. She has published essays on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish-American chronicles and on the historiography of the early Spanish-American book.

Charles Chadwyck-Healey
received an honors degree from Oxford University. In 1973, he founded the Chadwyck-Healey publishing group, which published reprints, microforms, CD-ROMs, and online via the Internet in the humanities and social sciences for libraries all over the world. There were Chadwyck-Healey companies in the United Kingdom, the United States, France, and Spain, and the company was the largest publisher of German literature in electronic form. Now retired, he is a director of openDemocracy.net, writes and takes photographs, and invests in start-up companies, mainly in IT and biotech.

M. T. Clanchy
is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. He is the author of
From Memory to Written Record: England 1066–1307
(2nd edn., 1993) and
Abelard: A Medieval Life
(1997).

Stephen Colclough
is a lecturer in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature at the School of English, University of Wales, Bangor. He has published widely on the history of reading and text dissemination and is currently completing a monograph entitled

Consuming Texts: Readers and Reading Communities, 1695–1870.

Patricia Crain
is Associate Professor of English at New York University. She is the author of
The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from The New England Primer to The Scarlet Letter
(2000).

J. S. Edgren
received his PhD in Sinology from the University of Stockholm. After employment at the Royal Library (National Library of Sweden) in Stockholm, he was active in the antiquarian book trade. Since 1991, he has served as Editorial Director of the Chinese Rare Books Project, an online international union catalogue of Chinese rare books, based at Princeton University. He is writing a book on the history of the book in China.

Simon Eliot
is Professor of the History of the Book in the Institute of English Studies, part of the School of Advanced Study in the University of London, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies. He is General Editor of the new multivolume
History of Oxford University Press
and editor of the journal
Publishing History.
His publications include
Some Patterns and Trends in British Publishing, 1800–1919
(1994) and
Literary Cultures and the Material Book
(2007). He was president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing between 1997 and 2001.

John Feather
has been Professor of Library and Information Studies at Loughborough University since 1987. He was educated at Oxford, and was the first Munby Fellow in Bibliography at Cambridge. His writings on book history include
The Provincial Book Trade in Eighteenth-century England
(1985),
Publishing, Piracy and Politics: An Historical Study of Copyright in Britain
(1994), and
A History of British Publishing
(rev. edn., 2006), as well as many articles in
Publishing History
and other journals.

David Finkelstein
is Research Professor of Media and Print Culture at Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh. His publications include
The House of Blackwood: Author–Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era
(2002), and the co-authored
An Introduction to Book History
(2005). He has co-edited
The Nineteenth-century Media and the Construction of Identities
(2000),
The Book History Reader
(rev. edn., 2006), and
The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, 1880–2000
(2007).

David Greetham
is Distinguished Professor of English, Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, and Medieval Studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He was founder and past president of the interdisciplinary Society for Textual Scholarship and co-editor of its journal,
Text.
He is the author of
Textual Scholarship: An Introduction
(1994),
Textual Transgressions
(1998),
Theories of the Text
(1999), and other works, and wrote the most recent essay on “Textual Scholarship” for the MLA’s
Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Literatures and Languages.
He is currently working on copyright theory and practice as it affects textual studies.

Robert A. Gross
holds the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair of Early American History at the University of Connecticut. A social and cultural historian focusing on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America, he is the author of
Books and Libraries in Thoreau’s Concord
(1988) and
The Minutemen and their World
(25th anniversary edn. 2001). He is a member of the general editorial board of A
History of the Book in America,
sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society, and co-editor with Mary Kelley of the second volume in the series,
An Extensive Republic: Books, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790–1840
(forthcoming).

Deana Heath
is a lecturer in South Asian and World History at Trinity College Dublin. She has published a number of articles on censorship, sexuality, and governmentality in India, Australia, and Britain, and is currently working on a book on the governmentalization of the obscene in all three contexts.

Lotte Hellinga
was until 1995 a deputy keeper at the British Library. Her publications include
The Fifteenth-century Printing Types of the Low Countries
(1966, jointly with her late husband Wytze Hellinga),
Caxton in Focus
(1982), and, most recently, the “England” volume of the
Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century now in the British Museum
(2007). She edited jointly with J. B. Trapp,
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain,
volume 3 (1999).

T. H. Howard-Hill,
who is editor of the
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America,
has published nine volumes of the
Index to British Literary Bibliography
(1969–99) and contributed to the forthcoming Edinburgh
History of the Book in Scotland.
His multi-volume
The British Book Trade, 1475–1890: A Bibliography
is expected to be published by the British Library in 2007.

Peter Kornicki
is Professor of Japanese History and Bibliography at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of
The Book in Japan: A Cultural History from the Beginnings to the Nineteenth Century
(1998),
Catalogue of the Early Japanese Books in the Russian State Library, 2
vols. (1999, 2004), and
The Iwakura Embassy, 1871–3,
vol. 4 (2002). He set up and maintains the bilingual Union Catalogue of Early Japanese Books in Europe website, and is currently working on vernacularization and publishing for women in seventeenth-century Japan.

Beth Luey
is Director Emerita of the Scholarly Publishing Program at Arizona State University, and an editorial consultant in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. She is the author of several books, including
Handbook for Academic Authors
(4th edn., 2002) and
Revising your Dissertation
(2004). She has served as president of the Association for Documentary Editing and of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing.

Paul Luna
is Professor of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, where he teaches the practice, theory, and history of the subject. His research centers on the design of complex texts such as dictionaries. While design manager for Oxford University Press, he designed the second edition of the
Oxford English Dictionary,
the
Revised English Bible,
and many trade series. He has recently designed the sixth edition of the
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary,
and published the first serious appraisal of the typographic design of Samuel Johnson’s
Dictionary.

Russell L. Martin III
is Director of the DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University. He contributed to volume 1 of A
History of the Book in America
(2000) and has published other articles and reviews on bibliographical matters. He is at work on an edition of the poems of Jacob Taylor, compiler of almanacs in eighteenth-century Philadelphia.

Jean-Yves Mollier
is Professor of Contemporary History and Director of the Doctoral Program in Cultures, Organizations and Laws at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, where he also helped found the Centre d’Histoire Culturelle des Sociétés Contemporaines, which he directed from 1998 to 2005. He specializes in nineteenth-century subjects on which he has published numerous books, including
Louis Hachette (1800–1864), le fondateur d’un empire
(1999) and
La Lecture et ses publics à l’époque contemporaine
(2002).

Angus Phillips
is Director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies and Head of the Publishing Department at Oxford Brookes University. He is a member of the International Advisory Committee for the International Conference on the Book and a member of the editorial advisory board for the
International Journal of the Book.
He has written articles on the Internet, book covers, and the role of the publishing editor. He is the editor, with Bill Cope, of
The Future of the Book in the Digital Age
(2006), and the author, with Giles Clark,
of Inside Book Publishing
(2008).

Eleanor Robson
is a university lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. A major focus of her research is the social history of literacy and numeracy in ancient Iraq and its neighbors. She is the author of
Mesopotamian Mathematics, 2100–1600
BC
(1999) and co-author, with Jeremy Black, Graham Cunningham, and Gábor Zólyomi, of
The Literature of Ancient Sumer
(2004).

Cornelia Roemer
is Director of the Vienna Papyrus Collection and Papyrus Museum in the Austrian National Library. Before joining the team in the library, she was the curator of the Cologne Papyrus Collection and had taught for several years at University College London. Her main interests in papyrology are literary texts and the uses of writing in Greco-Roman Egypt.

Jonathan Rose
is Professor of History at Drew University. He was the founding president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, and is co-editor of the journal
Book History.
His publications include
British Literary Publishing Houses, 1820–1965
(1991),
The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation
(2001), and
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
(2001).

Emile G. L. Schrijver
is curator of the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, the Hebraica and Judaica special collection at Amsterdam University Library. He is editor-in-chief of the yearbook
Studia Rosenthaliana
and serves on the boards of related national and international institutions. He has published on the history of the Hebrew book in general, and on Hebrew manuscripts in particular. He has catalogued for auctioneers, book dealers, and private collectors, and has contributed to numerous international exhibitions.

David J. Shaw
is Secretary of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) and previously taught French at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is a former president of the Bibliographical Society and writes particularly on the history of the book in France in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.