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  • Notes on Contributors

Markman Ellis is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies in the School of English and Drama, University of London. His most recent publications are The Coffee-House: A Cultural History (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004) and Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture (Pickering & Chatto, 2006). He is also the author of The Politics of Sensibility (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and The History of Gothic Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2000). He is currently working on a history of disciplinary conflict in mid-eighteenth-century intellectual culture.

Brian McMullin is an Honorary Research Associate in the Centre for the Book, Monash University, Melbourne, and Manager of the University's bibliographical press, the Ancora Press.

Dr Sharon Ragaz is author (with Peter Garside and Jacqueline Belanger) of British Fiction 1800–1829 (2004), and of articles on Walter Scott, James Hogg, and Charles Robert Maturin. A specialist in early nineteenth-century book history, she is currently researching and writing on the traveller and author, Maria Graham (Lady Callcott).

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Karen Skovgaard-Petersen has been a senior researcher at the Royal Library, Copenhagen, since 2001. From 2009 she is employed at the Danish Society for Language and Literature as editor of the writings of Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754).

Margaret M. Smith is Chairman of the Printing Historical Society and recently retired as Reader in Book Design History, from the University of Reading.

Valery Rees is a Renaissance scholar who has taught in London and Budapest, and has published extensively on Marsilio Ficino of Florence, the Hungarian court of King Matthias, and his queen, Beatrice d'Aragona.

Anna Giulia Cavagna is Professor of Bibliography and the History of Publishing at the University of Genova. Recent publications include, on Maltese printing, La tipografica professione di Niccolò Capaci (Milan, 2005) and Settecentine alla British Library rapporti librari competenze, linguistiche e viaggiatori tra Pavia e Londra (in Testo e immagine, Rome, 2008). [End Page 111]

Bill Bell is Director of the Centre for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh. He is general editor of The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland and editor of The Library. [End Page 112]

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