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In Search of "The Word of the Other": Aboriginal Sign Systems and the History of the Book in Canada

Germaine Warkentin
pp. 1-27
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.1999.0012
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"Nor Stage, Nor Stationers Stall Can Showe": The Circulation of Plays in Manuscript in the Early Seventeenth Century

T. H. Howard-Hill
pp. 28-41
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.1999.0004
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"To Reconcile Book and Title, and Make 'em Kin to One Another": The Evolution of the Title's Contractual Functions

Eleanor F. Shevlin
pp. 42-77
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.1999.0011
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Rural Reading in Northwest England: The Sedbergh Book Club, 1728-1928

K. A. Manley
pp. 78-95
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.1999.0009
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Subscribing to the Enlightenment: Charlotte von Hezel Markets Das Wochenblatt fur's schone Geschlecht

Melanie Archangeli
pp. 96-121
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.1999.0001
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Litigating the Musical Magazine : The Definition of British Music Copyright in the 1780s

Nancy A. Mace
pp. 122-145
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.1999.0008
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The Reader Retailored: Thomas Carlyle, His American Audiences, and the Politics of Evidence

Leon Jackson
pp. 146-172
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.1999.0005
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Play Publication, Readers, and the "Decline" of Victorian Drama

Daniel Barrett
pp. 173-187
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.1999.0002
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From Three-Deckers to Film Rights: A Turn in British Publishing Strategies, 1870-1930

Alexis Weedon
pp. 188-206
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.1999.0013
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The Boundaries of American Religious Publishing in the Early Twentieth Century

Joan Shelley Rubin
pp. 207-217
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.1999.0010
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"Leading the Public Gently": Popular Science Books in the 1950s

Beth Luey
pp. 218-253
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.1999.0007
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The State of the Discipline: The Rise and Decline of Book Studies in the Soviet Union

E Kasinec, Robert H. Davis
pp. 254-265
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.1999.0006
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Contributors

pp. 267-268
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.1999.0003
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