The March 2024 Issue of PBSA

Dear Readers,

With this issue we introduce a new volume theme and some small adjustments to our design. This year the cover images will focus on type, covering a range of centuries, continents, and media. It seems only fitting to kick things off with a nod to the home of the oldest movable type, Korea, where brass type was developed in the thirteenth century. The type featured on our March cover is a bit more recent than that—it’s from the late 18th century in the Joseon dynasty—but it attests to the long history of print and the materials that make it possible.

This new volume of PBSA also tweaks our new design a bit, widening the top and outer margins and resetting our article titles in a slightly smaller face. We hope that these changes will make reading the print journal more enjoyable. As always, you can also read the journal online in HTML or PDF formats, download individual PDFs, or, if you’re a BSA member, download the entire issue as an eBook.

Thank you, as always, for reading and writing for PBSA.

– Jesse R. Erickson and Sarah Werner, Editors

Articles

• “Shakespeare by Touch: Tactile Reading and N. B. Kneass Jr.’s Merchant of Venice (1870)”
  by Taylor Hare

• “Black Bibliography: The Publication History of The Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery, 1837-1849”
  by Bruce E. Baker and Fionnghuala Sweeney

• “Historical Shelfmarks & Institutional Provenance Research: Reconstructing the University of Virginia’s Rotunda Library”
  by Samuel V. Lemley, Neal D. Curtis, and Madeline Zehnder

Reviews

• Reid Byers, The Private Library: Being a More or Less Compendious Disquisition on the History of the Architecture and Furnishing of the Domestic Bookroom.
  Reviewed by Katherine Prater

• Andrew Turner, ed., Códice Maya De México: Understanding the Oldest Surviving Book of the Americas.
  Reviewed by Jennifer R. Saracino

• Bridget Whearty, Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor.
  Reviewed by Lisa Fagin Davis

• Sandra Hindman and Federica Toniolo, eds., The Burke Collection of Italian Manuscript Paintings.
  Reviewed by Alexander Day

• Valerie Wayne, ed., Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England.
  Reviewed by Elise Watson

• Giancarlo Petrella, Scrivere sui libri. Breve guida al libro a stampa postillato.
  Reviewed by Natale Vacalabre

• Georgia Brady Barnhill, Gems of Art on Paper: Illustrated American Fiction and Poetry, 1765–1885.
  Reviewed by Tess Goodman

• Franz J. Potter, Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797–1830.
  Reviewed by Stuart Bennett

• Daisy Hay, The Making of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.”
  Reviewed by Elizabeth Denlinger

• Michaël Roy, Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture.
  Reviewed by Dorothy Berry

• Marcy J. Dinius, The Textual Effects of David Walker’s Appeal: Print-Based Activism against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829–1851.
  Reviewed by Lindsay DiCuirci

• Barbara E. Mann, The Object of Jewish Literature: A Material History.
  Reviewed by Jeanne-Marie Musto