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Papers

(The TQCC of Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
William S. Peterson. Morris & Company: Essays on Fine Printing. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2020. 320 pp, 8 pp. plates. $85. Hardcover (ISBN: 978-1-5845-6385-3).	5
E. James West. Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2020. 208 pp. $24.95. Paperback (978-0-252-08498-0)	4
Tony Doe and Christopher Thornton, eds. Dr Thomas Plume, 1630–1704: His Life and Legacies in Essex, Kent and Cambridge. Hatfield, UK: Essex Publications, 2020. 328 pp. £15.19 Paper (ISBN: 978-1	4
:Scrivere sui libri: Breve guida al libro a stampa postillato	2
William Temple Franklin and the Publication of Benjamin Franklin’s Works	1
:Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes: Shakespeare in 1619, Bibliography in the Longue Durée	1
:The Hroswitha Club and the Impact of Women Book Collectors	1
Cumulative Table of Contents	1
Between Editions: Collaboration, Indigenous Book History, and the Paratextual Legacy of Zitkála-Šá’s American Indian Stories	1
The Extraordinary Publication History of Addison’s Cato: Editions, Issues, Piracies	1
:Publishing Plates: Stereotyping and Electrotyping in Nineteenth-Century US Print Culture	1
What is “Black” about Black Bibliography?	1
:Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History	1
Benjamin, Wardhaugh, with Philip, Beeley and Yelda, Nasifoglu. Euclid in Print, 1482–1703: A Catalogue of the Editions of the Elements and Other Euclidean Works. [London]: The Bibliographical S	1
“Could you make it rather more of a He and She picture”: Queer Texts and Dust Jackets in Mid-Twentieth Century British Fiction	1
Late Thomas Heywood and “insidiate”: Authorial Agency and The Second Part of the Theatre of God’s Judgements	1
:Hanji Unfurled: One Journey into Korean Papermaking	1
Jill Kray and Paolo Sachet, eds. The Afterlife of Aldus: Posthumous Fame, Collectors and the Book Trade. Warburg Institute colloquia, 32. London: Warburg Institute, 2018. xiv, 226 pp. $40.00 Pa	1
:Samuel Richardson as Anonymous Editor and Printer: Recycling Texts for the Book Market	1
:Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture	0
William Poole, Felicity Henderson, and Yelda Nasifoglu. Robert Hooke’s Books. (2015– ) Database. https://hookesbooks.yeldanasifoglu.com/.	0
:The Textual Effects of David Walker’s “Appeal”: Print-Based Activism against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829–1851	0
Some Thoughts on Benlowes’s Method of Illustrating his Theophila	0
Margaret Cavendish’s University Years: Batch Bindings and Trade Bindings in Cambridge and Oxford	0
:The Dictionary of the Book: A Glossary for Book Collectors, Booksellers, Librarians, and Others	0

:Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade: English Stationers and the Commodification of Botany	0
1990s Zine Distribution and Understanding the Work of Zine Distros through Their Catalogs	0
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Lindsay, DiCuirci. Colonial Revivals: The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Early American Books. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 288 pp. $69.95. Illus. (ISBN 978-0-8122-5062-6)	0
Embodied Literacy: Somatic Origins of Nonlinear Layouts in Chosŏn Epistolary Culture	0
Theatrical Figures (and Others) as Book Subscribers for Sterne and Derrick	0
Order and Access: Dorothy Porter and the Mission of Black Bibliography	0
Epistolary Poetics: Reading the Manuscript Interventions of Melesina Trench	0
:Authorizing Superhero Comics: On the Evolution of a Popular Serial Genre	0
Shakespeare in Samuel Beckett’s Library	0
:Descriptive Bibliography	0
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:Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797–1830	0
:Aquatint Worlds: Travel, Print, and Empire 1770–1820	0
Compiling “A Selected Bibliography of Bibliographies of African American Writing”	0
Contents of Volume 116	0
:Four Shades of Gray: The Amazon Kindle Platform	0
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Concurrent Printing, Watermarks, and the Print Run of the First Folio	0
News, Events, Publications, and Awards	0
Who Printed Huon? New Light on the Early Tudor Book Trade	0
:Pulpit, Press, and Politics: Methodists and the Market for Books in Upper Canada	0
Jean-Christophe Cloutier. Shadow Archives: The Lifecycles of African American Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. $35. 408 pp. Paperback. (ISBN: 978-0-2311-9331-3).	0
:Dispatches from the Lizard Brain: A Descriptive Bibliography of Ninja Press	0
:Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History	0
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:Libros e imprenta en México en el siglo XVI	0
:Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe: Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical Books	0
Independent Accountant’s Review Report	0
Society Information	0
The Catholic Martyrological Tradition of the Reformation and the Early Editions of Richard Rowlands Verstegan’s Théâtre des cruautés (1588)	0
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Bonnie Jo Campbell (1962–): A Descriptive Bibliography	0
Fulcher’s Ladies’ Memorandum Book and Poetical Miscellany, Illustrations, and the Mapping of Format Change	0
Society Information	0
“Only Death Put an End to Mr. Howe’s Collecting”: The Bibliophile behind Nearly Half of the Berg Collection	0
A Newly Discovered Manuscript of Vincent of Lérins’s Commonitorium and Shakespeare’s Hand D in Sir Thomas More	0
:Stampato a Gerusalemme: Storia della tipografia francescana di Terra Santa tra Otto e Novecento	0
:The Declaration in Script and Print: A Visual History of America’s Founding Document	0
Index to Volume 116	0
:Texas Lithographs: A Century of History in Images	0
:Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America	0
Creativity, Experimentation, and Failure: Queering Letterpress Printing in the Humanities Makerspace	0
Who was “A. Moore”? Waste Paper as a Means of Identification	0
:Making the Miscellany: Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book in Early Modern England	0
“As being bound with you”: Revising the Contexts of Garnet’s “Address to the Slaves of the United States of America”	0
:The Making of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.”	0
Queering the Language of Dynasty in Imprints and Bibliographic Metadata	0
Robinson Crusoe Portrait Frontispieces: Models, Variants, and Interpretations, 1719–1799	0

Society Information	0
By-Laws of the Bibliographical Society of America	0
The Rev. T. R. O’Flahertie: Nineteenth-Century Bibliographer, Collector, and Editor of Donne’sLetters	0
:Book Ownership in Stuart England	0
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Elizabeth McHenry. To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. xv, 295 pp. Paperback, $27.95. (ISBN: 978-1-47	0
:Inessential Colors: Architecture on Paper in Early Modern Europe	0
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Projected Books for Disabled Veterans and Civilians after World War II	0
:The Private Library: Being a More or Less Compendious Disquisition on the History of the Architecture and Furnishing of the Domestic Bookroom	0
The Leipzig Edition of Milton’s Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio	0
Black Bibliography as Biographical Method: The Publication History of The Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery, 1837–1849	0
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:The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages	0
:The Burke Collection of Italian Manuscript Paintings	0
Play Manuscripts, Vectors of Transmission, and Shakespeare’s Henry the fifth	0
Queer Bibliography: A Rationale	0
:Playing with the Book: Victorian Movable Picture Books and the Child Reader	0
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:Birth Figures: Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body	0
:The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts	0
What Is a Fragment?	0
Creating Community and Grappling with History: Queer DIY Publishing in the United States after Stonewall	0
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Mumbo Jumbo’s Paratextual Condition	0
:The Book by Design: The Remarkable Story of the World’s Greatest Invention	0
Revision and Duplication in Early Modern Plays: A Reevaluation of the “Minus” Hypothesis	0
News, Equity Action Plan, In Memoriam	0
Orietta, Da Rold. Paper in Medieval England: From Pulp to Fictions. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xx, 270 pp. $90.00 Illus. (ISBN 978-1-1088-4057-6).	0
Elizabeth Savage. Early Colour Printing: German Renaissance Woodcuts at the British Museum. [London]: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2021. 256 pp. £50.00 Hardback, illus. (ISBN: 978-1-911300-75-5).	0
A Closer Look at the Making of Barlow’s Aesop’s Fables	0
:A History of Ottoman Libraries	0
By-Laws of the Bibliographical Society of America	0
Society News	0
Rediscovering Sarah de Laredo: Historian, Bibliographer, Woman	0
BSA Bylaws Revision and the New BSA Membership Year	0
The Dance Typewriter: IBM, the Labanotation Element, and “Women’s Work” in 1973	0
Lorenz Böninger. Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna and the Social World of Florentine Printing, ca. 1470–1493. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance	0
:Códice Maya de México: Understanding the Oldest Surviving Book of the Americas	0
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Society Information	0
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:The Object of Jewish Literature: A Material History	0
:Indigenuity: Native Craftwork and the Art of American Literatures	0
Historical Shelf Marks as Sources for Institutional Provenance Research: Reconstructing the University of Virginia’s First Library	0
The Homosaurus, Queer Vocabularies, and Impossible Metadata	0
:Intermediate Horizons: Book History and Digital Humanities	0
Eurie Dahn. Jim Crow Networks: African American Periodical Cultures. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2021. 208 pp. $26.95. Paperback (ISBN: 9781625345264). Brooks E. Hefner. Blac	0
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:Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor	0
:Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork	0
A Revised Account of the 1714 Works of Mr. William Shakespear	0
Simon R. Frost. Reading, Wanting, and Broken Economics: A Twenty-First Century Study of Readers and Bookshops in Southampton around 1900. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021. xxii,	0
Andrew M. Stauffer. Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 207 pp. $49.95 Cloth, Illus. (ISBN: 978-0-8122-5	0
:The Printing and the Printers of the “Book of Common Prayer,” 1549–1561	0
Transition by the Book: Editing, Pseudonymity, and the Possibilities of Trans Bibliography	0
Collecting and Preserving Colonial Latin American Materials Today: A Roundtable	0
:Teaching the History of the Book	0
Toward a Bibliography of Birch bark: The 2023 Annual Meeting Keynote	0
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:Wild Intelligence: Poets’ Libraries and the Politics of Knowledge in Postwar America	0
:The Diagram as Paradigm: Cross-Cultural Approaches	0
Carolyn Fowler’s Black Arts and Black Aesthetics and Public Bibliography	0
A New Witness to Béroul’sTristan	0
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Eric Gardner. Black Print Unbound: The “Christian Recorder,” African American Literature, and Periodical Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 344 pp. $39.95. Paperback, illus. 978-	0
:The Library: A Fragile History	0
:Shakespeare’s “Lady Editors”: A New History of the Shakespearean Text	0
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Private Owners, Public Books: Henrietta Bartlett’s Feminist Bibliography	0
:Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England	0
On Liberation Bibliography: The 2021 BSA Annual Meeting Keynote	0
Cynthia Johnston, ed. A British Book Collector: Rare Books and Manuscripts in the R. E. Hart Collection, Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery. London: University of London Press, 2021. xiii + 234 p	0
Society Information	0
Letter from the Editors	0
William Langland, “Father of English Poetry”: Thomas Dunham Whitaker’s Piers Plowman	0
Index to Volume 115	0

:Taking Form, Making Worlds: Cartonera Publishers in Latin America	0
The Life and Times of an Artifact and Thing: The Gazeta de Lima	0
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Benito Rial, Costas, ed. Aldo Manuzio en la España del Renacimiento. Madrid: Consejo superior de investigaciones científicas, 2019. Nueva Roma 50. 402 pp. € 36. Paper, illus. (ISBN 978-84-00-10	0
Opening Pandora’s Box: Charles d’Orléans’s Reception and the Work of Critical Bibliography	0
Erin A. McCarthy. Doubtful Readers: Print, Poetry, and the Reading Public in Early Modern England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xviii, 277 pp. $80. Hardcover (ISBN: 978-0-1988-3647-6)	0
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Simon Loxley, ed. Emery Walker: Arts, Crafts and a World in Motion. Newcastle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. xvi, 200 pp. $95.00. Hardcover, Illus. (ISBN: 9781584563839). Richard Mathews and	0
Circulation of a Sea Monster Image: From Renaissance Nature Studies to the Title Page of an Eighteenth-Century Halakhic Book	0
Corinna Zeltsman. Ink under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico. California: University of California Press, 2021. 350 pp. $34.95. Paperback, illus. (ISBN: 978-0-520	0
:The Editor Function: Literary Publishing in Postwar America	0
:Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms	0
Society Information	0
:The Four Shakespeare Folios, 1623–2023: Copy, Print, Paper, Type	0
Securing the Future of the Dorothy Porter Wesley Fellowship for Black Bibliographers	0
:So Much to Be Angry About: Appalachian Movement Press and Radical DIY Publishing, 1969–1979	0
:Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe	0
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Tracing Personal Accounts in Colonial Knowledge Networks: Towards a Watermark Database for the Cape Colony, 1652–1795	0
Towards Intersectional Queer Bibliography: Three Perspectives from a Roundtable Discussion	0
:Printing and Misprinting: A Companion to Mistakes and In-House Corrections in Renaissance Europe (1450–1650)	0
News, Events, Publications, and Awards	0
:Gems of Art on Paper: Illustrated American Fiction and Poetry, 1765–1885	0
:L’Entour du texte: La publication du livre savant à la Renaissance	0
:Book, Text, Medium: Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age	0
Early Publication History of Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave (1838)	0
The Decrees of the First Mexican Council (1555): Confiscations, Collectors, and Literary Migration	0
Letter from the Editors	0
Society News	0
Society News	0
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Russell Maret. Visionaries & Fanatics and Other Essays on Type Design, Technology, and the Private Press. Ann Arbor, MI: Legacy Press, 2021. 140, [3] pp. Illus. $70.00 hardcover; $35 paperb	0
A Note on the Quarto Chapbooks of the English Don Bellianis	0
:Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures	0
:Manuscript Poetics: Materiality and Textuality in Medieval Italian Literature	0
Minutes of the Annual Meeting: Friday, 29 January 2021, 4:30 pm EST, Virtual Presentation via Convene	0
Bastard Hands: Fifteenth-Century Scripts and the Processes of Medieval Making	0
:Godine at Fifty: A Retrospective of Five Decades in the Life of an Independent Publisher	0
Steven Lomazow. Magazines and the American Experience: Highlights from the Collection of Steven Lomazow, M.D. New York: Grolier Club, 2021. 337 pp. $75.00 Hardcover, Illus. (ISBN: 9781605830919	0
:Tradition and Individuality: Bindings from the University of Michigan Greek Manuscript Collection	0
“For billionaire booklovers”: George D. Sproul’s St. Dunstan Editions	0
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Brigitte Fielder and Jonathan Senchyne, eds. Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2019. vii, 318 pp. Caseboun	0
:Cover Treasure: The Life and Art of Margaret Armstrong	0
The Pelican in Her Piety: The Seventeenth-Century Embroidered Binding of the Psalter of Anne Boleyn	0
The Printing History of, and Other Matters Related to, Henry James’s First American Edition of Daisy Miller	0
Forensic Bibliography	0
An Unexpected Influence: Photostats in Special Collections Libraries	0
Shakespeare by Touch: Tactile Reading and N. B. Kneass Jr.’s Merchant of Venice (1870)	0
:Building the Book from the Ancient World to the Present Day: How Manuscript, Printed, and Digital Texts are Made; Illustrated from the Teaching Collections of Rare Book School at the University of	0