2009 Rosenbach Lectures begin today
03/23/2009
For a chance to see book history in the making, reserve a seat at this year's Rosenbach Lectures. The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography have been the basis for many… READ MORE
Category: Book History
Authorship and Publicity Before Print–Now Available
03/12/2009
Authorship and Publicity Before Print: Jean Gerson and the Transformation of Late Medieval Learning Daniel Hobbins 352 pages | 6 x 9 | 23 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4155-6… READ MORE
Darwin’s Birthday
02/12/2009
Today is the 200th anniversary of Charles Robert Darwin's birth. Here in Philadelphia, there are many ways to celebrate, including this year's Darwin Day Free Evolutionary Teach In at the… READ MORE
London Review of Books Uses Sherman’s Used Books
10/13/2008
Marginalia and manicules were just a few of the subjects touched upon by Leah Price in When to Read Was to Write,” a recent London Review of Books piece on… READ MORE
Ways of Writing–Now Available
09/25/2008
Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England David D. Hall 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4102-0… READ MORE
Inscription and Erasure–Now in Paperback
08/26/2008
Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century Roger Chartier Translated by Arthur Goldhammer 224 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN… READ MORE
Printing the Middle Ages–Now Available
08/07/2008
Printing the Middle Ages Siân Echard 344 pages | 6 x 9 | 83 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4091-7 | $65.00 | £42.50 A volume in the Material Texts… READ MORE
Marriage and Violence–Now Available
04/21/2008
Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy Frances E. Dolan 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4075-7 | $47.50 | £31.00 Marriage is… READ MORE
Death of Reading Greatly Exaggerated?
01/16/2008
Reading, Not So Dead After All, from The Chronicle of Higher Education, gives a snapshot of the blog battles surrounding the NEA’s "To Read or Not to Read" report.
Jacob in the LA Times
12/11/2007
Penn Press author Margaret C. Jacob recently shared her knowledge of eighteenth century literature with The Los Angeles Times. In a recent article on "Ceremonies and Religious Customs of All… READ MORE
