UPDATE: Birth of the Bestseller: The 19th Century Book in Britain, France and Beyond (9/15/06; 3/29/07-3/31/07)
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS EXTENDED TO 15 SEPTEMBER
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The Bibliographical Society of America invites proposals for papers to=20=
be delivered at =93Birth of the Bestseller: The 19th Century Book in=20
Britain, France, and Beyond,=94 a conference on book history to be held=20=
in New York on 29-31 March 2007.
The nineteenth century saw enormous changes in the world of books. The=20=
rise of a mass readership, the invention of machine-driven=20
technologies, new reproduction methods, and an astonishing variation in=20=
literature, authorship, publishing, periodicals, printing, typography,=20=