<b>Nicolas Barker.</b> <i>The Glory of Writing: The Calligraphic Work of Francesco Alunno.</i> Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Press, 2009. 2 vols.: vol. 1, 141p.; vol. 2, 231p. (ISBN 9780974516837).

and interdependencies among printers, publishers, and booksellers and their consumers is accomplished. Several of the papers take an industry-level view. Canadian scholar Stephen W. Brown (coeditor of volume two of the Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland) contributes a detailed case study of how the Edinburgh papers variously reported and exploited an incest/murder trial in 1765. Through a careful and dogged study of the relationships and politics of the printers and publishers, Brown delivers a nicely nuanced portrait of the press of Edinburgh in the mid-eighteenth century. Michael Powell (librarian) and Terry Wyke (social historian) of Manchester use an unpublished manuscript history of the Manchester press (by Frederick Leary, b. 1841) to examine the plight of the North of England Magazine, which ran for 18 months in 1842–1843, as a typical representative of Manchester periodicals in the nineteenth century. Lisa Peters and Kath Skinner (of Chester) examine in great detail the newspaper distribution networks of the North Wales town of Wrexham, consisting of the post, shops, hawkers, messengers, and agents during the second half of the nineteenth century. Finally, Stephen Colclough (lecturer in English, University of Bangor), examines the 1914 " dispute between the retail newsagents of Lancashire and the wholesalers that supplied them, " which ultimately encouraged regional unions to form the National Federation of Retail Newsagents, Booksellers and Stationers in 1919. Biography is the other major approach in this collection. Jennifer Moore (a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Limerick) offers a sketch of John Ferrar (1742–1804), an Irish printer and writer active in Limerick for over 30 years and Dublin for almost a decade. Ferrar wrote a history of Limerick , ran the region's major newspaper for 20 years, and used his family connections and business networks to influence the politics and culture of the day. Máire Ken-nedy (in charge of special collections in the Dublin City Libraries) uses the figure of William Flynn (1740–1811), who " represented a typical printer and bookseller of the late eighteenth century, " to explore different aspects of the book trade in the Munster region of Ireland, specifically the port of Cork and its surrounds. Ria Snow-don presents an overview of the life and career of Sarah Hodgson, who inherited her father's Newcastle printing business in 1784 (which included the influential weekly Newcastle Chronicle), married her late father's apprentice in 1785 (who took over the business), and then successfully ran …