om various quarters. I gratefully acknowledge funding received from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Advisory Research Council of Queen’s University. I am equally grateful for the support of the Department of English at Carleton University. The New Scholars Prize of the Bibliographical Society of America allowed me to present my work to a meeting of that august institution in New York, and the Bibliographical Society of Canada not only supported my participation in a number of key conferences but also served as an intellectual home. Many librarians, archivists, and rare book dealers were of indispensable assistance. I wish especially to thank the staff of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto; the United Church / Victoria University Archives; the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Library and Archives Canada; the W.D. Jordan Special Collections and the Archives at Queen’s University; the National Archives of the United Kingdom; the Elizabeth Dafoe Library at the University of Manitoba; the William Ready Division of Archives and Special Collections at McMaster University; the Archives and Special Collections at the University of Guelph; and David Mason Books of Toronto. The history of publishing depends on the outstanding work of collecting and preserving rare books in their original form and the various papers associated with them.