UCL FACULTY OF ARTS & HUMANITIES
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
BOOK PROPOSAL
Please complete this form and return it either by
attachment or by hard copy to the Senior Editor.
Notes for its completion are at the end of the document.
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1. Title of book, with a specification of content, structure, length and illustrative material
2. The volume’s contribution to its field of study
3. The volume’s ideal readership
4. The volume’s state of preparation and date of completion
5. Alternative publishing arrangements
6. Print run and publicity
7. Review journals
8. Other notes
9. Name, department and contact numbers
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Notes
1. Title of the book, with a specification of content, structure and length
The title need only be provisional, but for the purposes of reaching an in-principle agreement to
publish we shall need a precise indication of content, structure and length. In the case of a text
under development these can be modified (indeed they are likely to be modified), but radical
changes at a later stage to the original project may require a fresh proposal. A chapter-by-chapter
account of the project would be ideal, with an indication of what is to go into its introduction and
conclusion, and of the kinds of apparatus to be provided (bibliography, indices, appendices, etc.).
Please give an approximate word count.
Note that illustrations are at present restricted to black and white half-tones, though we are advised
that full colour plates will eventually be a possibility. Other kinds of illustrative material include
charts, tables and line-drawings.
2. The volume’s contribution to its field of study
The Imprint will comprise monographs, conference proceedings, collections of essays, editions,
etc. relating to their area of study by way either of fresh enquiry or of a synthesis of existing
material (or both). Please indicate how your proposal relates to existing work in the field.
3. The volume’s ideal readership
Please indicate the readership you envisage for your text, bearing in mind that this readership may,
in fact, be varied (literary, philosophical, historical, art-historical, etc. and/or inter-disciplinary).
Most volumes published under the Imprint will have a specialist readership, so please indicate the
range of specialisms involved, but also, where appropriate, the possibility of a more general
readership.
4. The volume’s state of preparation and date of completion
Please give an indication of progress to date (preliminary, well under way, substantially complete,
under final revision, etc.) together with a realistic deadline for completion and submission.
5. Alternative publishing arrangements
Please give details of any intention you have of placing the title with another publisher (this for the
purposes of prioritising projects and of projecting a rhythm of publication).
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6. Print run and publicity
We shall have to estimate how many copies of your text to print and how best to publicize them
(by way of fliers and of web publicity as well as – eventually – of a catalogue of our own). Please
give some thought, therefore, to the quantity and distribution of your text, and, as far as the latter is
concerned, to the kinds of network (learned societies and other associations, professional bodies,
centres of specialist interest, etc., both here and abroad) which may be of assistance to us in
planning sales.
7. Review journals
Please indicate a dozen or so journals in the volume’s field of study where it might be sent for
review.
8. Other notes
Is there anything else you wish to add relative to your proposal not covered by the above?
9. Contact details
Please be sure to provide them all.
You may find it useful to have the Imprint’s Guidelines for Publication
alongside you as you complete this form
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Book proposal form v. 1
May 2007
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