University of Virginia Library

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This study had its origin in a cataloguing impasse at the Huntington Library,
to which I had been posted by the American office of the recently renamed En-
glish Short-Title Catalogue under the inspired directorship of Henry Snyder. It is
to Dr. Snyder and the Huntington that I owe the initial opportunity to be baffled
by ToP. Randall McLeod spent entirely too much of his busy retirement in re-
peated reading and marking up of the manuscript, and Joseph Gwara also made invaluable suggestions. The project could not have been completed without the
aid of staff at the libraries holding copies of the book. In particular I would like to
thank Matthew Baalham, Erin Blake, Tad Boehmer, Emily Dourish, Lynne Far-
rington, Stephen Ferguson, Jill Gage, Paul Gehl, Myron Groover, Colin Higgins,
Kathryn James, Kathleen Lesko, Ann Martin, Jenna Moore, Jason Moschella,
Richard Oram, Tim Pye, Joanna Parker, Catherine Uecker, Abbie Weinberg,
and Georgianna Ziegler. Barbara Ravelhofer and Eugene Giddens supplied valu-

able images of pages and watermarks; James Knowles helped with interpreting
archival records; and Roger Gaskell and Eva Griffith sent further information
about copies I could not easily get to. Finally, I would like to thank David Vander
Meulen and Elizabeth Lynch for their tenacious work on the manuscript through
multiple iterations.