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Notes on Contributors

Richard Bucci is an editor with the University of California's Mark
Twain Project. He has edited volumes in the Project's Works of Mark Twain
and Mark Twain Papers series.

John Ivor Carlson is currently digital production editor at Yale Uni-
versity Press. In that position, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foun-
dation, he oversees technical development of the Stalin Digital Archive.
Dr. Carlson also serves as adjunct editor on the Piers Plowman Electronic
Archive and is both co-editing the Siege of Jerusalem Electronic Archive and
editing a digital scholarly edition of the Morte Arthure.

S. W. Reid (1943–2010) was Professor of English at Kent State Uni-
versity, where he founded the university's Institute for Bibliography and
Editing. He was also a member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
He was textual editor of The Novels and Related Works of Charles Brock-
den Brown: Bicentennial Edition and chief executive editor of the Cam-
bridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad. His present article, in the
journal that was the venue for his first publication in 1971, is an out-
growth of his doctoral work at the University of Virginia, where he was
the last dissertation student of Fredson Bowers and received his PhD in
1972.

Gerald E. Downs is nearing completion of articles on the textual
histories of King Lear, Philaster, and other dramatic publications.

Alan D. Boehm is Associate Professor and Director of Special Col-
lections at James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
in Murfreesboro, TN. His publications include articles on the 1798 first
edition of Lyrical Ballads; the Bristol bookseller, Joseph Cottle; and the
traditional culture of the English printing house in the late 1600s and
1700s. As a co-director of the University's Stones River Press, he sets
type and prints on a full-scale replica of an eighteenth-century common
press.

Michael Winship is Iris Howard Regents Professor of English II at
the University of Texas at Austin.

Christian Y. Dupont, formerly director of the Albert and Shirley
Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia, is now
Aeon Program Director for Atlas Systems, Inc., a library software devel-
opment company based in Virginia Beach, Virginia. As an independent
scholar, he continues to write and lecture on topics relating to libraries
and library history. He is currently completing an essay on the formation

of the Dante collection at Harvard for a forthcoming volume entitled
Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 2010).

G. Thomas Tanselle, formerly the vice president of the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, is president of the Bibliographical
Society of the University of Virginia. His most recent book, Bibliographical
Analysis: A Historical Introduction, was published in 2009.