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Notes on Contributors

Gordon N. Ray (1915-1986) spent fourteen years at the University of Illinois (1946-60), as professor of English and (for the last three years) vice president and provost, and twenty-five years at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1960-85), as president for all but the first three years. His publications reflect both his scholarship in Victorian literature (an acclaimed two-volume biography of Thackeray and an examplary four-volume edition of Thackeray's letters) and his accomplishments as a major book collector (three magnificent volumes on English and French book illustration). His 1985 Lyell Lectures, published for the first time in the present Studies,form a sequel to the latter volumes.

G. Thomas Tanselle, Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and Adjunct Professor of English at Columbia University, is currently president of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. The present volume of Studies in Bibliography is the fortieth consecutive one to which he has contributed.

Steven Escar Smith is Director of the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives and Associate Dean for Advancement for the Texas A&M University Libraries. He holds the C. Clifford Wendler Professorship in Library Science at Texas A&M. His article on the invention of the Hinman Collator appeared in volume 53 of Studies in Bibliography. He is the author of essays and reviews in Imprint, The Book Collector, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, Kipling Journal, ANQ, Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship, and elsewhere.

Marcel De Smedt is Professor of Methodology of Germanic Philology and campus librarian of the Faculty of Arts at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). For his doctoral dissertation he studied the historiography of Dutch literature in Belgium in the nineteenth century. He has published on the historiography of literature, textual criticism, bibliography, and librarianship.

David L. Gants is Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing at the University of New Brunswick and Electronic Editor for the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson. He has published articles on bibliographical, digital, and textual matters, and is currently directing the Early English Booktrade Database, a project whose goal is to measure and classify the known output of the English printing and publishing trade 1470-1640.

Martin C. Battestin is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor Emeritus at the

University of Virginia. His publications include Henry Fielding: A Life and editions of Fielding's major novels for the authoritative Wesleyan Edition of the Works, for which he is currently editing the final volume of Fielding's non-dramatic writings: `The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon,' `Shamela,' and Occasional Writings.

David Groves has published eight books on James Hogg and two volumes in the new De Quincey edition. He also edits the annual James Hogg Journal.Dr. Groves works as a laboratory subject in Toronto.