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Editorial Problems -- A Preliminary Survey by R. C. BALD

The Rationale of Copy-Text by W. W. GREG

Some Relations of Bibliography to Editorial Problems by FREDSON BOWERS

Some Postulates for Distributional Study of Texts by ARCHIBALD A. HILL

Observations on Two Caxton Variants by CURT F. BÜHLER

Bookbindings in the Libraries of Prague by ERNST KYRISS

Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: The Relationship of Quarto and Folio by PHILIP WILLIAMS

Mark III: New Light on the Proof-Reading for the First Folio of Shakespeare by CHARLTON HINMAN

Thomas Newcomb: A Restoration Printer's Ornament Stock by C. WILLIAM MILLER

Observations on the Incidence and Interpretation of Press Figures by WILLIAM B. TODD

Printers' Lobby: Model 1802 by ROLLO G. SILVER

Some Unrecorded Poems of James Kirke Paulding: An Annotated Check-List by J. ALBERT ROBBINS

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THOMAS DRUE'S DUCHESS OF SUFFOLK: A PROTESTANT DRAMA by Leslie Mahin Oliver

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THE COMPOSITION AND PRINTING OF MIDDLETON'S A MAD WORLD, MY MASTERS by Gerald J. Eberle

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NOTES ON RESTORATION PLAYS by Robert N. E. Megaw, Homer Goldberg, Frederick O. Waller

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THE EARLY EDITIONS OF ADDISON'S CAMPAIGN by Robert D. Horn

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THE FIRST ANTHOLOGIES OF ENGLISH LITERARY CRITICISM, WARTON TO HASLEWOOD by Rodney M. Baine

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PRINTER'S COPY FOR TYRWHITT'S CHAUCER by Atcheson L. Hench

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AN UNRECORDED EARLY ANTHOLOGY OF CRABBE by Franklin P. Batdorf

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BENEFACTORS OF THE CAMBRIDGE PRESS: A RECONSIDERATION by Lawrence G. Starkey

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SCOTCH TYPE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA by John Alden

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THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS CONSIDERS THE PUBLICATION OF A BIBLE, 1777 by William H. Gaines, Jr.

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THE SEVERAL STATES OF THE FARRER MAP OF VIRGINIA by Coolie Verner

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POE'S ALONE: ITS BACKGROUND, SOURCE, AND MANUSCRIPT by I. B. Cauthen, Jr.

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A SELECTIVE CHECK LIST OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SCHOLARSHIP FOR 1949 Part I: Incunabula and Early Renaissance, by Rudolph Hirsch Part II: Later Renaissance to the Present, by Lucy Clark and Fredson Bowers

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Part I: INCUNABULA and EARLY RENAISSANCE by Rudolf Hirsch

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Part II: THE LATER RENAISSANCE TO the PRESENT by Lucy Clark AND Fredson Bowers

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1. Bibliographies, Check Lists, Enumeration

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2. Printing, Publishing, Bibliographical and Textual Scholarship

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Notes

[1]

The present note is essentially a statement of work in progress. As such, exhaustive documentation has not been attempted.

[2]

See Lawrence C. Wroth's Abel Buell of Connecticut, [New Haven], 1926.

[3]

For fuller accounts of John Mein, see my "John Mein, Publisher: An Essay in Bibliographic Detection," in the Papers Bibl. Soc. America, XXXVI (1942), 199-214, and "John Mein: Scourage of Patriots", in the Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, XXXIV (1943), 571-99. In each, references will be found for most of the statements here made.

[4]

See the reproduction of the broadside Specimen of Mein and Fleeming's Printing Types, of ca. 1768, plate XIV, facing p. 102, in Mr. Wroth's The Colonial Printer (1938).

[5]

Reproduced by Douglas C. McMurtrie, A History of Printing in the United States (1936), II, 288.

[6]

See my "A Note on Tissot's 'Advice to the People'. London, 1767," Papers Bibl. Soc. America, XXXIV (1940), 262-66.

[7]

I am indebted to Mr. Conkwright for much of this information, but any weaknesses of interpretation are mine.