University of Virginia Library

Notes On Contributors

R. C. BALD, Professor of English at Cornell University, has edited a number of early printed books and manuscripts, among them the complex Middleton Game at Chess.

SIR WALTER GREG, the eminent English bibliographer and textual critic, was knighted in the June, 1950, Honors List for services to the state in the field of literature His latest publication is a definitive two-text edition of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.

FREDSON BOWERS, Professor of English at the University of Virginia and Visiting Professor of English at the University of Chicago, conducts a seminar in bibliographical research.

ARCHIBALD A. HILL, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, uses linguistics as an approach to the study of early manuscript texts.

CURT F. BÜHLER, of The Pierpont Morgan Library, is an authority on incunabula who frequently contributes to bibliographical journals.

ERNST KYRISS, of Stuttgart, Germany, has an international reputation for his specialist studies in 15th-century bookbindings. The translator, Lawrence S. Thompson, is director of the University of Kentucky Libraries.

PHILIP WILLIAMS, now Assistant Professor of English at Duke University, received his doctorate in 1949 from the University of Virginia.

CHARLTON HINMAN, Assistant Professor of English at The Johns Hopkins University, received his doctorate from the University of Virginia in I942. He is proposing to collate the Folger collection of First Folios by means of a scanning machine which he has invented.

C. WILLIAM MILLER, Associate Professor of English at Temple University, received his doctorate from the University of Virginia in 1940.

WILLIAM B. TODD, Professor of English at Salem College, is engaged in several specialist studies of 18th-century printing practices. ROLLO G. SILVER, of the Peabody Institute Library, is especially concerned with 19th-century American publishing and printing history.

J. ALBERT ROBBINS, the author of several articles on early 19th-century American writers, is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University.

LESLIE M. OLIVER, of the Houghton Library, Harvard University, is the author of various studies relating Elizabethan history to literature, with especial reference to the works of the martyrologist John Foxe.

GERALD J. EBERLE, Associate Professor of English at Loyola University of the South, is collaborating on an edition of the London comedies of Thomas Middleton.

ROBERT N. E. MEGAW is Instructor in English at Williams College; HOMER GOLDBERG, and FREDERICK WALLER are doctoral graduates of the University of Chicago.

ROBERT D. HORN, Professor of English at the University of Oregon, has made a special study of the panegyrics and satires relating to the campaigns of the Duke of Marlborough.

RODNEY M. BAINE, Associate Professor of English at the University of Richmond, is making a special study of the novels of Thomas Holcroft.

ATCHESON L. HENCH is Linden Kent Professor of English at the University of Virginia.

FRANKLIN P. BATDORF, Instructor in English at the University of Texas, is working on bibliographical descriptions of previously unlisted works by Crabbe.

LAWRENCE G. STARKEY, Instructor in English at the University of Delaware, received his doctorate in 1949 from the University of Virginia with a dissertation on the Cambridge Press.

JOHN ALDEN, Assistant Librarian at Georgetown University, has recently published a Check List of Rhode Island Imprints.

WILLIAM H. GAINES, JR., received his doctorate in 1950 from the University of Virginia in the School of History.

COOLIE VERNER, Associate in Community Services, Extension Division of the University of Virginia, is working on the bibliography of Jefferson's Notes with special attention to the inserted maps.

RUDOLF HIRSCH is the expert on incunabula for the University of Pennsylvania Library.

LUCY T. CLARK is a Senior Cataloguer in the Preparations Division of the Alderman Library, University of Virginia.

PAPERS READ BEFORE THE SOCIETY
(Supplementary to the lists in previous volumes.)

Paul G. Victorius, of Charlottesville, Virginia, "The Evolution Collection," 9 December 1949.

Rollo G. Silver, of the Peabody Institute Library, "An Old Southern Library," 16 December 1949.

Louise Greer, of East Carolina Teacher's College, "Browning Societies in America," 12 January 1950.

Stitt Robinson, of the University of Virginia History Club, "John White Drawings and the Virginia Indians," 17 February 1950.

John Canaday, of the University of Virginia, "Picasso and the Man with a Lollipop," a talk on Picasso's prints, 1 March 1940.

Eric Kessler, of the Swiss Legation, "The Contributions of Switzerland to Book Making," 9 March 1950.

Student Round Tables were also held on Bookbinding and on Type faces.

PUBLICATIONS FOR SALE BY THE SOCIETY

Studies in Bibliography (Papers), Vol. I, $3.50. (Free to 1948 members.)

Studies in Bibliography, Vol. 2, $5.00. (Free to 1949 members.)

Studies in Bibliography, Vol. 3, $5.00. (Free to 1950 members.)

Index of Printers, Publishers and Booksellers in A. W. Pollard and G. R. Redgrave, A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad 1475-1640, by Paul G. Morrison, $3.50. ($2.00 to members.)

Norfolk Copyright Entries, 1837-1870, transcribed by Barbara Harris, $1.00. (Free to 1947 members.)

A Supplement to the Woodward & McManaway Check List of English Plays 164I-1700, by Fredson Bowers, $1.00. (Free to 1949 members; sent only on request.)

Dates and Performances of Thomas D'Urfey's Plays, by Cyrus L. Day, $1.00. (Free to 1950 members; sent only on request.)

A Bibliography of the American Hero, by Marshall W. Fishwick, $0.50. (Free to 1950 members; sent only on request.)

A Check List of Masters' Theses on Edmund Spenser, by Robert F. Stephens, $0.50. (Free to 1950 members; sent only on request.)

A Further Check List of the Separate Editions of Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, by Coolie Verner, $1.00. (Free to 1950 members; sent only on request.)

ALL OTHER NON-CURRENT PUBLICATIONS ARE NOW OUT OF PRINT

WINNERS OF 1950 STUDENT BOOK COLLECTORS' CONTEST

JOHN J. LOFTIN, JR.

HORACE B. COOKE, II

ROBERT P. STOCKWELL

EDWY B. LEE

OWEN J. JANDER

ALAN S. GAYNOR

LEWIS P. KINSEY, JR., Honorable Mention

CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS FOR 1950

HARRY CLEMONS, Charlottesville, Virginia

KENNETH GINIGER, New York City

JOHN D. GORDAN, New York City

JOHN E. MANAHAN, Radford, Virginia

LINTON MASSEY, Keswick, Virginia

ELEANOR SHEA, Charlottesville, Virginia

THOMAS W. STREETER, Morristown, New Jersey

JOHN COOK WYLLIE, Charlottesville, Virginia

COLOPHON

The third volume of the Bibliographical Society Papers, Studies In Bibliography, was set in Monotype Garamont and printed on Strathmore Pastelle Text and Curtis Tweed-weave Cover.

Designing, composition, presswork, sewing and placing in wrappers, were by the William Byrd Press, Inc. of Richmond, Virginia.

One thousand copies were manufactured.