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Notes On Contributors
Norman Holmes Pearson is Associate Professor of English and director of the undergraduate program in the Department of American Studies at Yale University. In reference to his experience as a literary executor, he says only that he has been an "interested and sympathetic observer."
Thomas H. Johnson is Chairman of the English Department of The Lawrenceville School and recipient of a three-year grant from the Guggenheim Foundation to edit the poems and letters of Emily Dickinson in a variorum edition for the Harvard University Press.
Harris Chewning received his doctorate from the University of Virginia and is at present Chairman of the Department of English at Queens College, Charlotte, N.C.
Eloise Pafort, assistant in charge of post-incunabula publications at The Pierpont Morgan Library, is making the study of Wynkyn de Worde her specialty.
Richard E. Hasker is studying for his doctorate at the University of Virginia with a dissertation on the text of Richard II. He is Associate Professor of English at Randolph-Macon College.
Irby Cauthen, Jr., received his doctorate from the University of Virginia with a dissertation on the text of King Lear. He is Assistant Professor of English at Hollins College.
William B. Todd, Chairman of the English Department at Salem College, and this year a Fulbright Fellow for Advanced Research in the United Kingdom, is the author of numerous articles on 18th-century bibliography.
Donald F. Bond, Professor of English at the University of Chicago, is preparing a critical edition of the Spectator for the Clarendon Press.
Philip Gaskell attended King's College Cambridge and did research there as Austen-Leigh Student under A. N. L. Munby for his doctorate. He is at present editor of The Book Collector.
W. R. Keast is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University. He is preparing an edition of Johnson's critical essays.
Campbell R. Coxe, Yale '17, has been a book collector for many years and is now turning to the investigation of special problems in twentieth-century printing.
Curt F. Bühler, Curator of Books at The Pierpont Morgan Library, is an authority on incunabula and their bibliographical analysis. Sarah Dickson is the Librarian of the important Arents Tobacco Collection in the New York Public Library.
Marion H. Hamilton, Assistant Professor of English at Wellesley College, received her doctorate from the University of Virginia with a dissertation on the text of Dryden's State of Innocence.
Fredson Bowers, Professor of English at the University of Virginia and Professorial Lecturer in English at the University of Chicago, is this year a Fulbright Fellow for Advanced Research in the United Kingdom.
Raymond A. Biswanger, Jr., received his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania and is at present Instructor of English at the Cortland State Teachers College, part of the State University of New York.
Jeanne Masengill, at present resident with her husband in Thailand, received her doctorate from the University of Virginia with a dissertation on the text of selected plays of Fielding.
Oliver Steele is a graduate student in the Schools of English at the University of Virginia, where he is studying for his doctorate.
Allen T. Hazen, the noted bibliographer of Walpole, is Professor of English in the School of Library Science at Columbia University.
Arthur Friedman, Professor of English at the University of Chicago, is preparing an edition of Goldsmith's collected works.
Robert R. Rea, Assistant Professor of History at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, is the author of several articles dealing with the English press during the reign of George III.
Kenneth Curry is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. He has recently prepared an edition of the unpublished letters of Robert Southey.
Coolie Verner of Teachers College at Columbia University and Fulbright Fellow in the United Kingdom for 1952-53, is making a thorough study of Jefferson's Notes.
P. J. Conkwright, Typographer to the Princeton University Press, is best known to bibliographers for his work on the firm of Binny & Ronaldson, Scottish-American typefounders of Philadelphia, whose typefaces have survived in the present-day face called "Monticello," now being used to produce the Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
Walter Harding, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is Secretary of the Thoreau Society.
Rudolf Hirsch is the expert on incunabula for the University of Pennsylvania Library. Howell J. Heaney is librarian for Thomas W. Streeter, collector of Americana and bibliographer, of Morristown, N. J.
Ernst Kyriss, of Stuttgart, Germany, has an international reputation for his identifications of early book bindings.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
OFFICERS
President, LINTON R. MASSEY, "Kinloch", Keswick, Virginia
Vice-President, ARTHUR F. STOCKER, Box 1441, University Station, Charlottesville, Virginia
Editor, FREDSON BOWERS, c/o U. S. Educational Commission for the United Kingdom, 55 Upper Brook Street, London, W. I. England
Secretary-Treasurer, JOHN COOK WYLLIE, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Virginia
Hon. Secretary-Treasurer for the British Isles, MRS. DOUGLAS WYLLIE, Templeton Library, 51 John Street, Helensburgh, Scotland
Hon. Secretary-Treasurer for Chile, DR. RICARDO DONOSO, Presidente, Sociedad de Bibliófilos Chilenos, Archivo Nacional, Santiago, Chile
Hon. Secretary-Treasurer for France, MR. HENRI A. TALON, Faculté des Lettres, 36 rue Chabot-Charny, Dijon (Côte d'Or), France
Hon. Secretary-Treasurer for India, DR. S. R. RANGANATHAN, Delhi University Library, University Buildings, Delhi 8, India
COUNCIL
(Officers and ex-presidents are ex-officio members.)
| Chalmers L. Gemmill | Mrs. Randolph Catlin |
| Atcheson L. Hench | Jack Dalton |
| Mrs. Vincent Shea | Joseph M. Carrière |
The Papers, under the title of Studies in Bibliography, are issued annually by the Society in addition to various bibliographical pamphlets in mimeographed or offset form, and a news sheet. This present volume may be purchased by non-members for $6 a copy; Vol. 4 for $6 a copy; and Vols. I-3 for $5 a copy.
Membership in the Society is solicited according to the following categories:
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All matters pertaining to business affairs, including applications for membership, should be sent to the secretary, John Cook Wyllie, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville Virginia, U.S.A. The Society's authorized advertising agent in New York City is Mr. H. Thayer Heaton, 141 East 44th Street, New York 17. Enquiries concerning foreign memberships should be sent to the foreign secretaries.
The Society expresses its gratitude to the English Institute for permission to print the first two papers in this volume which were read before the 1951 meetings of the Institute.
The publication of this volume of Studies in Bibliography, the Papers of the Society, has been materially aided by an anonymous grant, and by grants from the Research Committee of the University of Virginia, and the Research Council of the Richmond Area University Center.
WINNERS OF 1952 STUDENT BOOK COLLECTORS' CONTEST
| ROBERT CAMPBELL, JR. | NORRIS RANDOLPH |
| ROBERT STOCKWELL | HORACE B. COOKE, II |
WINNERS OF THE PRINTERS' CONTEST FOR BEST PRINTING IN VIRGINIA 1951-1952
Winner of 5 First Places
Whittet & Shepperson of Richmond
Winners of 3 First Places
Cooper-Trent of Arlington Everett Waddey Company of Richmond
University of Virginia Press of Charlottesville
William Byrd Press of Richmond
Winners of 2 First Places
Baughman Company of Richmond
Jarman Printing Company of Charlottesville
Journalism Laboratory Press of Lexington
Humphries Press of Waynesboro
Old Dominion Press of Richmond
Stone Printing & Manufacturing Company of Roanoke
Other First Place Winners
Commonwealth Press of Radford
Holly Hill Press of Fredericksburg
Ideal Printing Company of Norfolk
C. Harold Lauck of Lexington
Newport News Forms Company of Newport News
Virginia Gazette of Williamsburg
PAPERS READ BEFORE THE SOCIETY
(SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE LISTS IN PREVIOUS VOLUMES.)
Arthur Stocker of the University of Virginia, "Publication of Classical TextsCEspecially Latin Ones before the Invention of Printing; and the Distribution of Manuscripts in the Middle Ages," 28 September 1951.
Percy Muir of London, "Rogues and Vagabonds in the Book Trade," 24 October 1951.
Howard S. Mott of New York City, "Collecting Southern Amateur Fiction of the 19th Century," 7 November 1951.
William Barrow of Richmond, Virginia, "Restoration of Manuscripts," 20 November 1951.
Charles C. Fleming of Richmond, Virginia, "Recognition of Type Faces," 7 December 1951.
A. K. Davis of the University of Virginia, "Matthew Arnold and Victor Marshall, a Little-Known Chapter in Arnold's Life with Eleven Unpublished Letters of Arnold's," 29 February 1952.
Mrs. Roy Arthur Hunt of Pittsburgh, "Highlights of Botanical Illustration," 25 April 1952.
Philip Williams of Duke University, "The Copy for the Quarto and Folio Troilus and Cressida," 9 May 1952.
Irby B. Cauthen, Jr., of Hollins College, "The Text of King Lear: Problem and Method," 9 May 1952.
Fredson Bowers of the University of Virginia, "Bibliography, Pure Bibliography, and Literary Studies," 9 May 1952.
Joseph Graves of Lexington, Kentucky, "Victor Hammer of Kentucky," 9 May 1952.
Earle Lutz of Richmond, Virginia, "Soldier Newspapers of the Civil War," 9 May 1952.
David McCord Wright of the University of Virginia, "Henry Wemyss Feilden, British Confederate, Friend of Kipling and of H. Rider Haggard," 17 October 1952.
Student Round Tables were also held on binding, paper, imposition, handpress work, etc.
ISSUED BY THE SOCIETY DURING THE YEAR TO MEMBERS
Cornerstones of Confederate Collecting, by Richard Barksdale Harwell.
The Editing of Recent Historical Papers and their Value for the Literary Student, by Helene Maxwell Hooker.
Exhibition Catalogue, Books, Drawings, Prints, from the Botanical Collection of Mrs. Roy Arthur Hunt, annotated by Ruth Evelyn Byrd.
English Prose Fiction, 1600-1640, by Charles C. Mish.
English Prose Fiction, 1641-1660, by Charles C Mish.
Collecting Southern Amateur Fiction of the 19th Century, by Howard S. Mott.
Assembling, Arranging, and Publicizing Literary Manuscripts, by Herman E. Spivey.
Thomas Jefferson Prayer Book Facsimile.
A Virginia Gentleman's Library as Proposed by Thomas Jefferson to Robert Skipwith in 1771 and now Assembled in the Brush-Everard House, Williamsburg, Virginia.
PAPERS FORMERLY READ BEFORE THE SOCIETY AND NOW PUBLISHED BY AGENCIES OTHER THAN THE SOCIETY
"Bibliography, Pure Bibliography, and Literary Studies," by Fredson Bowers, in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Vol. 46, Third Quarter, 1952, p. 186-208.
"Browning Societies in America," by Louise Greer, in her Browning and America, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1952, Chapter 7, p. 163-186.
CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS FOR 1952
WILLIAM H. BULKELEY, Hartford, Connecticut
HARRY CLEMONS, Charlottesville, Virginia
KENNETH S. GINIGER, Washington, D. C.
JOHN D. GORDAN, New York City
JOHN E. MANAHAN, Radford, Virginia
LINTON R. MASSEY, Keswick, Virginia
CARL PFORZHEIMER, Purchase, New York
ELEANOR SHEA, Charlottesville, Virginia
THOMAS STREETER, Morristown, New Jersey
JOHN COOK WYLLIE, Charlottesville, Virginia
COLOPHON
Volume Five of the Society's Papers, STUDIES IN BIBLIOGRAPHY, was designed, composed and printed by the William Byrd Press, Inc., of Richmond, Virginia.
The engravings were made by the Royal En-graving Company of Richmond, Virginia. The text stock is Strathmore Pastelle and the paper used on the covers is Tweedweave Text.
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