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Addendum: The Printing of Hamlet Q2, by Fredson Bowers (See Studies in Bibliography, vol. VII)

In "The Printing of Hamlet Q2" (SB, VII, 42) I spoke of the difficulty in identifying all the running-titles because of their typographical similarity, but expressed confidence that my table of assignments, with the possible exception of N1, presented the facts with some accuracy. This confidence, it can now be seen, was excessive, for two other assignments in addition to N1 have proved to

be in error. I am indebted to Dr. J. Gerritsen who first pointed out to me these errors after he had compared the running-titles of the British Museum copies; and I am grateful to Dr. C. J. K. Hinman who confirmed the accuracy of Dr. Gerritsen's variant assignments by checking the running-titles in question on his collating machine at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

On p. 42, therefore, the following changes should be made in the table:
II delete 02-N1(?); VI delete O1 V; VII add N1; XIV add O1V; XV add 02

This assignment destroys the case for the printing of sheet O+A before sheet N. I am not altogether happy about the required new explanation, but offer it provisionally.

When press X came to impose outer N (the first through the press), inner I was perfecting on the press and outer I was on the distributing bench. Press Y, despite the help given its compositor by compositor X who had set sigs. L1 and L4V, was slightly behind press X. Press Y was perfecting L inner and, to impose M outer (the first forme through the press), had L outer on the bench.

     

	I(o)			L(o)
VII		VI	XIII		XIV
VIII		V	XIV		XV

It would seem that compositor X, for reasons not at the moment to be determined, imposed outer N from the top four quarters of the two skeletons; and that compositor Y took the remaining bottom four quarters:      

	N(o)			M(o)
XIII		XIV	XV		VIII
VI		VII	XVI		V

When inner I came off press X and inner N was to be imposed; and somewhat later when inner L came off press Y and inner M was to be imposed, the bench would have contained:      

	I(i)			L(i)
II		I	X		IX
III		IV	X		XII

It seems necessary to conjecture that running-title II pied in the stripping or the imposition, for compositor X seems to have taken title XII from L(i) instead of setting a new title. That left compositor Y one title short for his next imposition, and thus when N(o) came off the press before he was prepared to impose M(i), he took title VII from N(o):      

	N(i)			M(i)
XII		I	VII		IX
III		IV	XI		X

Sheet O+A, which in its outer forme used title V and in its inner forme titles XIV and XV, was imposed from the remnants of N(o) containing VI, XIII, XIV, and from M(o) containing V, VIII, XV, XVI. An approximate schedule for the typesetting and printing on the two presses would then be:    

X:

B

C

D

F

I

L1,4V

N

O+A

Y:

E

G

H

K

L1V-4

M

Except for the different position of the O+A pages, this is essentially the same as that printed on p. 49 of the original article.

Addendum: A Check-List of the Writings of Walter de la Mare,
by Leonard Clark (See Studies in Bibliography, vol. VI)

1915
DRUM-TAPS BY WALT WHITMAN (April)
1. Drum-Taps by Walt Whitman.
London; Chatto and Windus; 1915. (iv, 72 p. bound in boards. Introduction by Walter de la Mare. "The introduction is reprinted, by permission, from The Times Literary Supplement of April 1, 1915")

1936
A KITE'S DINNER BY ERIC N. BATTERHAM
1. A Kite's Dinner. Poems in Divers Humours by Eric N. Batterham (Posthumous) With an introduction by Walter de la Mare.
London; Herbert Joseph, Ltd., (5/-)

1939
A PERPETUAL MEMORY AND OTHER POEMS BY SIR HENRY NEWBOLT, C.H. C.LITT.
1. A Perpetual Memory and Other Poems by Henry Newbolt.
London; John Murray; 1939; (v-xix; Part I pp. 1-31; Part II pp. 33-40. With brief memoirs by Walter de la Mare and Ralph Furse and a portrait by Sir William Rothenstein.) (Reprinted by permission of "The Times".)

1946
COLLECTED LYRICAL POEMS BY VIVIAN LOCKE ELLIS
1. Collected Lyrical Poems by Vivian Locke Ellis.
London; Faber and Faber Ltd., (1946) (7/6) (With an introduction by Walter de la Mare)

1948
THE HAMPDENSHIRE WONDER BY J. D. BERESFORD
1. The Hampdenshire Wonder (by) J. D. Beresford.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode; The Century Library 1948 (6/-) (With an introduction by Walter de la Mare)

1949
THE HEDGEROWS (POEMS) BY M. M. JOHNSON
1. The Hedgerows by M. M. Johnson.
London; Constable; 1949. (Introduction by Walter de la Mare. xiii; 71 p.)

1950
THIS EVER DIVERSE PAIR BY G. A. L. BURGEON
1. This Ever Diverse Pair by G. A. L. Burgeon; introduction by Walter de la Mare; London; Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1950; (7/6) (Introduction; pp. 9-12; 14-144)

1952
SNOW-WHITE BY WALTER DE LA MARE
1. Snow-White by Walter de la Mare and illustrated by David Walsh.
London; Hulton Press Ltd., 1952 (2/-; Fairy Tales in Pictures No. 3)

1953 THE CROCK OF GOLD BY JAMES STEPHENS (May)
1. The Crock of Gold (by) James Stephens, With a New Foreword by Walter de la Mare. O.M. C.H.;
London; Pan Books Ltd.; (1953) (2/-)

1953
O LOVELY ENGLAND (November)
1. O Lovely England and Other Poems by Walter de la Mare; Faber; 1953. (Author's note; Contents; pp. 9-80. 10/6d.)

1954
SELECTED POEMS (July)
1. Selected Poems (by) Walter de la Mare; Chosen by R. N. Green-Armitage. London; Faber; 1954. (pp. 9-208; 7/6d.)

1954 THE WINNOWING DREAM BY WALTER DE LA MARE (December)
1. The Winnowing Dream by Walter de la Mare, illustrated by Robin Jacques.
London; Faber and Faber; Ariel Poems (New Series) No. 3. (2/-)

[Withdraw the entry for Plain Facts, SB, Vl, 216];)

Notes On Contributors

PHILIP WILLIAMS, JR., Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia, died tragically in March, 1955.

ARTHUR BROWN, is Lecturer in English at University College London, where he operates a reconstructed Elizabethan printing press. Commonwealth Fund Fellow for research in the United States in 1954-55, he is the editor of John Redford's Wit and Science and Thomas Heywood's The Captives for the Malone Society. He is currently engaged on Arden editions of Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado, and on an edition of the plays of Thomas Heywood for the Clarendon Press.

PAUL L. CANTRELL, teaching at Centre College, is writing his dissertation for the University of Virginia on Compositor B in the Pavier Quartos.

GEORGE WALTON WILLIAMS, graduate student at the University of Virginia, is engaged on special textual studies in Romeo and Juliet.

FREDSON BOWERS is Professor of English at the University of Virginia and Professorial Lecturer in English at the University of Chicago.

ANDREW S. CAIRNCROSS is a Scottish schoolmaster residing near Glasgow. He has been especially active in searching for evidences of annotated-quarto copy in the printing of the Shakespeare First Folio.

ALICE WALKER, of Bude Cornwall, author of Textual Problems of the First Folio, and a distinguished textual scholar, is at present assisting J. Dover Wilson with the final volumes of the New Cambridge Shakespeare.

JOHN RUSSELL BROWN, B. Litt. Oxon., is a Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon and the editor of the recent Arden Merchant of Venice.

CYRUS HOY received his doctorate from the University of Virginia with a dissertation on the collaborations in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon. He was a Fulbright Fellow at Trinity College Cambridge in 1952-53 and is at present Instructor in English at the University of Virginia.

WILLIAM H. BOND is Curator of Manuscripts in the Houghton Library of Harvard University. He was Fulbright Fellow attached to the British Museum in 1952-53.

ROBERT L. HAIG is Instructor in English at the University of Illinois. He is especially interested in the printing history of the 17th and 18th centuries.

JOHN C. GUILDS, JR., who took his doctorate at Duke University under Jay B. Hubbell, is Associate Professor of English at East Central State College of Oklahoma. He is now working on an edition of Simms's short stories.

E. R. HAGEMANN received his doctorate from Indiana University and is at present Instructor in English at the University of California in Los Angeles. He is specializing in American Literature 1860-1900.

LINTON MASSEY, President of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, is an ardent collector of Faulkner and of other modern authors.

DENNIS E. RHODES, especially interested in incunables, is in the Department of Printed Books at the British Museum.

CURT F. BÜHLER, a most active scholar in analyzing incunabula printing, is Keeper of Printed Books at The Pierpont Morgan Library.

WILLIAM RINGLER, Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, and a prominent Renaissance scholar, has written extensively on Lyly, Euphuism, and Gosson.

JOHN L. LIEVSAY, Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, is one of this country's most active Renaissance scholars.

RICHARD BEALE DAVIS, Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, received his doctorate from the University of Virginia. The latest in a series of books from this distinguished scholar is George Sandys: Poet-Adventurer.

WILLIAM B. TODD, the well-known 18th-century bibliographer, is now connected with the Houghton Library at Harvard University.

SEYMOUR L. GROSS, Instructor in English at the University of Indiana (South Bend Center) has published various articles on 19th-century American literature and is now at work on a biography of Ring Lardner.

IRBY B. CAUTHEN received his doctorate from the University of Virginia, where he is now Assistant Professor of English.

EDWIN H. MILLER, Associate Professor of English at Simmons College, is preparing a check list of Walt Whitman correspondence.

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

HOWELL J. HEANEY is Bibliographer in the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia.

LEONARD S. CLARK, a personal friend of Walter de la Mare, is himself a well known English poet and critic.

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