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Notes On Contributors

RICHARD D. ALTICK is Professor of English at the Ohio State University. Out of his original interest in the history of cheap reprints of the English classics (as represented by his paper in this volume) developed the broader concern with the whole history of the English mass reading public of which the fruit is his book The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 (1957).

ROBERT HALSBAND is Associate Professor of English at Hunter College, is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, and author of The Life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

GEORGE WALTON WILLIAMS, who received his doctorate from the University of Virginia with a dissertation on the text of Romeo and Juliet, is Assistant Professor of English at Duke University.

R. A. FOAKES is a Lecturer in English at the University of Durham. He has edited Henry VIII for the Arden edition of Shakespeare's plays, and is now working on an edition of The Comedy of Errors for the same series.

FREDERICK O. WALLER received his doctorate at the University of Chicago with a dissertation on The Two Noble Kinsmen and is now Assistant Professor of English at Portland (Oregon) State College.

CYRUS HOY received his doctorate from the University of Virginia and is now Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. This is the third part of a monograph on the authorship of the Beaumont and Fletcher canon. A further part will appear in the next volume of these Studies.

CYPRIAN BLAGDEN, of Longman, Green & Co., in London, is author of various important works on 17th-century publishing history.

JOHAN GERRITSEN received his doctorate from the University of Groningen, and is at present on the staff of the Royal Library, The Hague. His main interests are the pre-Restoration drama and the organization of handpress printing.

WILLIAM B. TODD received his doctorate from the University of Chicago and is now in the Houghton Library of Harvard University. His numerous writings on 18th-century bibliography have illuminated dark corners in this field.

DAVID V. ERDMAN, author of Blake: Prophet Against Empire, is preparing an edition of Coleridge's prose in the Morning Post and a study of Coleridge in the Review Business. Dr. Erdman is editor of the Bulletin of the New York Public Library.

ROLLO SILVER, Professor of Library Science at Simmons College, is an enthusiastic historian of 19th-century and earlier American printing.

C. WILLIAM MILLER, who received his doctorate from the University of Virginia, is Associate Professor of English at Temple University and is working with the proposed Franklin edition.

WILLIAM WHITE, acting chairman of the Journalism Department of Wayne State University, has written extensively on contemporary British and American literature and has compiled bibliographies of a number of modern authors, including A. E. Housman, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, J. P. Marquand, and Emily Dickinson.

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

DENNIS E. RHODES, whose main study is the incunable, is in the Department of Printed Books at the British Museum.

JOHN RUSSELL BROWN is Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham. He has edited The Merchant of Venice in the New Arden Shakespeare and is completing an edition of Webster's White Devil.

LOIS SPENCER, Graduate of Oxford University (St. Hilda's College), is Staff Tutor in English Literature to the Extra-Mural Department (Tutorial Classes) of the University of London.

JOHN ALDEN, in the Rare Books Division of the Boston Public Library, has made a particular study of Irish printing.

GWIN J. KOLB, co-author of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, is Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago.

ARTHUR FRIEDMAN, Professor of English at the University of Chicago, is completing his edition of Goldsmith for the Clarendon Press.

MATTHEW J. BRUCCOLI is a graduate student at the University of Virginia, especially interested in the problems of plated books.

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.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

OFFICERS

President, LINTON R. MASSEY, "Kinloch," Keswick, Virginia

Vice-President, JACK DALTON, Preston Court Apts., Charlottesville, Virginia

Editor, FREDSON BOWERS, 530 Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Editor, JOHN COOK WYLLIE, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Virginia

Hon. Secretary-Treasurer for the British Isles, MRS. DOUGLAS WYLLIE, Lyleston House, Cardross, Dunbartonshire, Scotland

Hon. Secretary-Treasurer for Chile, DR. RICARDO DONOSO, President, Sociedad de Bibliófilos Chilenos, Archivo Nacional, Santiago, Chile

Hon. Secretary-Treasurer for Finland, DR. JORMA VALLINKOSKI, University Library, Finland

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 Germany, DR. RICHARD MUMMENDEY, Meckenheimer Allee 117, Bonn, Germany

Hon. Secretary-Treasurer for India, DR. S. R. RANGANATHAN, Delhi University Library, University Building, Delhi 8, India

Hon. Secretary-Treasurer for the Netherlands, DR. JOHAN GERRITSEN, 36 Nassaukade, Voorschoten, the Netherlands

Hon. Secretary-Treasurer for Venezuela, DR. PEDRO GRASES, Biblioteca Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela

COUNCIL

WILLIAM B. O'NEAL 1954-1958
JOSEPH M. CARRIèRE 1956-1960
ELEANOR SHEA 1955-1959
SEARS R. JAYNE 1957-1961

PAST PRESIDENTS

CHALMERS L. GEMMILL
ATCHESON L. HENCH

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CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS FOR 1957

G. M. ALEXANDER, Lynchburg, Virginia
WILLIAM P. BARLOW, JR., Piedmont, California
C. WALLER BARRETT, New York City
ROBERT BEARE, New York City
PERCY W. BROWN, Cleveland, Ohio
CURT F. BÜHLER, New York City
WILLIAM H. BULKELEY, Hartford, Connecticut
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago, Illinois
MRS. LOUIS HENRY COHN, New York City
MRS. EDWIN CORLE, Santa Barbara, California
RALPH L. COURTNEY, Arlington, Virginia
GEORGE S. COYLE, Ware Neck, Virginia
JACK DALTON, Charlottesville, Virginia
C. VERNON EDDY, Winchester, Virginia
EMORY UNIVERSITY, Georgia
CHARLES E. FEINBERG, Detroit, Michigan
FORT HAYS KANSAS STATE COLLEGE, Hays, Kansas
JOHN D. GORDAN, New York City
GEORGE L. HARDING, Palo Alto, California
RICHARD B. HARWELL, Chicago, Illinois
CARL HAVERLIN, Bronxville, New York
THOMAS HORAN, Brooklyn, New York
EMMET FIELD HORINE, Brooks, Kentucky
HOWARD UNIVERSITY, Washington, D.C.
HAROLD R. JENKINS, Lexington, Kentucky
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, Lexington, Kentucky
N. A. KOVACH, Los Angeles, California
JOHN E. MANAHAN, Scottsville, Virginia
LINTON R. MASSEY, Keswick, Virginia
CAROL MCCARTHY, Washington, D.C.
NICHOLAS MEYER, East Williston, New York
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, East Lansing, Michigan
NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE AT DURHAM, Durham, North Carolina
WILLIAM B. O'NEAL, Charlottesville, Virginia
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, Oregon
THE CARL H. PFORZHEIMER LIBRARY, Purchase, New York
SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY, Saint Louis, Missouri
ELEANOR SHEA, Charlottesville, Virginia
JAMES F. SPOERRI, Chicago, Illinois
THOMAS W. STREETER, Morristown, New Jersey
THOMAS F. TORREY, Madison Heights, Virginia
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, Cambridge, England
DUDLEY L. VAILL, JR., Albany, New York
HARRY A. WALTON, JR., Covington, Virginia
JULIA WIGHTMAN, New York City
RICHARD S. WORMSER, New York City
JOHN COOK WYLLIE, Charlottesville, Virginia

WINNERS OF THE 1957 AWARDS

RICHARD H. PEAKE, JR., in the field of book collecting
MATTHEW J. BRUCCOLI, in the field of bibliography
ROBERT K. TURNER, JR., in the field of bibliography

MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY

Peter Laslett of Trinity College, Cambridge, "Book Collectors and John Locke," November 30, 1956.

Edgar Osborne, British Archivist and Bibliophile, "Crime and Punishment in the Nursery; or, From Morality and Instruction to Beatrix Potter," December 13, 1956.

Charles E. Feinberg of Detroit, "Walt Whitman's Difficulties with Publishers and Booksellers," February 15, 1957.

Fredson Bowers of the University of Virginia, "Textual and Literary Study," April 9, 1957.

Clifford K. Shipton, Librarian of the American Antiquarian Society, "American Ghosts: Bibliographic Hauntings in Evans," May 1, 1957.

Of papers formerly reported as having been read before the Society, Mr. Joseph Graves' "Victor Hammer, Calligrapher, Punch-Cutter, & Printer," an address made May 9, 1952, has been reprinted in the November, 1955, issue of the Amateur Book Collector (now the American Book Collector).

PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY DURING THE YEAR

Studies in Bibliography, vol. 9, edited by Fredson Bowers. Sent to Contributing, Subscribing, and Student members. Additional copies available to members at $5.00. Available to non-members at $7.50.

Studies in Bibliography, Volume 10. Reprints of the Checklist of Bibliographical Scholarship for 1949-1954, with an index to the entries for 1948-1957 by Anne Freudenberg.

Secretary's News Sheet, Nos. 36-37. Sent to all members.

Bibliography of South Carolina, 1563-1950, by Robert J. Turnbull. 5 volumes. Sent to Contributing Members. Available to members at $50 a set, to non-members at $85 a set.

Thoreau's Library, by Walter Harding. Advance copies sent to all members. Bound copies available at $3.50.

A Bibliographical Examination of the Earliest Editions of the Letters of Junius, by T. H. Bowyer. Sent to Contributing Members. Available to members at $3.60 a copy, to non-members at $6.00 a copy.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS

Maryland Imprints, 1801-1810, by Roger P. Bristol. $7.50 ($4.00 to members).

Cornerstones of Confederate Collecting, by Richard Barksdale Harwell. $2.50.

A Preliminary Check List of Tennessee Imprints, 1861-1866 by Eleanor Drake Mitchell. $2.00 ($1.00 to members).

A Preliminary Check List of Lexington, Kentucky Imprints, 1821-1850, by Roscoe Pierson. $2.00 ($1.00 to members).

A Centennial Check-List of the Editions of Henry David Thoreau's Walden, by Walter Harding. $2.50.

Index of Printers, Publishers and Booksellers in Donald Wing's Short-Title Catalogue, 1641-1700, by Paul G. Morrison. $20.00 ($10.00 to members).

A Checklist of Verse by David Garrick, by Mary E. Knapp. $5.00 ($2.75 to members).

A Prospect of Society by Oliver Goldsmith, by William B. Todd. $5.00 ($2.75 to members).

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

James Branch Cabell: A Bibliography of his Writings, Biography, and Criticism, by Frances Joan Brewer.

James Branch Cabell: A Bibliography. Part II. Notes on the Cabell Collections at the University of Virginia, by Matthew J. Bruccoli.

Maxwell Anderson Bibliography, by Martha Cox.

A Carto-Bibliographical Study of The English Pilot, The Fourth Book, with Special Reference to the Charts of Virginia, by Coolie Verner.

Heads Across the Sea: An Album of Eighteenth Century English Literary Portraits in America, by Frances Sharf Fink.

Bookbinding in Colonial Virginia, by C. Clement Samford and John M. Hemphill, II.

Romance Languages and Literatures as Presented in German Doctoral Dissertations, 1885-1950, a Bibliography, by Hans Flasche.

The Muses Mourn: A Checklist of Verse Occasioned by the Death of Charles II, by John Alden.

STUDIES IN BIBLIOGRAPHY

VOLUME 1, $7.50 ($5.00 to members). 206 p. Includes articles on Jefferson, Post-restoration imprints, Shakespeare, Sandys, Aldus, Chaucer, William de Machlinia, Nosce Teipsum, Watermarks, Saint Memin, Beaumont and Fletcher, Center Rules, Crashaw, Tennyson-Hallam, and Running-titles.

VOLUME 2, $7.50 ($5.00 members). 213 p. Includes articles on The Monk, Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth, Binding Stamps, Cambridge Press, Melville, Dryden, Printer's measure, Steele, "The Twelfth Day of December," Journals of the Continental Congress, Sir Thomas Browne, Jefferson, and Lockman's Jesuits.

VOLUME 3, $7.50 ($5.00 to members). 306 p. Includes articles on Editorial problems, Copy-text, Bookbindings, Shakespeare, Thomas Newcomb, Press figures, Printer's Lobby, James Kirke Paulding, Thomas Drue, Middleton, Restoration plays, Addison, English literary criticism, Tyrwhitt's Chaucer, Crabbe, Cambridge Press, Scotch type, Continental Congress, Farrer Map of Virginia, and Poe's Alone.

VOLUME 4, $7.50 ($5.00 to members). 237 p. Includes articles on Shakespeare, Samuel Daniel, Eighteenth- Century editorial problems, Watermarks, Chaucer, Milton and Machiavelli, Servius' Virgil, Early American presses, Ratdolt, A King and No King, Dryden, John Banks, Swift, Adam Clarke, Murray reprints of George Crabbe, Harvard's Humble Proposal, Belcher & Armstrong, Lowell, Howells, Sherwood Anderson, and T. S. Eliot.

VOLUME 5, $7.50 ($5.00 to members). 234 p. Includes articles on Literary executorship, Emily Dickinson, Wynkyn de Worde, Shakespeare, Milton, The Spectator, Eighteenth-Century type, Samuel Johnson, Booth Tarkington, Machlinia, Seventeenth-Century plagiarism, Dryden, D'Urfey, Fielding, Case of the Planters of Tobacco in Virginia. Baskerville & Whatman, Goldsmith, Gibbon, Southey, Jefferson, Walt Whitman, and Binding stamps.

VOLUME 6, $7.50 ($5.00 to members). 288 p. Includes articles on English publishing 1852, Goldsmith, Shakespeare, Servius' Virgil, Wynkyn de Worde, Robert Greene, John Webster, a Cavalier Library of 1643, Ballads of 17th century, chain-indentations in paper, Walter de la Mare, contributors to the North American Review, Giordano Ruffo, Dublin printing, Dryden, Johnson, Meredith, and Whitman.

VOLUME 7, $7.50 ($5.00 to members). 243 p. Includes articles on Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith, Parisian panel stamps, printers' ornaments, Peele, Valerius Maximus, Milton, the missing Term Catalogue, London Newspapers, Strawberry Hill, Matthew Arnold, Bari printing, and 19th-century Boston printers.

VOLUME 8, $7.50 ($5.00 to members). 275 p. Includes articles on Shakespeare, John Webster, Beaumont and Fletcher, a 16th-century printer's manuscript, the King's Printing Office, William Gilmore Simms, John William De Forest, Faulkner, Aristotle, Sebald Pirckheimer, Skelton, William Barley, George Sandys, Lyttelton, Hawthorne, John Esten Cooke, and Walt Whitman.

VOLUME 9, $7.50 ($5.00 to members). 273 p. Includes articles on Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, Yeats, the Stationers' Company, Beaumont and Fletcher, initials in British Renaissance books, Keats, Colburn-Bentley, twenty-fours with three signatures, watermarks, John Donne, Lord Hailes, Sir Walter Scott, Coxe's A Description of Carolana, ballads, Page's "Marse Chan," and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

COLOPHON

Volume Eleven of the Society's Papers, Studies in Bibliography, was produced at the University of Virginia Press. Linotype, Baskerville 11, 10, and 8 point, leaded, was employed. Headings were set in 18 point Kennerley. The volume was bound by Charles H. Bohn of New York City.

One thousand copies were manufactured on Strathmore Pastelle text stock.