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Notes on Contributors
Gordon N. Ray (1915-1986) spent fourteen years at the University of
Illinois (1946-60), as professor of English and (for the last three years) vice
president and provost, and twenty-five years at the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation (1960-85), as president for all but the first three years.
His publications reflect both his scholarship in Victorian literature (an acclaimed
two-volume biography of Thackeray and an examplary four-volume
edition of Thackeray's letters) and his accomplishments as a major book collector
(three magnificent volumes on English and French book illustration).
His 1985 Lyell Lectures, published for the first time in the present Studies,
form a sequel to the latter volumes.
G. Thomas Tanselle, Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation and Adjunct Professor of English at Columbia University,
is currently president of the Bibliographical Society of the University of
Virginia. The present volume of Studies in Bibliography is the fortieth consecutive
one to which he has contributed.
Steven Escar Smith is Director of the Cushing Memorial Library and
Archives and Associate Dean for Advancement for the Texas A&M University
Libraries. He holds the C. Clifford Wendler Professorship in Library
Science at Texas A&M. His article on the invention of the Hinman Collator
appeared in volume 53 of Studies in Bibliography. He is the author of essays
and reviews in Imprint, The Book Collector, Papers of the Bibliographical
Society of America, Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America,
Kipling Journal, ANQ, Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship, and
elsewhere.
Marcel De Smedt is Professor of Methodology of Germanic Philology
and campus librarian of the Faculty of Arts at the Catholic University of
Louvain (Belgium). For his doctoral dissertation he studied the historiography
of Dutch literature in Belgium in the nineteenth century. He has published
on the historiography of literature, textual criticism, bibliography,
and librarianship.
David L. Gants is Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing at
the University of New Brunswick and Electronic Editor for the Cambridge
Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson. He has published articles on bibliographical,
digital, and textual matters, and is currently directing the Early
English Booktrade Database, a project whose goal is to measure and classify
the known output of the English printing and publishing trade 1470-1640.
Martin C. Battestin is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor Emeritus at the
editions of Fielding's major novels for the authoritative Wesleyan Edition of
the Works, for which he is currently editing the final volume of Fielding's
non-dramatic writings: `The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon,' `Shamela,' and
Occasional Writings.
David Groves has published eight books on James Hogg and two volumes
in the new De Quincey edition. He also edits the annual James Hogg Journal.
Dr. Groves works as a laboratory subject in Toronto.
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