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Notes On Contributors
JOSEPH M. CARRIÈRE, Professor of French at the University of Virginia, has taken as his specialty the study of Franco-American cultural relations, with emphasis on Jefferson's connection with France.
JESSIE RYON LUCKE is a graduate student in the School of English at the University of Virginia.
C. WILLIAM MILLER, who received his doctorate from the University of Virginia, is now Assistant Professor of English at Temple University. He is making a study of the Restoration publisher Henry Herringman.
GILES E. DAWSON is Curator of Books and Manuscripts at The Folger Shakespeare Library. For some time he has been writing a descriptive bibliography of Shakespeare in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
PHILIP WILLIAMS is a graduate student in the School of English at the University of Virginia. He is preparing a doctoral dissertation on the text of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.
RUDOLF HIRSCH, Assistant Librarian in the Preparation Division of the Library of the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of various studies in publishing history.
JAMES G. MCMANAWAY, Consultant in Bibliography and Literature at The Folger Shakespeare Library, is a graduate of
GEORGE B. PACE is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Virginia. The present article is part of his project to reclassify the manuscripts of Chaucer's minor poems.
CURT F. BÜHLER, of The Pierpont Morgan Library, is well known through his numerous publications as an authority on incunabula.
GERALD J. EBERLE, Associate Professor of English Literature at Loyola University of the South, is working on an edition of Thomas Middleton's London comedies. His article is a revision of a paper delivered before the Bibliographical Evidence Section of the Modern Language Association of America in 1947.
ALLAN H. STEVENSON, Assistant Professor of English at the Illinois Institute of Technology, is interested in the history of the Werburgh Street Dublin theater and in Caroline printers and printing-house practice. He is editing a selection of the plays of James Shirley.
FILLMORE NORFLEET is head of the French Department at Woodberry Forest. He is the author of St. Mémin in Virginia.
GUY A. BATTLE is a graduate student at Duke University. He is completing a doctoral dissertation of an edition of Beaumont and Fletcher's Love's Cure.
JAMES S. STECK is a graduate student in the School of English at the University of Virginia.
GEORGE W. WILLIAMS is a graduate student in the School of English at the University of Virginia.
MARY VIRGINIA BOWMAN is a graduate student in the School of English at the University of Virginia.
FREDSON BOWERS, Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is writing a descriptive bibliography of the post-Restoration English Drama 1660-1700.
Informative Listings
THE Secretary of the Society maintains full files of catalogues of book dealers in the Rare Book Room of the University of Virginia Library, where they may be consulted by the members. Names of reliable dealers in special fields will be supplied to members by the Secretary on request.
The following special listings it is hoped may be greatly extended in future volumes of the papers. These are advertisements of active members of the current book trade:
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PAPERS WHICH HAVE BEEN READ BEFORE THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
Fredson Bowers, of the University of Virginia, "Some Problems and Practices in Bibliographical Descriptions of Modern Authors," 26 February 1947.
Charlie D. Hurt, of Roanoke, Virginia, "The Monotype," 18 April 1947.
Charlton Hinman, of Johns Hopkins University, "Why 79 First Folios?'' 6 June 1947.
Kenneth S. Giniger, of New York City, "The Effect of Modern Publishing Production Practices on Book Collecting," 8 October 1947.
Walter L. Pforzheimer, of Washington, D. C., "On Copyright," 17 October 1947.
H. W. Tribolet, of Chicago, "Processes of Hand Bookbinding and Restoration," 24 October 1947.
Earl K. Fischer, of the Institute of Textile Technology, "On Printing Inks," 17 November 1947.
C. William Miller, of Temple University, "Henry Herringman," 13 February 1948.
Coolie Verner, of the University of Virginia, "First Maps of Virginia," 12 March 1948.
Giles E. Dawson, of the Folger Shakespeare Library, "The Career of R. Walker, Printer-Publisher, 1719-1750," 14 May 1948.
Charles H. Lindsley, of the Institute of Textile Technology, "Scientific Incunabula," 8 October 1948.
James G. McManaway, of the Folger Shakespeare Library, "Two Prompt Books of Hamlet," 12 November 1948.
MIMEOGRAPHED PAPERS WHICH HAVE BEEN DISTRIBUTED BY THE SOCIETY
Fredson Bowers, "Description of the Six Impressions of Washington Irving's Wolfert's Roost," 1947.
Charlton Hinman, "Why 79 First Folios?" 1947.
"Norfolk Copyright Entries, 1837-1870, Transcribed by Barbara Harris with some notes by John Wyllie" 1947.
Earl K. Fischer, "Printing Ink," 1948.
C. William Miller, "Henry Herringman," 1948.
COLOPHON
One thousand copies of this volume have been printed in December 1948 at the William Byrd Press in Richmond, Virginia, under the supervision of Willis Shell, one of the Society's charter members.
The text is set in Monotype Garamont, a face designed by Frederic W. Goudy for the Lanston Monotype Machine Company of Philadelphia in 1920. The type face was drawn from the 16th century designs of Claude Garamond, and named for the Latin form of the Frenchman's name.
The type for the book was keyboarded by Captain Horace F. Webb and cast by Allen H. Kelly. The hand composition was by S. Frank Spencer, and C. Raymond Brown, the presswork by James W. and Raymond E. Knight. The paper is Strathmore Pastelle Text. The binding is by Meister & Smethie and the William Byrd Press.
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