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Notes On Contributors
WILLIAM B. TODD, recently received his doctorate from the University of Chicago with a dissertation on new procedures for determining the identity and order of certain eighteenth-century editions. His article is a revision of a paper delivered before the Society in 1948. He is now chairman of the Department of English at Salem College, North Carolina.
PHILIP WILLIAMS, JR., received his doctorate from the University of Virginia in 1949 and is now Instructor in English at Duke University. His dissertation on the text of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida is in process of revision with a view to publication.
GILES E. DAWSON is Curator of Books and Manuscripts at The Folger Shakespeare Library. His article is drawn from material collected for a descriptive bibliography of Shakespeare in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
LESLIE HOTSON, now residing in Arlington, Virginia, continues his distinguished research in the Public Records Office to throw light on Shakespeare and the activities of other Elizabethan authors. The present article is one of the fruits of his latest trip to England which turned up much valuable information about Elizabethan books and publishing.
EUNICE WEAD, of Hartford, Connecticut, was for several years Curator of Rare Books at the General Library of the University of Michigan, and later a member of the faculty of the University's Department of Library Science, resigning in 1945. Her interest in blind-tooled bindings, first aroused by some remarkable specimens in Austrian monastic libraries, has been pursued in various parts of Europe and the United States.
LAWRENCE G. STARKEY received his doctorate from the University of Virginia in 1949 and is now instructor in English at the University of Delaware. The present article derives from his dissertation on a publishing history and descriptive bibliography of the Cambridge Press in Massachusetts.
J. ALBERT ROBBINS, Instructor in English at Duke University, is the author of various articles on nineteenth-century American periodicals which have appeared in the General Magazine and Historical Chronicle and the Bulletin of the New York Public Library.
MERTON M. SEALTS, JR., Assistant Professor of English at Lawrence College, has contributed articles on Melville to various journals. His edition of Melville's uncollected prose, Stories and Sketches, is scheduled for early publication in the new Hendricks House edition of Melville's works.
C. WILLIAM MILLER, who received his doctorate from the University of Virginia in 1940, is now Associate Professor of English at Temple University. His trial Check List of Henry Herringman Publications has recently been issued in mimeographed form by the Society. The present article is a revision of material drawn from his Virginia dissertation on Orrery's Parthenissa.
JAMES S. STECK, a graduate student in the School of English at the University of Virginia, is at work on a dissertation concerned with the printing and textual history of various Dryden plays.
RODNEY M. BAINE, Associate Professor of English at the University of Richmond, received his B. A. and B. Litt. degrees from Oxford where he studied under the distinguished bibliographer Strickland Gibson.
EDWIN E. WILLOUGHBY, well known for his studies in Shakespeare's First Folio, is in charge of cataloguing at The Folger Shakespeare Library. GEORGE W. WILLIAMS recently received his M. A. in the School of English at the University of Virginia.
IRBY B. CAUTHEN, JR., is a graduate student in the School of English at the University of Virginia.
PAUL S. DUNKIN, Senior Cataloguer at The Folger Shakespeare Library, is a frequent contributor to bibliographical journals in England and the United States.
JEREMIAH S. FINCH, Lecturer in English and Assistant Dean at Princeton University, has a new biography of Sir Thomas Browne scheduled for early publication.
EDMUND P. DANDRIDGE, JR., received his M. A. from the University of Michigan and is at present a graduate student in the School of English at the University of Virginia.
COOLIE VERNER, Associate in Community Services, Extension Division of the University of Virginia, is working on the bibliography of Jefferson's Notes with special attention to the inserted maps.
JESSIE RYON LUCKE received her doctorate in 1949 from the University of Virginia and is now Instructor in English at New York University.
FREDSON BOWERS, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, directs a graduate seminar in bibliographical research.
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