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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.
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 are special listings of active members of the current book trade:
AMERICAN HISTORY, LITERATURE, AND AUTOGRAPHS. Also a Wide Variety of Rare and Out-of-print Books in Many Fields. Catalogues. Goodspeed's Book Shop, 18 Beacon Street, Boston 8, Mass.
AMERICANA, GEOGRAPHY, Early Spanish and Portuguese Books, Incunabula, Bibliographies, History of Science, Books in Slavonic Languages, Out-of-Print Material, Sets of Scientific and Scholarly Periodicals and Publications of Learned Societies. Catalogues Issued. H. P. Kraus, 16 East 46th Street, New York 17, N. Y. Phone: VAnderbilt 6-4808.
AMERICANA—TRAVEL—ATLASES. Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles, 39 Great Russell Street, London, W. C. 1., England, and 16 East 46th Street, New York 17, N. Y.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND REFERENCE APPARATUS for Scholars and Libraries. We are in active touch with foreign markets and can supply materials quickly and economically. Timothy Trace, Red Mill Road, RFD 2, Peekskill, N. Y.
BIBLIOGRAPHY—Reference Books—Printing—Palaeography —Illustration—General Literature—European Travel, etc.
BOOKS ON CHINA AND JAPAN: All related subjects and in all languages. Catalogues issued. Paragon Book Gallery, 2 West 86th Street, New York 24, N. Y.
CANADIANA. Books—Autographs—Prints. Government-and Learned Societies-publications. Enquiries and desideratas sollicited. Catalogues issued. Bernard Amtmann, 169 Daly Avenue, Ottawa, Canada.
DELAWARE PUBLICATIONCFAMILY LETTERS. The Ridgelys of Delaware & Their Circle/ What Them Befell/ in Colonial & Federal Times: Letters 1751-1890. Underhill & Green, 3 The Green, Dover, Delaware. Dutton's, 270 Park Avenue, New York City. Trade edition $7.50.
FRENCH BOOKS, rare, out-of-print, or current. Literature, Literary Criticism, History, Philosophy. Illustrated editions from the 15th to 20th century. Music, Autographs. Pierre Berès, Inc., 6 West 56th St., New York 19, N.Y. Phone:Circle 5-9153.
NORTHWEST BOOKS—Complete index of Northwest authors and writing from 1942-47, supplementing first edition now out of print. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln 8, Nebraska.
NEGRO HISTORY AND LITERATURE. The Negro Author in America from the beginning to the present day. Maxwell Whiteman, 4674 N. Sydenham Street, Philadelphia 40, Pennsylvania.
OLD OR RARE BOOKS, or modern works which are out of print. Catalogues issued. Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 11 Grafton Street, New Bond Street, London, W. 1, England.
RARE FIRST EDITIONS, Famous Press Books, Early American Imprints, Incunabula. Leamington Book Shop, 1713 K Street, N. W., Washington 6, D. C., Phone: REpublic 5258.
SPORTING BOOKS (especially on THE HORSE, out-of-print and current publications in all languages on Breeding, Racing, Hunting, Polo, Riding and Driving), J. A. Allen, 1, Lower Grosvenor Place, Buckingham Palace Road, London, S. W. 1, England.
PAPERS READ BEFORE THE SOCIETY
(Supplementary to the list in Papers, Vol. 1, p.206.)
Chalmers L. Gemmill, of the University of Virginia, "John Baskerville' Typefounder," 11 October 1946. (The Constitution of the Bibliographical Society was not formally adopted until February 26, 1947, but it was at the October 1946 meeting that, under the chairmanship of Dr. Gemmill, a committee was appointed to draw up the Constitution.)
William B. Todd, of the University of Chicago, "The Strange Case of the Monk: A Bibliographical Investigation," 17 December 1948.
Edwin Wolf 2nd, of the Rosenbach Company, "The Textual Importance of Manuscript Commonplace Books of 1620-1660," 14 January 1949.
William B. O'Neal, of the University of Virginia, "William Blake as Illustrator of Books," 25 February 1949.
Robert K. Black, formerly of the University of Virginia, "The Sadleir-Black Gothic Collection," 12 May 1949.
John Alden, of the University of Pennsylvania, "Problems in 18th Century American Bibliography," 20 May 1949.
David Randall, of the Scribner Book Store, "A Northern Firm and its Southern Authors," 19 September 1949.
James G. McManaway, of The Folger Shakespeare Library, "An Apology for Bibliography," 14 October 1949.
WINNERS OF 1949 STUDENT BOOK COLLECTORS'
CONTEST
CLASS A
WILLOUGHBY NEWTON, First Place. (Collection of T. S. Eliot.)
BERTRAM C. COOPER, Second Place. (Collection of Robert Frost.)
GERALDINE C. TURNER, Third Place. (Collection of Robert Frost.)
CLASS B
IRBY B. CAUTHEN, JR., First Place. (Collection on Charleston architecture.)
YANCEY M. TAYLOR, Second Place (Collection of Hispanic-American studies.)
EDWY B. LEE, Third Place. (Collection of literature of the post-World War I generation.)
MIMEOGRAPHED PAPERS DISTRIBUTED BY THE SOCIETY IN 1949
Robert K. Black, "The Sadleir-Black Gothic Collection," 1949.
Edwin Wolf 2nd, "The Textual Importance of Manuscript Commonplace Books of 1620- 1660, 1949.
C. William Miller, "Henry Herringman Imprints: A Preliminary Checklist," 1949. (Out of print.)
Bibliographical Society of America, Committee of 19th Century Publishers, "Preliminary Finding List of Writings on the Kentucky Book Trade," 1949.
Fredson Bowers, "A Supplement to the Woodward & McManaway Check List of English Plays, 1641-1700," 1949.
PUBLICATIONS FOR SALE BY THE SOCIETY
Papers, Vol. I, $3.50. (Free to 1948 members.)
Papers, Vol. I, $5.00. (Free to 1949 members.)
Norfolk Copyright Entries, 1857-1870, transcribed by Barbara Harris, $1.00. (Free to 1947 members.)
A Supplement to the Woodward & McManaway Check List of English Plays 1641-1700, by Fredson Bowers, $1.00. (Free to 1949 members; sent only on request.)
ALL OTHER NON-CURRENT PUBLICATIONS ARE NOW OUT OF PRINT. The Society proposes to offset a limited number of copies of Dr. Paul G. Morrison's Index of Printers, Publishers, and Booksellers in A. W. Pollard and G. R. Redgrave. A Short-title Catalogue of English Books 1475-1640. The 100-page paper-bound volume will be issued about March 1950, and will be available to subscribers only. Advance subscriptions may be sent to the Secretary. The price will be $3.00 to non-members, $2.00 to members.
COLOPHON
The second volume of the Bibliographical Society Papers, Studies In Bibliography wasset in Monotype Garamont and printed on Strathmore Pastelle Text and Curtis Tweed-weave Cover. Designing, composition and presswork wereby the William Byrd Press, Inc. of Richmond, Virginia. The binding was done by L. H. Jenkins, Inc. of Richmond. One thousand copies were printed and bound.
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