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Notes On Contributors

R. C. BALD, Professor of English at Cornell University, has edited a number of early printed books and manuscripts, among them the complex Middleton Game at Chess.

SIR WALTER GREG, the eminent English bibliographer and textual critic, was knighted in the June, 1950, Honors List for services to the state in the field of literature His latest publication is a definitive two-text edition of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.

FREDSON BOWERS, Professor of English at the University of Virginia and Visiting Professor of English at the University of Chicago, conducts a seminar in bibliographical research.

ARCHIBALD A. HILL, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, uses linguistics as an approach to the study of early manuscript texts.

CURT F. BÜHLER, of The Pierpont Morgan Library, is an authority on incunabula who frequently contributes to bibliographical journals.

ERNST KYRISS, of Stuttgart, Germany, has an international reputation for his specialist studies in 15th-century bookbindings. The translator, Lawrence S. Thompson, is director of the University of Kentucky Libraries.

PHILIP WILLIAMS, now Assistant Professor of English at Duke University, received his doctorate in 1949 from the University of Virginia.

CHARLTON HINMAN, Assistant Professor of English at The Johns Hopkins University, received his doctorate from the University of Virginia in I942. He is proposing to collate the Folger collection of First Folios by means of a scanning machine which he has invented.

C. WILLIAM MILLER, Associate Professor of English at Temple University, received his doctorate from the University of Virginia in 1940.

WILLIAM B. TODD, Professor of English at Salem College, is engaged in several specialist studies of 18th-century printing practices. ROLLO G. SILVER, of the Peabody Institute Library, is especially concerned with 19th-century American publishing and printing history.


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J. ALBERT ROBBINS, the author of several articles on early 19th-century American writers, is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University.

LESLIE M. OLIVER, of the Houghton Library, Harvard University, is the author of various studies relating Elizabethan history to literature, with especial reference to the works of the martyrologist John Foxe.

GERALD J. EBERLE, Associate Professor of English at Loyola University of the South, is collaborating on an edition of the London comedies of Thomas Middleton.

ROBERT N. E. MEGAW is Instructor in English at Williams College; HOMER GOLDBERG, and FREDERICK WALLER are doctoral graduates of the University of Chicago.

ROBERT D. HORN, Professor of English at the University of Oregon, has made a special study of the panegyrics and satires relating to the campaigns of the Duke of Marlborough.

RODNEY M. BAINE, Associate Professor of English at the University of Richmond, is making a special study of the novels of Thomas Holcroft.

ATCHESON L. HENCH is Linden Kent Professor of English at the University of Virginia.

FRANKLIN P. BATDORF, Instructor in English at the University of Texas, is working on bibliographical descriptions of previously unlisted works by Crabbe.

LAWRENCE G. STARKEY, Instructor in English at the University of Delaware, received his doctorate in 1949 from the University of Virginia with a dissertation on the Cambridge Press.

JOHN ALDEN, Assistant Librarian at Georgetown University, has recently published a Check List of Rhode Island Imprints.

WILLIAM H. GAINES, JR., received his doctorate in 1950 from the University of Virginia in the School of History.

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.

RUDOLF HIRSCH is the expert on incunabula for the University of Pennsylvania Library.

LUCY T. CLARK is a Senior Cataloguer in the Preparations Division of the Alderman Library, University of Virginia.