University of Virginia Library

I am grateful to Sir John Murray, K.C.V.O., D.S.O., and to Mr. John Grey Murray for their kindly permitting me to examine these records at their offices in London, and for their other kindness and assistance.

For example, in the New Orleans Public Library there is a copy of the eightvolume edition in which the title-pages of Volumes IV, V, VI, and VIII bear the dates 1845, 1843, 1843, and 1845, respectively; but the Murray records do not mention any reprints of these volumes in these years. One may guess that Volumes IV, V, and VI were dated 1845, 1843, and 1843, respectively, because they were printed in December of the preceding year; but the date of Volume VIII cannot be accounted for in this way.

René Huchon, George Crabbe and His Times (1907), a translation by Frederick Clarke of Huchon's Un poète réaliste anglais (Paris, Librairie Hachette, 1906).

Stock book dated 1832.

A. T. Bartholomew's bibliography of Crabbe's works, in Volume III of A. W. Ward's edition of Crabbe's Poems (1907).

Stock book dated 1832.

Stock book dated 1832 and stock book dated 1844.

Ibid.

The same must be said of the records of the printing of the eight-volume set as a whole and of the one-volume edition.

Ibid.

It will be noted that the totals for Volume III do not agree with the figures in the column. Since the figures representing sales are not entirely legible in the stock book, the discrepancy is probably due to an error in my interpretation of these rather than to an error in the totals. I have therefore given the totals as they appear in the stock book. A further argument in favor of these totals is that the total number of volumes disposed of plus the number carried over to the new book agrees with the figure given in the record of printings for the total number of copies printed. The validity of this argument is perhaps slightly questionable, however, since it is not certain that the figures showing the number of copies carried over represents an actual count.

See Bartholomew's bibliography.

Stock book dated 1844.

In addition to the lists of Crabbe's publications previously mentioned there is one by H. G. Pollard in the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (1941).

Stock books dated 1844 and 1854. The twenty copies which I have indicated as disposed of in 1848 are recorded in the stock books for 1847. The monthly dates, however, and the fact that there is no other record of sales for 1848, suggest that these belong to the latter year.

Stock book dated 1854.

The record from March, 1847, through July, 1854, is from the stock book dated 1844.

The record from Aug. 11, 1854, through the item "To other edition with plates" is from the stock book dated 1854. The figure 999, presumably, represents sales.

Mr. Farquharson's source for the foregoing was John Murray's Official Quarterly List dated October, 1860.

These records do not account clearly for the one-volume edition with a printed title dated 1861 and an engraved title dated 1860. Bartholomew lists such an edition with plates, and a copy (also with plates) is extant in the Howard Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. Possibly the twenty-five copies issued with plates were so dated. See the table above.

Stock book dated 1844.