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Problems of Literary Executorship by Norman Holmes Pearson

Establishing a Text: The Emily Dickinson Papers by Thomas H. Johnson

The Text of the "Envoy to Alison" by Harris Chewning

Notes on the Wynkyn de Worde Editions of the Boke of St Albans and its Separates by Eloise Pafort

The Copy for the First Folio Richard II by Richard E. Hasker

Compositor Determination in the First Folio King Lear by I. B. Cauthen, Jr.

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The Issues and States of the Second Folio and Milton's Epitaph on Shakespeare by William B. Todd

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I. The Order of Issues

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II. The Order of Variants in the First Issue

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III. The Size and Distribution of Issues

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IV. The Effigies Leaf

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V. Historical Associations: The Charles I Copy

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VI. Tabulation of Variants

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VII. Register of Copies

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The Text of the Spectator by Donald F. Bond

The Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language: Johnson's Revision and the Establishment of the Text by W. R. Keast

Type Sizes in the Eighteenth Century by Philip Gaskell

The Pre-Publication Printings of Tarkington's Penrod by Campbell R. Coxe

The Morgan Copy of Machlinia's Speculum Christiani Curt F. Bühler

The Melancholy Cavalier: A Study in Seventeenth-Century Plagiarism Sarah Dickson

The Early Editions of Dryden's State of Innocence Marion H. Hamilton

The Pirated Quarto of Dryden's State of Innocence Fredson Bowers

Thomas D'Urfey's Richmond Heiress (1693): A Bibliographical Study Raymond A. Biswanger, Jr.

Variant Forms of Fielding's Coffee-House Politician Jeanne Addison Masengill

The Case of the Planters of Tobacco in Virginia, 1733: An Extraordinary Use of Standing Type Oliver L. Steele, Jr.

Baskerville and James Whatman A. T. Hazen

The First Edition of Essays by Mr. Goldsmith, 1765 Arthur Friedman

Some Notes on Edward Gibbon's Mémoire Justificatif Robert R. Rea

Two New Works of Robert Southey Kenneth Curry

The Printing of Jefferson's Notes, 1793-94 Coolie Verner P. J. Conkwright

A Sheaf of Whitman Letters Walter Harding

Addendum Ernst Kyriss

A SELECTIVE CHECK LIST OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SCHOLARSHIP FOR 1951

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VI. Tabulation of Variants

A typical designation Ic2 indicates 1st issue, 3rd state in order of imposition, 2d variant. Measurements, all in millimeters, are of (1) linear width of word SHAKESPEARES, (2) interval between heading and LONDON, (3) interval between left "margin" and LONDON, (4) interval between chainlines in leaf conjugate to the one containing watermark, (5) vertical measure of the mark.

FIRST ISSUE: Printed in 1632, state a for Robert Allot, state b for Thomas Cotes and others not identified by imprint.

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SECOND ISSUE: Remainders supplied with sheet printed ca. 1641 by and for Richard Cotes.

THIRD ISSUE: Final lot of remainders, ca. 1641 or later, again by and for Richard Cotes.