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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.

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

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

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

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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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Notes

[1]

D. M. Low, Edward Gibbon (1937), p. 281.

[2]

Norton, Bibliography, p. 26.

[3]

R. E. Prothero, ed., Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1896), I, 372.

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The copy used by this author is located in the Indiana University library, Bloomington, Indiana.

[5]

A. F. Steuart, ed., The Last Journals of Horace Walpole (1910), II, 186-187; Sir J. Fortescue, ed., Correspondence of King George the Third (1928), IV, 382; L. de Loménie, Beaumarchais et son temps (Paris, 1873), II, 160-161.

[6]

First edition, p. 28.

[7]

Elmsley issue, p. 28; Second (Hallhead) edition, p. 28.

[8]

C. de Beaumarchais, Observations sur le Mémoire Justificatif de la cour de Londres (London: J. Almon, 1780).

[9]

W. S. Lewis, ed., The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence (1939), VII, 187.

[10]

Marriott, Mémoire Justificatif (Londres: Imprimé pour R. Bickerstaff . . . par G. Cooke, 1801).

[11]

J. C. Morison, Gibbon (n.d.), p. 81; J. W. Thompson, "Edward Gibbon 1737-1794," Pacific Historical Review, VII (1938), 108.

[12]

Gibbon's appointment was approved by the king on June 20, he was notified on July 1, had accepted on July 2, and on the 6th of July was gazetted. The French Exposé to which Gibbon replied is dated the 9th of July. It is not so clear, however, that his work on an earlier state paper did not ante-date the appointment. See Norton, pp. 23-6, and D. M. Low's review in Review of English Studies, XVII (1941), 362.

[13]

John Wilkes, "A Supplement to the Miscellaneous Works of Mr. Gibbon," The Correspondence of the late John Wilkes, ed. J. Almon (1805), V, 207-208, 210, 235.