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Notes On Contributors
Richard D. Altick, Professor of English at Ohio State University, is a specialist in 19th-century English literature with a particular interest in its publishing history. His most recent book The Scholar Adventurers (1950) contains some accounts of bibliographical detective work. The present paper is on a subject which will occupy his attention in a book now in progress.
William B. Todd, Professor of English at Salem College, is the foremost 18th century bibliographer of the present day. He is at present engaged with investigating the Strahan ledgers as a rich source of publishing history.
Alice Walker, D. Phil. Oxon, of Bideford, Devon, England, is perhaps the most active English scholar in applying bibliographical techniques to Shakespearian textual criticism. Her important book Textual Problems of the First Folio has recently been published by the University Press Cambridge.
Charlton Hinman received his Ph. D. from the University of Virginia. He is at present collating the text of the seventy-nine First Folios at the Folger Shakespeare Library with a mechanical collator of his own invention.
Fredson Bowers, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, delivered the present paper as a lecture while he was a Fulbright Fellow for Advanced Research in the United Kingdom.
Arthur Frederick Stocker, Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, is one of the editors of the Servian commentaries.
Curt F. Bühler, Curator of Books at The Pierpont Morgan Library, is a noted authority on incunabula and their bibliographical analysis.
Edwin Haviland Miller received his doctorate from Harvard University and is at present at Simmons College, Boston.
John Russell Brown, B. Litt. Oxon, is a Fellow of The Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon, England. The present is the first of two articles on John Webster.
John L. Lievsay, Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, has written widely on Spenser, Bacon, and the comparative literature of the Renaissance.
Richard B. Davis, Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. At home both in American Literature and the English Renaissance he is expecting publication soon of two books, Jeffersonian America and George Sandys: Poet-Adventurer.
Cyprian Blagden, of Longmans Green & Co., London, is working on various aspects of book trade history in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Allan Stevenson, of Chicago, Illinois, is this year a Research Fellow at the Henry
Leonard Clark, of Leeds, England, is one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools. A practicing poet himself, he has published five books of poems, as well as much biographical and critical writing. His personal friendship with Walter de la Mare has given him unique authority in compiling the present Handlist.
F. DeWolfe Miller, Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee, received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He has written on the New England authors but is now interesting himself in Whitman.
Dennis E. Rhodes, M.A., is Assistant Keeper in the Department of Printed Books at The British Museum. His special interests are in early Italian Literature and bibliography.
John Alden, who has contributed several times to these Studies, is now a member of the Benedictine community at Abbaye S. Pierre, Solesmes, Sarthe, France.
Marion H. Hamilton received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. She is now assistant professor at Wellesley College.
Richard B. Hudson, Assistant Professor at Indiana University, is working on a survey of the publishing conditions of the three-decker novel.
Rudolf Hirsch is the expert on incunabula for the University of Pennsylvania.
Howell J. Heaney is librarian for Thomas W. Streeter, collector of Americana and bibliographer, of Morristown, New Jersey.
Philip Gaskell, Fellow of King's College Cambridge, is editor of The Book Collector.
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