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ERRATA
John C. Guilds, Jr., "Simms's First Magazine: The Album," Studies in Bibliography, VIII (1956).
p. 170, line 24, read: a Charleston literary journal and also that Simms at nineteen was a prolific writer for a Charleston literary journal called the Album, one still is faced
p. 177, line 23, read: "P.," "Sydney," "T. G.," and "Triptolemus Twig."
p. 177, line 24, read: signed with seven pseudonyms
p. 180, line 19, read: yet would it be no more.
p. 183, under "Edwin" add: Sonnet. To M.," 170.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The annual "Check List of Bibliographical Scholarship" for 1955, by Rudolph Hirsch and Howell J. Heaney will this year be printed as part of the extra volume X of these Studies celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Society.
"The Textual Relation of Q2 to Ql Hamlet (II)," by Fredson Bowers, was omitted from this present volume owing to lack of space but is planned for volume XI in 1958.
Notes On Contributors
CHARLTON HINMAN received his doctorate from the University of Virginia. At present he is a Bollingen Research Fellow, and is continuing his detailed study of the First Folios in the Folger Shakespeare Library.
ROBERT L. BEARE, of New York City, received his doctorate from Yale in 1949. A teacher of German literature, he is interested not only in German bibliographical problems, particularly in the 17th century, but also in modern English and American poetry. He is currently working on problems in 17th-century religious mysticism.
RUSSELL K. ALSPACH has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, where he secured his degrees, and is now Colonel, USA, and Professor of English, at the U. S. Military Academy, West Point. He is co-editor of the variorum edition of Yeats which will be published in 1957.
CYPRIAN BLAGDEN, of Longmans, Green & Co. in London, is author of various important works on 17th-century publishing history.
ALICE WALKER, of Bude, Cornwall, England, is the author of Textual Problems of the First Folio. She is currently assisting J. Dover Wilson in the final volumes of the New Cambridge Shakespeare.
PAUL L. CANTRELL, studying for his doctorate at the University of Virginia with a dissertation on Compositor B in the Pavier Quartos, is Assistant Professor of English at Centre College.
GEORGE WALTON WILLIAMS, a graduate student at the University of Virginia, is completing his dissertation on the text of Romeo and Juliet.
RICHARD HOSLEY, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Missouri, is editor of the New Yale Romeo and Juliet. He is at present working on an edition of Munday's Fedele and Fortunio as well as various studies in Elizabethan staging.
CYRUS HOY received his doctorate from the University of Virginia and taught there as Instructor in English. He is at present Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. This is the second part of a monograph on the authorship of the Beaumont and Fletcher canon, further parts of which will appear in these Studies.
FRANKLIN B. WILLIAMS, of Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., is in the final stage of indexing the dedications and commendatory verses in all British books before 1641. He spent the academical year 1955-56 in England as a Guggenheim Fellow.
HYDER E. ROLLINS, the distinguished Harvard Elizabethan scholar, continues his investigations in his second field of research, the letters of Keats.
ROYAL A. GETTMANN, Professor of English at the University of Illinois, is the author of various articles on the relation of publishing history to literature. He is currently working on a study of the publishing firm of R. Bentley.
KENNETH POVEY is Librarian of the University of Liverpool and has published articles on bibliography as well as on English literary biography.
CURT F. BÜHLER, a most active scholar in analyzing incunabula printing, is Keeper of the Printed Books at The Pierpont Morgan Library.
C. F. MAIN received his doctorate from Harvard under Hyder Rollins. He is Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University.
ROBERT HAY CARNIE, M.A., Ph.D. (St. Andrews, Scotland) is Lecturer in English at Bedford College, University of London. He is at present preparing an edition of Macpherson's Ossian.
WILLIAM B. TODD, attached to the Houghton Library at Harvard, is well-known for his bibliographical investigations of 18th-century books.
ROBERT K. TURNER is a graduate student at the University of Virginia, engaged on a dissertation investigating the text of The Maid's Tragedy.
THOMAS L. PHILBRICK is a graduate student and teaching fellow at Harvard, with a dissertation on American sea fiction in the first half of the 19th century.
JOHN R. ROBERSON is a graduate student at the University of Virginia and at present completing his military service.
MATTHEW J. BRUCCOLI is a graduate student at the University of Virginia with a dissertation studying printing variants in machine-printed books revealed by the University of Virginia's Hinman Collating Machine.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
OFFICERS
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Hon. Secretary-Treasurer for Chile, DR. RICARDO DONOSO, President, Sociedad de Bibliófilos Chilenos, Archivo Nacional, Santiago, Chile
Hon. Secretary-Treasurer for Finland, DR. JORMA VALLINKOSKI, University Library, Finland
Hon. Secretary-Treasurer for France, MR. HENRI A. TALON, Faculté des Lettres, 36 rue Chabot-Charny, Dijon (Côte d-Or), France
Hon. Secretary-Treasurer for Germany, DR. RICHARD MUMENDEY, Meckenheimer Allee 117, Bonn, Germany
Hon. Secretary-Treasurer for India, DR. S. R. RANGANATHAN, Delhi University Library, University Building, Delhi 8, India
Hon. Secretary-Treasurer for Venezuela, DR. PEDRO GRASES, Biblioteca Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela
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WINNERS OF THE 1956 AWARDS
GEORGE WALTON WILLIAMS, in the field of bibliography.
CHARLES N. BIONDI, in the field of book collecting.
MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY
Frederick R. Goff of the Library of Congress, "Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Washington Collections," 23 September 1955.
Alan Thomas of Bournemouth, England, "English Country Bookselling," 28 October 1955.
W. Hugh Peal of New York City, "Some Footnotes to Lucas' Lamb," 4 November 1955.
Johan Gerritsen, Fellow at the Folger Library, "Francis Kirkman, or, The Pleasures of Piracy," 18 November 1955.
Matthew Bruccoli of the University of Virginia demonstrated the Hinman Collating Machine at the annual meeting, 27 February 1956.
PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY DURING THE YEAR
Studies in Bibliography, vol. 8, edited by Fredson Bowers. Sent to Contributing, Subscribing, and Student members. Additional copies available to members at $5.00. Available to non-members at $7.50.
Secretary's News Sheet, Nos. 35-36. Sent to all members.
Manuscripts and Documents, Their Deterioration and Restoration, by William J. Barrow. Available to members free on request.
A Prospect of Society by Oliver Goldsmith, by William B. Todd. Sent to Contributing Members. Available to members at $2.75 a copy, to non-members at $5.00 a copy.
Bibliography of South Carolina, 1563-1950, by Robert J. Turnbull. 6 volumes. Sent to Contributing Members. Available to members at $50 a set, to non-members at $85 a set.
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COLOPHON
Volume Nine of the Society's Papers, Studies in Bibliography, was produced at the University of Virginia Press. Linotype, Baskerville 11, 10, and 8 point, leaded, was employed. Headings were set in 18 point Kennerley. The volume was bound by Charles H. Bohn of New York City.
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