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From Aldine to Everyman: Cheap Reprint Series of the English Classics 1830-1906 by Richard D. Altick

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Editing the Letters of Letter-Writers by Robert Halsband

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Setting By Formes in Quarto Printing by George Walton Williams

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On the First Folio Text of Henry VIII by R. A. Foakes

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Printer's Copy for The Two Noble Kinsmen by Frederick O. Waller

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The Shares of Fletcher and his Collaborators in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon (III) by Cyrus Hoy

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The Distribution of Almanacks in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century by Cyprian Blagden

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The Dramatic Piracies of 1661: A Comparative Analysis by Johan Gerritsen

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The First Editions of The Good Natur'd Man and She Stoops to Conquer by William B. Todd

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The Good Natur'd Man

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She Stoops to Conquer

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Unrecorded Coleridge Variants by David V. Erdman

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Signs and Abbreviations

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Chronology of Variants

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Financing the Publication of Early New England Sermons by Rollo G. Silver

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Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia Type by C. William Miller

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Nathanael West: A Bibliography by William White

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BOOKS BY NATHANAEL WEST

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The Second Edition of the Compagnia Del Mantellaccio by Curt F. Bühler

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The First Book Printed at Bari: Additional Notes by Dennis E. Rhodes

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A Proof-Sheet from Nicholas Okes' Printing-Shop by John Russell Brown

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The Printing of Sir George Croke's Reports by Lois Spencer

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Deception Compounded: Further Problems in Seventeenth-Century Irish Printing by John Alden

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John Newbury, Projector of the Universal Chronicle: A Study of the Advertisements by Gwin J. Kolb

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Dr. Johnson and the Public Ledger: A Small Addition to the Canon by Gwin J. Kolb

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The First Edition of Goldsmith's Bee, No. I by Arthur Friedman

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Prologue to Copyright in America: 1772 by Rollo G. Silver

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Textual Variants in Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt by Matthew J. Bruccoli

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A SELECTIVE CHECK LIST OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SCHOLARSHIP FOR 1956 SERIES B

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Part I: INCUNABULA and EARLY RENAISSANCE by Rudolf Hirsch

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Part II. THE LATER RENAISSANCE TO THE PRESENT by Howell J. Heaney

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1. Bibliographies, Check Lists, Enumerations

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A. English and General

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B. United States

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2. Printing, Publishing, Bibliographical and Textual Scholarship

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A. English and General

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B. United States

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Notes On Contributors

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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

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CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS FOR 1957

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WINNERS OF THE 1957 AWARDS

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MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY

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OTHER PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS

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FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

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STUDIES IN BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Notes

[1]

A Century of Printing: the Issues of the Press of Pennsylvania, 1685 — 1784 (1885-1886), 2 vols.

[2]

C. W. Miller, "Franklin's Type: Its Study Past and Present," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, XC (1955), 418-432.

[3]

The Colonial Printer (1938), rev. ed. Chap. v.

[4]

Benjamin Franklin's Memoris, Parallel Text Edition, ed. Max Farrand (1949), p. 86. Cited hereafter as Memoirs.

[5]

C. H. Timperley, The Printers' Manual (1838), p. 714.

[6]

See Philip Gaskell, "Type Sizes in the Eighteenth Century," Studies in Bibliography, V (1953), 147-151.

[7]

Albert Henry Smyth, The Writings of Benjamin Franklin (1905-07), III, 165-167.

[8]

Two line great primer is roughly comparable in size to French canon.

[9]

John Clyde Oswald, Benjamin Franklin Printer (1926), p. 93.

[10]

Talbot B. Reed, A History of the Old English Letter Foundries, ed. A. F. Johnson (1952), pp. 200-228.

[11]

A Catalogue and Specimen of the . . . Printing Type-Foundery of . . . Mr. John James . . . Improved by . . . Edward Rowe Mores . . . which will be Sold by Auction . . . Wednesday, 5th June, 1782 . . . .

[12]

T. B. Reed, op. cit., p. 216.

[13]

Ibid., p. 214.

[14]

A Catalogue and Specimen . . ., p. 26.

[15]

See The Pennsylvania Gazette, October 31, 1734.

[16]

Charles Enschedé, Fonderies de Caractères et leur Matériel dans les Pays-Bas du XVe au XIXe Siècle (Haarlem, 1908), pp. 74-76.

[17]

Horace Hart, A Century of Oxford Typography 1693-1794 (1900), p. 28.

[18]

A Catalogue and Specimen . . ., p. 22.

[19]

A. H. Smyth, op. cit., II, 243, 280; III, 165-167.

[20]

J. C. Oswald, loc. cit.

[21]

American Philosophical Society Library Mss., David Hall Letter Book, 1764-1772, November 21, 1764. Cited hereafter as HLB III.

[22]

Haverford College Library Mss., Roberts Collection.

[23]

American Philosophical Society Library Mss., David Hall Letter Book, 1750-1759, July 13, 1750. Cited hereafter as HLB I.

[24]

A. H. Smyth, op. cit., III, 286-287.

[25]

Ibid., III, 337-338.

[26]

Ibid., III, 340-341.

[27]

Ibid., III, 473-474.

[28]

American Philosophical Society Library Mss., David Hall Letter Book, 1759-1764, March 5, 1760. Cited hereafter as HLB II.

[29]

Morristown, N. J. National Historical Park Library, Lloyd P. Smith Collection. Copy in modern hand.

[30]

HLB I, November 1, 1753; September 20, 1755.

[31]

Luther S. Livingston, Franklin and his Press at Passy (1914), pp. 137-174.

[32]

J. C. Oswald, op. cit., p. 143.

[33]

Anna J. DeArmond, Andrew Bradford (1949), p. 244.

[34]

Ibid., pp. 36-37.