Notes On Contributors
RICHARD D. ALTICK is Professor of English at the Ohio State University. Out of his original
interest in the history of cheap reprints of the English classics (as represented by his paper
in this volume) developed the broader concern with the whole history of the English mass
reading public of which the fruit is his book The English Common Reader: A
Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 (1957).
ROBERT HALSBAND is Associate Professor of English at Hunter College, is a member of the
Editorial Committee of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, and author of The Life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
GEORGE WALTON WILLIAMS, who received his doctorate from the University of Virginia with a
dissertation on the text of Romeo and Juliet, is Assistant Professor of
English at Duke University.
R. A. FOAKES is a Lecturer in English at the University of Durham. He has edited Henry VIII for the Arden edition of Shakespeare's plays, and is now
working on an edition of The Comedy of Errors for the same series.
FREDERICK O. WALLER received his doctorate at the University of Chicago with a dissertation
on The Two Noble Kinsmen and is now Assistant Professor of English at
Portland (Oregon) State College.
CYRUS HOY received his doctorate from the University of Virginia and is now Assistant
Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. This is the third part of a monograph on the
authorship of the Beaumont and Fletcher canon. A further part will appear in the next volume
of these Studies.
CYPRIAN BLAGDEN, of Longman, Green & Co., in London, is author of various important
works on 17th-century publishing history.
JOHAN GERRITSEN received his doctorate from the University of Groningen, and is at present
on the staff of the Royal Library, The Hague. His main interests are the pre-Restoration drama
and the organization of handpress printing.
WILLIAM B. TODD received his doctorate from the University of Chicago and is now in the
Houghton Library of Harvard University. His numerous writings on 18th-century bibliography
have illuminated dark corners in this field.
DAVID V. ERDMAN, author of Blake: Prophet Against Empire, is
preparing an edition of Coleridge's prose in the Morning Post and a
study of Coleridge in the Review Business. Dr. Erdman is editor of the
Bulletin of the New York Public Library.
ROLLO SILVER, Professor of Library Science at Simmons College, is an enthusiastic historian
of 19th-century and earlier American printing.
C. WILLIAM MILLER, who received his doctorate from the University of Virginia, is Associate
Professor of English at Temple University and is working with the proposed Franklin edition.
WILLIAM WHITE, acting chairman of the Journalism Department of Wayne State University, has
written extensively on contemporary British and American literature and has compiled
bibliographies of a number of modern authors, including A. E. Housman, D. H. Lawrence, James
Joyce, J. P. Marquand, and Emily Dickinson.
CURT F. BÜHLER, a most active scholar in analyzing incunabula, is Keeper of the Printed
Books at The Pierpont Morgan Library.
DENNIS E. RHODES, whose main study is the incunable, is in the Department of Printed Books
at the British Museum.
JOHN RUSSELL BROWN is Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham. He has edited The Merchant of Venice in the New Arden Shakespeare and is completing an
edition of Webster's White Devil.
LOIS SPENCER, Graduate of Oxford University (St. Hilda's College), is Staff Tutor in English
Literature to the Extra-Mural Department (Tutorial Classes) of the University of London.
JOHN ALDEN, in the Rare Books Division of the Boston Public Library, has made a particular
study of Irish printing.
GWIN J. KOLB, co-author of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, is Associate
Professor of English at the University of Chicago.
ARTHUR FRIEDMAN, Professor of English at the University of Chicago, is completing his
edition of Goldsmith for the Clarendon Press.
MATTHEW J. BRUCCOLI is a graduate student at the University of Virginia, especially
interested in the problems of plated books.
RUDOLF HIRSCH is the expert on incunabula for the University of Pennsylvania Library.
HOWELL J. HEANEY is Bibliographer in the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of
Philadelphia.
