MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY
Peter Laslett of Trinity College, Cambridge, "Book Collectors and John Locke," November 30,
1956.
Edgar Osborne, British Archivist and Bibliophile, "Crime and Punishment in the Nursery; or,
From Morality and Instruction to Beatrix Potter," December 13, 1956.
Charles E. Feinberg of Detroit, "Walt Whitman's Difficulties with Publishers and
Booksellers," February 15, 1957.
Fredson Bowers of the University of Virginia, "Textual and Literary Study," April 9, 1957.
Clifford K. Shipton, Librarian of the American Antiquarian Society, "American Ghosts:
Bibliographic Hauntings in Evans," May 1, 1957.
Of papers formerly reported as having been read before the Society, Mr. Joseph Graves'
"Victor Hammer, Calligrapher, Punch-Cutter, & Printer," an address made May 9, 1952, has
been reprinted in the November, 1955, issue of the Amateur Book
Collector (now the American Book Collector).
PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY DURING THE YEAR
Studies in Bibliography, vol. 9, 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.
Studies in Bibliography, Volume 10. Reprints of the Checklist of
Bibliographical Scholarship for 1949-1954, with an index to the entries for 1948-1957 by Anne
Freudenberg.
Secretary's News Sheet, Nos. 36-37. Sent to all members.
Bibliography of South Carolina, 1563-1950, by Robert J. Turnbull. 5
volumes. Sent to Contributing Members. Available to members at $50 a set, to
non-members at $85 a set.
Thoreau's Library, by Walter Harding. Advance copies sent to all
members. Bound copies available at $3.50.
A Bibliographical Examination of the Earliest Editions of the Letters of
Junius, by T. H. Bowyer. Sent to Contributing Members. Available to members at
$3.60 a copy, to non-members at $6.00 a copy.
