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Notes On Contributors

IAN WATT, formerly a fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, is Associate Professor of English at the University of California in Berkeley. He has written on the early eighteenth-century novel, and is now engaged on a study of Joseph Conrad.

OSCAR MAURER, Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas, is completing a book on a group of prominent Victorian editors and their journals. He is the editor of the Library Chronicle of the University of Texas, and since 1955 has been bibliographer for the Victorian Newsletter.

WILLIAM CHARVAT, Professor of English at Ohio State University, is writing a book on the profession of authorship in America.

BRUCE HARKNESS, Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, is interested in the relationship of publishing to authorship. He spent the academic year 1957-58 in England as a Guggenheim Fellow studying the publishing firm of Grant Richards (1897-1924).

D. F. MCKENZIE is a graduate of the University of New Zealand. He is now at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and is working on the organization of the Cambridge University Press in the early eighteenth century.

CYRUS HOY received his doctorate from the University of Virginia and is now Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. This is the fourth 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.

R. H. BOWERS is Professor of English at the University of Florida where he teaches seminars in Medieval and Renaissance literature.

ROBERT HAY CARNIE is Lecturer and Head of the English Department of Queen's College, Dundee, in the University of St. Andrews.

RONALD PATERSON DOIG, formerly of the English Department, Queen's College, Dundee, is now attached to the Department of Palaeography in the University of Durham. He is engaged with arranging and cataloguing the Grey papers.

G. E. BENTLEY, JR., Instructor in English at the University of Chicago, is preparing for publication a facsimile and study of Blake's Four Zoas, and,

with the assistance of a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1958-59, a collection and study of all the known contemporary references to Blake.

WILLIAM B. TODD, whose researches in eighteenth-century bibliography have continually broken new ground, is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas.

ROBERT K. TURNER, JR., who received his doctorate from the University of Virginia, is Assistant Professor of English at the Virginia Military Institute. He is pursuing research into details of the Elizabethan printing process.

D. F. FOXON, Assistant Keeper in the British Museum, has been active in tracing T. J. Wise's misdemeanors and will shortly publish an account, T. J. Wise, and the Pre-Restoration Drama. He is currently preparing a check-list of English poetical pieces 1701-1750.

ALAN D. MCKILLOP, Professor of English at The Rice Institute, has long been interested in the eighteenth-century novelists, especially Samuel Richardson, and has recently published The Early Masters of English Fiction.

WILLIAM A. COLES has been instructor in English at the University of Virginia and is now Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina. He has in preparation an edition of Miss Mitford's letters.

DAVID BONNELL GREEN, co-bibliographer of the Keats-Shelley Association of America, is Assistant Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College.

EDWIN H. CADY is Professor of English at Syracuse University. Among his publications is a biography of William Dean Howells, the first volume, The Road to Realism, appearing in 1956, and the second, The Realist at War, in 1958.

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.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

OFFICERS

President, LINTON R. MASSEY, "Kinloch," Keswick, Virginia

Vice-President, SEARS JAYNE, 208 Cameron Lane, Charlottesville, Virginia

Editor, FREDSON BOWERS, 530 Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Editor, JOHN COOK WYLLIE, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Virginia

Hon. Secretary-Treasurer for the British Isles, MRS. DOUGLAS WYLLIE, Lylestone House, Cardross, Dunbartonshire, Scotland

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 MUMMENDEY, Meckenheimer Allee 117, Bonn, Germany

Hon. Secretary-Treasurer for the Netherlands, DR. JOHAN GERRITSEN, Laan van de Vrijheid 238, Groningen, Netherlands

Hon. Secretary-Treasurer for Venezuela, DR. PEDRO GRASES, Biblioteca Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela

COUNCIL

ELEANOR SHEA 1955-1959
WILLIAM B. O'NEAL 1957-1961
JOSEPH M. CARRIèRE 1956-1960
JACK DALTON 1958-1962

PAST PRESIDENTS

CHALMERS L. GEMMILL
ATCHESON L. HENCH

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CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS FOR 1958

G. M. ALEXANDER, Lynchburg, Virginia
WILLIAM P. BARLOW, JR., Piedmont, California
* C. WALLER BARRETT, New York City
ROBERT BEARE, New York City
PERCY W. BROWN, Cleveland, Ohio
CURT F. BÜHLER, New York City
WILLIAM H. BULKELEY, Hartford, Connecticut
HERBERT CAHOON, New York City
MISS EMILY SINCLAIR CALCOTT, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago, Illinois
MRS. LOUIS HENRY COHN, New York City
MRS. EDWIN CORLE, Santa Barbara, California
RALPH L. COURTNEY, Arlington, Virginia
JACK DALTON, Charlottesville, Virginia
AUDOBON R. DAVIS, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
EMORY UNIVERSITY, Georgia
CHARLES E. FEINBERG, Detroit, Michigan
FORT HAYS KANSAS STATE COLLEGE, Hays, Kansas
KENNETH S. GINIGER, New York City
ADRIAN H. GOLDSTONE, Mill Valley, California
JOHN D. GORDAN, New York City
GEORGE L. HARDING, Palo Alto, California
RICHARD B. HARWELL, Chicago, Illinois
THOMAS HORAN, Brooklyn, New York
EMMET FIELD HORINE, Brooks, Kentucky
HOWARD UNIVERSITY, Washington, D.C.
HAROLD R. JENKINS, Lexington, Kentucky
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, Lexington, Kentucky
N. A. KOVACH, Los Angeles, California
HERMAN W. LIEBERT, New Haven, Connecticut
JOHN E. MANAHAN, Scottsville, Virginia
LINTON R. MASSEY, Keswick, Virginia
CAROL MCCARTHY, Washington, D.C.
MELVIN M. MCCOSH, Minneapolis, Minnesota
NICHOLAS MEYER, East Williston, New York
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, East Lansing, Michigan
NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE AT DURHAM, Durham, North Carolina
WILLIAM B. O'NEAL, Charlottesville, Virginia
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, Oregon
THE CARL H. PFORZHEIMER LIBRARY, Purchase, New York
SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY, St. Louis, Missouri
SOL SATINSKY, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
LOUISE SAVAGE, Charlottesville, Virginia
SEVEN GABLES BOOKSHOP, New York City
S. R. SHAPIRO, New York City
ELEANOR SHEA, Charlottesville, Virginia
ROLLO G. SILVER, Boston, Massachusetts
JAMES F. SPOERRI, Chicago, Illinois
THOMAS W. STREETER, Morristown, New Jersey
THOMAS F. TORREY, Madison Heights, Virginia
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, Cambridge, England
DUDLEY L. VAILL, JR., Albany, New York
COOLIE VERNER, Tallahassee, Florida
HARRY A. WALTON, JR., Covington, Virginia
JULIA WIGHTMAN, New York City
RICHARD S. WORMSER, New York City
JOHN COOK WYLLIE, Charlottesville, Virginia

WINNERS OF THE 1958 AWARDS

ALAN BRINKLEY, in the field of book collecting
MATTHEW J. BRUCCOLI, in the field of bibliography

HONORABLE MENTION WILLARD BUYERS, in the field of book collecting
OLIVER STEELE, in the field of bibliography

RECENT MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY

Mr. Philo C. Calhoun of Bridgeport, Connecticut addressed the Society on Monday, September 30, 1957, on "John Bartlett and His 'Familiar Quotations'".

Mr. H. M. Nixon, Assistant Keeper, British Museum, addressed the Society on Friday, October 25, 1957, on decorated book-bindings.

Mr. William Beattie, Librarian of the National Library of Scotland, addressed the Society on Friday, November 8, 1957, on "The National Library of Scotland".

Mr. Oliver L. Steele of the University of Virginia Graduate School of English addressed the Society on Thursday, November 21, 1957, on "Some Bibliographical Aspects of Compositor Analysis".

Mr. F. P. Wilson, Merton Professor of English Literature, Oxford University, addressed the Society on Friday, December 13, 1957, on "A Miscellany of Problems".

Mr. George W. Williams of the Department of English, Duke University, addressed the Society on Friday, February 14, 1958, on "'What's in a word?' Notes toward a Purer Text of Romeo and Juliet".

Mr. Allan Stevenson of the Hunt Botanical Library in Pittsburgh, addressed the Society on Thursday , February 27, 1958, on "The Unicorns of Normandy".

Mr. Charles E. Feinberg of Detroit, Michigan addressed the Society on Friday, March 21, 1958, on "Whitman's Friends as Revealed Through a Collection".

Mr. Fredson Bowers addressed the Society on Thursday, April 10, 1958, on "The Growth of Whitman's Leaves of Grass as shown by its Manuscripts."

PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY DURING THE YEAR

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.

Studies in Bibliography, Volume 11, edited by Fredson Bowers. Sent to Contributing, Subscribing, and Student members. Additional copies available to members at $6.00. Available to non-members at $10.00.

Secretary's News Sheet, Nos. 38-40. Sent to all members.

James Branch Cabell: A Bibliography of His Writings, Biography, and Criticism, by Frances Joan Brewer. Sent to Contributing members.

James Branch Cabell: A Bibliography. Part II. Notes on the Cabell Collections at the University of Virginia, by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Advance sheets sent to all members. The completed work, available to non-members at $17.50 and at $10.00 to members, was sent to Contributing members.

Romance Languages and Literatures as Presented in German Doctoral Dissertations, 1885-1950, a Bibliography, by Hans Flasche. Sent to Contributing members. Available to members at $5.00, at $7.50 to non-members.

Wing Addenda and Corrigenda, Some Notes on Materials in the British Museum, by John Alden. Available to members without charge on request.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS

Maryland Imprints, 1801-1810, by Roger P. Bristol. $7.50 ($4.00 to members).

Cornerstones of Confederate Collecting, by Richard Barksdale Harwell. $2.50.

A Preliminary Check List of Tennessee Imprints, 1861-1866, by Eleanor Drake Mitchell. $2.00 ($1.00 to members).

A Preliminary Check List of Lexington, Kentucky Imprints, 1821-1850, by Roscoe Pierson. $2.00 ($1.00 to members).

A Centennial Check-List of the Editions of Henry David Thoreau's Walden, by Walter Harding. $2.50.

Index of Printers, Publishers and Booksellers in Donald Wing's Short-Title Catalogue, 1641-1700, by Paul G. Morrison. $20.00 ($10.00 to members).

A Checklist of Verse by David Garrick, by Mary E. Knapp. $5.00 ($2.75 to members).

Bibliography of South Carolina, 1563-1950, by Robert J. Turnbull. 5 volumes, $85.00 ($50.00 to members).

Thoreau's Library, by Walter Harding. $3.50.

A Bibliographical Examination of the Earliest Editions of the Letters of Junius, by T. H. Bowyer. $6.00 ($3.60 to members).

Selective Check Lists of Bibliographical Scholarship, 1949-1955, $10.00 ($6.00 to members).

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

Maxwell Anderson Bibliography, by Martha Cox.

A Carto-Bibliographical Study of The English Pilot, The Fourth Book, with Special Reference to the Charts of Virginia, by Coolie Verner.

Heads Across the Sea: an Album of Eighteenth Century English Literary Portraits in America, by Frances Sharf Fink.

Bookbinding in Colonial Virginia, by C. Clement Samford and John M. Hemphill, II.

The Muses Mourn: A Checklist of Verse Occasioned by the Death of Charles II, by John Alden.