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Notes On Contributors
CYPRIAN BLAGDEN, of Longman, Green & Co., in London, is the author of various important works on seventeenth-century publishing history.
W. CRAIG FERGUSON has studied at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon and is now completing his doctoral dissertation, a study of the Elizabethan printer, Valentine Simmes. He is a teacher of English in the Queen Elizabeth Collegiate School in Kingston, Ontario.
HAROLD JENKINS, Professor of English at Westfield College, University of London, has made Shakespeare and the Renaissance drama his special study.
JOHN RUSSELL BROWN is Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham. His edition of Webster's White Devil is scheduled for publication by Methuen in the new Revels series of Elizabethan drama.
ARTHUR BROWN is Lecturer in English at University College, London. He is at present engaged on an edition of Thomas Heywood for the Clarendon Press and also an Arden Shakespeare.
CYRUS HOY received his doctorate from the University of Virginia and is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. The next installment of his study of Fletcher's collaborators is scheduled for SB, vol. XIV.
D. F. MCKENZIE, a graduate of the University of New Zealand, is at present at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he is writing a history of the Cambridge University Press.
ARTHUR FRIEDMAN, Professor of English at the University of Chicago, is completing his edition of Goldsmith for the Clarendon Press.
EDGAR F. SHANNON, JR., formerly Associate Professor of English, is the newly inaugurated President of the University of Virginia. He is engaged on an edition of Tennyson's letters for joint publication by the Clarendon and Harvard University Presses.
H. TREVOR COLBOURN is Assistant Professor in American History at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his doctorate in 1953 from Johns Hopkins for a study of Thomas Jefferson's historical justification of American independence, and has recently completed a book on the historical perspective of the Founding Fathers. He is currently Secretary to the Pennsylvania Historical Association.
KENNETH POVEY is Librarian of the University of Liverpool. A study of the results of a large-scale investigation of problem books with the Martin lamp is expected for a future SB.
CHARLES B. GULLINS is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Washington. His edition of the English and Latin poems of Sir Robert Ayton will be published by the Scottish Text Society. The research for the edition was largely done while he was a Fulbright student at King's College, University of Durham.
ROBERT K. TURNER, JR., received his doctorate from the University of Virginia and is Assistant Professor of English at the Virginia Military Institute. He is especially interested in the bibliographical and textual problems of The Maid's Tragedy and Philaster.
ROBERT HAIG is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois, where he interests himself in the printing history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
DONALD J. GREENE is Assistant Professor of English at Brandeis University, after receiving his doctorate from Columbia. His book The Politics of Samuel Johnson has recently been published by the Yale University Press.
G. BLAKEMORE EVANS is Professor of English at the University of Illinois, and editor of the Journal of English and Germanic Philology. The Society will shortly publish the first volume of a colotype series of seventeenth-century Shakespearean prompt-books under his editorship.
JOHN C. WESTON, JR., Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, received his doctorate at the University of North Carolina and has been Instructor at the University of Virginia.
ROBERT H. WOODWARD received his doctorate from Indiana University with a dissertation on Harold Frederic. He has been teaching his special interest, American Literature, at San Jose State College since 1954.
MATTHEW J. BRUCCOLI received his M.A. from the University of Virginia. He is currently associated with the Bibliography of American Literature project.
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, 3560 Padua Street, Claremont, California
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, Helsinki, 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
JOSEPH M. CARRIèRE 1956-1960
JACK DALTON 1958-1962
WILLIAM B. O'NEAL 1957-1961
ELEANOR SHEA 1959-1963
PAST PRESIDENTS
CHALMERS L. GEMMILL
ATCHESON L. HENCH
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CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS FOR 1959
G. M. ALEXANDER, Lynchburg, Virginia
WILLIAM P. BARLOW, JR., Piedmont, California
C. WALLER BARRETT, New York City
ROBERT BEARE, New York City
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
RALPH L. COURTNEY, Arlington, Virginia
JACK DALTON, New York City
DECOURSEY FALES, New York City
CHARLES E. FEINBERG, Detroit, Michigan
ROBERT HORACE GARBEE, Lynchburg, Virginia
KENNETH S. GINIGER, New York City
ADRIAN H. GOLDSTONE, Mill Valley, California
JOHN D. GORDAN, New York City
GEORGE L. HARDING, Palo Alto, California
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HAROLD R. JENKINS, Kingsport, Tennessee
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, Lexington, Kentucky
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ROBERT A. LUX, Charlottesville, Virginia
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
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KENNETH NEBENZAHL INC., Chicgo, Illinois
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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, Oregon
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S. R. SHAPIRO, New York City
ELEANOR SHEA, Charlottesville, Virginia
ROLLO G. SILVER, Boston, Massachusetts
ARTHUR B. SPINGARN, New York City
JAMES F. SPOERRI, Chicago, Illinois
THOMAS W. STREETER, Morristown, New Jersey
THOMAS F. TORREY, Madison Heights, Virginia
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, Cambridge, England
WILLIS VAN DEVANTER, Washingon, D. C.
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 1959 AWARDS
WILLIAM R. WOODS, in the field of book collecting
DONALD E. GLOVER, in the field of bibliography
HONORABLE MENTION
EDWARD S. MOORE, III, in the field of book collecting
RECENT MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY
The Grolier Club met at the University of Virginia on October 24 and 25. Mr. Fredson T. Bowers, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, addressed the Grolier Club and the Society on Saturday, October 25, 1958, on "Textual Criticism and the Literary Critics."
Mr. Matthew J. Bruccoli, Instructor in English in the School of Engineering of the University of Virginia, addressed the Society on Monday, November 24, 1958, on "A Mirror for Bibliographers: Duplicate Plates in Modern Printing."
Mr. Oliver Steele, Instructor in English in the School of Engineering of the University of Virginia, addressed the Society on Wednesday, January 13, 1959, on "An Ellen Glasgow Miscellany."
Mr. Sears R. Jayne, Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia, addressed the Society on Tuesday, March 10, 1958, on "Some New Tools for Research in Intellectual History."
Mr. J. N. L. Myres, Librarian of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, made a few informal remarks to the Society on Monday, April 6, 1959.
PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY DURING THE YEAR
Studies in Bibliography, Volume 12, 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, No. 40. Sent to all members.
The Muses Mourn, a Checklist of Verse Occasioned by the Death of Charles II, by John Alden. Sent to Contributing members. Available to members for $2.25. Available to non-members at $4.00.
Maxwell Anderson Bibliography, by Martha Cox. Sent to all Contributing members. Available to members at $2.25. Available to non-members for $4.00.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS
A Bibliographical Examination of the Earliest Editions of the Letters of Junius, by T. H. Bowyer. $6.00 ($3.60 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).
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.
Thoreau's Library, by Walter Harding. $3.50.
Selective Check Lists of Bibliographical Scholarship, 1949-1955, $10.00 ($6.00 to members).
Wing Addenda and Corrigenda, Some Notes on Materials in the British Museum, by John Alden. Available to members without charge on request.
FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
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.
Borrowings from the Bristol (England) Library 1773-1784: A Unique Record of Reading Vogues, by Paul Kaufman.
Shakespeare Promptbook Series, No. One, Padua First Folio, Macbeth Promptbook, by G. Blakemore Evans.
An Andrew Nelson Lytle Check List by Jack De Bellis.
Meyen, Fritz. The North European Nations as Presented in German University Publications, 1885-1957.
A Bibliography of Ellen Glasgow, by William W. Kelly.
A Bibliography of the Works of Fiske Kimball, by Mary Kane.
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