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Proofreading Lockhart's Scott: The Dynamics of Biographical Reticence by Francis Russell Hart

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Thomas Carnan and the Almanack Monopoly by Cyprian Blagden

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

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Literary Problems in Seventeenth-Century Scientific Manuscripts by H. W. Jones

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(a): Editorial changes.

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(b). Errors: printers' literals, misreading of copy.

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(c): Opportunities for an eclectic text.

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Scottish Printers and Booksellers 1668-1775: A Second Supplement (I) by Robert Hay Carnie

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Franklin's Poor Richard Almanacs: Their Printing and Publication by C. William Miller

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Jefferson as Collector of Virginiana by Richard Beale Davis

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I. Printed Books and Pamphlets

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IV. The "Usefulness" of Jefferson's Collection

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The Amazing Career of Andrew Barclay, Scottish Bookbinder, of Boston by Hannah D. French

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Contributors to the American Quarterly Review, 1827-1833 by Ralph M. Aderman

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Agent and Author: Ellen Glasgow's Letters to Paul Revere Reynolds by James B. Colvert

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Mr. Reynolds No 70 5th Av. Letter 9.

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THE Grammaticæ Artis Institutio of Joannes Susenbrotus: A Bibliographical Note by Joseph X. Brennan

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Lydgate's Serpent of Division, 1559, Edited by John Stow by William Ringler

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A Note on the Printing of E. K.'s Glosses by Jack Stillinger

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Guide-Lines in Small Formats (about 1600) by Giles E. Dawson

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Penny-Pinching Printers and Tampered Titles by Franklin B. Williams, Jr.

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The First Edition of Greene's Quip for an Upstart Courtier by I. A. Shapiro

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Notes on the Text of Thierry and Theodoret Q1 by Robert K. Turner, Jr

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Richardsoniana by T. C. Duncan Eaves and Ben D. Kimpel

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Thomas Taylor's Biography by G. E. Bentley, Jr.

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Unrecorded Coleridge Variants: Additions and Corrections by David V. Erdman, Lucyle Werkmeister, and R. S. Woof

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Signs and Abbreviations

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Chronology of Variants

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Elizabeth Barrett and R. Shelton MacKenzie by David Bonnell Green

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Elias Burling, A Call to Back-Sliding Israel, New York, 1694: An Unrecorded Tract Printed by William Bradford by A. N. L. Munby

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Some Remarks on the Extant Manuscripts of Hawthorne's Short Stories by Seymour L. Gross and Alfred J. Levy

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Imposition Figures and Plate Gangs in The Rescue by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Charles A. Rheault, Jr.

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A SELECTIVE CHECK LIST OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SCHOLARSHIP FOR 1959

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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, Bibliography 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

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS FOR 1960

WINNER OF THE 1960 AWARD

RECENT MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY

PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY DURING THE YEAR

OTHER PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

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Notes

[*]

I am indebted to the Research Committees of Temple University and the American Philosophical Society for grants to pursue this investigation.

[1]

Benjamin Franklin's Memoirs, Parallel. Text Edition, ed. Max Farrand (1949), p. 242.

[2]

For this statistical information and that on the earlier Poor Richards I owe thanks to Miss Dorothy W. Bridgewater of the Yale University Library.

[3]

Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing, ed. Herbert Davis and Harry Carter (1958), p. 292.

[4]

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

[5]

Ibid., p. 143.

[6]

Account Books (Ledgers A and B, 1728-1737), ed. George Simpson Eddy (1928); Account Books (Ledger D, 1739-1747), ed. G. S. Eddy (1929). Cited hereafter as FAB I and FAB II respectively.

[7]

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Franklin Papers: Accounts Franklin-Hall, 1747-1766 (folio sheet bound as separate volume). Cited hereafter as AFH.

[8]

The Ames almanac carries the price per copy on the title-page. See Rollo G. Silver, "Publishing in Boston, 1726-1757: The Accounts of Daniel Henchman," PAAS (1956), pp. 33-36, where Draper's wholesale price for printing 8000 copies of the Ames almanac rises from £35 in 1741 to £66 in 1747.

[*]

Conjectured price.