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The Little Gest of Robin Hood: A Note on the Pynson and Lettersnijder Editions by J. C. T. Oates
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The Composition of the Quarto of Much Ado About Nothing by John Hazel Smith
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George Wither's Quarrel with the Stationers: An Anonymous Reply to The Schollers Purgatory by Allan Pritchard
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Government Printing in Massachusetts, 1751-1801 by Rollo G. Silver
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Privilege to Print by James G. McManaway
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The Hospitall of Incurable Fooles by William E. Miller
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The Text of "The Eve of St. Agnes" by Jack Stillinger
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An Unknown Early Appearance of "The Raven" by G. Thomas Tanselle
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Evidence of Plate Damage as Applied to the First Impressions of Ellen Glasgow's The Wheel of Life (1906) by Oliver L. Steele
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A SELECTIVE CHECK LIST OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SCHOLARSHIP FOR 1961

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May 18th, 1915.
Dear Mr. Joyce,

You may think it an ironic commentary on my saying to you the other day that there was no need to be discouraged by the comparatively small

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sale of "Dubliners" that I write now to say that I do not want to publish "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". If it were not for the war; if it were not for the general depression; I should, although I might have hesitated, have availed myself of my option. But to-day I am afraid of the book. It demands a public of intelligent readers. There are such readers but they are difficult to get at; and they are peculiarly difficult to get at now. Sincerely yours,

For obvious reasons correspondence between Joyce and Richards became less frequent after May of 1915. Harriet Shaw Weaver and The Egoist magazine finally undertook to bring out A Portrait in book form. And ultimately Grant Richards published the play Exiles. Richards's side of the correspondence after 1917 has not yet been located. From Joyce's letters to Richards in the Slocum Collection at Yale, we learn that in the case of Exiles Joyce again was denied a second revision of proof. In a letter on this matter (28 July 1918) Joyce returned to the question of the text of Dubliners, observing that about two hundred mistakes which he had corrected on the page proofs had been allowed to stand in the first edition. Since Joyce had sent Richards his small list of additional corrections before seeing the published text, these two hundred lost corrections must be different from those on Joyce's list, the two hundred not being on the list because Joyce assumed they would be made from the page proofs. The grand total of errors found by Joyce and never yet corrected in any published text is thus well over two hundred.
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