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The Little Gest of Robin Hood: A Note on the Pynson and Lettersnijder Editions by J. C. T. Oates

The Composition of the Quarto of Much Ado About Nothing by John Hazel Smith

George Wither's Quarrel with the Stationers: An Anonymous Reply to The Schollers Purgatory by Allan Pritchard

An Editorial Experiment: Suckling's A Sessions of the Poets by L. A. Beaurline

John Partridge and the Company of Stationers by Richmond P. Bond

Fielding's Revisions of Joseph Andrews by Martin C. Battestin

The British Critic and the Oxford Movement by Esther Rhoads Houghton

Grant Richards to James Joyce by Robert Scholes

Government Printing in Massachusetts, 1751-1801 by Rollo G. Silver

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APPENDIX I Resolution for State Printing, 1799

APPENDIX II Abstracts from Some Printers' Bills in the Massachusetts Archives

Notes

Privilege to Print by James G. McManaway

The Hospitall of Incurable Fooles by William E. Miller

The Text of "The Eve of St. Agnes" by Jack Stillinger

Some Unaccomplished Projects of Matthew Arnold by Roger L. Brooks

A "Mather" of Dates by William R. Manierre

An Unknown Early Appearance of "The Raven" by G. Thomas Tanselle

Evidence of Plate Damage as Applied to the First Impressions of Ellen Glasgow's The Wheel of Life (1906) by Oliver L. Steele

West's Revisions of Miss Lonelyhearts by Carter A. Daniel

A Further Note on the First Printing of the Great Gatsby by Matthew J. Bruccoli

A SELECTIVE CHECK LIST OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SCHOLARSHIP FOR 1961

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Notes

[1]

For much aid in the examination of these papers, I am indebted to Mr. Leo Flaherty, Senior Archives Assistant, Massachusetts Archives, and to the staff of the State Library of Massachusetts.

[2]

Isaiah Thomas, The History of Printing in America (Albany, 1874), I, 125.

[3]

State Library of Massachusetts, Journals of the House of Representatives, hereinafter cited as JHR, May 31, 1753.

[4]

Massachusetts Archives, hereinafter cited as Arc., CCXLVIII, 12, 40, 120A. JHR, June 3, 1755.

[5]

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Prelude to Independence (1958), p. 94.

[6]

Arc., LVIII, 606.

[7]

Arc., CCXXII, 161.

[8]

Arc., CXLII, 373.

[9]

Ibid.

[10]

Arc., CXLII, 372.

[11]

JHR, June 6, 1786; Massachusetts Archives, Legislative Records of the Council, hereinafter cited as CR, June 20, 1786.

[12]

Arc., LVIII, no. 493.

[13]

The Journals of Each Provincial Congress of Massachusetts in 1774 and 1775, and of the Committee of Safety (Boston 1838), hereinafter cited as PC, pp. 150, 58.

[14]

Arc., CXXXVIII, 49.

[15]

Worthington C. Ford, Broadsides, Ballads &c. Printed in Massachusetts, 1639-1800 (1922), p. 243. Arc., CXLIII, 22, 24.

[16]

Lindsay Swift, "The Massachusetts Election Sermons," Pub. Col. Soc. Mass., I (1894), 421.

[17]

Ruth Crandall, "Wholesale Commodity Prices in Boston During the Eighteenth Century," Rev. Econ. Stat., XVI (1934), 117.

[18]

CR, June 21, 1799.

[19]

Arc., CCXLVIII, 120A.

[20]

Arc. LXXXIX, 177.

[21]

Arc., CCLII, 53.

[22]

Arc., CCLI, 244.

[23]

Arc. LXXXIX, 344.

[24]

Arc., CCLII, 266.

[25]

Arc., CCLIII, 93.

[26]

Arc., CCLIII, 160.

[27]

Arc., CCLIV, 30.

[28]

Arc., CCLIV, 205.

[29]

Arc., CCLV, 56.

[30]

Arc., CLXIV, 68-9.

[31]

Arc. CCLIX, 41.

[32]

Arc., CCLIX, 145.

[33]

Arc., CCLXIV, 120.

[34]

Arc., CCLXIV, 225.

[35]

Arc., CCLXV, 64.

[36]

Arc., CCLXV, 131.

[37]

Arc., CCLXV, 157.