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Commendatory Verses: The Rise of the Art of Puffing by Franklin B. Williams, Jr.
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Printers and Stationers in the Parish of St. Giles Cripplegate 1561-1640 by William E. Miller
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Today's Shakespeare Texts, and Tomorrow's by Fredson Bowers
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Thackeray's Contributions to Fraser's Magazine by Edward M. White
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The Costs of Mathew Carey's Printing Equipment by Rollo G. Silver
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Press Figures in America: Some Preliminary Observations by G. Thomas Tanselle
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The Spoils of Poynton: Revisions and Editions by S. P. Rosenbaum
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THE DATE OF Cocke Lorelles Bote by Paul R. Baumgartner
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Wyatt and the Several Editions of The Court of Venus by Charles A. Huttar
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The Printing of Greenes Groatsworth of Witte and Kind-Harts Dreame by Sidney Thomas
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Reappearing Types as Bibliographical Evidence by Robert K. Turner, Jr.
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Wither and the Stationers by Norman E. Carlson
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Identification of New York Public Library Manuscript "Suckling Collection" and of Huntington Manuscript 198 by C. M. Armitage
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Two Scenes by Addison in Steele's Tender Husband by Shirley Strum Kenny
  
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A Coleridge-Wordsworth Manuscript and "Sarah Hutchinson's Poets" by R. S. Woof
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The Date of Blake's Pickering Manuscript or The Way of a Poet with Paper by G. E. Bentley, Jr.
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Arithmetic Colophons in Nineteenth-Century Books by William B. Todd
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The Writer's Best Solace: Textual Revisions in Ellen Glasgow's The Past by R. H. W. Dillard
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A SELECTIVE CHECK LIST OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SCHOLARSHIP FOR 1964

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[1]

Public Record Office, Chancery Pleadings, B. and A. Hamilton, IV. before 1714, No. 642, Steele v. Rich, Complainant's Bill dated 3 July 1707. Quoted in George A. Aitken, The Life of Richard Steele (1889), I,113. Also Rich's answer dated 9 November 1707. Quoted in Aitken, I,119.

[2]

Peter Smithers, The Life of Joseph Addison (1954), p. 98.

[3]

According to running-title evidence, the book was divided between presses at the same point at which it was divided between compositors. One skeleton printed formes F(o), G(o), I(o), and H(i); a second, F(i), G(i), I(i), and H(o). Four more sets of running titles, denoting four more skeletons, can be recognized in Gatherings B-E:

                 
I.  B(i)  1v   2  3v   4 
C(o)  2v   1  4v   3 
D  3  [State B] 
II.  B(o)  1  2v   3  4v  
D(i)  4  3v   2  1v  
D(o)  3  4v   1  2v  
III.  C(i)  1v   2  3v   4 
E(i)  1v   2  3v   4 
IV.  E(o)  1  2v   3  4v  
Indications are that the prelims were printed with gatherings B-E rather than F-I. The use of at least two presses for gatherings B-E and the prelims adjusted the time necessary for getting each half of the book in print. Lastly, at least gathering A was printed after the play had opened, as is shown by Steele's dedicatory remark about the Town's "kind Acceptance of this Comedy" (A1v).

[4]

Compositor A abbreviated to "Mr Cl." and "Mr. Cl."; Compositor B, to "Mr. Cl."

[5]

The Daily Courant, No. 941.

[6]

The latter is suggested by the complete spelling of "Mrs. Clerimont' in the speech prefix in 1. 23, appearing only once, in the middle of the scene.

[7]

Compositor A spelled "Nei." in speech prefixes; Compositor B, "Nie."

[8]

John Forster, Biographical Essays, Third Edition (1860), p. 214.

[9]

F. W. Bateson, English Comic Drama, 1700-1750 (1929), p. 50.

[10]

Paul E. Parnell, "A New Molière Source for Steele's 'The Tender Husband'," NQ, New Series, VI (1959), 218.

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