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Errata

p. 297 Smock Alley Hamlet ] Smock Alley Hamlet

p. 298 William Faulkner's Library; A Catalogue by Joseph Blotner. ] William Faulkner's Library: A Catalogue, by Joseph Blotner.

Notes on Contributors

John Frederick Nims has written three books of poetry, a translation of the poems of St. John of the Cross, and a translation of Euripides' Andromache. His latest volume of poetry is forthcoming, as well as an anthology of English lyric poetry published by Macmillan.

Allan Stevenson, after dating the Missale speciale and the Netherlandish Blockbooks, is now preparing a book on Caxton's Paper and Print as holder of a grant by the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia.

Robert K. Turner, Jr. is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. With George Walton Williams, he has recently edited 2 and 3 Henry VI for the Pelican Shakespeare.

T. C. Duncan Eaves and Ben D. Kimpel, English professors at the University of Arkansas, are at work on a biography of Samuel Richardson.

Patricia Hernlund, who received her doctorate from the University of Chicago, is Assistant Professor of English at Wayne State University. She is currently completing additional studies of Strahan's registers.

Joan Stevens, Associate Professor of English in Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, is studying Thackeray, Dickens, and New Zealand literature.

Dale Kramer has written a number of articles on Victorian literature and is beginning a study of Charles Maturin. He is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois.

John Firth, who received his doctorate from the University of Virginia and now teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is working on a study of major Irish autobiographical writings.

Emily K. Izsak, Assistant Professor of English, Boston University, is studying more of Faulkner's manuscripts and has completed a paper on Rémy de Gourmont and twentieth-century American literature.

G. Thomas Tanselle's indefatigable researches are currently in the bibliography of Melville. Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, he is one of the editors of the forthcoming works of Herman Melville to be published by the Newberry Library and the Northwestern University Press.


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William S. Kable, Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, is preparing a comprehensive study of compositor B's role in the Pavier Quartos that he began as a doctoral dissertation at the University of Virginia.

G. Blakemore Evans is Professor of English at the University of Illinois (Urbana). He is editor of Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, the fourth volume of which, the Smock Alley Hamlet, has just been published by the University Press of Virginia.

Sister Jean Carmel Cavanaugh, S. L., who teaches at Webster College, St. Louis, has written learned articles on Elizabethan literature.

C. G. Martin, Lecturer in English at Bedford College, University of London, is preparing an edition of Coleridge's poems for Longman's Annotated English Classics.

Matthew J. Bruccoli, professor of English in Ohio State University, continues his investigations of the bibliography of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American authors.

Daniel R. Barnes, a graduate student at the University of Kentucky, has written a number of articles on American writers.

George Monteiro's Henry James and John Hay: The Record of a Friendship was published by the Brown University Press in 1965. He is Assistant Professor of English at Brown University.

George W. Hallam, Associate Professor of English at Jacksonville University, is currently at work on Sir Philip Sidney and the Ramist tradition.

James Kraft teaches English at the University of Virginia and is completing a study of the tales of Henry James.

Derek A. Clarke is Librarian of the British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics.

Howell J. Heaney is Bibliographer in the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia.


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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

President, Linton R. Massey, "Kinloch," Keswick, Virginia

Vice President, Irby B. Cauthen, Jr., 530 Cabell Hall, University of Virginia

Editor, Fredson Bowers, 530 Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Associate Editor, L. A. Beaurline, 530 Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Assistant Secretary, Kendon Stubbs, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Virginia

Secretary, William H. Runge, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Virginia

Treasurer, 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, Troelstralaan 97, Groningen, Netherlands

Hon. Secretary-Treasurer for Venezuela, Dr. Pedro Grases, Avenida Mohedano No. 9, La Castellana, Caracas, Venezuela

Hon. Secretary-Treasurer for Sweden, Mr. Rolf du Rietz, Roslagsgatan 4, Uppsala 3, Sweden

COUNCIL

Arthur F. Stocker (1967)
Fredson Bowers (1970)
Eleanor Shea (1968)
Linton R. Massey (1971)
I. B. Cauthen, Jr. (1969)
Joseph M. Carrière (1972)
Anne Ehrenpreis (1973)

PAST PRESIDENTS

Chalmers L. Gemmill
Atcheson L. Hench

The Papers, under the title of Studies in Bibliography, are issued annually by the Society, in addition to various bibliographical pamphlets and monographs, and a news sheet.

Membership in the Society is solicited according to the following categories:

Subscribing Members at $8.00 a year receive Studies in Bibliography and other bibliographical material issued without charge by the Society. Institutions as well as private persons are accepted in this class of membership. Life memberships in this category are accepted, for individuals only, at $150.

Contributing Members at $25 a year receive all publications, and by their contributions assist in furthering the work of the Society. Institutions are accepted.

Articles and notes are invited by the editor. Preferably these should conform to the recommendations of the Modern Language Association of America Style Sheet. The Society will consider the publication of bibliographical monographs for separate issue.

All matters pertaining to business affairs, including applications for membership, should be sent to the secretary, William H. Runge, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A. Enquiries concerning foreign memberships may be sent to the foreign secretaries.

The publication of volumes of Studies in Bibliography, the Papers of the Society, has been materially aided by anonymous grants, and by grants from the Research Committee of the University of Virginia and the Richmond Area University Center.


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LIFE MEMBERS

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Rollo G. Silver, Boston, Massachusetts
Arthur B. Spingarn, New York City


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Arthur F. Stocker, Charlottesville, Virginia
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Thomas F. Torrey, Madison Heights, Virginia
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WINNERS OF THE 1966 AWARDS IN BOOK COLLECTING

Warner Dumas
Paul A. Roy

HONORABLE MENTION

W. Cantey Sprott, Jr.
Richard Erickson

SPECIAL AWARD

William Weaver

RECENT MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY

Mr. D. F. McKenzie of Victoria University, New Zealand, addressed the Society, December 14, 1965, on "The Cambridge University Press 1696-1712, its Records, and Their Implications."

Mr. Gordan N. Ray, President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and President of the Grolier Club addressed the Society on "Victorian Society and the Victorian Novel" on Wednesday, April 20, 1966.

A small exhibition of manuscripts from the Library's special collections of American history and literature was arranged for the visit of delegates to the International Congress of Archives. This was jointly sponsored by the Society and the University of Virginia Library. May 14, 1966.

Sir David Evans, former Keeper of the Public Records, and Mr. Peter Walne, County Archivist of Hertfordshire, were honored at a tea given by the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia and the University of Virginia Library on May 15, 1966.

A Business meeting of the Society was held on June 16, 1966 at the University of Virginia Library.

PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY DURING THE YEAR

Typefounding in America, 1787-1825 by Rollo G. Silver. Available to members at $6.00. Available to non-members at $7.50.

Shakespearean Prompt-Books, Vol. IV. Edited by G. Blakemore Evans. Text of Smock Alley Hamlet. Available to members at $14.00. Available to non-members at $17.50.

Studies in Bibliography, Volume 19, edited by Fredson Bowers. Sent to Contributing, Subscribing, and Student members. Additional copies available to members at $8.00. Available to non-members at $10.00.

George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1562-1633: A Bibliography, by Richard A. Christophers. Available to members at $4.80. Available to non-members at $6.00.

Books in America's Past: Essays Honoring Rudolph H. Gjelsness, edited by David Kaser. Available to members at $7.00. Available to non-members at $8.75.

Selective Check List of Bibliographical Scholarship Series B 1956-1962, edited by Howell J. Heaney and Rudolf Hirsch. $10.00.

Studies in Bibliography, edited by Fredson Bowers. Reprints of Volumes 4, 11, 12, 13, 14. Available to members at $8.00. Available to non-members at $10.00.


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OTHER PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS

(All publications now in print are available from the University Press of Virginia, and a twenty percent discount will be given to orders from members who identify themselves. Former publications of the Society not listed here are out of print. Those wishing a complete list of them should see the annual lists in successive volumes of Studies.)

Studies in Bibliography, edited by Fredson Bowers. Volumes 1-19. $10.00.

The Muses Mourn, a Checklist of Verse Occasioned by the Death of Charles II, by John Alden. $4.00.

W. S. Gilbert Anniversary Checklist, by Reginald Allen. $5.00.

Checklist of Virginia Almanacs, 1732-1850, by James A. Bear. $7.50.

W. H. Auden Bibliography, by B. C. Bloomington. $10.00.

William Faulkner's Library: A Catalogue, by Joseph Blotner. $5.00.

A Bibliographical Examination of the Earliest Editions of the Letters of Junius, by T. H. Bowyer. $6.00.

Index of Printers, Publishers, and Booksellers Indicated by Charles Evans in his American Bibliography, by Roger P. Bristol. $7.50.

Evans' American Bibliography: Supplement (Checking Edition), by Roger P. Bristol. Available to members at $30.00.

Bibliography of the Chilean Novel, by Homero Castillo. $6.00.

Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century. Vol. II: Parts i and ii (Measure for Measure; The Winter's Tale). $20.00. Vol. III: Parts i and ii (The Comedy of Errors; A Midsummer Night's Dream). $15.00.

Heads Across the Sea: An Album of Eighteenth Century English Literary Portraits in America, by Frances Sharf Fink, $10.00.

Romance Languages and Literature as Presented in German Doctoral Dissertations, 1885-1950, a Bibliography, by Hans Flasche. $7.50.

A Centennial Check-List of the Editions of Henry David Thoreau's Walden, by Walter Harding. $3.00.

Thoreau's Library, by Walter Harding. $5.00.

Selective Check Lists of Bibliographical Scholarship, 1949-1955, by Howell Heaney and Rudolf Hirsch. $10.00.

A Bibliography of the Works of Fiske Kimball, by Mary Kane. $3.50.

Borrowings from the Bristol Library, 1773-1784: A Unique Record of Reading Vogues, by Paul Kaufman. $5.00.

A Bibliography of Ellen Glasgow, by William W. Kelly. $8.50.

A Checklist of Verse by David Garrick, by Mary E. Knapp. $5.00.

Stationers' Company Apprentices, 1605-1640, by D. F. McKenzie. $8.00.

Index of Printers, Publishers and Booksellers in A. W. Pollard and G. R. Redgrave A Short-Title Catalogue of Books printed in England, Scotland & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640, by Paul G. Morrison. A second impression offset from the Secretary's copy, with a few corrections written in by hand. $6.00.

Index of Printers, Publishers and Booksellers in Donald Wing's Short-Title Catalogue, 1641-1700, by Paul G. Morrison. $20.00.

The North European Nations as Presented in German University Publications, 1885-1957, by Fritz Meyen. $7.50.

A Bibliography of American Belles-Lettres in German Translation, by Richard Mummendey. $12.00.

A Carto-Bibliographical Study of "The English Pilot the Fourth Book," With Special Reference to the Charts of Virginia, by Coolie Verner, $5.00.


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