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Notes on Contributors
G. THOMAS TANSELLE's researches are currently in the bibliography and texts of Herman Melville. His interests in the history of modern bibliography have led him to suggest several new methods of description.
CLAUDE RICHARD, Agrégé de l'Université, teaches American Literature at the University of Montpellier, France. In 1966-67 he was Harkness Fellow at the University of Virginia.
JOHN C. GUILDS, Professor and Head of the Department of English at the University of South Caroline, is general editor of the Centennial Edition of Simms's works to be published by the University of South Carolina Press.
CHARLES VANDERSEE is at work on a book about Henry Adams. Assistant Professor of English at the University of Virginia, he has written several articles on Adams, one of which contains over fifty previously unpublished letters.
FRANKLIN B. WILLIAMS, JR. has recently stepped down after seven years as chairman of the English Department at Georgetown University. He is American treasurer for the Bibliographical Society, London.
WILLIAM S. KABLE received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and teaches at the University of South Carolina. He is continuing his study of compositor B's role in the Pavier quartos and the First Folio.
ROBERT CRAIG PIERSON completed his doctorate at the University of Arkansas, and at the time of his death was Assistant Professor of English at Texas Christian University.
PATRICIA B. CRADDOCK, Assistant Professor of English at Goucher College, is preparing a new edition of Gibbon's miscellaneous English works, last edited from manuscripts in 1814.
JOHN FIRTH received his doctorate from the University of Virginia and now teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is working on a study of major Irish autobiographical writings.
GEORGE B. PACE of the University of Missouri is soon to publish, along with A. I. Doyle, a study of the Chaucerian texts in the recently discovered Coventry manuscripts, an important medieval anthology of Chaucer's short poems.
JOSEPHINE WATERS BENNETT's latest book is a study of Measure for Measure as Royal Entertainment. She is now writing a book about Shakespeare's sonnets.
BERTA STURMAN, whose previous articles have been on black-letter printing and the use of printed prompt books, has recently completed an essay on Arthur Machen for the collection Minor British Novelists, published by the Southern Illinois University Press.
SHIRLEY KENNY, Associate Professor of English at Catholic University, is continuing her study of the texts of Steele's plays.
STUART L. ASTOR, who teaches at Adelphi University, is working toward a Ph.D. at New York University.
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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