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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at the University of Virginia, he has written several articles on Adams, one of which contains over fifty previously unpublished letters.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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ANNE HENRY EHRENPREIS (1973)
ARTHUR F. STOCKER (1974)
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SPECIAL AWARD
WARNER DUMAS
RECENT MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY
MR. FREDSON BOWERS, Chairman of the English Department of the University of Virginia, spoke on "Popular Texts and Definitive Editions," at a joint dinner meeting of the Society and the Pittsburgh Bibliophiles on September 24, 1966. The program for the visiting bibliophiles included a tour of the Lawn of the University and an informal gathering to view the treasures in the Rare Book and Manuscript Rooms of the University Library.
On January 10, 1967, a tea was given for Mr. Keith I. D. Maslen, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, at the Colonnade Club.
MR. RUARI MCLEAN, Printer, book designer, and editor of Motif, spoke at a meeting, sponsored by the Society and the University Press, on Friday, February 17, 1967. His talk was on nineteenth-century book illustration.
A business meeting of the Society was held on April 3, 1967, at the University of Virginia Library.
PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY DURING THE YEAR
Studies in Bibliography, Volume XX, 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.
Emerson's Library, by Walter Harding. In press.
Printing and the Book in Fifteenth-Century England, by Walter Heilbronner. In press.
The American Printer, 1787-1825, by Rollo G. Silver. In press.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS
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Studies in Bibliography, edited by Fredson Bowers. Volumes 1-20. $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 Survey and Exhibition Checklist, by Reginald Allen. $5.00.
A Checklist of Virginia Almanacs, 1732-1850, by James A. Bear, Jr., and Mary Caperton Bear. $7.50.
William Faulkner's Library: A Catalogue, by Joseph Blotner. $5.00.
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.
George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1562-1633: A Bibliography, by Richard A. Christophers. $6.00.
Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, edited by G. Blakemore Evans. Vol. III: Parts i and ii (The Comedy of Errors; A Midsummer Night's Dream). $15.00. Vol. IV: The Smock Alley Hamlet. $17.50.
Heads Across the Sea: An Album of Eighteenth Century English Literary Portraits in America, by Frances Sharf Fink, $10.00.
Selective Check Lists of Bibliographical Scholarship, 1949-1955, edited by Howell Heaney and Rudolf Hirsch. $10.00.
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A Bibliography of the Works of Fiske Kimball, by Mary Kane. $3.50.
Books in America's Past: Essays Honoring Rudolph H. Gjelsness, edited by David Kaser. $8.75.
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Ellen Glasgow: A Bibliography, by William W. Kelly. $8.50.
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Typefounding in America, 1787-1825, by Rollor G. Silver
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