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Printers of the Mind: Some Notes on Bibliographical Theories and Printing-House Practices by D. F. McKenzie
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Copyright Records and the Bibliographer by G. Thomas Tanselle
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I. 1783-1790
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II. 1790-1870
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III. 1870-1909
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IV. 1909 — present
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V. A Note on English Copyright Records
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VI. Some General Considerations
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Appendix UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT COPYRIGHT RECORDS, 1790-1870
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A. Records in the Library of Congress
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B. Records Not in the Library of Congress
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C. Published Records
  
Notes
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The Lay of the Case by Philip Gaskell
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The Oxford Old-Spelling Shakespeare Concordances by T. H. Howard-Hill
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The Printers and the Beaumont and Fletcher Folio of 1647, Sections 4 and 8D-F by Standish Henning
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William Strahan's Ledgers, II: Charges for Papers, 1738-1785 by Patricia Hernlund
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Nineteenth-Century English Best-Sellers: A Further List by Richard D. Altick
  
The Order of Stanzas in Cowley and Crashaw's "On Hope" by George Walton Williams
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Dates in Incunabular Colophons by Curt F. Bühler
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William Barley, Draper and Stationer by J. A. Lavin
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Two Compositors in Heywood's Londons Ius Honorarium (1631) by David M. Bergeron
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Aphra Behn's First Biography by Robert Adams Day
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The Text of Scott's Edition of Swift by Lee H. Potter
  
The Text of Keats's "Ode on Indolence" by Jack Stillinger
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Swinburne's Heptalogia Improved by Robert A. Greenberg
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The "Lost" Number of the Southern Literary Gazette by John C. Guilds
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Crane's Red Badge of Courage and Other 'Advance Copies' by Fredson Bowers
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Scholarship and Mere Artifacts: The British and Empire Publications of Stephen Crane by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Joseph Katz
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Ulysses Notebook VIII.A.5 at Buffalo by Phillip F. Herring
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The Meaning of Copy-Text by Paul Baender
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A SELECTIVE CHECK LIST OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SCHOLARSHIP FOR 1967

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C. Published Records

  • Alabama, 1861-65: Raymond V. Robinson, "Confederate Copyright Entries," William & Mary Quarterly, 2nd ser., XVI (1936), 248-66. [122 entries, including entries from Georgia, Mississippi, and North Carolina]
  • California, 1851-56: Edith Margaret Coulter, "California Copyrights, 1851-1856, with Notes on Certain Ghost Books," California Historical Society Quarterly, XXII (1943), 27-40. [118 entries]
  • California, 1851-62: Robert Greenwood, S. J. Suzuki, Marjorie Pulliam, "California Copyrights, 1851-1862," in California Imprints, 1833-1862 (1961), pp. 480-504. [293 entries]
  • Georgia, 1861-65: See Alabama above.
  • Illinois, 1821-50: Douglas C. McMurtrie, "Early Illinois Copyright Entries, 1821-1850," Bulletin of the Chicago Historical Society, II (1937), 50-61, 92-101. [84 entries]
  • Kentucky, 1800-54: John Wilson Townsend, Supplemental Check List of Kentucky Imprints 1788-1820 (American Imprints Inventory, No. 38, 1942), pp. 119-97. [448 entries]
  • Massachusetts, 1800-09: Ruth Shaw Leonard, "Transcript of the Copyright Entries for the District Court of Massachusetts, 1800-1809, with Bibliographical Notes," in A Bibliographical Evaluation of the Copyright Records for the United States District Court of Massachusetts, 1800-1809 (Master's thesis, Columbia University, 1944), pp. 69-176. [342 entries]
  • Michigan, 1824-29, 1837-70: William L. Jenks, "Michigan Copyrights," Michigan History Magazine, XI (1927), 110-43, 271-87, 445-58, 630-52; XII (1928), 108-24, 584-89, 740-43; XIII (1929), 121-26, 555-59; XIV (1930), 150-55, 311-13; XV (1931), 126-29. [1472 entries — but the actual total is somewhat smaller, since certain entry numbers are skipped]
  • Mississippi, 1850-70: Charles F. Heartman, "Mississippi Copyright Entries, 1850-1870," Journal of Mississippi History, II (1940), 79-87. [71 entries] See also Alabama above.
  • North Carolina, 1861-65: See Alabama above.
  • Pennsylvania, 1790-94: Frederick R. Goff, "Pennsylvania Registrations for Copyright, 1790-1794," in "The First Decade of the Federal Act for Copyright, 1790-1800," in Essays Honoring Lawrence C. Wroth (1951), pp. 113-28. [80 entries]
  • Rhode Island, 1790-1816: Howard W. Preston, "List of Rhode Island Books Entered for Copyright, 1790-1816," Rhode Island Historical Society Collections, XIII (1920), 69-72, 95-101. [40 entries]
  • Texas, 1840-41: Andrew Forest Muir, "Patents and Copyrights in the Republic of Texas," Journal of Southern History, XII (1946), 204-22 (esp. pp. 215-16). [3 entries]
  • Virginia (Norfolk), 1837-70: Barbara Harris and John Cook Wyllie, Norfolk Copyright Entries 1837, 1851-3, 1856-7, 1858-9, 1864, 1866-71 [i.e., 1870] (Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1947), 48 pp. [82 entries]
  • Virginia (Richmond), 1790-1844: James H. Whitty, A Record of Virginia Copyright Entries (1790-1844) (Richmond: Davis Bottom, 1911), 54 pp. Also printed as a supplement (52 pp.) to the Seventh Annual Report of the Virginia State Library, 1909-10 (1911). [250 entries, fully indexed]
  • Virginia (Richmond), 1864-65: "Confederate Copyrights," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, XX (1912), 425-29. [28 entries]
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