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A Sample Bibliographical Description With Commentary by G. Thomas Tanselle

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D. REDBURN (1849)

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D1. Original British Edition (London: Bentley, 1849)

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[subsection 01]

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First Bentley Issue (London, 1849)

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Second Bentley Issue (London, 1853)

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Newby Issue (London, after 1853?)

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D2. Original American Edition (New York: Harper, 1849)

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[subsection 01]

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D2.1. First Harper Printing (New York, 1849)

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D2.2. Second Harper Printing (New York, 1849)

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D2.3. Third Harper Printing (New York, 1850)

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D2.4. Fourth Harper Printing (New York, 1855)

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D2.5. Fifth Harper Printing (New York, 1863)

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D2.6. Sixth Harper Printing (New York, 1875)

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D3. "British Library" Edition (Paris: Galignani and Baudry, 1850)

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D4. "Standard Edition" (London: Constable, 1922)

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[subsection 01]

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D4a. "Constable's Miscellany" Subedition (London, 1929)

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D4b. Richard R. Smith Subedition (New York, 1930)

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D4c. Russell & Russell Subedition (New York, 1963). See V1a.

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D4d. Meicho Fukyu Kai Subedition (Tokyo, 1983). See V1b.

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D5. L. C. Page Edition (Boston, January 1924)

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[subsection 01]

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D5a. St. Botolph Society Subedition (Boston, 1924)

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D5b. Jonathan Cape Subedition (London, 1924)

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D5c. D. D. Nickerson Subedition (Boston, 1927 [?])

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D6. Albert & Charles Boni Edition (New York, May 1924)

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[subsection 01]

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D6a. Jarrolds Subedition (London, 1925)

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D7. Pickwick Edition (New York, 1928)

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[subsection 01]

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D7a. Tudor Subedition (New York, 1931). See W3a.

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D8. Jonathan Cape "New Library" Edition (London, 1937)

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D9. Doubleday Anchor Edition (Garden City, N.Y., 1957)

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[subsection 01]

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D9a. Mayflower Subedition (London, 1958)

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D10. Northwestern-Newberry Edition (Evanston and Chicago, 1969)

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D10a. "Rinehart Editions" Subedition (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971)

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D11. Penguin Edition (Harmondsworth, 1976)

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D12. "Library of America" Edition (New York, 1983)

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The Three Texts of 2 Henry IV by John Jowett and Gary Taylor

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The Growth of Robert Thornton's Books by Ralph Hanna III

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The Production of Cambridge University Library MS. Ff.i.6 by Ralph Hanna III

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On the Eighteenth-Century Ownership of a MS of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women, British Library Additional 9832 by Constance S. Wright

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Some Observations on the 1532 Edition of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso by Conor Fahy

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The press-corrections

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The cancelled sheet

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Perfect copies of the 1532 Furioso

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APPENDIX A COPIES OF THE 1532 EDITION OF THE ORLANDO FURIOSO

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The Significance of the "Tho" Signs in Wyatt's Egerton Manuscript by Joost Daalder

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Sir John Harington's Manuscripts in Italic by R. H. Miller

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The Final Quires of the Jonson 1616 Workes: Headline Evidence by Kevin J. Donovan

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The 1640 and 1653 Poems: By Francis Beaumont, Gent. and the Canon of Beaumont's Nondramatic Verse by William A. Ringler, Jr.

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The 1640 Volume

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The 1653 Volume.

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The Gentleman's Magazine, Concealed Printign, and the Texts of Samuel Johnson's Lives of Admiral Robert Blake and Sir Francis Drake by O M Brack, Jr.

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Provincial Bookselling in Eighteenth-Century England: The Case of John Clay Reconsidered by Jan Fergus and Ruth Portner

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More from the Gentleman's Magazine: Graves, Mainwaring, Wren, Sterne, Pope, Bubb Dodington, Goldsmith, Hill, Herrick, Cowper, Chatterton by Arthur Sherbo

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Arthur Mainwaring (?)

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Sir Christopher Wren

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Laurence Sterne

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George Bubb Dodington, Lord Melbombe

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Oliver Goldsmith

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Thomas Chatterton

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Cromek, Cunningham, and Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song: A Case of Literary Duplicity by Dennis M. Read

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Dates for Some Serially Published Shakespeares by Richard Knowles

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1. Charles Knight, ed. The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere. 8 vols. [1839-43]. Serially issued in 55 parts, 1838-43.

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2. Gulian C. Verplanck, ed. The Illustrated Shakespeare. 3 vols. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847. Serially issued in 138 (?) parts, 1844-47.

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3. Howard Staunton, ed. Plays of Shakespeare. 3 vols. 1858-60. Serially issued in 50 parts, 1856-60.

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4. Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, eds. The Plays of Shakespeare. Cassell's Illustrated Shakespeare. 3 vols., n. d. Serially issued in 270 weekly parts, 1864-69.

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5. John Payne Collier, ed. Plays and Poems. 8 vols. 1878. Serially issued in 43 parts, 1875-78.

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Charlotte Brontë Manuscripts: Two Sketches and Her Holograph Preface to The Professor by Janet Butler

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Appendix (MA 32, Pierpont Morgan Library) Preface

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The Bibliographer, Book-Lore, and The Bookworm by Arthur Sherbo

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The Unrecognized Second Edition of Conrad's Under Western Eyes by David Leon Higdon

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William Faulkner's "Impressions" of "Danzas Venezuela": The Original Manuscript by Louis Daniel Brodsky

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Notes on Contributors

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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

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PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT

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Second Bentley Issue (London, 1853)

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Second Bentley issue. This section shows how subsequent descriptions under the heading of a single edition can be made to relate to the first description. The cancel title of the 1853 issue exhibits enough differences from the 1849 title that it seems easier to provide a new transcription, whereas the differences in collation and contents are slight enough that they can be best handled by simple statements setting forth what the differences are.

REDBURN: | HIS FIRST VOYAGE. | BEING | THE CONFESSIONS OF A SAILOR-BOY. | BY HERMAN MELVILLE, | AUTHOR OF "WHITE JACKET," "THE WHALE," &C. | IN TWO VOLUMES. | VOL. I. [II.] | LONDON: | RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON-STREET. | [rule, 5 mm] | 1853.

collation. The only difference from the first issue is that the two title leaves (A1 of Vol. 1 and A2 of Vol. 2) are cancels and that the half-title of Vol. 2 (A1) is excised.

contents. The only differences are that the verso of the title leaf of Vol. 1 is blank, having no printer's imprint, and that there is no half-title leaf for Vol. 2.

binding. The sheets are bound as a single volume. Material. Cord cloth (306), deep red (13). Front and back. Blind frame and centerpiece (Bentley

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5). Spine. Lettering in gold, decoration in blind: '[decorative band] | REDBURN | BY | HERMAN MELVILLE | [decorative band] | [pendant] | [decorative band]'. Edges. Untrimmed. Endpapers. Light yellow (86) coated paper.

copies examined. United Kingdom. 1. BrP. 11272 (C5483) (rebound). 2. L. 12627.r.1. United States. 3. ICN. M67-722-16.