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

In place of the last two lines of the original title page, the following three lines appear: '329 & 331 PEARL STREET, | FRANKLIN SQUARE. | 1855.' The 1855 printing contains no advertising, and gathering R therefore consists of four leaves, the last one blank: A-Q12 R4, 196 leaves, pp. i-v vi-xi xii 13 14-390 391-392.

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