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Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy, 1587-1642. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1940. x, 288 pp. Reprints: Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1959; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966, 1969, 1971 (paperback), with an added "Postscript." Excerpts reprinted: Pages 177-179, in Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Duchess of Malfi: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Norman Rabkin (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1968), pp. 100-101. Pages 228-234, in Shakespeare's Contemporaries, ed. Max Bluestone and Norman Rabkin (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1961), pp. 295-300 (as "James Shirley: Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy and The Cardinal"); 2nd edition (1970), pp. 406-411; also in The Elizabethan Dramatists, Modern Critical Views, ed. Harold Bloom (New Haven: Chelsea House, 1986), pp. 245-250 (as "The Decadence of Revenge Tragedy").

Principles of Bibliographical Description. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1949. xviii, 506 pp. Reprints: New York: Russell and Russell, 1962 etc.; Winchester, U.K.: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1986 (paperback), 1987 (hardcover and paperback). Excerpts reprinted: Definitions from p. 407 as poster "Issue & State in Modern Books" (Chicago: Beasley Books, [1982]). [An early version of the sample description on pp. 480-484 appeared as "Description of the Six Impressions of Washington Irving's Wolfert's Roost," a six-page mimeographed handout to accompany FTB's talk "Some Problems and Practices in Bibliographical Descriptions of Modern Authors" at the inaugural meeting of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 26 February 1947.] Translation: Excerpt

("A Digest of the Formulary" [pp. 457-462]) in Italian by Conor Fahy as "Compendio del formulario," La Bibliofilia, 94 (1992), 103-110. [Served as basis for Akira Takano, Yōsho no hanashi ("A Story of European Books"). Tokyo: Maruzen, 1991. iv, 218 pp.]

On Editing Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Dramatists. Philadelphia: Published for the Philip H. and A. S. W. Rosenbach Foundation by the University of Pennsylvania Library, 1955. x, 132 pp. [The Rosenbach Lectures, 21, 28 April, and 5 May 1954: Lecture I, "The Texts and the Manuscripts"; II, "The Function of Textual Criticism and Bibliography"; III, "The Method for a Critical Edition."] Reprint: Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1966 (hardcover and paperback). xii, 210 pp. [With added Postscript and Lectures IV, "What Shakespeare Wrote" (1962), and V, "Today's Shakespeare Texts, and Tomorrow's" (1966).]

Textual and Literary Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959. x, 186 pp. [The Sandars Lectures in Bibliography at Cambridge University, 20-22 January 1958: Lecture I, "Textual Criticism and the Literary Critic" (reprinted in FTB's Essays [1975], pp. 296-325); II, "The Walt Whitman Manuscripts of Leaves of Grass (1860)"; III, "The New Textual Criticism of Shakespeare." Lecture IV, "Principle and Practice in the Editing of Early Dramatic Texts," read before the Bibliographical Society, London, 23 January 1958.] Reprint: 1966 (hardcover and paperback). Translation: In Japanese by Sachiho Tanaka. Tokyo: Chuou Shoin, 1983. vi, 262 pp.

Bibliography and Textual Criticism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964. xii, 208 pp. [The Lyell Lectures, Oxford, 28 April, 5, 12, 19, 26 May, and 2 June 1959: Lecture I, "Analytical and Textual Bibliography"; II, "The Treatment of Evidence"; III, "The Interpretation of Evidence: The Demonstrable and Probable"; IV, "The Interpretation of Evidence: The Probable"; V, "The Interpretation of Evidence: The Possible"; VI, "The Copy for the Folio Othello" (reprinted as "The Folio Othello: Compositor E" in FTB's Essays [1975], pp. 326-358).] Reprint: 1966.

Hamlet: An Outline-Guide to the Play. Barnes & Noble Focus Books #706. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1965 (hardcover and paperback). iv, 124 pp. Adaptation: By the publishers, as William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Barnes & Noble Book Notes #836, 1967 (paperback). 88 pp. [Both versions reprint excerpts from pp. 53-55 of FTB's "The Moment of Final Suspense in Hamlet: 'We Defy Augury'" (1964).]

Essays in Bibliography, Text, and Editing, with a Foreword by Irby B. Cauthen, Jr. Charlottesville: Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia by the University Press of Virginia, 1975. viii, 550 pp. [A collection of articles arranged in four sections: (1) The

Bibliographical Way: "Bibliography and the University" (1949); "Some Relations of Bibliography to Editorial Problems" (1949); "Bibliography, Pure Bibliography, and Literary Studies" (1952); "The Bibliographical Way" (1958); "Bibliography and Modern Librarianship" (1966); "Four Faces of Bibliography" (1971). (2) Descriptive Bibliography: "Purposes of Descriptive Bibliography, with Some Remarks on Methods" (1952); "Bibliography and Restoration Drama" (1966); "Bibliography Revisited" (1969). (3) Analytical Bibliography: "The Headline in Early Books" (1941); "An Examination of the Method of Proof Correction in King Lear Q1" (1947); "Elizabethan Proofing" (1948); "Running-Title Evidence for Determining Half-Sheet Imposition" (1948); "Bibliographical Evidence from the Printer's Measure" (1949); "Motteux's Love's a Jest (1696): A Running-Title and Presswork Problem" (1954). (4) Textual Criticism and Editing: "Current Theories of Copy-Text, with an Illustration from Dryden" (1950); "Old-Spelling Editions of Dramatic Texts" (1957); "Textual Criticism and the Literary Critic" (1958); "The Folio Othello: Compositor E" (1959); "Established Texts and Definitive Editions" (1962); "The Text of Johnson" (1964); "Old Wine in New Bottles: Problems of Machine Printing" (1966); "Practical Texts and Definitive Editions" (1968); "The Facsimile of Whitman's Blue Book" (1969); "Multiple Authority: New Problems and Concepts of Copy-Text" (1972); "Remarks on Eclectic Texts" (1973).]

Hamlet as Minister and Scourge and Other Studies in Shakespeare and Milton. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989. xvi, 240 pp. [A collection of the following articles: "Death in Victory: Shakespeare's Tragic Reconciliations" (1967); "Climax and Protagonist in Shakespeare's Dramatic Structure" (1982); "Shakespeare's Art: The Point of View" (1964); "Shakespeare's Dramatic Vagueness" (1963); "Hamlet as Minister and Scourge" (1955); "Hamlet's Fifth Soliloquy" (1962); "The Moment of Final Suspense in Hamlet: 'We Defy Augury'" (1964); "The Death of Hamlet: A Study in Plot and Character" (1959); "Dramatic Structure and Criticism: Plot in Hamlet" (1964); "Hamlet's 'Sullied' or 'Solid' Flesh: A Bibliographical Case History" (1956); "The Structure of King Lear" (1980); "Theme and Structure in King Henry IV, Part I" (1970) [also incorporating "Hal and Francis in King Henry IV, Part I" (1966)]; "Milton's Samson Agonistes: Justice and Reconciliation" (1978).]