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Notes on Contributors
David Fairer is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Pope's Imagination (Manchester University Press, 1984), The Poetry of Alexander Pope (Penguin, 1989), and, as editor, Pope: New Contexts (Harvester-Wheatsheaf, 1990). His edition of The Correspondence of Thomas Warton was published in Fall 1994 by the University of Georgia Press, and he is author of the forthcoming volume, English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, in the Longman Literature in English Series.
James McLaverty, Lecturer in English at the University of Keele, is currently working on a study of Pope, print, and meaning.
O M Brack, Jr., Professor of English at Arizona State University, is the editor of Samuel Johnson's translation of Jean Pierre de Crousaz's Commentaire forthcoming in the Yale Edition and serves as textual editor for the Works of Tobias Smollett.
Keith Maslen retired in 1991 from the University of Otago English Department. He is currently working on Samuel Richardson as printer. Books include The Bowyer Ledgers, ed. Keith Maslen and John Lancaster (London: The Bibliographical Society; New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1991), and An Early London Printing House at Work: Studies in the Bowyer Ledgers (New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1993). He is represented in An Index of Civilisation: Studies of Printing and Publishing History in Honour of Keith Maslen, ed. R. Harvey, W. Kirsop and B. J. McMullin (Melbourne: Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, 1993). More recently he has published a brief guide to early New Zealand directories in the Hocken Library, Dunedin, New Zealand, and contributed to proposals for a history of the book in New Zealand.
Hugh Amory is Senior Rare Book Cataloguer at The Houghton Library. He is completing an edition of Fielding's Miscellanies with Bertrand A. Goldgar, is co-editor with David A. Hall of vol. 1 (Beginnings to 1790) of the Collaborative History of the Book in America, and is a contributor to vol. 4 of the History of the Book in Britain (1557-1695).
James E. Tierney, Professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, is the editor of The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley 1733-1764 (Cambridge University Press, 1989), has served as an editor of The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, and has contributed many articles and chapters to publications concerned with British Studies, 1660-1800. Cur-
Gwin J. Kolb, Chester D. Tripp Professor Emeritus in Humanities at the University of Chicago, is the author of numerous publications on eighteenth-century English literature.
Robert DeMaria, Jr., is Henry Noble MacCracken professor of English at Vassar College and the author most recently of The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography (1993).
Anne McDermott is Director of the Johnson Project at the University of Birmingham which will see the publication of Johnson's Dictionary first on CD-ROM and then in a scholarly critical edition. She has published articles on Johnson and is just completing a book on Johnson's arguments.
Donald D. Eddy is Professor of English in Cornell University. He devotes his research to eighteenth-century English books.
Donald W. Nichol is an Associate Professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland. His edition of William Warburton's correspondence with John Knapton, Pope's Literary Legacy, was published by the Oxford Bibliographical Society in 1992.
Thomas F. Bonnell a recent recipient of an NEH Fellowship, is at work on a book to be called "The Most Disreputable Trade: Publishing the Classics of British Poetry, 1765-1810." He is an Associate professor of English at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana.
Anne Bowden and her husband William B. Todd are now engaged upon a comprehensive bibliography of Sir Walter Scott 1792-1836; a project of such complexity that it requires two computers. Now retired, she taught courses in bibliography and rare book and manuscript librarianship for more than twenty-five years at the University of Texas at Austin.
William Todd and his wife Anne Bowden for fifteen years were co-editors of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, in 1988 published Tauchnitz International Editions, and are now complicit in a Scott bibliography. He is Kerr Centennial Professor Emeritus in English History and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin.
Pamela Dalziel is Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. Her edition, Thomas Hardy: The Excluded and Collaborative Stories (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), is based on her Oxford D.Phil. thesis, supervised in part by J. D. Fleeman. She has also edited (with Michael Millgate) Thomas Hardy's 'Studies, Specimens &c.' Notebook (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994).
B. J. McMullin is a Reader in the Department of Librarianship, Archives and Records, Monash University, Melbourne, and editor of The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin.
G. Thomas Tanselle, Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and Adjunct Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, has recently published a biography of Fredson Bowers and is cur-
Ralph Hanna III teaches at the University of California, Riverside, and is particularly interested in the conditions of literary production in the English later middle ages. The article represents a small part of an effort at resituating Middle English alliterative poetry in the period c. 1190-1550.
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