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Studies in bibliography

  
STUDIES IN BIBLIOGRAPHY
  
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Contents

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Mind and Textual Matter
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SCRIBAL INTENTIONS IN MEDIEVAL ROMANCE: A CASE STUDY OF ROBERT THORNTON
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I. A Rationale of "Scribal Corruption"?
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II. Past Assessments of Robert Thornton
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III. The Methodology of Reassessment
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IV. Constructing Thornton's Scribal Profile
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V. From Profile to Rationale
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VI. Conclusions and Application
  
APPENDIX 1 Manuscripts and Lines Collated and Critical Editions Consulted
  
APPENDIX 2 Examples of Scribal Habits
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COMPOSITOR B'S SPEECH-PREFIXES IN THE FIRST FOLIO OF SHAKESPEARE AND THE QUESTION OF COPY FOR 2 HENRY IV
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APPENDIX
  
MEMORIAL TRANSMISSION, SHORTHAND, AND JOHN OF BORDEAUX
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THE BAGFORD CHAPEL RULES: A SET OF ENGLISH PRINTING HOUSE REGULATIONS, CIRCA 1686–1707
  
APPENDIX ORDERS To be Observed in this PRINTING-HOUSE.
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"THE TRAGEDY OF THE BOOK INDUSTRY"? BOOKSTORES AND BOOK DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES TO 1950
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Directories of American Bookstores to 1950
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I. General Bookstores
  
D. Hannegan, Office of the Booksellers' Trade List (New York), 1854
  
Orville A. Roorbach (New York), 1859
  
American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette (New York), 1859–1860
  
Wm. F. Bartlett (New York), 1860
  
New York Trade Sale Association (New York), 1863
  
John H. Dingman (New York), 1867–1870
  
Office of Publishers' Weekly (New York), 1879–1880
  
A. C. Farley & Co. and Related Firms (Philadelphia), 1881–1890
  
M. Shirley Geyer and Related Firms (New York), 1886–1893
  
C. N. Caspar (Milwaukee), 1889
  
Industrial Information Company of New Jersey (New York), 1891–1895
  
James Clegg (Rochdale UK), 1899–1914
  
H. W. Wilson Co. (Minneapolis), 1902–1910
  
R. R. Bowker Co., Office of The Publishers' Weekly (New York), 1912–1949
  
"The Librarian" (Gravesend) and Successors, 1927–1950
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II. Second-Hand and Antiquarian Bookstores
  
C. N. Caspar (Milwaukee), 1885–1887
  
James Clegg (Rochdale UK), 1888–1894
  
Miscellaneous Directories of Second-Hand Book Stores, 1940–1949
  
COLLECTING DANTE FROM TUSCANY: THE FORMATION OF THE FISKE DANTE COLLECTION AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY
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BOOK-JACKETS OF THE 1890s
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A LIST OF EXAMPLES, 1891–1900, OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN PUBLISHERS' PRINTED BOOK-JACKETS, BOXES, AND OTHER DETACHABLE COVERINGS

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INDEX TO THE LIST
  
(1) Authors, Editors, Illustrators, Translators (plus personal-name subjects, and titles without named authors)
  
(2) Publishers and Series British (London)
  
British (other than London)
  
American (New York)
  
American (other than New York)
  
(3) Libraries
  
(4) Collectors
  
(5) Dealers and Auction Houses
  
(6) Scholars (and other persons who have provided information, not covered under previous headings, in published or unpublished form)
  
Notes on Contributors
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
  
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BENEFACTORS FOR 2005–2006
  
PATRONS FOR 2005–2006
  
CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS FOR 2005–2006
  
SUBSCRIBING MEMBERS FOR 2005–2006
  
STUDENT MEMBERS FOR 2005–2006
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Orville A. Roorbach (New York), 1859

2. List Of Booksellers In The United States and the Canadas. Collected Since
May Last, By Direct Communication With Every City And Town On The List.
By Orville A. Roorbach.

New York: Orville A. Roorbach, March, 1859.

128 leaves, unpaged. Printed on light blue ledger paper: ruled, except for the first
3 pages, and with versos blank, save for the title leaf. A copy at CtY has an errata
slip inserted at front. Leather spine and corners, cloth sides?

One hundred copies only. Announced, with a call for subscriptions, in BM 1
Jan. 1859 at the pre-publication price $25. Deposited for copyright 9 April 1859.
Advertised as "now ready" in BM 15 April 1859 at $40, and as "Reduced to the
Original Subscription Price, $25" in BM 1 Sept. 1859.

References: Sabin 73098; NUC (NR 0410465); OCLC (54287618 and 17248945
[microform]). A copy now at CtY is briefly described in PW 28 Dec. 1935, p.
2321.

Copies seen: CtY (rebound); DLC (rebound deposit copy).

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