Beschrijving
Original publisher’s cream cloth spine, gray paper-covered boards, black lettering spine, large 8vo: iv, 392pp., 15 essays [with illustrations – notes & references], bibliographical notes, correspondence, reviews, table of contents. ESSAYS: 1. D.F. McKenzie: Eight quarto proof sheets of 1594 set by Formes: A fruitfull commentarie. 2. Valerie Edden: Early manuscripts of Virgiliana. 3. Peter Davidson: King James’ s Book of Bounty: from manuscript to print. 4. William P. Williams: The first edition of Holy Living. 5. Paul Kaufman: Readers and their reading in 18th-century Lichfield. 6. Karina Williamson: Christopher Smart: Problems of atrribution reconsidered. 7. Betty W. Rizzo: Christopher Smart’s Chaucerian Poems. 8. Selwyn H. Goodacre: Lewis Caroll’s 1887 corrections to Alice. 9. Victor Neuburg: The Reading of the Victorian Freethinkers. 10. Michael Hunter: The facsimiles in Thomas Elmham’s History og St. Augustine’s Canterbury. 11. John R. Millburn: Martin’s Magazine: The general magazine of arts and sciences 1755-65. 12. A. Dearing: Concepts of copy-text old and new. 13. Gunnar Sorelius: An unknown Shakespearian commonplace book. 14. Albert H. Smith: A Duplicate setting in the 2nd edition of Roderick Random. 15. Donald Kausch: George W.M. Reynolds: A bibliography. Very fine copy. Volume: 5th Series Volume 28: The Library. A Quarterly Journal of Bibliography.