Beschrijving
Original publisher’s cream cloth spine, gray paper-covered boards, black lettering spine, large 8vo: vi, 388pp., 14 essays [with illustrations – notes & references], bibliographical notes, correspondence, reviews, table of contents. ESSAYS: 1. Franklin B. Wiolliams: Lost books in Tudor England. 2. K.J. Höltgen: Richard Haydocke: Translator, engraver, physician. 3. James L. Salter: The books of an early 15th-century curate. 4. Fredson Bowers: McKerrow, Greg and ‘Substantive Edition’. 5. Lorene Pouncey: The fallacy of the ideal copy. 6. Davis Foxon: Greg’s ‘Rationale’ and the editing of Pope. 7. Brindley F. Roberts: Printing at Aberdale 1854-1974. 8. Paul A. Scanlon: A checklist of prose romances in English 1474-1603. 9. Roderick Cave: Printing in 18th-century Jamaica. 10. Graham Shaw: The Tanjore ‘Aesop’ in the context of early Marathi printing. 11. H. Neviellee Davies: The Tauchnitz Christmas numbers of All the Year Round. 12. Robin Myers: William Blades’s debt to Henry Bradshaw and G.I.F. Tupper. 13. Peter Beal: Poems by Sir Philip Sidney: The Ottley manuscripts. 14. Raymond Astbury: The renewal of the Licensing Act in 1693 and its lapse in 1695. Very fine copy. Volume: 5th Series Volume 33: The Library. A Quarterly Journal of Bibliography.