Studies in Bibliography, Volume 54
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| Edited by David L. Vander Meulen |
| 300 pages, 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 |
| Cloth ISBN 0-8139-2262-3 • $70.00 |
| Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia |
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The fifty-fourth volume of Studies continues its tradition of presenting a wide range of articles by international scholars on bibliography, textual criticism, and other aspects of the study of books.
The volume opens with G. Thomas Tanselle’s latest survey of writings on textual criticism, this one covering the last five years of the twentieth century, followed by James McLaverty’s account of the life and work of David Foxon. It also includes discussion of the nature of electronic texts, a census of mechanical collators, and a detailed analysis of the output of the London press in the early seventeenth century. Other articles weigh new attributions, examine how editors have treated their subjects, bring to light lost works, and unravel complicated textual histories.
The articles and their authors are:
“Textual Criticism at the Millennium,” G. Thomas Tanselle, Guggenheim Foundation; “David Foxon, Humanist Bibliographer,” James McLaverty, Keele University; “‘Armadillos of Invention’: A Census of Mechanical Collators,” Steven E. Smith, Texas A & M University; “Blackstone and Electronic Text,” Michael Hancher, University of Minnesota; “Thoughts on the Authenticity of Electronic Texts,” G. Thomas Tanselle, Guggenheim Foundation; “John Manningham’s Diary and a Lost Whit-Sunday Sermon by Lancelot Andrewes,” Paul J. Klemp, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh; “A Funerall Elegye . . . not . . . by W. S. after all,” Jill Farringdon; “A Qualitative Analysis of the London Book Trade, 1614–1618,” David L. Gants, University of New Brunswick; “Fielding’s Contributions to The Comedian (1732),” Martin Battestin, University of Virginia; “What Did Anna Barbauld Do to Samuel Richardson’s Correspondence? A Study of Her Editing,” William McCarthy, Iowa State University; “Form and Function in the English Eighteenth-Century Literary Edition: The Case of Edward Capell,” Marcus Walsh, University of Birmingham; “‘This instance will not do’: George Stevens and the Revision(s) of Johnson’s Dictionary,” Carter Hailey, Washington and Lee University; “Two New Pamphlets by William Godwin: A Case of Computer-Assisted Authorship Attribution,” Pamela Clemit, University of Durham, and David Woolls, University of Birmingham; “A Bibliographical History of Thomas Howe’s Critical Observations (1776–1807) and His Dispute with Joseph Priestley,” David Chandler, Doshisha University; “The First Publication of Byron’s ‘To the Po,’” Andrew M. Stauffer, Boston University; “Thomas De Quincey and the Edinburgh Saturday Post of 1827,” David Groves; “Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes: The Serials and First Editions,” Roger Osborne, Australian Defence Academy; “Unrecorded Writings by G. K. Chesterton, H. G. Wells, Padraic Colum, Mary Colum, T. S. Eliot, George Bernard Shaw, and William Butler Yeats,” Arthur Sherbo, Michigan State University.
David L. Vander Meulen is Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
