Barbara McCorkle, “Cartobibliography of the Maps in 18th Century British and American Geography Books, 2009.
This cartobibliography contains descriptions of approximately 6700 maps found in 470 books. Entries are arranged alphabetically by author/title, and each entry lists every map included in the book with the full title, dimensions, name(s) of any publisher, engraver or cartographer appearing on the map, and the page location within the work cited. There are three indexes: cartographer/engraver, geographic, and publisher. The ESTC [English Short Title Catalogue] number is also given with each entry.
This resource is intended to enable scholars to locate hitherto unrecognized work of the leading cartographers/engravers of the period and, as each entry contains the entire list of publishers/booksellers, to aid researchers in the field of early publishing history. (The cartobibliography mirrors the list in the University of
Kansas digital repository.)
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Melissa Conway & Lisa Fagin Davis, “Directory of Institutions in the United States and Canada with Pre-1600 Manuscripts,” 2008; updates: 2009, 2010.
This Directory is the first part of a continuation of the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada by de Ricci and Wilson, published in 1935 and 1937, and its 1962 Supplement. The present Directory details, when known, the current location of the collections listed in the original Census and Supplement and identifies an additional 281 North American repositories of pre-1600 European manuscripts in Western languages that were not included in the earlier works. For all 475 North American repositories, this Directory provides updated contact data and general information on pre-1600 manuscript holdings. Following the organizational scheme of the original Census and Supplement, entries are organized alphabetically by state and city, with public collections listed first for each city, followed by private.
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Simon Eliot, “‘What Price Poetry?' Pricing
Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Longfellow in Nineteenth-Century Britain,’” 2007.
This chart (with introduction) shows the pricing of Wordsworth's, Tennyson's and Longfellow's poetry in the nineteenth century U.K.
market: the frequency with which selections
or collections of these poets' works occur at certain prices over the period 1801-1905. An introductory section discusses aspects
of the study of
pricing of nineteenth-century poetry and outlines how poetry "represented a curiously diverse, uncertain, tricky area for British publishing." (Note: This list is a complement to Prof. Eliot's article, “'What Price Poetry?' Pricing Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Longfellow
in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain,” which appeared in the Dec. 2006 issue of Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (vol.100, #4)
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Jack W. C. Hagstrom, “Alfred A. Knopf's Borzoi Devices,” 2005.
An article discussing the Borzoi printer's devices used by Knopf
publishers, acompanied by a illustrated listing
showing the many variations on the device through the years.
The article provides context on the Knopf's use of Borzoi
devices, while the illustrated list presents reproductions of
the Borzoi devices themselves, grouped by category: solid, outline,
round, square, ornamented, specialty, anniversary.
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Oliver Lei Han, “Sources & Early Printing History of Chairman Mao’s
‘Quotations,’” 2003.
This article on the textual history, first printings, and
early binding varients of the first several editions of
the “Little Red Book” discusses textual variations
in the first three Chinese editions, as well as early editions
in English and other languages. It is supplemented by brief
bibliographical citations for the first five volumes, as
well as a number of illustrations showing printing details,
wrappers, and errata notes. (An earlier, abridged version
appeared in Antiquarian Book Review.)
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Rumiko Handa, “Treatises Cited in The Most Notable Antiquity,” 2006.
A list of treatises cited in The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain, Vulgarly Called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury Plain, Restored by Inigo Jones (London, 1655).
This list includes authors and titles of the treatises, as well as listing pages in the 1655 and the 1725 editions on which the citations appear. Information on editions in Latin, Italian, and English published before The Most Notable Antiquity appeared in 1655 is also included.
(Note: This list is a complement to Prof. Handa's article, “Authorship of The Most Notable Antiquity (1655): Inigo Jones and Early Printed Books,” which appeared in the Sept. 2006 issue of Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (100:3).
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T.H. Howard-Hill, “Supplement
to Published Volumes of the Index to British Literary
Bibliography,” 2004.
This supplement provides additions or corrections to previously
published volumes of the Index to British Literary Bibliography.
Most of this material was identified during the preparation
of the intended vol. 3, British Books and the Book Trade to 1890: A Bibliography (Oxford: Clarendon Press), now to be published as The British Book Trade, 1475-1890: A Bibliography (London: British Library, 2007. 3 vols. + CD-ROM Index). This Supplement will later incorporate over 1,500 additional items, in 2008. The Supplement has been compiled and is presented online as if it were a separately-published volume of the Bibliography.
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Scott Husby, “Bookbindings on Incunables in American Libraries: An Illustrated Census,” 2007; ongoing updates 2008, 2009.
This illustrated census was originally begun at Princeton University as an effort to identify bindings on fifteenth-century printed books in Firestone Library. A number of other library collections have since been added to the database. For each library, every incunable binding has been included in the census. This makes it possible to identify later significant bindings and can further contribute to our understanding of rebinding practices, incunable collecting, and the history of libraries. This online version represents a selection of bindings from the census; others will be added as time and resources permit.
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Maura Ives, “Bibliography of Jean Ingelow's Contributions to the Youth's Magazine, 1851-1858,” 2008.
A complement to Prof. Ives essay in the June, 2008 issue of PBSA (vol. 102, #2), this bibliography is meant to assist scholars in tracing the publication history of Jean Ingelow in the Youth's Magazine, the first successful British children's periodical. The first part provides an enumerative list of Ingelow's publications in the Youth's Magazine; the second part lists collected and separate reprintings of Ingelow's Youth's Magazine fiction through 1900.
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MacD. P. Jackson, “Appendix to ‘The Authorship of A Lover’s Complaint: A New Approach to the Problem,’” 2008.
In “The Authorship of A Lover’s Complaint: A New Approach to the Problem” in the Sept., 2008 issue of PBSA (vol. 102, #3), Prof. Jackson uses data on rare spellings to attribute A Lover’s Complaint to Shakespeare. His article is a response to Brian Vickers’s Shakespeare, “A Lover’s Complaint” and John Davies of Hereford (Cambridge University Press, 2007), which argues that the poem was written by John Davies of Hereford. In this appendix to Jackson’s article, he compares Complaint with a sample from John Davies’s Humour’s Heaven on Earth.
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Michael Laird & Paul
Needham, “Unofficial Index to Ilse Schunke's Die
Schwenke-Sammlung,” 2003.
An unofficial computer-generated index to Ilse Schunke's
Schwenke-Sammlung, a vast archive of rubbings of
gothic bookbindings collected by Paul Schwenke (now preserved
at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin); the index lists all
the tools appearing in the Schwenke-Sammlung, arranged by
workshop. An additional section lists the workshops represented
in the Schwenke-Sammlung.
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Marcus A. McCorison,
“Vermont Imprints, 1778-1820: Additions, Corrections,
and Revisions, Conflated,” 2003.
This chronological bibliography is a compilation of various
corrections and additions to Vermont Imprints, 1778-1820:
A Check List of Books, Pamphlets, and Broadsides (Worcester,
Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1963). It conflates
information in several published lists: Additions and
Corrections to Vermont Imprints, 1778-1820, published
by the American Antiquarian Society in 1968; later installments
that appeared in the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian
Society (also issued as off-prints) in 1973, 1985, and
1992; and a "final" report published in Vermont
History, in the Winter/Spring issue of 1999. These addenda
record early Vermont printed materials located in many collections
and they also record the dispersal or disposition of several
great collections of American books that included Vermont
imprints.
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Marcus A. McCorison,
“Risqué Literature Published in America Before 1877,”
2003.
This enumerative bibliography, organized alphabetically,
is derived from the American Antiquarian Society collections,
Alfred Rose's Register of Erotic Books (1965), the Ashbee
catalogue, and the Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature (1962),
as well as other sources. After the bibliography itself
included is a separate alphabetical index of authors, publishers,
titles of signed and anonymous works, and citations to other
bibliographies. (Items held by the American Antiquarian
Society are marked, AAS.)
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Marcus A. McCorison,
“Publishers’ Sample & Canvassing Books Issued
Prior to the Year 1877 in the Collections of the American
Antiquarian Society and Michael Zinman,” 2003.
This bibliography, organized chronologically, is compiled
from cataloguing records of the American Antiquarian Society
and from Canvassing Books, Sample Books, and Subscription
Publishers' Ephemera, 1833-1951 in the Collection of Michael
Zinman, compiled by Keith Arbour (1996.)
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Marcus A. McCorison,
“American Editions of Russian Literature Issued Prior
to 1877, Located at the American Antiquarian Society,”
1992.
This alphabetical bibliography lists editions of Russian
literature published in the United States prior to 1877
that are held by the American Antiquarian Society.
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James McLaverty, “Addenda
and Corrigenda to J. D. Fleeman’s ‘Bibliography
of the Writings of Samuel Johnson, 1731-1984,’”
2003.
An update of the late David Fleeman’s Bibliography
of the Writings of Samuel Johnson, published in two
volumes by Oxford University Press on 2 March 2000, which
attempted to list all editions of Johnson’s works from
his first publication, “Messia,”
in John Husbands’s Miscellany in 1731, to the
editions published in the year of the bicentenary of his
death, 1984. This bibliography is devoted to additions and
corrections to the Bibliography, but is not concerned
with continuing the list beyond 1984. Items are listed in
Fleeman order, and the information has been given as briefly
as possible.
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James May, “18th-Century
Materials in Library & Manuscript Collections,”
2004; updates: 2005, 2008.
This bibliography surveys publications from 1986-2007
concerning eighteenth-century materials held by libraries
and archives throughout the world. It is most inclusive
for 1990-2006.
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James May, “Recent Studies of Censorship, Press Freedom, Libel, Obscenity, etc.,
in the Long Eighteenth Century," 2010.
This bibliography lists scholarship published between 1986 and 2010 related to the freedom of
the press and, more frequently, censorship from communal, legal, moral, political, and religious sources. (Restrictions on printing that involve copyright and literary property are covered in Mr. May's bibliography on authorship during the period.) The scope involves the “long eighteenth century,” here 1660-1820, and is limited to the regions of Western European and the Americas.
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James May, “Recent
Studies of 18th-Century Book Culture, 1986-2007” 2003;
updates: 2004, 2005, 2008.
This bibliography on "book culture" includes
studies from the past twenty years on bibliophilia (but
not bookbinding); collections, both institutional and personal
libraries; censorship; and literacy and reading. It was
first published in The East-Central Intelligencer,
n.s. 14, no. 3 (Sept. 2000), 58-91, and revised and augmented
in 2001 and 2002 for Kevin Berland's C18-L website.
Excluded but related entries are particularly found in the bibliographies on children's literature and 18th-Century Materials in Library & Manuscript Collections.
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James May, “Recent
Studies of 18th-Century Children's Literature,” 2003;
updates: 2004, 2005, 2008.
This bibliography surveys scholarship on children's literature published from 1986 to 2007.
It is most inclusive for the years 1989-2006, in consequence of Mr. May's compiled studies of
that period for “Printing & Bibliographical Studies” (Section 1) of
ECCB: Eighteenth Century Current Bibliography.
(Some relevant titles excluded from this list may be found in Mr. May's other bibliographies of eighteenth-century reading and book illustration on BibSite.)
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James May, “Recent Studies of 18th-Century Book Illustration and Engraving, including Cartography, Mainly 1988-2009,” 2003; updates: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010.
This bibliography surveys scholarship on engraving, including
illustrations and prints as well as cartography, during
the long eighteenth century (roughly 1660-1820).
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James May, “Recent
Studies on Books Printed 1660-1820 as Physical Objects:
Including Binding, Paper and Papermaking, Printing, and
Typography (1986-2009),” 2003; updates: 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010.
This bibliography includes studies since 1987 that concern physical features of materials printed between 1660 and 1820. Included here are studies of particular books, editions and issues, bindings, paper, and type; also covered are studies of bookbinding, papermaking and typefounding as arts. The bibliography is most inclusive for the years 1990-2008.
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James May, “Studies of Authorship in the Long Eighteenth-Century, c. 1988-2009,” 2007; updates: 2008, 2010.
This bibliography covers that fuzzy intellectual focus called "authorship," as well as the more distinct categories of attribution, book reviews, collaboration, copyright and literary property, plagiarism, profits, patronage, and subscriptions. The focus is on the author (composer in some cases) rather than the publisher.
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James May, “Studies
of
Eighteenth-Century Journalism, Newspapers & Periodicals, and the Periodical Press, 1988-2009,” 2003; updates: 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010.
This bibliography surveys scholarship on journalism, diverse serials (such as almanacs), and the periodical press throughout the Europe and the Americas during the “long eighteenth century,” approximately 1660-1820. It focuses on printed publications, but a few electronic publications have been included. It includes studies published between 1986 and 2009 but is most inclusive for the years 1989-2006.
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Chris Nighman & Phillip Stump, “A Bibliographical Register of the Sermons & Other Orations Delivered at the Council of Constance (1414-1418),” 2006; update: 2007.
This new register substantially corrects and augments the earlier register published by H. Finke in 1923. For each oration, it identifies all known manuscripts and printed editions and provides information concerning dates and authorship of the orations based on the evidence of the manuscripts and secondary sources. Lists of lost Constance sermons, sermons of Pierre Roger found in Constance sermon manuscripts, and indexes are also provided.
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Davd Pearson, “English Book Owners in the Seventeenth Century,” 2005; updates: 2006, 2007, 2010.
A work-in-progress reference
listing of seventeenth-century English book owners, focusing on book
collections that were partly, if not entirely, formed in that
century. The list is arranged alphabetically by name of the book collector and includes notes on the size and disposition of the collections, as well
as dates and citations of other sources. It draws largely on existing published work, but also incorporates evidence of surviving books taken from sales and auction catalogues.
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David Wallace Spielman, “Bibliographic Information for Fifty-three Unlocated
Eighteenth-Century Items in Arnott and Robinson’s
English Theatrical Literature, 1559-1900,” 2009.
Drawing on the ESTC and ECCO, this bibliography provides information for a substantial number of items in Arnott and Robinson's English Theatrical Literature, 1559-1900 (London: Society for Theatre Research,1970) that the editors included as unseen and unlocated.
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Leslie Perrin Wilson, “Bibliography of the Remainder of a Gift of Books,
Pamphlets & Periodicals Presented by Elizabeth Peabody
to the Concord Free Public Library,” 2003
A bibliography describing
the 250 titles (415 vols.) that remain of an extensive gift
presented to the Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library by
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Transcendentalist, social activist,
educational reformer, and sister-in-law of Nathaniel Hawthorne
and Horace Mann. Entries for books include title page transcriptions,
pagination, imprint information, and descriptions of inscriptions
or markings--includes a brief introductory essay.
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James Woolley, “Finding English Verse, 1650-1800: First-Line Indexes & Searchable Electronic Texts,”
2004 (HTML version), 2006 (PDF version); updates: 2004 (2), 2005 (2), 2006 (1), 2010 (2).
This checklist itemizes first-line
indexes with at least 1000 lines, excluding single-author
indexes, which are normally included in critical editions.
It includes separate listings of indexes to manuscript verse
and printed verse, respectively, a short introductory essay
discussing the significance of first-line indexes “for
a period when verse circulated anonymously,” and tips
on searching an electronic index. (Originally posted in HTML version, updated in PDF format beginning in 2006.)
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