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~OWELL J. HEANEY 

Bibliographical Scholarship in the 

United States, 1949-197 4: A Review 
The period from 1949 through 1974 has been a significant one in the 
field of analytical bibliography in the United States. American writers 
have helped to establish new standards of editorial procedure and 
bibliographical description, have refined bibliographical techniques, 
and have applied those principles and techniques to subfects as diverse 
as early printing and twentieth-century literature. As part of this ef-
fort they have studied all the aspects of the history of the printed 
book, particularly in the United States. This review attempts to sug-
gest, by citation of major books and articles and by example, the 
.range and quality of the work accomplished. 

ALTHOUGH No ONE woULD suGGEST that 
the year 1949 marked the beginning of 
analytical bibliography in the United 
States, the appearance in that year of 
Fredson Bowers~ Principles of Biblio-
graphical Description and Curt F. BUh-
ler, James G. McManaway, and Law-
rence C. Wroth's Standards of Biblio-
graphi~al Description did mark a turn-
ing point in the field. The purpose of 
this review is to note, specifically or by 
example, the more significant work in 
analytical bibliography and the history 
of the printed book accomplished in the 
United States from 1949 through 1974, 
wherever that work may have been pub-
lished. 

More complete bibliographical infor-
mation on books and articles mentioned 

Howell ] . Heaney is rare book librarian 
of the Free Library of Philadelphia. This 
article is based on a paper delivered at a 
meeting of the Committee on Rare mid 
Precious Books and Documents at the 
Fortieth General Council Meeting of the 
International Federation . of Library Asso-
ciatfons, in Washington, D.C., in November 
1974. . 

in the course of this paper is given in 
the bibliography at its conclusion. 

The scope of the review is that of 
the annual "Selective Check List of Bib-
liographical · Scholarship" launched by 
Fredson Bowers with the list for 1949 
in the third volume of Studies in Bib-
liography.1 This means that emphasis 
is put on ''primary investigations deal-
ing with printing and publishing his-
tory, and bibliographical treatment of 
authors and their books, together with 
such critical or textual studies as are 
based on bibliographical evidence or the 
interpretation of basic documents,"2 
and, for the period of the later Renais-
sance to the present, on English and 
American literature and American his-
tory. This is to leave for review by an-
other writings on bibliography in the 
broadest sense, of which Archer Tay-
lor's A History of Bibliographies 
of Bibliographies ( 1955), Book Cata-
logues: Their Varieties and Uses ( 1957), 
and Catalogues of Rare Books: A Chap-
ter in Bibliographical History ( 1958) 
are striking examples, and the impor-
tant works of critical enumerative bib-

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494 I College & Research Libraries • November 1975 

liography published in the past twenty-
six years, works of the sort called by 
Stanley Pargellis "the kind the great in-
novators began."3 

In general, the framework for con-
sidering the books and articles discussed 
here is the outline of ABHB: Annual· 
Bibliography of the History of the 
Printed Book and Libraries,'* as adapted 
from Bibliography in Britain. · 

Finally, if the reader is to retain a 
sense of balance, he must remember 
that the contribution of scholars in the 
United States is only part of a broad 
and continuing effort to understand the 
history of books more fully and to 
make bibliography a more effective tool 
of scholarship. 

GENERAL WoRKS 

The continuity of that effort is evident 
in the two books already mentioned. Fred-
son Bowers' Principles of Bibliographical 
Description is a vigorous and exhaustive 
extension of the work of McKerrow and 
Greg. With broader application than to ear-
ly English literature, it is a direct answer 
to James G. McManaway's proposals for 
descriptive bibliography in his essay in 
Standards of Bibliographical Description: 
"general agreement that the purpose of bib-
liography i's to describe the ideal copy of 
each book after the examination of every 
surviving copy"; "a uniform terminology" 
with "a precise definition of terms, particu-
larly state, issue and edition"; and "a gen-
erally accepted formulary of collation."5 

The reaction to Bowers' stand then is 
evident in the three essays in Standards of 
Bibliographical Description. Curt F. Biihler 
points out that the incunabulists had long 
since established a universally accepted sys-
tem of description and gently but firmly 
suggests that the general application of the 
Greg- Bowers formulary and shorthand 
would present difficulti'es. McManaway, al-
though in agreement with Bowers, devotes 
most of his essay to the consideration of 
printing house practice and its meaning for 
the bibliographer and editor. Lawrence C. 
Wroth expresses a strong feeling that, at 
least i'n the field of Americana, exhaustive 

bibliographical description would be ·a 
misapplication of time and energy subject 
to the law of diminishing return, a text on 
which Herman W. Liebert expands in Bib-
liography Old & New (1974). 

In the years since the appearance of his 
Principles, Bowers has been equally active 
in three areas of bibliographical scholar-
ship. He has refined those principles, most 
notably in "Bibliography, Pure Bibliogra-
phy, and Literary Studies" (1952), "Pur-

. poses of Descriptive Bibliography, with 
Some Remarks on Methods" (1953), and 
"Bibliography Revisited" (1969). He has 
written on "Some Relations of Bibliography 
to Editorial . Problems" (1950), Bibliogra-
phy and Textual Criticism (1964), and 
"Multiple Authority: . New Problems and 
Concepts of Copy-Text" (1972). He has 
applied the principles he has set down in 
work as diverse as his editions of The Dra-
matic Works of Thomas Dekker (1953-
1961) and The Dramatic W arks in the 
Beauinont and Fletcher Canon (1966-
1970), and Whitman's Manuscripts: "Leaves 
of Grass" (1860), a · Parallel Text (1955) 
and The University of Virginia Edition of 
the Works of Stephen Crane (1969- ). 

W. W. Greg's pioneer work on the ra-
tionale of copy-text and the calculus of 
variants has been carried forward by Vin-
ton A. Dearing's A Manual of Textual 
Analysis (1959) and Principles and Prac-
tice of Textual Analysis (1974), Paul 
Baender' s "The Meaning of Copy-Text" 
(1969), and G. Thomas Tanselle's "The 
Meaning of Copy-Text: A Further Note" 
(1970), with a growing attention to the 
problems and variants presented by differ-
ent periods and circumstances. 

Editorial procedure has been discussed 
by editors of particular works in their in-
troductions, by American contributors to 
the conferences on editorial procedure at 
the University of Toronto, and, amon-g oth-
ers, by R. C. Bald in his "Editorial Prob-
lems-A Preliminary Survey" (1950), by 
Cyrus Hoy in "On Editing Elizabethan 
Plays" (1972), by William B. Todd in 
"Bibliography and the Editorial Problem 
in the Eighteenth Century" (1951), by 
Fredson Bowers in "Some Principles for 
Scholarly Editions of Nineteenth-Century 
American Authors" ( 1964), and more re-



cently by James E. Thorpe in Principles of 
Textual Criticism (1972) -and by Matthew 
J. Broccoli and others in The Authols In-
tention (1972). Indeed, . in "The SCADE 
Series: Apparatus for Definitive Editions" 
(1973) Bruccoli describes· the extension of 
,the procedure to the publication of the ap-
paratus only, without the text, for definitive 
editions of works in copyright or works that 
it is not feasible to republish. All these deal 
with the field of literature, but Edwin Wolf, 
2nd, has reminded us in "Evidence Indicat-
ing the Need for Some Bibliographical 
Analysis of American Printed Historical 
Works" (1969) that the. Americanist can 
profit from attention to the history of his 
text. 

Articles like that of James B. Meriwether 
and Joseph Katz, "A Redefinition of 'Issue'" 
(1972); William B. Todd's "Observations 
on the Incidence and Interpretation of 
Press Figures" ( 1950) and "Press Figures" 
(1953); and G. Thomas Tanselle's "The 
Identification of Type Faces in Bibliograph-
ical Description" (1966), "The Recording 
of Press Figures" (1966), "A System of 
Color Identification for Bibliographical De-
scription" (1967), "The Use of Type Dam-
age as Evidence in Bibliographical Descrip-
tion" ( 1968), "Copyright Records and the 
Bibliographer" (1969), "The Bibliographi-
cal Description of Patterns'' (1970), "The 
Bibliographical Description of Paper" 
( 1971), "Book-Jackets, Blurbs, and Bib-
liographers" ( 1971), and ''Bibliography 
and Science" (1974) suggest a further 
book in the field of bibliographical descrip-
tion based on the work of these and other 
authorities in the past twenty-six years. Its 
author would draw heavily on the publica-
tions surveyed in Tanselle's "The Periodical 
Literature of English and American Bibli-
ography" (1973), and would, hopefully, 
find useful "The Selective Check List 
of Bibliographical Scholarship for 1949" 
through that for 19726 and the volumes of 
ABHB: Annual Bibliography of the History 
of the Printed Book and Libraries for 1970 
and following years. 

INCUNABULA 

The contribution of the United States to 
the study of incunabula from 1949 through 
197 4 has been distinguished and varied. 

Bibliographical Scholarship I 495 

Curt F. Buhler's Rosenbach lecture on in-
cunabula printed in Standards of Biblio-
graphical Description (1949) modestly 
suggested modifications in the standards 
long since established for his field, his The 
University and the Press in Fifteenth-Cen-
tury Bologna (1958) centered on a given 
place, and his The Fifteenth-Century Book: 
The Scribes, the Printers, the Decorators 
(1960) on the transition from the manu-
script to the printed book. As a happy 
tribute, his major articles to 1966 have been 
collected and published by the Grolier 
Club in Early Books and Manuscripts 
(1973). Frederick R. Goff's stUdies have 
ranged from "The Four Florentine Editions 
of Savonarola's Predica dellarte del bene 
morire" ( 1950) to The Permanence of 
Johann Gutenberg (1971), with Incunabu-
la in American Libraries: A Third Census 
(1964) and its Supplement (1972) his ma-
jor work. Rudolf Hirsch's contributions have 
been regular, many building toward his 
Printing, Selling and Reading, 1450-1550 
(1967) and its second printing (1974) 
with a supplemental annotated bibliograph-
ical introduction. 

The acquisition by the Morgan Library 
early in 1954 of the Romont copy of the 
Missale speciale Constantiense generated a 
literature as to its date sufficient to support 
an entirely separate survey. Allan Steven-
son's conclusions, based on his view of the 
manufacture, distribution, and use of paper 
in the mid-fifteenth century, are most fully 
stated in The Problem of the "Missale spe-
ciale'' (1967). Curt F. Buhler's appear in 
a series of articles, including "The Con-
stance Missal and Two Documents from the 
Constance Diocese" (1956), "Who Print-
ed the Missale speciale Constantiense?" 
(1957), "Another View of the Dating of 
the Missale speciale Constantiense" (1959), 
and "Last Words on Watermarks" (1973), 
an essay of broad application which con-
cludes with the suggestion that "it would 
seem wise-at least for the immediate pres-
ent-to treat the evidence that watermarks 
may provide for dating incunabula with 
some caution." 

Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt has given us 
Peter Schaeffer (1950) and Gutenberg and 
the Master of the Playing Cards (1966) 
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496 I College & Research Libraries • November 1975 

experiments toward · the mechanical decora-
tion of his Bible. Elizabeth L. Eisenstein 
has examined the effects of the invention 
of printing in "Some Conjectures about the 
Impact of Printing on Western Society" 
(1968) and "The Advent of Printing and 
the Problem of the Renaissance" ( 1969). 
Walter L. Heilbronner' s Printing and the 
Book in Fifteenth-Century England: A Bib-
liographical Survey ( 1967) is a most help-
ful annotated guide to bibliographies and 
critical works in a special segment of the 
field. 

A score of lists, including Christopher U. 
Faye's Fifteenth Century Printed Books at 
the University of Illinois (1949), Dorothy 
M. Schullian and Francis E. Sommer's A 
Catalogue of Incunabula and Manuscripts 
in the Army Medical Library (1949), Phyl-
lis W. G. Gordan's Fifteenth-Century Books 
in the Library of Howard Lehman Good-
hart (1955), and Thomas E. Marston and 
Leon Nemoy's Incunabula in the Yale Uni-
versity Libraries (1955), bridged the gap 
between Margaret Bingham Stillwell's In-
cunabula in American Libraries: A Second 
Census (1940) and Goff's third census of 
1964. The publication of Stillwell's The 
Awakening Interest in Science during the 
First Century of Printing (1970), a survey 
of the . more important publications in 
mathematics, medicine, natural science, 
physics, and technology, and her The Be-
ginning of the World of Books, 1450 to 
1470 (19,72), a chronological ordering of 
the books of the first twenty years of print-
ing in Europe, saw the dream of a lifetime 
of work with early printed books realized. 

SIXTEENTH- AND 

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BooKs 

Studies like Stillwell's are d.ependent on 
the existence of basic guides, and here the 
student of the book in the sixteenth and 
even the seventeenth and eighteenth cen-
turies is at ·a disadvantage as compared 
with the incunabulist. Specialization in 
even the basic listing of what was printed 
after 1500, whether by country and region 
or by subject, is desir:;tble, perhaps even in-
evitable, and the past tw~nty-six yea.rs have 
seen the publication of a number of such 
.lists as well as work to'ward the revision of 
lists already published. William A. Jackson 
reported on the · progress of his revision of 
Pollard and Redgrave in "The Revised 

STC~' (1955), and Katharine ·F. Pantzer 
wrote in "The Serpentine Progress of the 
STC Revision" (1968) on her continuation 
of the work after Jackson's death. The third 
volume of Donald G. Wing's Short-Title 
Catalogue . .. 1641-1700 appeared in 1951, 
and the first volume of the revision, on 
which he was at work at the time of his 
death, was published in 1972. 

· Volumes such as Paul G. Morrison's In-
dex of Printers, Publishers and Booksellers 
in ... "A Short-Title Catalogue ... 1475-
1640'' (1950), William Warner Bishop'·s A 
Checklist of American Copies of ~~Short­
Title Catalogue" Books (2d ed., 1950), and 
Edwin Wolf, 2nd's A Check-List of the 
Books in The .Library Company of Phila-
delphia in and Supplementary to Wing's 
"Short-Title Catalogue, 1641-1700" (1959) 
have expanded the usefulness of both Pol-
lard and Redgrave and Wing and helped 
to carry us over from edition to edition of 
the bibliographies themselves. For the con-
tinent The Rosenwald Collection: A Cata-
logue (1954), edited by Frederick R. Goff 
and supplemented by periodic reports on 
additions (principally ·in the Quarterly 
Journal of the Library of Congress), in-
cludes important sections. Two parts of the 
proposed series of full~dress catalogs of 
books and manuscripts in the Department 
of Print~g and Graphic Arts of the Har-
vard College Library have also appeared, 
Ruth Mortimer's French 16th Century 
Books (1964) and her Italian 16th Cen-
tury Books (1974). 

pAPER AND p APERMAKING 

Dard Hunter and Allan Stevenson were 
the major writers in the United .States on 
paper and papermaking in the twenty:-six 
years between 1949 and 1974. If Stevenson 
was sometimes inclined to press his view 
of the dating of books · on the basis of paper 
with more vigor than caution, he certainly 
advanced .bibliography by his insistence, in 
essays such as his Observations on Paper 
as Evidence (1961) and the introduction 
to the second volume of the ~catalog of 
Hunt's botanical books (1961), that paper 
be taken into account "in bibliographi'cal 
studies and noted · in bibliographical de-
scriptions. He not only refined· the tools at 
our _d~sP,~sal !Q,~ : . tpe , study of paper, as in 
"his e'dition of · Briquet · (1968), but also 
gave us a model of the application of his 



views in the portion ·of the Hunt catalog he 
compiled. Dard Hunter's magnificent pri-
vately printed Papermaking by Hand in 
America (1950) was, happily, followed by 
an expansion of the text made available at 
moderate cost, Papermaking in Pioneer 
·America (1952). The extension of his work 
will depend on a series of regional studies 
such as W. C. Adams' "History of Paper- . 
making in the Pacific Northwest" (1951) 
and Marcus A. McCorison' s "Vermont Pa-
permaking, 1784-1820" (1964) and his 
"Addenda" to that article (1965). 

PRINTING, TYPEFOUNDING, AND PRESSES 

As with paper, the interest of American 
writers in typefounding and the history of 
presses and press making has been largely 
engaged by American subjects. Lawrence 
C. Wroth's revised edition of his Abel Buell 
of Connecticut (1958) enlarged a work first 
published in 1926, while Rollo C. Sil-
ver's Typefounding in America, 1787-1825 
(1965) and The American Printer, 1787-
1825 (1967) broke new ground. Hope-
fully, studies such as his "Efficiency Im-
proved: The Genesis of the Web Press in 
America" (1970) will build toward books 
extending his earlier work. Jacob Kainen' s 
George Clymer and the Columbian Press 
(1950) and Richard E. Huss' The Develop-
ment of Printerl Mechanical Typesetting 
Methods, 1822-1925 (1973) stand at the 
beginning and end of the period under re-
view, the one an account of the first major 
American improvement of the printing 
press and the other of the sometimes pain-
ful progress toward what must have been 
the dream of every master printer, if not of 
every compositor, from the time of Guten-
berg. 

UNITED STATES IMPRINTS 

The listing of books about America, in-
cluding those on what is now the United 
States, antedates the founding of the re-
public by almost a century and a half. The 
listing of the imprints of what is now the 
United States followed our independence, 
and may be traced from the work of Isaiah 
Thomas, as a collector and writer on the 
history of printing in America, through the 
.bibliographies of Hildebum, Seidensticker, 
and Evans to the present. 

Indeed, Charles Evans' great effort to list 
our imprints from the earliest of 1639 

Bibliographical Scholarship I 497 

through those of 1820 was rounded at 1800 
with the publication of volume 13 of the 
American Bibliography ( 1955), the work 
of Clifford K. Shipton, seventy-five years 
after Evans had begun gathering material 
and fifty-two years after the appearance of 
the first volume of his bibliography. Vol-
ume 14, an author-title index by Roger P. 
Bristol, was published four years later, and 
Bristol's Index of Printers, Publishers, and 
Booksellers Indicated by Charles Evans in 
His "American Bibliography'' in 1961. Ship-
ton and James E. Mooney's alphabetical 
short-title Evans was published in 1969. 
Bristol's Supplement to Charles Evanl 
''American Bibliography" appeared in 1970, 
his index to the supplement the following 
year, and his first list of additions and cor-
rections in 1972. 

Roughly the same years saw the publica-
tion of th,!3 volumes of Ralph R. Shaw and 
Richard H. Shoemaker's American Bibliog-
raphy: A Preliminary Checklist far 1801 
[-1819] (1958-1966) and those of Shoe-
maker's A Checklist of American Imprints 
for 1820 [-1829] (1964-1973), the vol-
umes for the last four years compiled with 
the assistance of Gayle Cooper, and two 
volumes of indexes by M. Frances Cooper. 
A volume for 1830, compiled by Gayle 
Cooper, appeared in 1972. The work is to 
be continued by Scott Bruntjen, Roger C. 
Greer, Michael H. Harris, and William A. 
Stoppel, with each of them responsible for a 
decade from the 1830s through the 1860s. 

The efforts at listing the imprints of par-
ticular states and cities which began with 
Evans' predecessors were given special im-
petus during the 1930s by the work of the 
American Imprints Inventory of the His-
torical Records Survey under the direction 
of Douglas C. McMurtrie. The material 
gathered by the American Imprints Inven-
tory workers, despite its limitations, has 
served as a guide to workers in the same 
field since. The latest volume published di-
rectly from the American Imprints Inven-
tory files is the Check List of Wisconsin 
Imprints, 1864-1869 (1953), but for almost 
twenty years, beginning in 1951, students 
in the Dep~rtment of Library · Science of 
the Catholic University of America wrote 
master's theses based on short runs of the 
cards in the Inventory files preserved at 
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498 I C allege & Research Libraries • November 197 5 

· More significantly, the influence of both 
McMurtrie and the Inventory carried over 
into the four volumes issued under the 
auspices ·. of the Committee on Bibliogra-
phies of American Imprints of the Biblio-
graphical Society of · America (the last of 
them was Lester Hargrett's Oklahoma Im-
prints, 1835- 1890, publi'shed in 1951), and 
a score of other bibliographies from George 
W. Belknap's McMurtrie's "Oregon Im-
prints": A Supplement (1951) to his Ore-
gon Imprints, 1845- 1870 (1968). Among 
like publications of the past twenty-six 
years special mention should be made - of 
John Alden's Rhode Island Imprints, 1727-
1800 (1950), Cecil K. Byrd and · Howard 
H. Peckham's A Bibliography of Indiana 
Imprints, 1804-1853 (1955), Marcus A. 
McCorison' s Vermont Imprints, 1778-1820 
(1963) with its supplement (1968), and 
Byrd's A Bibliography of Illinois Imprints, 
1814- 1858 (1966), any one of which would 
serve as a model for a similar bibliography. 

Of broader scope than any of these is 
Thomas W. Streeter's Bibliography of Tex-
as, 1795-1845 (1955-1960), for its two vol-
umes on Texas imprints· include a full ac-
count of the newspapers published in Texas 
before 1846, . with · locations of extant files; 
its third volume is devoted to Mexican im-
prints on Texas; and its · fourth and fifth 
volumes are devoted to imprints on Texas 
printed in the United States and' Europe. 
The results of his work justified the more 
than thirty . years Streeter devoted to it, and 
his introductions. and notes raise the fin-
ished bibliography to the level of first-rate · 
historical . writing. 

· Marjorie L. Crandall's Confederate Im-
prints: A Check List Based Principally on 
the Collection of the Boston Athenaeum 
(1955) and Richard B. Harwell's More 
Confederate Imprints (1957) and Confed-
erate Imprints in the University of Georgia 
L ibraries (1964) are more general than 
the bibliographies of the imprints . of partic-
ular states, and essays such as Frederick R. 
Goff's "Early Printing in Georgetown (Po-
tomak), 1789- 1800" (1958) continue the 
tradition of localized studies pursued so ef-
fectively by McMurtrie. Zoltan . Haraszti's 
The Enigm4 of the Bay Psalm Book (1956) 
is an example of the result of close atten-
tion to an important book. Klaus G. Wust' s 
"German Printing in Virginia: A Check 

List, 1789- 1834" · (19.53) and Walter Kline~ 
felter's "The· ABC Books ·of the Pennsylva-
nia Germans" . (19.73), and James - H. Fra.; 
ser's "Indian Mission Printing: A '·Bibliogra-
phy" (1968) and his "Indian Mission Print-
ing in Arizona: An Historical Sketch and 
Bibliography" (1969) are examples of · at-
tention to printing for special · groups. 
Dorothea N. Spear's Bibliography of Ameri-
can Directories through 1860. (1961) and 
Milton Drake's · Almanacs of the United 
States (1962) are examples of attention to 
special classes of publications. 

While the listing of private press books 
has not been as regular in this country as 
in England, James · Lamar Weygand ·has 
given us news .and reviews of such presses 
over the years in the American Book Col-
lector, and bibliographies and accounts of 
private presses by others, many· of them 
privately printed, have 'included Dorothy 
and David Magee's Bibliography of the 
Grabhorn Press, 1940- 1956, with a Check-
List, 1916- 1940 (1957); Herbert Cahoon's 
The Overbrook Press Bibliography, 1934 .... 
1959 (1963), Norman H. Strouse's The 
Passionate Pirate ( 1964) on Thomas Bird 
Mosher, and · Benton L. Hatch's A Check 
List of the Publications of Thoma.S Bird 
Mosher ('1966). · 

BooK ILLUSTRATION . . . ' . ~ 
In the study of book illustration, as in 

other fields, scholarly publication follows 
on the gathering ·of adequate collections. 
Three collections have -had a special influ-
ence on American ·studies of illustration in 
~he past twenty-six years: Lessing J. Rosen-
wald's, given to the Library of Congress; 
Philip Hofer'S; ' given. to Harvard; and Sin-
clair Hamilton's, given to Princeton. The 
catalogs of the first two have already been 
cited here. Hofer's collection has supported 
numerous _publications, including his own 
Baroqu,e . nlustration: A Short Survey 
(1951). 

The · catalog of Hamilton's . collection, 
Early American Book Illustrators and Wood 
Engravers~ - 1670- 1870 (1958), has been ex-
tend~d by' a supplement published in 1968. 
The plan .of his catalog~with its division 
between books published prior to the nine .. 
teen.th century considered chronologically 
and those of the . nineteenth century con-
sidered under the na~es of their illustra-



tors, with accounts of the work of the 
artists of both periods-makes the volumes 
much more than a guide to the collection. 

Among the individual figures on whom 
detailed studies have appeared are Paul 
Revere (Clarence S. Brigham's Paul Re-
vere's Engravings, J954), Hablot K. Browne 
(Albert Johannsen's Phiz .. Illustrations from 
the Novels of Charles Dickens, 1956), and 
Blake (including Geoffrey Keynes .and Ed-
win Wolf, 2nd's William Blake's Illuminat-
ed Books: A Census, 1953, and numerous 
papers by G. E. Bentley, Jr., Charles Rys-
kamp, and others). 

BooKBINDING 

Although Dorothy .Miner's remarkable 
The History of Bookbinding, 525-1950 
A.D.: An Exhibition (1957) showed the 
range of bindings available in this country, 
in the study of binding, as in the study of 
printing, American writers have been prin-
cipally concerned with American work. Mi-
chael Papantonio, with Hannah D. French 
and Carol and Willman Spawn, has given 
us Early American Bookbindings from the 
Collection of Michael Papantonio· (1972), 
a fully illustrated and annotated catalog of 
examples of leather bindings from 1669 to 
1864. The 1941 edition of Bookbinding in 
America by Hannah D. French, Joseph W. 
Rogers, and Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt was 
reprinted in 1967, with bibliographical sup-
plements covering ·the literature of the 
twenty-five years from 1941 to 1967 added 
to each of its three sections , Lawrence S. 
Thompson has written on "Hand Bookbind-
ing in the United States since the Civil 
War" (1954), and C. Clement Samford 
and John M. Hemphill, II, have given us 
a pioneer study, Bookbinding in Colonial 
Virginia (1966). 

French has described the work of An-
drew Barclay (in "The Amazing Career of 
Andrew Barclay, Scottish Bookbinder, of 
Boston," 1961), John Roulstone (in "John 
Roulstone's Harvard Bindings," 1970), and 
Caleb Buglass (in "Caleb Buglass, Binder 
of the Proposed .Book of Common Prayer, 
Philadelphia, 1786," 1970); and the 
Spawns the work of Robert Aitken (in 
"The Aitken . Shop: Identi-fication of an 
Eighteenth-Century Bindery. and . Its Tools," 
1963) and Francis Skinner (in "Francis 
Skinner, Bookbinder of Newport: An Eigh-

· Bibliographical Scholarship I 499 

teenth Century Craftsman Identified by His 
Tools,"· 1965). Frederick B. Adams, Jr.'s 
Bookbinding by T. ]. Cobden-Sanderson: 
· An Exhibition ( 1969) is a sh·iking example 
of what can be accomplished in a small 
.space. 

Finally, Joan St.C. Crane in her series on 
"Rare and Seldom-Seen Dust Jackets of 
American First Editions," beginning in 
Serif 7 (1970), ·and G. Thomas Tanselle in 
his "Book-Jackets, Blurbs, and Bibliogra-
phers" (1971) have redirected our atten-

. tion to the importance ·of book jackets as 
bibliographical e.vidence. . 

PuBLISHING AND BooKSELLING 

In the field of publishing, which is close-
ly related to that of printing, discussed 
earlier, the publications of the period under 
review are very nearly bracketed by the ap-
pearance of the second edition of The Book 
in America: A History of the Making and 
SeUing of Books in the United States 
(1951) by Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt, Law-
rence C. Wroth, and Rollo G. Silver, and 
John Tebbel's A History of Book Publish-
ing in the United States, vol. I, The Crea-
tion of an Industry, 1630-1865 (1972). 
Books and essays such as LeRoy Hewlett's 
"James Rivington, Tory Printer," in Books 
in America's Past (1966), edited by David 
Kaser, Kaser's own _Messrs. Carey & Lea 
of Philadelphia (1957), and Carl J. Web-
er's The Rise . and Fall of I ames Ripley 0 s-
good (1959) have shown us publishers of 
the eastern seaboard in different eras. 

Bertram W. Kom's "Benjamin . Levy: 
New . Orleans Printer and Publisher" 
(1960), supplemented by his "Additional 
Benjamin and Alexander Levy Imprints" 
(1968), Kaser's Joseph Charless: Printer 
in the Western Country (1963), . Albert H. 
Greenly's A Bibliography of Father Rich-
ard's Press in Detroit (1955), Walter Sut-
ton's The Western Book Trade: Cincinnati 
as a Nineteenth-Century Publishing and 
Book Trade Center (1961), Lota M. Spell's 
Pioneer Printer: Samuel Bangs in Mexico 
and Texas (1963), and Madeleine B. 
Stern's Imprints on History: Book Publish-
ers and American Frontiers (1956) have 
taken us farther west. 

Warren S. Tryon and William Charvat's 
!he Cost Books of Ticknor and Fields and 
Their Predecessors, 1832-1858 (1949) and 



500 I College & Research Libraries·· November 1975 

Kaser's The Cost Book of Carey and Lea, 
1825-1838 (1963) have shown us the pub-
lisher in his counting house. John H. Pow-
ell's The Books of a New Nation: United 
States Government Publications, 1774-1814 
(1957) exhibited the new federal govern-
ment as publisher; and C. Harvey Gardi-
ner's Prescott and His Publishers (1959), 
an author's relationship with his publishers. 
A host of possible subjects for further study 
is suggested by directories such as A Direc-
tory of the Book-Arts and Book Trade in 
Philadelphia to 1820, Including Painters 
and Engravers (1950) and A Directory of 
Printing, Publishing, Bookselling and Allied 
Trades in Rhode Island to 1865 (1958), 
both by H. Glenn and Maude C. Brown, 
and A Directory of the St. Louis Book and 
Printing Trades to 1850 (1961) by David 
Kaser. Much useful work of the same sort 
remains to be done. 

With some · exceptions-Clarence S. 
Brigham's "American Booksellers' Cata-
logues, 1734- 1800" in Essays Honoring 
Lawrence C. Wroth (1951) and John Al-
den's "Pills and Publishing: Some Notes on 
the Engli'sh Book Trade, 1660-1715" 
(1952), and a number ·of studies already 
cited in connection with publishing-the 
more important accounts of bookselling to 
appear in the past twenty-six years have 
been biographies or autobiographies. Henry 
Stevens' Recollections of ]ames Lenox was 
republished in 1951, edited by Victor Hugo 
Paltsits, and Wyman W. Parker has en-
larged our knowledge of Stevens through 
his Henry Stevens of Vermont (1963). Ed-
win Wolf, 2nd, and John F. Fleming in 
Rosenbach: A Biography (1960) have 
shown us "Dr. R," warts and all, if not all 
warts. Among the autobiographies are 
Charles P. Everitt's Adventures of a Trea-
sure Hunter (1951), David A. Randall's 
Dukedom Large Enough ( 1969) David 
Magee's Infinite Riches ( 1973) and Leona 
Rosten berg and Madeleine B. Stern's Old & 
Rare: Thirty Years in the Book Business 
(1974). 

E. Millicent Sowerby's lively Rare People 
and Rare Books (1967) must be conceded 
to England, although much of her life has 
been spent in the United States. Although 
they deal with private and institutional ·col-
lecting as well as bookselling, two masterly 
articles by Cordon N. Ray should also be 

mentioned here: "The Changing World of 
Rare Books" . (1965) ·and "The World of 
Rare Books Re-examined" (1974). 

In the area of the legal, economic, and 
social aspects of the history of books, Fred-
erick R. Goff has given us an account of 
"The First · Decade of the Federal Act for 
Copyright, ·179G-1800," in Essays Honoring 
Lawrence C. Wroth ( 1951). Other volumes 
are Frederick S. Siebert's Freedom of the 
Press in England, 1476-1776 (1952), and 
Lyman R. Patterson's Copyright in Histor:. 
ical Perspective ( 1968). Leona Rosten berg's 
The Minority Press and the English Crown: 
A Study in Repression, 1558-1625 (1971) 
extends her researches in English publish~ 
ing in the sixteenth and seventee.nth cen-
turies. 

JOURNALISM 

In the area of newspapers and journalism 
the appearance of Clarence S. Brigham's 
Additions and Corrections to ''History and 
Bibliography of American Newspapers, 
1690-1820" (1961), and volume 4 of Frank 
Luther Matt's A History of American Mag-
azines (1957), covering the period 1885-
1905, reminded us of the tremendous debt 
we already owed those two scholars. As 
with imprints generally, so with news-
papers, the bulk of the material to be dealt 
with after the earliest perjod has suggested 
regional studies such as Muir Dawson's 
History and Bibliography of Southern Cali-
fornia Newspapers, 1851-1876 (1950), and 
"A Bibliography of Newspapers in Fourteen 
New York State Counties" (1971 and fol-
lowing) by Sylvia G. Faibisoff and others. 

Newspapers and periodicals together 
have been treated by language, as in Ray-
mond R. MacCurdy's A History and Bibli-
ography of Spanish-Language Newspapers 
and Magazines in LOuisiana, 1808-1949 
(1951) and Karl J. R. Arndt and May E. 
Olson's Die deutschsprachige Presse der 
Amerikas, 1732-1968: Geschichte und Bib-
liographie (1973), or by other special as-
pects, as in Gaylord P. Albaugh's "Ameri-
can Presbyterian Periodicals and News-
papers, 1752-1830, with Library Locations'' 
( 1963 and following) and . Alfred L. Bush 
and Robert S. Fraser's American Indian 
Periodicals in the Princeton University Li-
brary: A Preliminary List (1970). 

Histories of paiticular newspapers and 



periodicals have included David Ayerst's 
The "Manchester Guardian'': Biography of a 
Newspaper (1971), Richmond P. Bond's The 
''Tatler'': The Making of a Literary Journal 
(1971), Spencer L. Eddy, Jr.'s The Found-
ing of the "ComhiU Magazine" (1970), 
and William E . . Ames' A History of the 
"National Intelligencer" (1972). 

Finally, studies covering the whole range 
of printing and publi'shing and allied fields 
in the United States, from the earliest to 
those published in 1969 and major works 
appearing early in 1970, are listed by well-
conceived classes in G. Thomas Tanselle's 
impressive Guide to the Study of United 
States Imprints (1971) .. 

DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY 

Since the annual checklist compiled for 
Studies in Bibliography, on which this re-
view is largely based, did not extend to 
bibliophily, book collecting, libraries, and 
librarianship (except to the extent that ar-
ticles on those subjects appeared in the 
publications of pibliographical societies), 
consideration of those subjects must be 
omitted here. There remain to be consid-
ered notable examples of the application 
of the principles of descriptive bibliography 
published between 1949 and 197 4, which 
fall in Class M in the scheme of ABHB: 
Annual Bibliography of the History of ·the 
Printed Book and Libraries. American ef-
forts, books and articles taken together, 
have been vigorous, and almost equally di-
vided among English literature, American 
literature, American history, and other sub-
jects. It is impossible to do inore here than 
suggest, by example, the range and quality 
of the work accomplished. 

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERA TUBE 

In the field of English literature Charl-
ton Hinman's The Printing and Proof-Read-
ing of the First Folio of Shakespeare 
(1963) stands as proof of the valuable re-
sults that can be achieved by attention to 
detail in cases where the circumstances and 
the nature of the material justify the effort 
involved. Donald C. Gallup's T. S. Eliot: 
A Bibliography (rev. ed., 1969), Archibald 
Hanna, Jr.'s John Buchan, 1875-1940: A 
Bibliography (1953), and John J. Sl~cum 
and Herbert Cahoon's. A . Bibliography of 

Bibliographical Scholarship I 501 

]ames Joyce (1882-1941) (1953) all deal 
comprehensively with a particular author. 
George H. Healey's The Cornell Words-
worth Collection (1957} and George L. 
McKay's six-volume catalog of the Steven-
son Library· ... Formed by Edwin J. 
Reinecke (1951-1964) describe major col-
lections in the hands of universities, as does 
Alexander D. Wainwright's Robert Louis 
Stevenson: A Catalogue of the Henry E. 
Gerstley Stevenson Collection (1971). 

Any account of the bibliography of 
American literature since 1949 must begin 
with Jacob N. Blanck's Bibliography of 
American Literature (1955- ), which 
is now drawing to a close. The bibliogra-
phies of individual authors published in the 
past twenty-six years range from Thomas 
F. Currier~s A Bibliography of Oliver Wen-
dell Holmes (1953), edited by Eleanor M. 
Tilton, through Emily E. F. Skeel's A Bib-
lioaraphy of the Writings of Noah Webster 
(1958), edited by Edwin H. Carpenter, Jr., 
to Matthew J. Bruccoli's F. Scott Fitzgerald 
(1972) in the newly established Pittsburgh 
Series in Bibliography. Studies of special 
classes of literature have been as varied as 
Albert Johannsen's The House of Beadle 
and Adams and Its Dime and Nickel Nov-
els (1950) and its supplemental volume of 
1962; Lyle H. Wright's successive Ameri-
can Fiction, 1774-1850 (2d rev. ed. , 1969'), 
American Fiction, 1851-1875 (1957), and 
American Fiction, 1876-1900 (1966); Rog-
er E. Stoddard's A Catalogue of Books 
and Pamphlets Unrecorded in Oscar 
Wegelin's "Early American Poetry, 1640-
1820'' (1969); and d'Alte A. Welch's A 
Bibliography of American Children's Books 
Printed Prior to 1821 (1972). 

AMERICAN HISTORY 

Among the important bibliographies to 
appear in the field of American history 
have been Robert W. G. Vail's Voice of the 
Old Frontier (1949), Thomas W. Streeter's 
Bibliography of Texas, already mentioned, 
and the eight volumes (1966-1970) of the 
catalog of the sale of his collection. This 
last stands head and shoulders above the 
usual auction catalog because of the inclu-
sion, of so many of Streeter's notes, written 
during the forty years and more in which 
the books. were collected. Valerian Lada-



502 I College & Research Libraries • November 1975 

Mocarski's Bibliography of Books on Alaska 
Published Before 1868 (1969) presents the 
·early record of what is now the most north-
ern of our states, and a .group of striking 
works, including Neal Harlow's Maps of 
San Francisco Bay from the Spanish Dis-
covery in 17 69 to the American Occupation 
(1950), Lloyd A. Brown's Early Maps of 
the Ohio Valley: A Selection . . .. from 
1673 to 1783 (1959), and Carl I. Wheat's 
Mapping the Transmississippi West, 1540-
1861 (1957-1963), gives us the geographi-
cal setting of American history. 

OTHER SUBJECTS 

Other subjects as diverse as medicine 
(Robert B. Austin's Early American Medi-
_cal Imprints . . . 1668- 1820, 1961, and 
Francisco Guerra's American Medical Bib-
liography, 1639-1783, 1962), botany (Ra-
chel McM. M. Hunt's Catalogue of Botani-
cal Books [to 1800], 1958-1961, in her col-
lection), tobacco (Sarah A. Dickson and 
Perry H; O'Neil's Tobacco: A Catalogue of 
the Books, Manuscripts and Engravings 
Acquired since 1942 in the Arents Tobacco 
Collection at the New York Public Library 
from 1507 to the Present, 1958-1969), al-
chemy (Ian MacPhail's Alchemy and the 
·occult: A Catalogue of Books and Manu-
scripts from the ColleCtion of Paul and 
M a'ry Mellon. Given to Yale University Li-
brary, 1968), and religion (Margaret T. 
Hills' The English Bible in America . . . 
1777-1957, 1961) have received careful at-
tention. 

CoNcLUSION 

A number of forces have contributed 
to the results summarized here. With the 
close of World War II there was a great 
increase in the collections of public and 
private libraries in the United States. 
The study of these collections produced 
an increased number of scholarly pub-
lications, for example those of the Hu-
manities Research Center at the Univer-
sity of Texas and those based on the 
Barrett Collection at the University of 
Virginia. The work of the Bibliographi-
cal Society of America, the Bibliograph-
ical Society of the University of Vir-
ginia, the· Grolier Club, and other 
learned and bibliophilic societies, and 

grants from public funds and private 
-foundations ' have. assured interest and 
support for bibliographers. New peri-

. ~dicals . devoted to publishing their work 
·appeared, notable among them Studies 
in Bibliography ( 1948-1949 and follow-
ing)' j~st established at the start of our 
. period, and Proof ( 1971 ) , in its fourth 
volume at the close. During the same 
years the Papers · of · the Bibliographical 
Society of America has prospered and 
expanded. Although we have lost the 
_Boston Public . Library Quarterly, the 
Bulletin · of the New York Public Li-
brary has been revived after a brief 
suspension, as has the H m:vard Library 
Bulletin, and a number of college and 
university library periodicals 'have been 
established or enlarged. 

All of these forces have had their ef-
fect,· .but in the end bibliography is the 
work of dedicated men and women. In 
the · opening years of the period re-
viewed here scholars such as Harry Mil-
ler Lydenberg, Victor Hugo Paltsits, 
·William Warner Bishop, and Clarence 
S. Brigham, whose careers had begun a 
half-century earlier, were still in the 
field. Fortunately, the tradition they fol-
lowed has been carried forward. Last 
year brought us C. _ William Miller's 
Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia Print-
ing, 1728-1766: A Descriptive Bibliog-
raphy ( 197 4), in which every advance 
in -- bibliographical technique of the past 
twenty-six years has been brought to 
bear with admirable precision and re-
sults. This year has seen the publication 
of Edwin Wolf, 2nd's The Library of 
]ames Logan of Philadelphia, 1674-1751 
( 1975), which presents the most impor-

. tant of our early collectors and his 
books. with wit and erudition. We may 
presently expect a new catalog of the 
Rosenwald Collection at the Library of 
Congress; the completion of ·the Bibli-
ography of American Literature; vol-
umes in the second hundred edited . un-
der the auspices of the Center for 
Editions of American Authors; and the 



appearance of the revised Short-Title 
Catalogue. With such work to Jts credit 
the United States may hope to make as 

Bibliographical Scholarship I 503 

full a contribution to bibliographical 
studies in the years ahead as it has in the 
past. 

REFERENCES 

1. The "Selective Check List" was continued 
in Studies in Bibliography through that for 
1972 in volume 27 (197 4). This paper is 
based on the twenty-four annual lists and 
the listing of publications of 1973 and 1974 
in volumes .4 and S of ABHB: Annual Bib-
liography of the History of the Printed Book 
and Libraries, edited by Hendrik D. L. 
Vervliet, scheduled for publication by Mar-
tinus Nijhoff at The Hague in. 1975. The 
author acknowledges his debt to his col-
leagues in compiling the "Selective Check 
List" and the contribution of th~ United 
States to ABHB: Lucy Clark and Fredson 
Bowers, who compiled "Part II: Later Ren-
aissance to the Present" of the "Selective 
Check List" for 1949; Rudolf Hirsch, who 
compiled "Part I: Incunabula and the Early 
Renaissance" of the lists for 1949 through 
1962; Derek A. Clarke, who was responsible 
for Part I for. 1963 through 1972; and Ru-

. dol£ Hirsch, who has . )~ined him i~. compil-
ing the contribution of the United States to 
ABHB. Finally, he is especially indebted to 
Dr. Hirsch for his kindness in reading the 
section of this paper dealing with incunabula 
in manuscript and making suggestions for 
its improvement. . . 

2. Fredson Bow~rs, writing in the introduction 

to "A Selective Check List of. Bibliographi-
cal Scholarship for 1949," Studies in Bibli-
ography 3:292 (1950-51). · 

3. Stanley Pargellis, "Gesner, Petzholdt, et al," 
Papers · of the Bibliographical Society of 
America 53:15-20 ( 1959). 

4. ABHB: Annual Bibliography of the History 
of the Printed Book . and Libraries, vol. 1, 
Publications of i970, and following volumes; 
ed. by Hendrik D. L. Vervliet (The Hague: 
Martinus Nijhoff, 1973- ) . 

5. Curt F. Buhler, James G. McManaway, and 
Lawrence ·C. Wroth, Standards of Biblio-
graphical Description · (Philadelphia: Univ. 
of Pennsylvania Pr.; 1949), p.70-73. 

6. The lists for 1949 through 1954 were re-
printed, with the addition of the list for 
1955 and an index, as Studies in Bibliogra-
phy, Decennial Extra Volume, volume 10 
( 1957). Those for the next seven years were 
reprinted, with an index, as Selective Check 
List of Bibliographical Scholarship, Series B, 
1956-1962 (Charlottesville: Univ. Press of 
Virginia for the Bibliographical Society of 
the University of Virginia, 1966). The lists 
for 1963 through 1972 are to be found in 
the volumes of Studies in Bibliography from 

. volume 18 ( 1965) through volume 27 
(1974). 

BmLIOGRAPHY 

Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. See Cobden-
Sanderson, Thomas J. 

Adams, W. C. "History of Papermaking in ·.the 
Pacific Northwest," Oregon Historical Quar-
terly 52:21-37, 83--100, 154-85 ( 1951) . . 

Albaugh, Gaylord P. "American Presbyte.rian 
Periodicals and Newspapers, 1752-1830, with 
Library · Locations," ] ournal of Presbyterian 
History 41:165-87 ( 1963), and following 
volumes. . . 

Alden, Jolin. "Pills and Publishing: Some Notes 
on the English Book Trade, 1660-1715," Li-
brary, 5th ser. 7:21-37 ( 1952 ). 

---. Rhode Island Imprints, . 1727-1800. 
New York: Bowker for the Bibliographical 
Society of America, 1950. 

American Imprints Inventory Project. Wiscon-
sin. A Check List .of Wisconsin Imprints, 
1864-1869. Madison, Wis.: State Historical 
Society of Wisconsin, l953. 

Ames, William E. A History of the "National 

intelligencer." Chapel Hill, N.C.: Univ. of 
North Carolina Pr., 1972. 

Arndt, Karl J.. R., and Olson, May E. Die 
deutschsprachige Presse (fer Amerikas, J 732-
1968: Geschichte und Bibliographie. Pullach/ 
Miinchen: Verlag Dokumentation, 1973. 

Austin, Robert B., comp. See U.S. National Li-
brary of Medicine. 

Ayerst, David. The "Manchester Guardian": 
Biography of a Newspaper. Ithaca, N.Y.: 
Cornell Univ. Pr., 1971. 

Ba~nder, Paul. "The Meaning . of Copy-Text," 
Stu9,ies in Bibliography 22:311-18 0969). 

Bald, R. C. "Editorial Problems-A Preliminary 
Survey," Studies in Bibliography 3:3-17 
(1950-51). 

Beaumont, Francis. The Dramatic W arks in the 
Beaumont and Fletcher c ·anon. General edi-
tor Fredson Bowers. 2 . vols. Cambridge: 
Univ. Pr., 1966-70. · 

Belknap, George W. McMurtrie's ···oregon Im-



504 I College & Research Libraries • November 1975 

· prints": A Supplement. Portland, Oreg.: Bin-
fords & Mort, 1951. 

---. Oregon Imprints, 1845-1870. Eugene, 
Oreg.: University of Oregon Bookshop, 1968. 

Bishop, William Warner. A Checklist of Ameri-
can Copies of "Short-Title Catalogue" Books. 
2d ed. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Univ. of Michigan 
Pr. , 1950. 

Blanck, Jacob N. Bibliography of American 
Literature. Vol. 1-. New Haven, Conn.: Yale 
Univ. Pr., 1955- . Six volumes have been 
published from 1955 through 1973. 

Bond, Richmond P. The ~Tatler": The Making 
of . a Literary Journal. Cambridge, _ Mass.: 

· Harvard Univ. Pr., 1971. 
Bowers, Fredson. Bibliography ami Textual 

Criticism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964. 
---. "Bibliography, Pure Bibliography, and 

Literary Studies," Papers of the Bibliograph-
ical Society of America 46:186-208 (1952). 

---. "Bibliography Revisited," Library, 5th 
ser. 24:89-128. ( 1969). · 

---. "Multiple Authority: New Problems 
and Concepts of Copy-Text," Library, 5th 
ser. 27:81-115 (1972). 

---. Principles of Bibliographical Descrip-
tion. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Pr., 
1949. 

---. "Purposes of Descriptive Bibliography, 
with Some Remarks on Methods," Library, 
5th ser. 8:1-22 (1953). 

-----. "Some Principles for Scholarly Editions 
of Nineteenth-Century American Authors," 
Studies in Bibliography 17:223-28 (1964). 

---. "Some Relations of Bibliography to 
Editorial Problems," Studies in Bibliography 
3:37-62 (1950-51 ). 

---, ed. See Beaumont, Francis; Crane, 
Stephen; Dekker, Thomas; and Whitman, 
Walt. 

Brigham, Clarence S. Additions and Corrections 
to ~History and Bibliography of American 
Newspapers, 1690-1820.-" Worcester, Mass.: 
American Antiquarian Society, 1961. Also in 
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian 
Society 11:13-62 (1961). 

---. . "American Booksellers' Catalogues, 
1734-1800," in Essays Honoring Lawrence 
C. \Vroth, p.31-67. Portland, Maine: An-
thoensen Press, 1951. 

---. Paul Revere's Engravings. Worcester, 
Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, · 1954. 

Briquet, Charles Moise. The New Briquet . . • 
C. M. Briquet Les Filigranes. . . . A F ac-
simile of th~ 1907 Edition with Supplemen-
tary Material Contributed by a Number of 
Scholars. Edited by Allan Stevenson. 4 vols. 
Amsterdam: Paper Publications Society, 
1968. 

Bristol, Roger P. "Additions and Corrections to 
Bristol's Supplement to Evans," Proceedings 

of the American Antiquarian Society · 82:46-
64 ( 1972). 

---. The American Bibliography of Charles 
Evans. Volume 14-Index. Worcester, Mass.: 
American Antiquarian Society, 1959. 

---. Index of Printers, Publishers, and 
Booksellers Indicated by Charles Evans in 
His ''American Bibliography." Charlottes-
ville, Va:: Bibliographical Society of the Uni-
versity of Virginia, 1961. 

---. Index to .. Supplement to Charles 
Evans' 'American Bibliography.'" Charlottes-
ville, Va.: Univ-.' ·Press of Virginia for the 
Bibliographical Society of the University of 
Virginia, 1971. . 

---·. SupPlement to Charles Evans' .. Ameri-
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Press of Virginia for the Bibliographical So-
ciety of America and the Bibliographical So-
ciety of the University of Virginia, 1970. 

Brown, H. Glenn, and Brown, Maude C. A Di-
rectory of Printing, Publishing, Bookselling 
and AUied Trades in Rhode Island to 1865. 
New York: New York Public Library, 1958. 

---. A Directory ·of the Book-Arts and Book 
Trade in Philadelphia to 1820, Including 
Painters and Engravers. New · York: New 
York Public Library, 1950. 

Brown, Lloyd A. Early Maps of the Ohio Val-
ley: A Selection ... from 1673 to 1783. 
Pittsburgh, Pa.: Univ. of Pittsburgh Pr., 
1959. 

Browne, Hablot K. Phiz. IUustrations from the 
Novels of Charles Dickens, by Albert Johann-
sen. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pi., 1956. 

Broccoli, Matthew J. F. Scott Fitzgerald: A 
Descriptive Bibliography. Pittsburgh, Pa.: 
Univ. of Pittsburgh Pr., 1972. 

---. "The SCADE Series: Apparatus for 
Definitive Editions," Papers of the Biblio-
graphical Society of America 61:431-35 
(1973). 

---, and others. The Authors Intention . 
Washington, D.C.: Center for Editions of 
American Authors, 1972. 

Biihler, Curt F. "Another View of the Dating 
of the Missale speciale Constantiense," Li-
brary, 5th ser. 14:1-10 ( 1959). 

---. "The Constance Missal and Two Docu-
ments from the Constance Diocese," Papers 
of the Bibliographical Society of America 
50:370-75 ( 1956). 

---. Early Books and Manuscripts. New 
York: Grolier Club, 1973. 

---. The Fifteenth-Century Book: The 
Scribes, the Printers, the Decorators. Phila-
delphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Pr., 1960. 

---. "Last Words on Watermarks," Papers 
of the Bibliographical Society of America 
67:1-16 ( 1973). . . 

---. The University and the Press in Fif-



teenth-Century Bologna. Notre Dame, Ind.: 
Mediaeval Institute, University of Notre 
Dame, 1958. 

---. "Who Printed the Missale speciale 
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---; McManaway, James G.; and Wroth, 
Lawrence C. Standards of Bibliographical 
Description. Philadelphia: Univ. of Penn-
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Bush, Alfred L., comp. See Princeton Univer-
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Byrd, Cecil K. A Bibliography of Illinois Im-
prints, 1814-1858. Chicago: Univ. of Chi-
cago Pr., 1966. 

---, and Peckham, Howard H. A Bibliog-
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anapolis, Ind.: Indiana Historical Bureau, 
1955. 

Cahoon, Herbert. The Overbrook Press Bibli-
ography, 1934-1959. Stamford, Conn.: Over-
brook Press, 1963. 

---,joint author. See Slocum, John J. 
Carpenter, Edwin H., Jr., ed. See Skeel, 

Emily E. F. 
Charvat, William, joint author. See Tryon, 

WarrenS. 
Cobden-Sanderson, Thomas J. Bookbindings by 

T. ]. Cobden-Sanderson: An Exhibition. 
Compiled by Frederick B. Adams, Jr. New 
York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969. 

Cooper, Gayle. A Checklist of American Im-
prints for 1830. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 
1972. 

Cornell University. Library. The Cornell 
Wordsworth Collection. Compiled by George 
Harris Healey. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell U niv. 
Pr., 1957. 

Crandall, Marjorie L. Confederate Imprints: A 
Check List Based Principally on t~e Collec-
tion of the Boston Athenaeum. 2 vols. · Bos-
ton: Boston Athenaeum, 1955. 

Crane, Joan St.C. "Rare and Seldom-Seen Dust 
Jackets of American First Editions," Serif 
7:27-30, 7D-73 (1970), and following vol-
umes. 

Crane, Stephen. The University of Virginia Edi-
tion of the Works of Stephen Crane. Edited 
by Fredson Bowers. Vol. 1-. Charlottesville, 
Va.: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1969-
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Currier, Thomas F. A Bibliography of Oliver 
Wendell Holmes. Edited by Eleanor M. Til-
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Dawson, Muir. History and Bibliogr(l1fhy of 
Southern California Newspapers, 1851-1876. 
Los Angeles: Dawson's Bookshop, 1950. 

Dearing, Vinton A. A Manual of Textual Analy-
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1959. 

---. Principles and Practice of Textual 

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Analysis. Berkeley, . Calif.: Univ. of Califor-
nia Pr., 1974. 

Dekker, Thomas. The Dramatic Works of 
Thomas Dekker. Edited by Fredson Bowers. 
4 vols. Cambridge: Univ. Pr., 1953-61. 

Dickson, Sarah A., comp. See New York. Pub-
lic Library. Arents Tobacco Collection. 

Drake, Milton. Almanacs of the United States. 
2 vols. New York: Scarecrow, 1962. 

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