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STUDIES IN BIBLIOGRAPHY, PAPERS OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. VOLUME 21
Edited by Fredson Bowers.
Article The Descriptive Bibliography of American Authors
by G. Thomas Tanselle [pp. 1-24]
Article Poe and "Young America"
by Claude Richard [pp. 25-58]
Article William Gilmore Simms and the Southern Literary Gazette
by John C. Guilds [pp. 59-92]
Article James's "Pandora": The Mixed Consequences of Revision
by Charles Vandersee [pp. 93-108]
Article Photo-Facsimiles of STC Books: A Cautionary Check List
by Franklin B. Williams, Jr. [pp.109-130]
Article Compositor B, The Pavier Quartos, and Copy Spellings
by William S. Kable [pp. 131-161]
Article The Revisions of Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison
by Robert Craig Pierson [pp. 163-189]
Article Gibbon's Revision of the Decline and Fall
by Patricia B. Craddock [pp. 191-204]
Article James Pinker to James Joyce, 1915-1920
by John Firth [pp. 205-224]
Article Speght's Chaucer And MS. GG.4.27
by George B. Pace [pp. 225-235]
Article Benson's Alleged Piracy of Shake-speares Sonnets and of Some of Jonson's Works
by Josephine Waters Bennett [pp. 235-248]
Article A Date and a Printer for A Looking Glasse for London and England, Q4
by Berta Sturman [pp. 248-253]
Article Eighteenth-Century Editions of Steele's Conscious Lovers
by Shirley Strum Kenny [pp. 253-261]
Article The Laureate as Huckster: Nahum Tate and an Early Eighteenth Century Example of Publisher's Advertising
by Stuart L. Astor [pp. 261-266]
Checklist A Selective Check List of Bibliographic Scholarship for 1966 [pp. 267-284]
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First edition. (Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part II). A graphic account of all kinds of crime and "other shocking impieties" in London at the time of publication. The 18th century was a time of rapid growth in London, and this account detailed some of the less favorable consequences. Bookplate on front pastedown from the library of collector F. Grant, dated 1880, and bookplate on back free endpaper that of Clarence S. Bemes. Gilt-stamped title on spine fading. Boards cracked along spine. Front board detached. Rear hinge cracked.
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