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STUDIES IN BIBLIOGRAPHY, PAPERS OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. VOLUME 30
Edited by Fredson Bowers.
Article Descriptive Bibliography and Library Cataloguing
by G. Thomas Tanselle [pp. 1-56]
Article A Qualitative Analysis of Compositors C and D in the Shakespeare First Folio
by John S. O'Connor [pp. 57-74]
Article Chetwin, Crooke, and the Jonson Folios
by William P. Williams [pp. 75-95]
Article Verses Address'd to the Imitator of Horace: A Skirmish between Pope and Some Persons of Rank and Fortune
by Isobel Grundy [pp. 96-119]
Article The Dating of the Two Hyperions
by Leonidas M. Jones [pp. 120-135]
Article Venetian 'Woodcut' Capitals
by A. J. Dunston [pp. 136-144]
Article Sir John Harington's A Supplie or Addicion to the Catalogue of Bishops, to the Yeare 1608: Composition and Text
by R. H. Miller [pp. 145-161]
Article Middleburg Psalms
by Nicholas Temperley [pp. 162-170]
Article Marginal Rules as Evidence
by Ernest W. Sullivan, II [pp. 171-180]
Article New Texts of Marvell's Satires
by A. S. G. Edwards and R. M. Schuler [pp. 180-185]
Article The Text of Colley Cibber's The Double Gallant: Or, the Sick Lady's Cure
by John W. Bruton [pp. 186-196]
Article The Motives of Puffing: John Newbery's Advertisements 1742-1767
by John Dawson Carl Buck [pp. 196-210]
Article The Writing and Printing of Joseph Warton's Essay on Pope
by David Fairer [pp. 211-219]
Article A Compositional History of the Biographia Literaria
by Daniel Mark Fogel [pp. 219-234]
Article Printer's Copy for Part of Volume Seven of the W. B. Yeats Collected Works in Verse and Prose (1908)
by J. R. Mulryne [pp. 235-240]
Article Robert Frost's "Kitty Hawk"
by Joan St.C. Crane [pp. 241-249]
Article Graham Greene's Second Thoughts: The Text of The Heart of the Matter
by David Leon Higdon [pp. 249-256]
Article Towards a New Chronology for the Dramatic Eclogues of Juan Del Encina
by Henry W. Sullivan [pp. 257-275]
Article Additions and Corrections to the Second Edition of Donald Wing's Short-Title Catalogue
by Clinton Sisson and Jeri S. Smith [pp. 276-280]
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THE LIFE OF MR. THOMAS GENT, PRINTER, OF YORK WRITTEN BY ...
by Gent, Thomas
First edition. (Bigmore & Wyman I, 260). "A very interesting biography of a distinguished country printer. It contains also a number of details relative to the history of typography during the second half of the eighteenth century." Thorpe found this manuscript in an Irish collection he had purchased. Gent had written the manuscript in 1746, 32 years before his death at the age of 85. See Lowndes p.875 for further comment on this work. Cracked along back hinge. With an ink inscription on the front free endpaper "E.T. Mason, Feb. 1877" and a note by him stating that he had purchased this copy at the Hastie-Tracy sale 30c." Well preserved copy.
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