XVIII Bibliography and Textual Criticism

Abstract

The year's work in bibliography and textual criticism continues the pattern of previous years. There are an increasing number of monographs concerned with editorial theory and the history of the book as well as bibliographies devoted to the works of individual writers. This year's survey will draw our readers’ attention to useful enumerative, analytical and descriptive bibliographical labours. The review also describes materials of interest to students of various areas of librarianship, book collecting and antiquarianism as well as English literature. The variety and diversity of journals devoted to bibliography and textual criticism continue to flourish. The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (95[2001]) contains William Robins, ‘Antonio Pucci's Contrasto delle donne and the Circulation of Fourteenth-Century Florentine Dramatic Poetry’ (PBSA 95[2001] 5–19); Eric Rasmussen, ‘The Date of Q4 Hamlet’ (PBSA 95[2001] 21–29); Don-John Dugas, ‘The London Book Trade in 1709 (Part One)’ (PBSA 95[2001] 31–58); J.A. Leo Lemay, ‘An Attribution of Reflections on Courtship and Marriage (1746) to Benjamin Franklin’ (PBSA 95[2001] 59–96); Robert D. Armstrong, ‘The Only Alternative Course: Incidents in Nevada Printing History’ (PBSA 95[2001] 97–156); Don-John Dugas, ‘The London Book Trade in 1709 (Part Two)’ (PBSA 95[2001] 157–72); Paul Needham, ‘Copy Description in Incunable Catalogs’ (PBSA 95[2001] 173–239); MacD. P. Jackson, ‘Late Webster and his Collaborators: How Many Playwrights Wrote A Cure for a Cuckold?’ (PBSA 95[2001] 295–313); Paul Werstine, ‘Scribe or Compositor: Ralph Crane, Compositors D and F, and the First Four Plays in the Shakespeare First Folio’ (PBSA 95[2001] 315–39); Keith Arbour, ‘Solomon Stoddard's Addition to The Safety of Appearing (Boston, 1729) and the Attribution of its Printing, with a Note on “Reilly 695”’ (PBSA 95[2001] 341–7); Peter Isaac, ‘The English Provincial Book Trade: A Northern Mosaic’ (PBSA 95[2001] 410–441); Christian Y. Dupont, ‘Collecting Dante in American at the End of the Nineteenth Century: John Zahm and Notre Dame’ (PBSA 95[2001] 443–81); R. Carter Hailey, ‘“Geuyng light to the reader”’: Robert Crowley's Editions of Piers Plowman (1550)’ (PBSA 95[2001] 483–502); William Searle, ‘“By foule authority”: Miscorrection in the Folio Text of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida’ (PBSA 95[2001] 503–19).