Copies Of Editions Research Articles

An uncut copy of Scleromyceti Sueciae: lost and then found

BackgroundA copy of Scleromyceti Sueciae, a work on which the nomenclature of many fungi is based was known to occur in Scotland’s Glasgow University Botany Department but the buildings were devastated by fire in 2001 and the whereabouts of this important work, if it existed, was lost. Its re-finding is reported herein.ResultsThe Glasgow copy of Scleromyceti Sueciae, an uncut first edition of Fries’ work, was located in the Glasgow Museums in its original cabinet being transferred there years before the fire and its specimens being now databased. It is one of the few existing uncut copies of this important scientific work and one of the best-preserved copies of the first edition.ConclusionThe discovery of this first edition of Scleromyceti Sueciae emphasizes the significance to reserve special conservation for important collections by early mycologists. It also allows interested mycologists world-wide to know of the existence in Glasgow of an uncut, first edition copy.

Scribleriana Transferred: Portraits, Manuscripts, and Books, 2020–2022.

Scribleriana Transferred: Portraits, Manuscripts, and Books, 2020–2022.

Το Ταξίδι μου του Ψυχάρη: Γλωσσικές σημειώσεις επί του περιθωρίου

In this paper we trace changes, corrections and interventions as considered by Psicharis, while revising the first edition of his work To Taxidi mou . The investigation has been carried out by co-examining copies of this emblematic work preserved in his Books Collection as well as by taking into account relevant information originating from his Archive, both kept in the Benakeios Library of the Hellenic Parliament Library. We primarily focus on linguistic notes in a dialogue with Argiris Eftaliotis taking place on the margin of a first edition copy (1888) towards a second one (1905). The investigation, preliminary presented here, is part of a wider endeavour, aiming to explore Psicharis’ response to contextual continuities and changes unfolding in the meantime between the first and the third (1926) editions of To Taxidi mou . Furthermore, it aspires to a digital edition of the text with all revising annotations, linked to relevant archival material, such as Psicharis’ texts, letters and newspaper articles.

Hacia un censo completo unificado de los ejemplares conservados de <i>Celestina</i> (I): ejemplares de ediciones en castellano localizables en línea

En una época en la que las bibliotecas no dejan de volcar nuevos catálogos en la red y de actualizar los antiguos, en la que los catálogos colectivos regionales no dejan de sacar a la luz y de hacer accesibles colecciones que de otra manera pasarían desapercibidas para los investigadores, en la que los catálogos y metacatálogos digitales permiten consultar de una sola vez decenas de fondos repartidos por el mundo, el redescubrimiento de ejemplares de Celestina perdidos o no consignados hasta el momento no debería sorprender a nadie. Estas especiales circunstancias han hecho que mantener un censo completo y actualizado de ejemplares localizados de Celestina requiera la revisión periódica de dichos recursos digitales con el objetivo de incorporar nuevos ejemplares, corroborar la existencia de otros y corregir los posibles ejemplares fantasma de versiones anteriores. El presente trabajo quiere ofrecer un punto de partida para esta revisión periódica reuniendo por escrito y en un mismo lugar todos los ejemplares conservados de ediciones en castellano de Celestina anteriores a su prohibición inquisitorial localizables en línea a 1 de noviembre de 2020.

David Forrest, the Scottish Reformer and a Reattributed Provenance of a Calvin Commentary in the John Rylands Library

This article reveals that the original owner of a first edition copy of John Calvin’s Commentarii in Isaiam Prophetam (Geneva, Ioannis Crispini, 1551) in the collection of the John Rylands Library (Unitarian Printed Q.1904) was not the unknown David Forrest of Carluke, Lanarkshire as asserted and recorded by Alexander Gordon, Principal of the Unitarian Home Missionary College, Manchester, from whom the library acquired the book, but was the recognised Scottish Reformer and compatriot of John Knox, David Forrest of Haddington. An investigation into Forrest’s background, gleaned mainly from contemporary documents, provides biographical details and an insight into the role this reformer played during the Scottish Reformation and demonstrates that Forrest’s ownership of the Calvin Commentary is historically noteworthy. A comparison of Forrest’s signature in the book with one made in a document during his position as General of the Scottish Mint proves his ownership beyond doubt.

A Human Paradox: The Nazi Legacy of Pernkopf’s Atlas

Eduard Pernkopf’s Atlas of Topographical and Applied Human Anatomy is a four-volume anatomical atlas published between 1937 and 1963, and it is generally believed to be the most comprehensive, detailed, and accurate anatomy textbook ever created. However, a 1997 investigation into “Pernkopf’s Atlas,” raised troubling questions regarding the author’s connection to the Nazi regime and the still unresolved issue of whether its illustrations relied on Jewish or other political prisoners, including those executed in Nazi concentration camps. Following this investigation, the book was removed from both anatomy classrooms and library bookshelves. A debate has ensued over the book’s continued use, and justification for its use has focused on two issues: (1) there is no definitive proof the book includes illustrations of concentration camp prisoners or Jewish individuals in particular, and (2) there is no contemporary equivalent to this text. However, both points fail to address the central importance of the book, not simply as part of anatomy instruction, but also as a comprehensive historical narrative with important ethical implications. Having encountered a first edition copy, these authors were given a unique opportunity to engage with the text through the respective humanities lenses of history, ethics, and narrative. In doing so, an instructive and profound irony has surfaced: Nazis, including Pernkopf, viewed specific groups of people as less than human, giving rise to unthinkable atrocities perpetuated against them. However, these same individuals became the sources for the creation of the Atlas, which served as the model for primary instruction on the human form for more than half of the twentieth century. In this article, we recount the difficult and somewhat opaque provenance of this book, engage the ethical questions surrounding both its creation and its use, and ultimately propose a pedagogical methodology for its continued use in medical education.

Міжкультурний діалог слов’янських академій наук із Науковим товариством імені Шевченка у Львові (кінець ХІХ- перша третина ХХ ст.)

The present article deals with the peculiarities of cultural and scientific cooperation of the Slavic Academies of Sciences with the Shechenko Scientific Society in Lviv. The paper is the first attempt to systematically represent, on the basis of the epistolary heritage of the Society and the preserved copies of editions of the Slavic academies of the main vectors of the NTSH intercultural dialogue with the Slavic academies of sciences at the end of the nineteenth and first third of the twentieth century. The book exchange issues with Slavic Academy of Science of South East Europe were described with particular attention. The objective of this paper is the scientific-publishing production of the Slavic Academies of Sciences and their correspondence with the Society. The problems of intercultural contacts are also considered. The author describes the forms and methods of cultural and scientific cooperation of Slavic academies with NTSh according to the principles of historicism and objectivity. It is claimed that the Slavic scientific world treated NTSH as a worthy partner and representative of 20th century Ukrainian scientific thought. Slavic academies of sciences readily supplemented the funds of their scientific book collections with the editions of the Lviv Scientific Society, considered it a matter of honor to welcome Ukrainian members on the occasion of various celebrations, highly valued scientific researches of Ukrainian scientists, published in professional academic collections, considered their associates about the retirement of Ukrainian scientists and public figures into the eternity, gladly received certificates of honorary members of NTSh, joined the publications of their researches in scientific collections of society, established interpersonal contacts, which eventually developed into a strong friendship. The valuable book and archival heritage of the Slavic Academies of Sciences is a confirmation of the multi-vector research activities of the Society, caused by the desire of its members to bring Ukraine to the level of European national peoples. A general conclusion is made concerning the editions of the Slavic Academies of Sciences, collected and preserved thanks to the thoughtful and far-sighted bibliographic policy of NTSH, are nowadays an inexhaustible source of diverse Slavic studies Keywords: Slavic academies of sciences, NTSH research and publishing, Serbian Royal Academy, book exchange, Slavic congresses, Slavic collections, books, academic publications.

Junkfood Activism: How Stepford Became Shorthand for a Certain Kind of Woman

Junkfood Activism:How Stepford Became Shorthand for a Certain Kind of Woman Britt Tisdale (bio) On Ira Levin's. The Stepford Wives (Random House, 1972). Stepford /ˈstɛpˌfəd/adjective (informal, derogatory) 1 blandly conformist and submissive: aStepford employeenoun 2 Stepford wife, a married woman whosubmits to her husband's will and ispreoccupied by domestic concernsand her own personal appearance. The year was 1972. Nixon was president; Watergate was scandalizing; the Olympics were held in Sapporo, Japan, and Munich, Germany, where eleven Israeli athletes were taken hostage and killed. The Godfather and Clockwork Orange headlined theatre marquees, and the playlist—by then, the cool kids had abandoned 8-tracks for cassette tapes—glittered with ABBA and Ziggy Stardust. That year, The National Book Award skewed grotesque to Flannery O'Connor's The Complete Short Stories with E.L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel among the finalists. Children's literature welcomed Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator which I wouldn't love until years later. In October of '72, the "New and Novel" column of The New York Times devoted exactly two paragraphs to American novelist and playwright Ira Levin, best known for jump-starting the horror genre with A Kiss Before Dying and Rosemary's Baby. [End Page 201] Adjacent to a glowing ad for the Doctorow book, The Times called The Stepford Wives "a little ambush of Women's Lib, life and the pursuit of happiness," in a catch-all column for books deemed worthy of mention, but not a stand-alone. On other "Best Of" lists, Wives was nowhere to be seen. In the forty years following, however, Stepford entered the English lexicon, and spawned two major motion pictures plus three television sequels including Revenge of the Stepford Wives, The Stepford Children, and The Stepford Husbands. A short novella by today's standards and a blip on the radar at its release, how did The Stepford Wives become an enduring cultural touchstone? The novel endures in our national consciousness not due to its artistic merit, but because it captures the zeitgeist, providing useful shorthand to a culture as much—some would say, more—in fear of corruption and subjugation today as it was in 1972, functioning exactly as Levin intended. My tattered first edition copy cost me $2 at a library book sale. The yellowing jacket shows rows of disembodied wife heads, their bouffant hairdos tinged pastel. Protagonist Joanna Eberhart's floating head is smack in the middle, her expression the 1970s version of, wtf? Levin's black-and-white author photo peers menacingly from the back cover, his face half-hidden in shadow. The front flap copy is prescient. It is one of those rare novels whose very title may well become part of our vocabulary. For, after reading it, you will never forget Stepford and the horror it contains; and there is a certain kind of woman who, from now on, will be known as a Stepford Wife. The novel is a satirical thriller following photographer and feminist Joanna Eberhart as she moves with husband Walter and their two young children from New York City to idyllic Stepford, Connecticut (based on Wilton, Conn., where Levin lived in the 1960s). Joanna is increasingly disturbed by Stepford's zombie-Barbie-like housewives, as well as the influential Men's Association helmed by ex-Disney animatronics engineer—think: Hall of Presidents—"Diz" Coba. Fearing the women of Stepford are being poisoned or brainwashed, Joanna digs into the library's archives in hopes of solving the mystery. Turns out, the housewives were former professionals and activists leading the now defunct Stepford Women's Club and League of Women Voters. When even her independent friend Bobbie turns robot-June-Cleaver, Joanna has had enough. The quintessential Final Girl of the horror genre, she attempts escape. The story ends with a butcher knife wielded by Bobbie, and Joanna's implied robo-wife conversion; afterward, she glides through the grocery store—Nicole Kidman is hair-raising in the second film adaptation—"looking terrific in a tightly belted pale blue coat." She insists, "Housework's enough for me. I used to feel I had...

Some Assembly Required: Suspending and Extending the Book with Cavafy’s Collections

Constantine Cavafy, who identified as “Hellenic” but lived in Egypt, never published a commercial book. Instead, he circulated hundreds of copies of a dozen different hand-made editions whose assemblage was radically fluid: they utilized multiple bindings, drew together multiple media, experimented with alternative orderings of the poems, and shifted through multiple imprints and revisions within each copy of each edition. This fluidity continued without any aim of final consolidation until Cavafy’s death. Only thirty years later, in the early 1960s, did the philologist George Savidis publish what we now call the complete edition, yet it stands as a false witness to the nature of Cavafy’s own editions. Through a combination of close reading, analytical bibliography, and historical contextualization, the present paper argues that Cavafy’s books functioned not as closed objects but open-ended assemblages, suspending consolidation and extending composition indefinitely. This suspension and extension occurred even as the books circulated. This last point is crucial, for in this way Cavafy’s assemblages subtly invited other agents, such as printers, binders, and readers, to join the process of creation and revision. Their agencies have remained unexplored by Cavafy scholarship, where the figure of the author looms large.

La Librairie de Montaigne: Proceedings of the Tenth Cambridge French Renaissance Colloquium, 1-4 September 2008

Reconstituting the library of Michel de Montaigne has long been a fantasy for those working on the relentlessly referential essayist. This important set of essays comes out of a colloquium marking the gift to Cambridge University Library of the precious collection of books about and belonging to Montaigne that the bibliophile and financier Gilbert de Botton spent years assembling, and which the late Philip Ford was instrumental in securing for Cambridge. It includes editions of Montaigne's Essais owned by Ben Jonson and Rousseau; works by contemporaries of Montaigne; and — sending a frisson down the spine of any Montaigniste — ten works (or possibly nine, depending on your stance on the attribution of an edition of Du Bellay's Les Regrets) that we know belonged to the essayist. These include his annotated copy of Denis Lambin's 1563 Lucretius edition, and copies of editions he is known to have possessed even if his personal copy remains elusive. The longed-for reconstitution of Montaigne's library is today one step closer owing to the groundbreaking ‘Montaigne à l'œuvre’ project (http://www.bvh.univ-tours.fr/Montaigne.asp), which also acknowledges the role played by de Botton's bequest and by the Librairie de Montaigne colloquium in the genesis of a hugely important resource for Montaigne scholars. Philip Ford and Neil Kenny state that the shared thread of the chapters is their investigation of ‘material traces, produced by hand or print, that can be interpreted to yield insights into how Montaigne read, thought, composed’ (p. xvi). The contributions are varied in topic and methodology. They range from enlightening accounts of how important Greek and Italian works were to Montaigne as a reader and writer (Philip Ford, Richard Cooper), to exquisite analysis of the role of a six-line borrowing from Catullus (Emily Butterworth); from Paul Nelles's riveting scrutiny of a bookseller's inventory, which vividly recreates Montaigne the young bibliophile scouring Bordeaux's bookshops, to Philip Desan's use of quantitative analysis to uncover Montaigne's revisions; from André Tournon's persuasive account of how the evidence of Montaigne's annotations on his Lucretius point to an idiosyncratic, shifting, and far from binary reading of this most controversial of texts, to John O'Brien's compelling investigation of the subversive nature of Montaigne's reading of pseudo-Anacreon. The collection is particularly rich for its reflections, implicit and explicit, on methodology. O'Brien uses his account of Montaigne's reading methods to reflect on our own, and to warn against a danger that is especially strong with the Essais: namely that Montaigne scholarship, spoilt by the countless proofs we have of his reading and writing, too easily overlooks potential intertexts that, in the case of any other author, would take pride of place in a study of sources. This is compounded in the cases, such as Montaigne's annotated Lucretius, where material evidence converges with our own tastes, and can lead, as Cooper implies, to the relative neglect of works that might seem to us rebarbative but which were livres de chevet for sixteenth-century readers (p. 44). A further quality of this collection — which warrants an ex libris from any serious Montaigne scholar — is its effort to draw our attention to less-studied aspects of Montaigne's reading, of which Marie-Luce Demonet's account of Montaigne's use of contemporary French vernacular philosophy is a fine illustration.

Digitizing the Fitzgerald Family at the University of South Carolina

Digitizing the Fitzgerald Family at the University of South Carolina

Digitizing the Fitzgerald Family at the University of South Carolina

Copyright © 2014 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA Not everyone finds themselves fresh out of college having one of their biggest dreams realized. However, I was lucky enough to find myself exactly in that position in August 2013 on my first day of work at the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of South Carolina. I came to USC to earn a Master’s degree in library and information science and knew about many of the collections in the university libraries, but I never dreamed that I would be holding a first edition copy of The Great Gatsby in my hands less than a week after I began my program. A lifelong Fitzgerald fan and an English student, this truly was one of the most fulfilling moments of my life. As exciting as that day was for me, I was even more thrilled to discover that my projects during my first semester in graduate school would directly relate to F. Scott Fitzgerald. In this article, I will share my experiences and achievements in digitizing the Fitzgerald family’s photo albums and scrapbooks. The Ernest F. Hollings Library is the newest library facility at the University of South Carolina, opened and dedicated to Senator Ernest “Fritz” Hollings in 2010. A state-of-the-art facility behind the Thomas Cooper Library, it is home to the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, South Carolina Political Collections, and Digital Collections. The Irvin Department is one of four special collections libraries at USC and collects mostly print materials and manuscripts. It houses over 150,000 volumes and fifty archival collections. The University of South Carolina is home to the Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose holdings now rival those at Princeton University for scholars interested in researching Fitzgerald and his contemporaries. The collection was formed by the late Dr. Bruccoli and his wife and grew over the course of five decades of collecting and research. In addition to his scholarly and teaching interest in Fitzgerald and his work as an author, editor, publisher, and collector, Dr. Bruccoli was a friend of Scottie Fitzgerald Smith. Some of the highlights of the collection include unrevised Digitizing the Fitzgerald Family at the University of South Carolina

Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665): diplomat, entrepreneur, privateer, duellist, scientist and philosopher

Kenelm Digby was a man with widely differing interests. He studied at Oxford but left without a degree. At the age of 20, he was involved in a dramatic street brawl in Madrid; the following year saw him as a successful privateer in the Mediterranean and adjacent Atlantic waters, and he was then appointed a naval administrator with lucrative trade monopolies. He practised medicine without formal qualifications and gained notoriety by promoting the use of 'sympathetic' powder for healing wounds. Befriended by King James I and his son who succeeded him, he became chancellor to Queen Henrietta and was knighted by King James I on 21 October 1623 and appointed to the Privy Council. At one time, he even spent a brief time in prison, but he later became a founding member of the Royal Society and published two major philosophical treatises as well as a popular cookbook. He designed and manufactured wine bottles with tapered necks for simpler pouring and square sides for easy stacking. He dabbled in mathematics and corresponded with Fermat of 'Last Theorem' fame. In 1641, he challenged a French nobleman who publicly cast a slur on the British King to a 'digladiation' (a sword duel) and quickly dispatched him. He was a friend and admirer of Sir Thomas Browne whose 'Religio Medici' he helped to publish. The Cowlishaw Library holds a 1659 5th edition copy of this remarkable book, with Digby's name on the spine. Truly, Digby must qualify as a Renaissance man.

Bearing Witness: Jane Addams and the Effective Voice

Several years ago I acquired a bedraggled first edition copy of Jane Addams' Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910). Recently, I dusted it off and reread it after another Chicago community organizer was elected U.S. president. Reading it again reminded me that next year will be the centennial anniversary of Hull-House's publication. And, remembering both events, I was reminded of the importance of bearing witness if justice is to be pursued.

Dr W J A Payne: an appreciation

I first became aware of W J A Payne in the early 1960s, recently arrived in Tanganyika [now Tanzania] to work on what remained of the infamous (and since almost completely misunderstood) Groundnut Scheme. The groundnuts had failed and most farms were being converted to cattle ranches. I was given the job effecting this conversion at the Nachingwea farms in the Southern Province. To assist me in this task the company provided a First Edition copy of “Williamson and Payne”. “An Introduction to Animal Husbandry in the Tropics” was first published, 435 pages in length, in 1959 and was very quickly reprinted in 1960, then in 1963 and again in 1964. Already a seminal work, a Second Edition of 447 pages was published in 1965. I very quickly got my employers in Dar es Salaam to invest 65 shillings (then £3 and 5 shillings or now £3.50p) in this new work. To my subsequent and no doubt eternal regret I binned the First Edition. I have been unable to ascertain how many reprints of the Second Edition there were but a Third Edition published in 1978 was reprinted at least three times up to 1987. The book was now 755 pages in length and the price in the UK was the enormous sum of £38. A Fourth Edition of 881 pages with Bill Payne as the sole author was published 1990 and again the number of reprints is unknown. These four editions were published by Longman but during the 1990s they divested their agricultural interests to Blackwell-Wiley. The latter almost immediately commissioned a Fifth Edition – but in many respects a new book – which was published in 1999 with Payne and Wilson as authors. The Fifth Edition was only 815 pages long but was in a larger format and so contained much more information and has been described as “still the most authoritative and comprehensive book on the development and production of domestic livestock in the tropics”. A Spanish translation with the title “La ganaderia en regiones tropicales” was published by Ed. Blume SA in 1975. In addition to the commercial editions the Educational Low-Priced Books Scheme published the First Edition in 1965, the Second Edition and three reprints between 1968 and 1975, the Third Edition and five reprints between 1978 and 1989 and the Fourth Edition at least two reprints between 1990 and 1994. More than one hundred thousand copies of the “Introduction” have been sold throughout the world. Citations of these works number many hundreds of thousands. Regrettably, at a cover price of £117, the Fifth substantive edition has proved beyond the reach of many private individuals and indeed many institutional buyers. This has not prevented scientists from continuing to cite earlier editions in their own publications. Attempts by authors and publishers of many other countries and nationalities have singularly failed to dent the preTrop Anim Health Prod (2009) 41:995–998 DOI 10.1007/s11250-008-9273-8

The Widow’s Mite and the Value of Praise: Commendatory Verses and an Unrecorded Marginal Poem in LSU’s Copy of The Faerie Qveene 1590

This essay introduces a previously unstudied commendatory poem inscribed in a first edition copy of The Faerie Qveene (London: Ponsonby, 1590). Bound with a copy of 1596, this volume also contains corrections in the same hand that exceed those of the errata slip. Although the available evidence is not sufficient to establish the poem’s authorship, the poem is inscribed in the middle of an important epideictic literary context, the Commendatory Verses and Dedicatory Sonnets. While adopting some conventions of Renaissance praise poetry—allusiveness, aemulatio, treatment of the poet’s Muse and chosen genres—it ignores others. The margin poem, as script poems often do, challenges the literary conventions and values of the printed poems, inviting reconsideration of its commendatory context. This poem takes its cue from the mercantile implications of the final Commendatory Verse, Ignoto’s skeptical “To looke vpon a worke of rare deuise” (CV 7). By means of the familiar parable of the widow’s mite, the handwritten poem inverts Ignoto’s trade-based poetic economy and recalibrates the literary worth of the Commendatory Verses.

Royal-Paper Copies of Aldine Editions, 1494–1550

Royal-Paper Copies of Aldine Editions, 1494–1550 Conor Fahy* (bio) The question of royal-paper copies of Aldine editions, of which the bulk of the surviving copies are printed on smaller paper, first impinged on my consciousness a few years ago, in the course of a collaborative research project on the first edition of Baldassar Castiglione’s Il libro del Cortegiano, a folio printed by the Aldine press between the end of November 1527 and the beginning of April 1528. In a letter sent from Spain in April 1527 to his factor, Cristoforo Tirabosco, Castiglione expressed the wish to have an edition of 1000 copies, for which he did not specify a paper size, plus thirty copies to be printed on the best quality royal paper available in Venice at the time. In a further letter to Tirabosco, written in April 1528, after the publication of the edition, Castiglione again referred to the thirty copies on royal paper, indicating that some at least were intended as presentation copies to important figures, such as the marquis of Mantua, Isabella d’Este and Elisabetta Gonzaga, “quelli più principali”, as he explained.1 Our census of surviving copies of this edition brought to light 147 copies,2 none of which was distinguished by its leaf height, but which were printed on two different paper stocks, 136 on stocks (predominantly anchor paper) which [End Page 85] we know from the evidence of an uncut copy in the library of the Diocesan Seminary, Padua, to be super-chancery, and eleven, all bound and trimmed, on another sort of anchor paper, easily distinguishable from the stocks used in the majority of copies by having no countermark.3 It was tempting to assume that these eleven copies were the survivors of the thirty copies on royal paper ordered by Castiglione, but to have been reduced to their present size all eleven must have undergone a savage trimming over the centuries, reducing the leaf size of an untrimmed royal folio (c.445 × 307 mm) to that of a trimmed super-chancery folio (c.315 × 220 mm). Since the royal-paper copies, or some of them, were destined originally for illustrious personages, it seemed odd that not one of our eleven should have leaf dimensions which indicated that it might have been printed on royal paper. But because of the pressure of other work I put the problem to one side. My interest in the question was rekindled recently by the chance encounter, in the pages of the catalogue of the Aldine collection of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center of the University of Texas at Austin, of an entry relating to the 1536 folio edition of the commentary by the Byzantine philosopher and theologian Eustratius of Nicea on the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle. Alongside a first copy of the edition, for which, in accordance with the general practice of the catalogue, no leaf size was given, the collection also contained a second copy, on “very large paper”, measuring 425 × 270 mm.4 The discovery of a folio edition published by the Aldine press less than ten years after the Cortegiano, containing a copy printed on what seemed like royal paper, led me to reopen the question of the eleven copies of the Cortegiano printed on paper different from that used in the main run. And the first step was clearly that of finding out whether, in the production of the Aldine press, there were other known examples of this usage. In the last fifty years many important studies have been published on the press, particularly for the period from 1494 to 1515, when it was directed by the great Aldus. These studies have given us a much deeper knowledge of the cultural importance of Aldus’s publication programme, of his relations with the international world of scholarship, of the commercial organization of the press, of the various series of types created by and for him, and of the links between [End Page 86] the press and the Venetian art world. But in all this activity there has been a notable absentee—a serious interest in the descriptive bibliography of the Aldine press. One of the obstacles is...

Projet de recensement des exemplaires existants de l'Encyclopédie : le point de l'enquête

Mary-Emilie Crouzet-Guillou: A proposed catalogue of the extant copies of the Encyclopédie. This investigation, part of a comparative study of Enlightenment and Byzantine encyclopædias, has a two-fold purpose: to locate and catalogue all the copies of the different editions of the Encyclopédie and to attempt to discover their individual histories, and thus to study these books as objects. A questionnaire is being distributed, describing the different editions and asking for a bibliographical description of individual copies of these editions. This article constitutes a call for cooperation in setting up an information-gathering network.

Our Book Shelf

WE are not often called upon to notice the fifth edition of a school text-book, but now that we have examined this one and compared it with our familiar third edition copy (issued in 1868) we are glad to be able to say that, though new editions have not appeared with the sensational rapidity of some similar works of late, yet with the steady advance in public favour there has been an evident desire on Mr. Puckle's part to bring up his work to the level of other treatises on the subject. Contrasting the two editions, we find there has been an increase from 343 to 379 pages, and not only has there been careful revision, but also an addition of very many articles of interest. It is to be borne in mind that no attempt is made to bring out a work which shall satisfy the requirements of a University man who is “reading high,” but the writer's aim has throughout been to write a purely elementary treatise on the lines of Dr. Salmon's “Conies.” Mr. Puckle rightly acknowledges his great indebtedness to this now classic work, and on the other hand it should be borne in mind that the first edition came out at a time when Salmon was not openly used as a College text-book at Cambridge. We are very glad to notice that Mr. Puckle has, in this last edition, adopted the notation of the general equation of the second order, according to Salmon. It is quite time that this notation should be adopted in all our text-books, for it is a needless burden upon the memory to get up the several conic formulae under different forms. A useful addition has been made to the number of worked-out exercises. A result of the book's having reached a fifth edition is that we have not noted any errata in the text.