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Bowers, Fredson (Editor) : Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society, University of Virginia. Volume II, 1949-1950

Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1949

One of 1000 copies printed. Original publisher's blue paper wrappers with black lettering on front cover and spine. Deckled edges. 7" x 9 3/4." 213 pages, complete. Excerpt from back Colophon: "Designing, composition and presswork were by the William Byrd Press, Inc. of Richmond, Virginia. The binding was done by L. H. Jenkins, Inc. of Richmond. One thousand copies were printed and bound." Pages are pristine and intact except for slight age toning, slight edge wear, and the occasional small mark. Covers are clean and intact overall but have moderate age toning, a browned spine, several small closed tears and bumping along the edges, and surface chipping or rubbing on fore-edge and spine. Binding is tight. A Very Good copy. The following are the articles in this issue: "The Early Editions and Issues of The Monk, with a Bibliography" by William B. Todd, "The 'Second Issue' of Troilus and Cressida, 1609" by Philip Williams, Jr., "Warburton, Hanmer, and the 1740 Edition of Shakespeare" by Giles E. Dawson, "The Library of Elizabeth's Embezzling Teller" by Leslie Hotson, "Early Binding Stamps of Religious Significance in Certain American Libraries: A Supplementary Report" by Eunice Wead, "The Printing of the Cambridge Press of A Platform of Church Discipline, 1649" by Lawrence G. Starkey, "Fees Paid Authors by Certain American Periodicals, 1840-1850" by J. Albert Robbins, "Melville and the Shakers" by Merton M. Sealts, Jr., "A Bibliographical Study of Parthenissa, by Robert Boyle, Earl of Orrery" by C. William Miller, and "Dryden's Indian Emperour: The Early Editions and their Relation to the Text" by James S. Steck. The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia (UVA) was founded in 1947 as a society that strove to foster interest in books, manuscripts, maps, printing, bibliography, and the like. In its early years, the society was led by one of UVA's faculty members, Fredson Bowers. The Bibliographical Society of UVA published the first volume of its annual journal, Papers of the Bibliographical Society, in 1948. The publication was later named, Studies in Bibliography, beginning with Volume II in 1949. The journal encompassed a diverse range of topics that related to bibliographical study. Notably, Bowers was the journal's editor until his passing in 1991. The Bibliography Society of UVA is still active to this day.. Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Binding: Soft cover

Bowers, Fredson (Editor) : Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society, University of Virginia. Volume Four, 1951-1952

Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1951

One of 1000 copies printed. Original publisher's blue-gray paper-covered boards. Beige paper labels with black lettering tipped in on front cover and spine. Deckled edges. 7" x 10." 237 pages, complete. A few pages of advertisements in the front for bookstores, printers, and similar businesses. Excerpt from back Colophon: "Volume Four of the Society's Papers, Studies in Bibliography, was produced at the University of Virginia Press under the supervision of Robert L. Morris. ... One thousand copies were manufactured." Former owners' tipped-in bookplate and signature on front pastedown. Bookseller's ticket tipped in on back pastedown. Pages are pristine and intact except for minuscule age toning, slight wear to fore-edge, dust on top of text block, and the occasional small mark. Covers are clean and intact overall but have light to moderate age toning on front and back, a browned spine, and some rubbing and scratch marks. Binding is tight. A Very Good copy. The following are the main articles in this issue: "The Text of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet" by G. I. Duthie, "Some Bibliographical Notes on Samuel Daniel's Civil Wars" by James G. McManaway, "Bibliography and the Editorial Problem in the Eighteenth Century" by William B. Todd, "Watermarks Are Twins" by Allan H. Stevenson, "Some Bibliographical Irregularities in the Shakespeare Fourth Folio" by Giles E. Dawson, "Chaucer's Lak of Stedfastnesse" by George B. Pace, "Milton and Machiavelli's Discorsi" by Maurice Kelley, "A Possible New Source for Servius Danielis on Aeneid III-IV" by Arthur Frederick Stocker, and "Early American Power Printing Presses" by Ralph Green". Bibliographica: "The Laying of A Ghost? Observations on the 1483 Ratdolt Edition of the Fasciculus Temporum" by Curt F. Buhler, "Shakespearian Dated Watermarks" by Allan H. Stevenson, "A Supplement to the Bibliography of 'Shakespeare Idolatry'" by Margaret Lee Wiley, "The Second Quarto of A King and No King, 1625" by Berta Sturman, "A Prompt Copy of Dryden's Tyrannic Love" by Henry Hitch Adams, "The Variant Sheets in John Banks's Cyrus the Great, 1696" by Fredson Bowers, "Swift's Verses On The Death of Doctor Swift" by H. Teerink, "Adam Clark's Bibliographical Dictionary, (1802-1806)" by Francesco Cordasco, "The Murray Reprints of George Crabbe: A Publisher's Record" by Franklin P. Batdorf, "The Printer of Harvard's Humble Proposal (1659)" by Bertram C. Cooper and Richard E. Hasker, "Belcher & Armstrong Set Up Shop: 1805" by Rollo G. Silver, "Twenty-eight Additions to the Canon of Lowell's Criticism" by F. De Wolfe Miller, "A Note on Lowell's Bibliography: The Review of Howells' Venetian Life" by James L. Woodress, Jr., "The First Printing of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio" by William L. Phillips, "The Text of T. S. Eliot's 'Gerontion'" by William H. Marshall, "A Selective Check List of Bibliographical Scholarship for 1950, compiled by Rudolf Hirsch and Howel J. Heaney, and "Notes on Contributors." The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia (UVA) was founded in 1947 as a society that strove to foster interest in books, manuscripts, maps, printing, bibliography, and the like. In its early years, the society was led by one of UVA's faculty members, Fredson Bowers. The Bibliographical Society of UVA published the first volume of its annual journal, Papers of the Bibliographical Society, in 1948. The publication was later named, Studies in Bibliography, beginning with Volume II in 1949. The journal encompassed a diverse range of topics that related to bibliographical study. Notably, Bowers was the journal's editor until his passing in 1991. The Bibliography Society of UVA is still active to this day.. Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

Bowers, Fredson (Editor) : Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society, University of Virginia. Volume Six, 1954

Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1953

Original publisher's green paper-covered boards. Beige paper labels with black lettering tipped in on front cover and spine. Deckled edges. 7" x 10." 288 pages, complete. Four additional pages about the Bibliographical Society and Colophon in back. Excerpt from back Colophon: "Volume Six of the Society's Papers, Studies in Bibliography, was designed, composed and printed by the William Byrd Press, Inc., of Richmond, Virginia." Former owner's bookplate tipped in on front pastedown: "Ex Libris, John Ruyle." Pages are pristine and intact except for minuscule age toning, slight wear to fore-edge, dust on top of text block, and the occasional small mark. Covers are clean and intact overall but have light to moderate age toning and offsetting on front and back, slight browning and a few small dampstains on spine, and some rubbing and scratch marks. Binding is tight. A Very Good copy. The following are the Contents in this issue: "English Publishing and the Mass Audience in 1852" by Richard D. Altick, "The 'Private Issues' of The Deserted Village" by William B. Todd, "The Folio Text" of I Henry IV" by Alice Walker, "The Proof-Reading of the First Folio Text of Romeo and Juliet" by Charlton Hinman, "Shakespeare's Text and the Bibliographical Method" by Fredson Bowers, "The Servius of Cassel for Aeneid III-V" by Arthur Frederick Stocker, "The First Edition of The Abbey of the Holy Ghost" by Curt F. Buhler, "The Editions of Robert Greene's A Quip for an Upstart Courtier" by Edwin Haviland Miller, "THe Printing of John Webster's Plays (I)" by John Russell Brown, "A Cavalier Library-1643" by John L. Lievsay and Richard B. Davis, "Notes on the Ballad Market in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century" by Cyprian Blagden, "Chain-Indentations in Paper as Evidence" by Allan Stevenson, "A Handlist of the Writings in Book Form (1902-1953) of Walter de la Mare" by Leonard Clark, "Identification of Contributors to the North American Review under Lowell" by F. DeWolfe Miller, "The British Museum's Copy of a Rare Book from Brescia: A Problem in Dating" D. E. Rhodes, "Deception in Dublin: Problems in Seventeenth-Century Irish Printing" by John Alden, "The Manuscripts of Dryden's The State of Innocence and the Relation of the Harvard MS to the First Quarto" by Marion H. Hamilton, "The Printing of Johnson's Journey (1775)" by William B. Todd, "The Publishing of Meredith 's Rhoda Fleming" by Richard B. Hudson, "Whitman's Manuscripts for the Original 'Calamus" Poems" by Fredson Bowers, "A Selective Check List of Bibliographical Scholarship for 1952" by Rudolf Hirsch and Howell J. Heaney, "Addendum: Type Sizes in the Eighteenth Century" by Philip Gaskell," and "Notes on Contributors." The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia (UVA) was founded in 1947 as a society that strove to foster interest in books, manuscripts, maps, printing, bibliography, and the like. In its early years, the society was led by one of UVA's faculty members, Fredson Bowers. The Bibliographical Society of UVA published the first volume of its annual journal, Papers of the Bibliographical Society, in 1948. The publication was later named, Studies in Bibliography, beginning with Volume II in 1949. The journal encompassed a diverse range of topics that related to bibliographical study. Notably, Bowers was the journal's editor until his passing in 1991. The Bibliography Society of UVA is still active to this day.. Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

Bowers, Fredson (Editor) : Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society, University of Virginia. Volume Seven, 1955

Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1955

Original publisher's dark blue cloth binding. Beige paper labels with black lettering tipped in on front cover and spine. Deckled edges. 7" x 10." 240 pages, complete. A few black-and-white illustrations, complete. Three additional pages about the Bibliographical Society and Colophon in back. Excerpt from back Colophon: "Volume Seven of the Society's Papers, Studies in Bibliography, was designed, composed and printed by the William Byrd Press, Inc., of Richmond, Virginia." Pages are pristine and intact except for minuscule age toning, slight wear to fore-edge, dust on top of text block, and the occasional small mark. Covers are very clean and intact except for slight rubbing and a few scratch marks to front and back, bumped corners, and wrinkling and a few small dampstains to spine label. Binding is tight. A Very Good copy. The following are the Contents in this issue: "Compositor Determination and Other Problems in Shakespearian Texts" by Alice Walker, "The Compositors of Hamlet Q2 and The Merchant of Venice" by John Russell Brown, "The Printing of Hamlet Q2" by Fredson Bowers, "Collateral Substantive Text (With Special Reference to Hamlet)" by Alice Walker, "The Relation between the Second Quarto and the Folio Text of Hamlet" by Harold Jenkins, "Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: THe Case for Authorial Revision" by Vinton A. Dearing, "Quadruple Imposition: An Account of Goldsmith's Traveller" by William B. Todd, "Parisian Panel Stamps between 1480 and 1530" by Ernst Kyriss (illustrated), "A London Ornament Stock: 1598-1683" by C. William Miller (illustrated), "The Text of Peele's Edward I" by Dora Jean Ashe, "The Two Compositors in the First Quarto of Peele's Edward I" by Frank S. Hook, "The Printing of a Valerius Maximus Dated 1671" by Curt F. Buhler, "The Precedence of the 1676 Editions of Milton's Literae Pseudo-Senatus Anglicani" by Bruce Harkness, "The Missing Term Catalogue" by Cyprian Blagden, "The Circulation of Some London Newspapers 1806-1811: Two Documents" by Robert L. Haig, "The Booksellers' 'Ring' at Strawberrry Hill in 1842" by A. T. Hazen, "Matthew Arnold and Percy William Bunting: Some New Letters 1884-1887" by Robert Liddell Lowe, "The First Book Printed at Bari" by Dennis E. Rhodes, "Abstracts from the Wills and Estates of Boston Printers, 1800-1825" by Rollo G. Silver, "A Selective Check List of Bibliographical Scholarship for 1953" by Rudolf Hirsch and Howell J. Heaney, "Addendum: 'Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift' Again" by H. Teerink, "Addendum: The 'Private Issues' of The Deserted Village" by William B. Todd, and "Notes on Contributors." The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia (UVA) was founded in 1947 as a society that strove to foster interest in books, manuscripts, maps, printing, bibliography, and the like. In its early years, the society was led by one of UVA's faculty members, Fredson Bowers. The Bibliographical Society of UVA published the first volume of its annual journal, Papers of the Bibliographical Society, in 1948. The publication was later named, Studies in Bibliography, beginning with Volume II in 1949. The journal encompassed a diverse range of topics that related to bibliographical study. Notably, Bowers was the journal's editor until his passing in 1991. The Bibliography Society of UVA is still active to this day.. Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

Bowers, Fredson (Editor) : Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society, University of Virginia. Volume Eight, 1956

Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1956

Original publisher's light brown cloth binding. Beige paper labels with black lettering tipped in on front cover and spine. Deckled edges. 7" x 10." 275 pages, complete. A few black-and-white illustrations, complete. Excerpt from back Colophon: "Volume Eight of the Society's Papers, Studies in Bibliography, was designed, composed and printed by the William Byrd Press, Inc., of Richmond, Virginia." Former owner's bookplate tipped in on front pastedown: "Ex Libris, John Ruyle." Pages are pristine and intact except for minuscule age toning, slight wear to fore-edge, dust on top of text block, and the occasional small mark. Covers are very clean and intact except for slight rubbing to front and back, a browned spine, and slight wear to corners, bottom edge, and head and tail of spine. Binding is tight. A Very Good, almost Near Fine copy. The following are the Contents in this issue: "New Approaches to Textual Problems in Shakespeare" by Philip Williams, Jr., "Editorial Problems in Shakespeare: Semi-Popular Editions" by Arthur Brown, "Roberts' Compositors in Titus Andronicus Q2" by Paul L. Cantrell and George Walton Williams, "The Textual Relation of Q2 to Q1 Hamlet (I)" by Fredson Bowers, "Quarto Copy for Folio Henry V" by Andrew S. Cairncross, "Some Editorial Principles (with special reference to Henry V)" by Alice Walker, "The Printing of John Webster's Plays (II)" by John Russell Brown, "The Shares of Fletcher and his Collaborators in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon (I)" by Cyrus Hoy, "A Printer's Manuscript of 1508 (illustrated)" by William H. Bond, "New Light on the King's Printing Office 1680-1730" by Robert L. Haig, "Simms's First Magazine: The Album" by John C. Guilds, Jr., "A Checklist of the Writings of John William De Forest (1826-1906)" by E. R. Hagemann, "Notes on the Unrevised Galleys of Faulkner's Sanctuary" by Linton Massey, "Variants in the 1479 Oxford Edition of Aristotle's Ethics" by Dennis E. Rhodes, "A Volume from the Library of Sebald Pirckheimer" by Curt F. Buhler, "John Stow's Editions of Skelton's Workes and of Certaine Worthye Manuscript Poems" by William Ringler, "William Barley: Elizabethan Printer and Bookseller," by John L. Lievsay, "In Re George Sandys' Ovid" by Richard Beale Davis, "Patterns in Press Figures: A Study of Lyttelton's Dialogues of the Dead" by William B. Todd, "Hawthorne's Income from The Token" by Seymour L. Gross, "John Esten Cooke on Publishing, 1865" by Irby B. Cauthen, "Walt Whitman's Correspondence with Whitelaw Reid, Editor of the New York Tribune" by Edwin H. Miller, "A Selective Check List of Bibliographical Scholarship for 1954" by Rudolf Hirsch and Howell J. Heaney, "Addendum: The Printing of Hamlet Q2" by Fredson Bowers, "Addendum: A Check-List of Walter de la Mare" by Leonard S. Clark, "Notes on Contributors," and "Announcements." The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia (UVA) was founded in 1947 as a society that strove to foster interest in books, manuscripts, maps, printing, bibliography, and the like. In its early years, the society was led by one of UVA's faculty members, Fredson Bowers. The Bibliographical Society of UVA published the first volume of its annual journal, Papers of the Bibliographical Society, in 1948. The publication was later named, Studies in Bibliography, beginning with Volume II in 1949. The journal encompassed a diverse range of topics that related to bibliographical study. Notably, Bowers was the journal's editor until his passing in 1991. The Bibliography Society of UVA is still active to this day.. Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

Bowers, Fredson (Editor) : Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society, University of Virginia. Volume Nine, 1957

Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1957

One of 1000 copies printed. Original publisher's red cloth binding. Beige paper labels with black lettering tipped in on front cover and spine. Deckled edges. 7" x 10." 273 pages, complete. Excerpt from back Colophon: "Volume Nine of the Society's Papers, Studies in Bibliography, was produced at the University of Virginia Press. ... One thousand copies were manufactured on Strathmore Pastelle text stock." Former owner's signature in black ink on front pastedown. Pages are pristine and intact except for minuscule age toning, slight wear to fore-edge, dust on top of text block, and the occasional small mark. Covers are very clean and intact except for some sunning (faded to brown) on spine and parts of the front and back. Binding is tight. A Very Good copy. The following are the Contents in this issue: "The Prentice Hand in the Tragedies of the Shakespeare First Folio: Compositor E" by Charlton Hinman, "Notes on the Text of T. S. Eliot: Variants from Russell Square" by Robert L. Beare, "Some Textual Problems in Yeats" by Russell K. Alspach, "The Accounts of the Wardens of the Stationers' Company" by Cyprian Blagden, "Principles of Annotations: Some Suggestions for Editors of Shakespeare" by Alice Walker, "The Printing of the Second Quarto of Romeo and Juliet (1599)" by Paul L. Cantrell and George Walton Williams, "Quarto Copy for Q2 Romeo and Juliet" by Richard Hosley, "The Shares of Fletcher and his Collaborators in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon (II)" by Cyrus Hoy, "An Initiation into Initials" by Franklin B. Williams, Jr., "Notes on Keats's Letters" by Hyder E. Rollins, "Colburn-Bentley and the March of Intellect" by Royal A. Gettmann, "Twenty-fours with Three Signatures" by Kenneth Povey, "Watermarks and the Dates of Fifteenth-Century Books" by Curt F. Buhler, "New Texts of John Donne" by C. F. Main, "Lord Hailes's Contributions to Contemporary Magazines" by Robert Hay Carnie, "The Early Editions and Issues of Scott's Border Antiquities" by William B. Todd, "A Description of Carolana (1722-1741)" by Robert K. Turner, "British Authorship of Ballads in the Isaiah Thomas Collection" by Thomas L. Philbrick, "The Manuscript of Page's 'Marse Chan'" by John R. Roberson, "A Collation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise" by Matthew J. Bruccoli, "Errata to J. C. Guilds, Jr., Simms's First Magazine: The Album, S.B., vol. VIII," "Notes on Contributors," and "Details of the Society's Activities." The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia (UVA) was founded in 1947 as a society that strove to foster interest in books, manuscripts, maps, printing, bibliography, and the like. In its early years, the society was led by one of UVA's faculty members, Fredson Bowers. The Bibliographical Society of UVA published the first volume of its annual journal, Papers of the Bibliographical Society, in 1948. The publication was later named, Studies in Bibliography, beginning with Volume II in 1949. The journal encompassed a diverse range of topics that related to bibliographical study. Notably, Bowers was the journal's editor until his passing in 1991. The Bibliography Society of UVA is still active to this day.. Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

Bowers, Fredson (Editor) : Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society, University of Virginia. Decennial Extra Volume, Volume Ten, 1957

Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1957

Original publisher's medium blue cloth binding. Beige paper labels with black lettering tipped in on front cover and spine. Deckled edges. 7" x 10." 192 pages, complete. Pages are pristine and intact except for minuscule age toning, slight wear to fore-edge, dust on top of text block, and the occasional small mark. Covers are pristine and intact except for browning to the spine and a few bumps to corners, fore-edge of front cover, and head and tail of spine. Biinding is tight. A Near Fine copy. This issue contains a compilation of the bibliographical checklists of the journal's annual department, "A Selective Checklist of Bibliographical Scholarship," from the years 1949-1954. Index in back. Excerpt from the Preface: "To make the seven check lists in this volume of more service to the user, an index was prepared ...." The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia (UVA) was founded in 1947 as a society that strove to foster interest in books, manuscripts, maps, printing, bibliography, and the like. In its early years, the society was led by one of UVA's faculty members, Fredson Bowers. The Bibliographical Society of UVA published the first volume of its annual journal, Papers of the Bibliographical Society, in 1948. The publication was later named, Studies in Bibliography, beginning with Volume II in 1949. The journal encompassed a diverse range of topics that related to bibliographical study. Notably, Bowers was the journal's editor until his passing in 1991. The Bibliography Society of UVA is still active to this day.. Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Near Fine (Near Fine). Binding: Hardcover

Bowers, Fredson (Editor) : Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society, University of Virginia. Volume Eleven, 1958

Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1958

One of 1000 copies printed. Original publisher's green cloth binding. Beige paper labels with black lettering tipped in on front cover and spine. Deckled edges. 7" x 10." 297 pages, complete. Excerpt from back Colophon: "Volume Eleven of the Society's Papers, Studies in Bibliography, was produced at the University of Virginia Press. ... One thousand copies were manufactured on Strathmore Pastelle text stock." Former owner's signature in blue ink on front pastedown. Pages are pristine and intact except for minuscule age toning, slight wear to fore-edge, dust on top of text block, and the occasional small mark. Covers are very clean and intact except for minuscule wear to extremities and some browning on front, back, and spine. Binding is tight. A Very Good, almost Near Fine copy. The following are the Contents in this issue: "From Aldine to Everyman: Cheap Reprint Series of the English Classics 1830-1906" by Richard D. Altick, "Editing the Letters of Letter-Writers" by Robert Halsband, "Setting by Formes in Quarto Printing" by George Walton Williams, "On the First Folio Text of Henry VIII" by R. A. Foakes, "Printer's Copy for The Two Noble Kinsmen" by Frederick O. Waller, "The Shares of Fletcher and his Collaborators in the Beaumont and Canon (III)" by Cyrus Hoy, "The Distribution of Almanacks in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century" by Cyprian Blagden, "The Dramatic Piracies of 1661: A Comparative Analysis" by Johan Gerritsen, "The First Editions of The Good Natur'd Man and She Stoops to Conquer" by William B. Todd, "Unrecorded Coleridge Variants" by David V. Erdman, "Financing the Publication of Early New England Sermons" by Rollo G. Silver, "Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia Type" by C. William Miller, "Nathanael West: A Bibliography" by William White, "The Second Edition of the Compagnia del Mantellaccio" by Curt F. Buhler, "The First Book Printed at Bari: Additional Notes" by Dennis E. Rhodes, "A Proof-Sheet from Nicholas Okes' Printing-Shop" by John Russell Brown, "The Printing of Sir George Croke's Reports" by Lois Spencer, "Deception Compounded: Further Problems in Seventeeth-Century Irish Printing" by John Alden, "John Newbery, Projector of the Universal Chronicle: A Study of the Advertisement" by Gwin J. Kolb, "Dr. Johnson and the Public Ledger: A Small Additional to the Canon" by Gwin J. Kolb, "The First Edition of Goldsmith's Bee, No. 1" by Arthur Friedman, "Prologue to Copyright in America: 1772" by Rollo G. Silver, "Textual Variants in Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt" by Matthew J. Bruccoli, "A Selective Check List of Bibliographical Scholarship for 1956" by Rudolf Hirsch and Howell J. Heaney, and "Notes on Contributors." The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia (UVA) was founded in 1947 as a society that strove to foster interest in books, manuscripts, maps, printing, bibliography, and the like. In its early years, the society was led by one of UVA's faculty members, Fredson Bowers. The Bibliographical Society of UVA published the first volume of its annual journal, Papers of the Bibliographical Society, in 1948. The publication was later named, Studies in Bibliography, beginning with Volume II in 1949. The journal encompassed a diverse range of topics that related to bibliographical study. Notably, Bowers was the journal's editor until his passing in 1991. The Bibliography Society of UVA is still active to this day.. Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

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