Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia (Volume 56) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813925304 ISBN 13: 9780813925301

Publisher: UVA - Bibliographical Society, 2007

Synopsis

This collection of ten essays, representing work from 2003 and 2004, addresses the ongoing debate about Tanselle's concept of editing without a copy-text, the role of the dust jacket in finding and verifying dealers and documentation, historiographical problems in book history and national histories of the book, approaches to reading book history

About this title

About the Author:

David L. Vander Meulen is Professor of English at the University of Virginia

Review:

"The articles and their authors are: "Tanselle's 'Editing without a Copy-text': Genesis, Issues, Prospects," Richard Bucci, Mark Twain Project; "Dust Jackets, Dealers, and Documentation," G. Thomas Tanselle, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; "Historiographical Problems and Possibilities in Book History and National Histories of the Book," Michael F. Suarez, S.J., Fordham University and Campion Hall, Oxford; "How to Read Book History," David L. Vander Meulen, University of Virginia; "The Bibliographical Description of Italian Printed Music of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," Stanley Boorman, New York University; "New Light on John Hoadly and His 'Poems Set to Music by Dr. Greene,'" H. Diack Johnstone, St. Anne's College, Oxford; "Papermaking in Seventeenth-Century Genoa: The Account of Giovanni Domenico Peri (1651)," Conor Fahy, University of London; "British Paper in the Transitional Period (1794-1830)," B. J. McMullin, Monash University, Australia; "The Dissemination of Shakespeare's Plays circa 1714," Don-John Dugas, Towson University, and Robert D. Hume, Pennsylvania State University; "Cooper and His Collaborators: Recovering Cooper's Final Intentions for His Fiction," Lance Schachterle, Worcester Institute of Technology."

About this edition

• Publisher: UVA - Bibliographical Society
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0813925304
• ISBN 13: 9780813925301
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Vander Meulen David L.