tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26934471953048022042024-03-13T11:41:29.448-04:00Biblio ResearchingJerry Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12692297896214444738noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693447195304802204.post-506387099579609632018-06-27T09:18:00.000-04:002018-06-27T14:13:46.073-04:00The Demise of Lindmark's Book Shop, Poughkeepsie, New York<br />
I am an inquisitive book collector, always looking to find anything and everything about a copy of a book I own, right down to who sold it or who formerly owned it. Take my copy of <i>Trivia</i> by Logan Pearsall Smith, No. 82 of 100 copies printed in a deluxe edition by Doubleday, Page & Company in 1917. <br />
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No former owners signed their names in this book. But a bookseller in Poughkeepsie, New York branded the book with his blindstamp not once but twice.<br />
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<i>Here's an historic postcard of the bookstore: </i><br />
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“Lindmark's Books,” Main & Market: Sights and Sounds of the Queen City and Beyond, accessed June 17, 2018, http://mainandmarket.poklib.org/items/show/4100
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Researching further, I learned that John R. Lindmark was the name of the proprietor of the bookstore. And when I googled his name I came across a preview of a book which mentioned him and a book burning that took place in Poughkeepsie, New York in April 1963.<br />
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According to the article, John R. Lindmark's bookstore was in the path of a bypass for the Albany Post Road in Poughkeepsie that the New York Department of Transportation needed to tear down in order to build the bypass. Lindmark was offered $22,000 for the building in 1961, but he refused to move. He said it would take $200,000 to find a new location, build shelves, and move 131,000 books worth more than $3 million. Lindmark noted that the State Legislature had given Governor Rockefeller himself $175,000 "to cover the cost of a new building, moving, and replacement of book stacks." Two local colleges offered to store Lindmark's books, and the City Board of Education offered to store the books in its schools. Housewives and students even offered to transport the books. But Lindmark refused all help, demanding that the State needed to pay for the entire cost of his relocation. But the courts did not agree with him.<br />
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In April 1963, the State directed the Dutchess County Sheriff to evict Lindmark and his 131,000 books. The books were literally stacked on the sidewalk in front of the building. Soon people began to take what books they wanted, leaving the remainder of books on the sidewalk in disrepair. The TV and papers picked up the story––<i>Pravda</i> even carried the story in Russia with the headline, "Only in America."<br />
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Then the rains came, and the city transported fifty tons of once rare books to the incinerator to be burned.<br />
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I ordered a copy of the book, <i>Hidden History of the Mid-Hudson Valley: Stories from the Albany Post Road</i>, just so I'd have a history of the fate of Lindmark's Book Shop. And I placed it next to my <i>copy of Trivia </i>that Lindmark sold years ago.<br />
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<i> But there is more to the story than what was detailed in the book! Way more! </i><br />
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<i> I subscribe to newspaperarchive.com, so I started to read some of the articles about the fate of Lindmark's Book Shop. I found newspaper articles from Texas to Iowa covering the eviction and the destruction of the books. Here's a few:</i><br />
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<i>I then went back to the beginning in 1961 when Lindmark received a court order to vacate the building. And in the Dec 7, 1961 issue of the Oswego Palladium-Times</i>, I read this article:<br />
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<i>What caught my eye were the two differences from the 1963 newspaper articles. Instead of 131,000 books, there were 800,000 books. And </i><br />
<i>the article reported that the State paid Lindmark $16,500 for the property, and not the $22,000 that was originally reported. </i><br />
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<i>Something else happened to Lindmark's Book Shop in 1963. Something awful. On January 16, 1963, at 2 am in the morning, someone tried to burn down Lindmark's Book Shop!</i><br />
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Two of the four articles mention Lindmark's upcoming eviction, but do not draw any conclusions as to whether the fire was related to Lindmark's refusal to move. The fire was the third fire in five days within a half-mile radius of the three-story bookstore. The cause of all three fires was suspicious in origin. And the fire chief warned that an arsonist was on the loose. The fire chief reported that the roof of Lindmark's Book Shop had caved in, and the main building was completely destroyed. An annex attached to the building, however, escaped the flames but suffered some water damage. 131,000 books worth close to $1 million went up in flames or were water logged beyond repair, including manuscripts and first editions of Ernest Hemingway and Mark Twain as well as books autographed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Even worse, Lindmark did not carry insurance for his books!<br />
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No one knows for sure exactly how many books remained in the bookstore after the fire in January 1963. I do believe Lindmark had more than 131,000 books remaining after the fire. Some of them were taken by "looters" right off of the sidewalk in April 1963. And fifty tons of books––or what was left of them––were sent to the incinerator to be burned. <br />
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<br />Jerry Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12692297896214444738noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693447195304802204.post-81580763616683240972017-09-27T11:39:00.000-04:002018-12-02T09:19:42.324-05:00Researching the Provenance of The Autograph Manuscript of Dream Children; A Reverie<br />
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There are many lovers of Charles Lamb who consider "Dream Children; a Reverie" to be his best essay.<i> </i>It first appeared in print in the January 1822 issue of <i>The London Magazine</i>.<br />
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It next appeared in the 1823 first edition of Lamb's <i>Elia</i> essays under the title,<i> Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in the London Magazine.</i> <br />
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Where the manuscript of "Dream Children" went after Charles Lamb's death is unknown, at least to me. Lamb may have given the manuscript of "Dream Children" away before he died. In his book, <i>John Forster: A Literary Life,</i> published in 1983, James A. Davies wrote that Charles Lamb "once sent Forster a collection of Elia manuscripts (25)." But Davies does not identify which manuscripts Lamb sent to Forster. Moreover, Edward Moxon presented at least one other manuscript to Francis John Ford who worked with Lamb at India House.<br />
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The first record of the history of ownership of the autograph manuscript of "Dream Children" that I could find doesn't appear until 1892. It is listed as Lot number 805 in the Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge auction of the library of Edwin Henry Lawrence.<br />
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Edwin Henry Lawrence (1819-1891) was a London stockbroker who collected antiquities, autograph letters, and manuscripts. How he acquired the autograph manuscript of "Dream Children" is unclear. He was the great nephew of the Sir Thomas Lawrence, the English portrait painter whom Lamb mentions in his essay "Cupid's Revenge."
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...<i>Something of St. James's air in these my new friends. How my prospects shift and brighten! Now if Sir Thomas Lawrence be anywhere in that group his fortune is made for ever. I think I see some one taking out a crayon...."</i></blockquote>
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Stuart M. Samuel (1856-1926), a British banker and a member of Parliament, who bought manuscripts solely for investment purposes,was the buyer of Lot 805, purchasing the autograph manuscript of "Dream Children" for £57.<br />
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The manuscript was listed as lot number 97 in the sale of his library in 1907.<br />
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A. Lionel Isaacs, a bookseller from Pall Mall was the purchaser of lot number 97. He acquired the autograph manuscript of "Dream Children" for £108. He may have listed the manuscript in the catalogue below in the summer of 1907.<br />
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Harry B. Smith may have read the catalogue, or he may have visited Isaacs's bookstore when he went to London in 1909. At any rate, Isaacs sold the autograph manuscript of "Dream Children" to Harry B. Smith for £225. In his book, <i>First Nights and First Editions,</i> Smith revealed that purchasing the autograph manuscript of "Dream Children" was the only time he paid more than a thousand dollars for a book or an autograph.<br />
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A few years later, the millionaires started buying books at auction. And books that used to cost Smith a few dollars to buy now cost thousands. Believing he could no longer afford to add to his collection, Smith compiled a catalogue of his library and the DeVinne Press privately printed it for him in 1914.<br />
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Here is Smith's listing of "Dream Children, the Original Manuscript:"<br />
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One of the bibliophiles who praised Smith's catalogue was the bookseller A. S. W. Rosenbach. In their biography of Rosenbach, Edwin Wolf 2nd and John F. Fleming revealed that Rosenbach bought the bulk of Smith's Sentimental Library for $79,000, money which he borrowed from his friend William M Elkins.<br />
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A. Edward Newton was one of the first bibliophiles to make a considerable purchase of Smith's Sentimental Library. Wolf and Fleming report that he bought ten items for less than $5,000, but they do not identify the titles of the purchases or the date they were purchased. In his book, <i>End Papers,</i> published in 1933, Newton reveals that he bought the autograph manuscript of "Dream Children" on the day the Germans sank the Lusitania (May 7,1915), but he does not say how much he paid for it.<br />
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Inserted in a pocket in the rear of the limited edition of <i>End Papers </i>was a facsimile of the autograph manuscript of <i>"Dream Children."</i><br />
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Newton first mentioned his ownership of the manuscript of "Dream Children" in his 1921 book, The Amenities of Book-Collecting, calling the manuscript "my most cherished literary possession (131)."<br />
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Newton expounded about his Sentimental Library purchases in his lectures as Rosenbach Fellow in Bibliography, lectures published in 1936 under the title,<i> Bibliography and pseudo-Bibliography</i>:<br />
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<i>The whole Sentimental Library passed one day into the temporary keeping of Dr. Rosenbach and was placed on sale by him the day the Lusitania sank during the Great War. The fact that we were all scared to death that day prevented my buying as much as I should have done, but some of the most interesting books in my library are 'Sentimental' items (72).</i></blockquote>
Later in his lectures Newton quotes Harry B. Smith concerning the whereabouts and value of the manuscript:<br />
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To which Newton adds, "<i>He would indeed, Mr. Smith very low (102)</i>."<br />
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A. Edward Newton passed away on Sep 29, 1940. His son Swift Newton put his father's library up for auction the following year. <br />
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On Thursday evening, May 15, 1941, the autograph manuscript of "Dream Children," lot number 583, sold for $7500, which was considerably less than what Newton believed the item was worth.<br />
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The William Blake collector, Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, was the new owner of the manuscript of "Dream Children".<br />
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The autograph manuscript next appears at a country auction in Portsmouth, New Hampshire sixty-four years later on Saturday, May 21, 2005. The manuscript may have stayed in the Thorne family until that date.<br />
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Bromer Booksellers of Boston was the winning bidder of Lot number 640, autograph manuscript of "Dream Children." Bromer Booksellers listed the manuscript for $85,000 in Catalogue 127: An Extraordinary Gathering:<br />
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The autograph manuscript of "Dream Children" is currently in the library of a private collector who wishes to remain anonymous..... If it were me, I would tell the world!<br />
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Thanks go to Meghan Constantinou, Librarian, Grolier Club, and Sophia Dahab, Assistant Librarian, Grolier Club for providing the images of the Grolier Club copies of the 1892 and 1907 Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge auction catalogues. <br />
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I wrote a second blog post about Lamb this month: <a href="http://blog.mysentimentallibrary.com/2017/09/passages-from-lambians-in-my-library.html">Passages From Lambians in My Library, Large and Small</a>.<br />
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<br />Jerry Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12692297896214444738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693447195304802204.post-75042944637587455382017-01-25T12:18:00.003-05:002020-12-19T13:36:29.375-05:00Notes and Queries Regarding the Authorship of O FOR A BOOKE <blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>O for a Booke and a shadie nooke,<br />
eyther in-a-doore or out ;<br />
With the greene leaves whisp'ring overhede,<br />
or the Streete cryes all about.<br />Where I maie Reade all at my ease,<br />
both of the Newe and Olde ;<br />
For a jolie goode Booke whereon to looke,<br />
is better to me than Golde.
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I came upon this poem earlier<i> </i>this month while compiling My Sentimental Library blog post about my Austin Dobson Collection<i>. </i> Austin Dobson (1840-1921) included the poem in his 1917 book,<i style="font-style: italic;"> A Bookman's Budget. </i> Researching the poem's authorship led me astray for more than a day! <br />
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Austin Dobson attributed the poem to the bookseller John Wilson, who died in 1889. Dobson said he repeated his story in print more than once prior to 1917. Here is his article in the Feb 12, 1898 issue of <i>The Academy:</i><br />
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And the April 21, 1900 issue of the New York weekly <i>The Outlook, </i>noted in its own "Notes And Queries" section, that Dobson had previously attributed the poem to Wilson in the London <i>Athenaeum.</i><br />
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In <i>A Bookman's Budget, </i>Austin Dobson noted that "as far as I know," the poem made its first appearance in Alexander Ireland's <i>Book-Lover's Enchiridion</i> in 1883.<br />
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But the poem, in fact, appeared twenty years earlier in<i> </i>the Oct 10, 1863 issues of <i>the British periodical, Notes And Queries. </i>It was<i> </i>in a "Quotations Wanted" query by "ABHBA."<br />
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Rev. Beaver Henry Blacker (1821-1890), using the initials ABHBA, was a familiar contributor to <i>Notes And Queries </i>from 1853 to 1890. At the time of his query in 1863, Blackwell was assigned to a vicarage in Dublin, Ireland. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, Blacker was a a historian as well as priest, and wrote 60 articles for the <i>Dictionary of National Biography </i>under the initials of BHB. He later became editor of the <i>Gloucestershire Notes And Queries. </i>His Oct 1863 query in the London <i>Notes And Queries</i>, however, is his only recorded entry I could find regarding the authorship of <i>O FOR A BOOKE.</i><br />
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Queries regarding the authorship of O FOR A BOOKE appeared in numerous other periodicals after its publication in <i>The Book-Lover's Enchiridion</i> in 1883. But the poem's next appearance in <i>Notes And Queries </i>was in the Dec 19, 1891 issue:<br />
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P. J. A. is Peter John Anderson (1853-1926), a noted philatelist who became Librarian of the University of Aberdeen in 1894. He was a contributor to the D. N. B. as well, under the initials P. J. A. And the query above is the only recorded entry of his I found regarding <i>O FOR A BOOKE.</i><br />
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In the Jan 30, 1892 issue of <i>Notes And Queries</i>, Jonathan Bouchier, grandson of the American loyalist, Jonathan Bouchier, questioned whether the lines were as old as they were thought to be:<i> </i><br />
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<i> </i>In the Mar 12, 1892 issue, Rev. Edward Marshall (1815-1899), another frequent contributor to <i>Notes And Queries, </i>suggested that the source of the poem may well be a quotation attributed to Thomas A. Kempis:<br />
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Translation: "I have sought everywhere for peace, but I have found it not save in nooks and in books."<br />
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The mention of nooks and books is the only commonality between the Kempis quotation and O FOR A BOOKE. <br />
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On a sidenote, there was another poem published in <i>The Book-Lover's Enchiridion </i>that also mentioned a nook and a book, although the poem itself was shortened by four lines. And that is the poem, "<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=TSkkAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&dq=%22a+nook+and+a+book%22+%22a+birth+song%22&source=bl&ots=JVYCj1o3fq&sig=pWfL74LF0FZwQ8ZO2qOlRfgyauQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ5czPyNnRAhVKwiYKHQmzAHcQ6AEIGjAA#v=onepage&q&f=false">A NOOK AND A BOOK</a>," from William Freeland's 1882 book, <i>A Birth Song And Other Poems." </i><br />
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In the Feb 22, 1908 issue of <i>Notes And Queries, </i>Charles Christopher Bell, a British Folklore specialist, asked when O FOR A BOOKE was published:<br />
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In the Mar 7, 1908 issue of <i>Notes And Queries, </i><i>Austin Dobson responded to Bell's post</i>, and used the opportunity to reiterate that the bookseller, John Wilson, was the author of O FOR A BOOKE. But people still wanted to believe that O FOR A BOOKE was an old English song. <br />
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Bells' post also attracted the attention of two other readers, and their responses followed Dobson's remarks.<br />
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The printing firm of Mitchell, Hughes & Clarke attest that they too saw the lines to O FOR A BOOKE in an old book twenty years ago (late 1880s).<br />
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William Jaggard (1868-1947), a Stratford bookseller and noted Shakespearean bibliographer, referred to an earlier post of his about O FOR A BOOKE in <i>Notes And Queries </i>of Sept 16, 1905 (10 S. iv. 229).<br />
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The volume of early English poems and ballads that Jaggard alleged was the source of O FOR A BOOKE was the "old book" referred to by Dobson in <i>A Bookman's Budget</i> "that has never been forthcoming."<br />
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Jaggard cited the earlier appearances of O FOR A BOOKE in <i>Notes And Queries</i>, particularly the 1863 article (3S iv 288), to substantiate his claim that the poem came from an old book he had seen, and also to disparage Dobson's claim that the poem was published in one of John Wilson's bookseller catalogue.<br />
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The British Museum, however, provided relevant biographical details about John Wilson, noting that Wilson had acquired the business of F. G. Tomlins "c1862."<br />
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John Wilson, as you will later see, was printing bookseller catalogues more than a year before the 1863 <i>Notes And Queries </i>article containing O FOR A BOOKE was printed.<br />
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John Wilson died on Aug 30, 1889 at the age of 70. Unfortunately, his obituary, published in the Oct 9, 1889 issue of <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=WXNUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA991&lpg=PA991&dq=%22john+wilson%22+1889+bookseller+%22great+russell+street%22&source=bl&ots=9gM1t6Un6q&sig=mV5l-AITIo8D8384bNLmmVs9WuM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiYkOm0s9bRAhUBSiYKHVR5ATsQ6AEIHDAB#v=onepage&q=%22john%20wilson%22%201889%20bookseller%20%22great%20russell%20street%22&f=false"><i>The Bookseller </i></a>provides no information to help resolve the authorship question.<br />
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Christopher Morley attempted to help the cause. In Notes and Queries in Sep 1919 (12 S V 237), he asked if anyone could find a copy of one of John Wilson's catalogues containing the poem: <br />
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The next month, Oscar Berry, of the accounting firm of Oscar Berry and Co., responded to Morley's query, and questioned Dobson's assertion that John Wilson was the author of the poem. Berry surmised that if Wilson was the author, Alexander Ireland would have heard about it and chronologically placed the poem in a later part of the book:<br />
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My copy of <i>The Book-Lover's Enchiridion</i> is dated 1890, and is a reprint of the 1888 5th edition. O FOR A BOOKE was still listed in chronological order with other pieces from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.<br />
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Both Dobson and Jaggard posted notes on the authorship of O FOR A BOOKE to <i>Notes And Queries</i> in November 1919. <br />
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Jaggard embellished his previous story adding that his friend Thomas Simmons said that he also had obtained the verse from an Elizabethan book he had purchased. Jaggard never publicly followed up on his claims regarding the authorship of the poem––at least not in <i>Notes And Queries.</i> But I researched further and discovered that the poem most likely appeared in at least one of John Wilson's early bookseller catalogues.<br />
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One of John Wilson's bookseller catalogues was advertised in the May 3, 1862 issue of <i>The Saturday Review:</i><br />
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To date, no copy of one of John Wilson's bookseller catalogues containing the poem O FOR A BOOKE has appeared. And the authorship question of O FOR A BOOKE down through the years has never been fully resolved. In fact, as you will see, the attribution of the poem has gotten worse!<br />
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In Sir John Lubbock's <i>The Pleasure of Life </i>1893)<i>, </i>the poem is referred to as an Old English Song.<br />
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There is no attribution given in Eugene Field's <i>The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac </i>(1899), leading some readers to believe that Eugene Field was the author.<br />
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The 1904 third edition of <i>Thoughts For Book Lovers </i>referred to the old attribution of the poem: an Old English Song.<br />
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<i>The 1912 edition of Cassell's Book of Quotations referred</i> to the poem as "probably modern," but did not cite John Wilson as the author.<br />
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<i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations </i>attributed the poem to John Wilson in its 1923 edition and cited the Nov 1919 <i>Notes And Queries </i>article for discussion of the poem's authorship.<br />
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In <i>The Book About Books: The Anatomy of Bibliomania, first published in 1950, and reprinted in 1981, </i>Holbrook Jackson cites John Wilson as the author of the poem.<br />
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By the late 1960s, however, O FOR A BOOKE had seen its last light of day in many reference books. It is not listed in <i>The Oxford Book of English Verse </i>(1972), the<i> Dictionary of Quotations </i>(1978)<i>, The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations </i>(1999), or <i>Bartlett's Familiar Quotations </i>(2012).<br />
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O FOR A BOOKE is still listed on a number of websites, but the attribution is atrocious!<br />
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<a href="http://www.quotes.net/quote/21740">Quotes.net</a> modernized the spelling of the poem, which is fine. But it attributed the poem to a John Skinner Wilson (1849-1926) who was an Anglican priest! <br />
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<a href="http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/32212.html">The Quotations Page</a> isn't any better. It attributes the poem to the Scottish author, John Wilson (1785-1854)<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Literature/Quotes/Week_48">Wikipedia</a> credits the Scottish author John Wilson as well:<br />
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/59575-o-for-a-booke-and-a-shdie-nooke-eyther-in-a-doore">Goodreads</a> attributes the poem to a John Wilson who is a contemporary Canadian author of historical fiction and nonfiction!<br />
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<a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/o-for-a-book/">And Poem Hunter</a> simply attributes it simply as "Anonymous British."<br />
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Wikiquote has the correct attribution, and even refers back to the Nov 1919 <i>Notes And Query article</i>. Bravo!<br />
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In closing, I will repeat Christopher Morley's Sept 1919 query. <br />
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Perhaps the British Library has copies of John Wilson's 1862 bookseller catalogues?<br />
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<br />Jerry Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12692297896214444738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693447195304802204.post-36533122773949152292015-09-10T16:00:00.002-04:002015-09-26T09:21:00.584-04:00A Preliminary Examination of a Pamphlet Containing Two Reviews of Worcester's Edition of Johnson's Dictionary<br />
On my desk lays a pamphlet. And not just any old pamphlet, although it is old. The pamphlet contains two dictionary reviews that were published in 1828. And the two reviews are reviews of a dictionary most dear to my heart: <i>Johnson's English Dictionary; </i>this one edited by an American by the name of Joseph E. Worcester (1784-1865).<br />
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I've written one blog post about this pamphlet already this month: <a href="http://blog.mysentimentallibrary.com/2015/09/some-worcester-sources-and-other.html">Some Worcester Sources and Other Discourses Concerning the Dictionary Wars</a>, which is on My Sentimental Library blog. Now, I will write a little bit about the pamphlet itself. Thus far, however, I have more unanswered questions than questions answered. So please consider this endeavor to be a "preliminary examination" of the pamphlet.<br />
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"Good luck with that," you're probably saying to yourself. As in most other periodicals of the 1800s, the contributors were not identified by name when the articles were published. Surprisingly, however, this question is the only question I can answer at this time. The reviews were first printed in <i><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=gYjQAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA191&lpg=PA191&dq=%22the+present+edition+of+johnson%27s+dictionary+seems+to+be%22&source=bl&ots=2BNQbZ4gQy&sig=Z813CG8pwdLkKgqjBthN5E9HfCI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAWoVChMI6o6W1Oy3xwIVRnI-Ch2ELQFz#v=onepage&q=%22the%20present%20edition%20of%20johnson's%20dictionary%20seems%20to%20be%22&f=false">The American Quarterly Review</a> </i>and the <i><a href="http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=nora;cc=nora;rgn=full%20text;idno=nora0027-2;didno=nora0027-2;view=image;seq=523;node=nora0027-2%3A1;page=root;size=100">North American Review</a> </i>respectively<i> </i>in 1828.<i> </i>Interestingly, the page header printed in the <i>American Quarterly Review</i> was "English Ortheopy" (pronunciation of words). And the page header in <i>The North American Review </i>was "English Vocabulary." The page header on every page in my pamphlet, however, was "Johnson's Dictionary." <br />
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In the Widener Library, at Harvard University, there is a copy of <i>A Vocabulary; or, Collection of Words and Phrases Which Have Been Supposed to Be Peculiar</i> <i>to the United States of America </i>by John Pickering, Boston: 1816. This particular copy belonged to Joseph E. Worcester, the one who edited the edition of <i>Johnson's Dictionary </i>that was reviewed in the two periodicals. And the book was given to Harvard at Worcester's bequest.<br />
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Bound in with Pickering's book were several pamphlets, including the pamphlet containing the two reviews of Worcester's edition of <i>Johnson's Dictionary.</i><br />
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And directly below the title of the review from <i>The American Quarterly Review</i>, someone, possibly Joseph E. Worcester himself, wrote, "by John Pickering."<br />
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And on the review from the <i>The North American Review </i>that was appended to Pickering's review, someone wrote, "English Vocabulary, etc. by Sidney Willard."<br />
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In his <i>Dictionary of English and American Authors</i>, A. Austin Allibone devotes practically an entire page to John Pickering (1777-1846), and best sums up Pickering in one sentence:<br />
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I can verify that Pickering was the author of the review. But the first verification required a little bit of digging and deducing. <br />
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The February 1833 issue of <i>The American Monthly Review </i>contained a full-page advertisement announcing that the Boston Publishers, Russell, Odiorne and Company, had just published a new edition of <i>Johnson's Dictionary—</i>the one edited by Worcester. And included in this advertisement is this letter from John Pickering:<br />
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I have examined your new edition of Johnson and Walker’s Dictionary, which, as we are informed by the editor, Joseph E. Worcester, Esq., ‘Is founded upon the great work of Johnson, corrected and enlarged by Mr. Todd,’ and includes ‘the entire labors of Walker on the pronunciation of the language;’ the work being intended ‘to comprise all the most important materials, and to answer all the essential uses of a dictionary for understanding, writing, and speaking the English language, and at the same time to enable the reader to see, as far as possible on whose authority everything rests.'
From the examination which I have made of the work, (without meaning to extend this remark to the whole American part of the Appendix) I am of opinion, that it is well adapted to the use intended, and will for all common purposes supply the place of the more copious works which are the basis of it. The editor has performed his part of the labor with much care, and the volume is printed with great correctness; and in this and other respects it is far preferable to any manual of the kind in use.
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Now someone reading this letter in 1833 might think Pickering's letter was addressed to the booksellers, Russell and Odiorne. But Russell and Odiorne didn't publish their edition of the dictionary until 1833 ( I have a copy of their edition in my library). And theirs, according to J. D. Fleeman, was already the seventh impression of Worcester's edition of <i>Johnson's Dictionary. </i>Charles Ewer and T. Harrington Carter were the publishers of the first two editions of Worcester's dictionary (1828 and 1829). And they are the publishers identified in both reviews published in 1828. Pickering's letter could only have been addressed to them. And he wrote about examining their dictionary in <i>The American Quarterly Review </i>in 1828.<br />
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The best Pickering verification comes from Pickering himself. John Pickering's review of <i>Johnson's Dictionary</i> is identified in a list of published writings in his memoir, which was published in 1846 in the <i>Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society.</i><br />
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And here's a third verification: <i>Anonyms: Dictionary of Revealed Authorship </i>by William Cushing, Cambridge, Ma. 1889:<br />
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Sidney Willard (1780-1856) is harder to verify as the author of the review in <i>The North American Review; </i>however, in an article by Julius H. Ward, which appeared in <i>The North American Review</i> in 1915, Sidney Willard is listed as<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=GJM2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA125&dq=%22north+american+review%22+%22sidney+willard%22+contributors&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAGoVChMIpIeytrfoxwIVyjo-Ch17Owrz#v=onepage&q=%22north%20american%20review%22%20%22sidney%20willard%22%20contributors&f=false"> one of the leading contributors</a> to the periodical for the period 1815-1830. Willard, the son of a former President of Harvard University, was the Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard from 1807 to 1831. I should note that <i>Allibone's Critical Dictionary ... </i>records that Willard was also the Professor of the English Language (2731). Willard later reviewed Worcester's 1846 dictionary: <i>Universal and Critical Dictionary of the English Language </i>as well.<br />
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Good question! In 1828, Hiram Tupper, printer for the Examiner Press, Boston, printed Pickering's dictionary review that first appeared in <i>The American Quarterly Review. </i>But the pagination was different than the pagination of the pamphlet that Worcester gave to Harvard, which is identical to the pamphlet I have. Moreover, Tupper's pamphlet did not have Willard's review appended to it. I believe Tupper printed Pickering's review for Pickering. And a still unidentified printer printed both reviews for Worcester. In the list of pamphlets bound with Pickering's vocabulary book, someone wrote, "Phil.? 1828, as the place and date of publication of the review of <i>Johnson's Dictionary. </i>However, I believe the pamphlet was printed in either Boston or Cambridge, and most likely by a printer known to either Worcester or Willard—or both.<br />
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Written in the top right corner of my copy of the pamphlet is the name, "Wm H Spear." Now there were a number of individuals who shared that name. One of them was the proprietor of the Roxbury Female School in Roxbury, Ma., who later was associated with the American Institute of Instruction. I believe this is the William H. Spear who signed his name to my pamphlet. He would have wanted Pickering's review for his students because Pickering not only reviewed Worcester's dictionary, but provided a concise history of dictionaries up to that date. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=9hwwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=%22the+present+edition+of+johnson%27s+dictionary+seems+to+be%22&source=bl&ots=IvZnRsUIiH&sig=CHyGVHXNR-0HBoEsl-zLwLjVlCQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCcQ6AEwA2oVChMI6o6W1Oy3xwIVRnI-Ch2ELQFz#v=onepage&q=%22the%20present%20edition%20of%20johnson's%20dictionary%20seems%20to%20be%22&f=false">Pickering's review</a> is well worth reading even today.<br />
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Another "Wm H Spear" was William Henry Spear (1807-1879), the grand nephew of John Hancock, and the heir to the Hancock estate. Could these two Speares be one and the same? Further research is required. For now, I have Wm. H. Spear's signature. And I have a promising lead on one of the Speares!<br />
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On April 14, 2015, Swann Auction Galleries sold an archive of Spear-Perkins family papers relating to the John Hancock estate. Included in<a href="http://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/fullcatalogue.asp?salelot=2380+++++162+&refno=++700117"> lot 162 </a>were the papers of William Henry Spear (1807-1879). I will ask Swann Galleries to contact the winner of lot 162 and see if he or she will compare the Spear signature I have to that of Hancock's grand nephew, William Henry Spear.<br />
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Wish me luck on my further research!<br />
<br />Jerry Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12692297896214444738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693447195304802204.post-51316408216272105932014-06-01T12:14:00.000-04:002014-08-24T11:07:27.078-04:00Some Auspicious Biblio-Sleuthing <br />
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I love researching the provenance of my books. And I'm usually researching the names of the former owners of my books. But in the case of <i>The Wish</i>, I already knew the name of the former owner: Charles Shackleton. What I did not know was the name of the person who had given Shackleton the book. This person signed "his name" on the front free endpaper.<br />
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I knew even before I bought it that it would be a challenge to identify this person. I just didn't realize how much of a challenge!<br />
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I had four reasons for buying this particular book:<br />
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I acquired it in June 2011 during my first and only visit to Booked Up in Archer City, Texas, Larry McMurtry's town of books, at the time, America's answer to Hay-on-Wye.</blockquote>
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The book included a short life of the author, written by the New York bibliophile, Beverley Chew (1850-1924). And I wanted something written by Chew in my library.</blockquote>
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Charles Shackleton (1856-1920), an artist from Cleveland, was a member of the <a href="http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101063799421;view=1up;seq=62">Rowfant Club </a>. And J. S. W. – John Southwell Wood, (1853-1921) – the person who accompanied S— to Jamaica, Long Island on Feb. 8, 1902 to meet with Mr. Hopkins at his Marion Press, was a member as well.<br />
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I suspected that S— was a New York bibliophile who was giving the two Rowfant Club members a bibliophilic tour of New York. I thought S— could be the bookman George D. Smith. Smith, however, used the initials, G. D. S. More than likely S— was a member of the Grolier Club. And by my count from the <a href="https://archive.org/stream/transactionsofgr00grol#page/219/mode/1up">1899 Member List</a>, there were at least 18 resident members of the Grolier Club and 10 non-resident members whose last name began with the letter "S." And there were 11 resident members and 3 non-resident members whose first name began with "S." But I could find nothing in my initial research that any of these members signed their name as S—. As a sign of the times, however, there were 12 resident members and 2 non-resident members who used an initial instead of spelling out their first name, with A. Edward Newton being the most famous of all of them. But none of these 14 Grolier Club members had a first name which began with the letter "S."<br />
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I researched my books about book collectors and searched the web endlessly, looking for a bookman who signed his name as S—. Finally, on June 28, 2011, I queried the EXLIBRIS-L mailing list, an elite group of librarians, booksellers and book collectors, for assistance. The renowned bookseller, the Americanist, Norman Kane, responded:<br />
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<i>. . . Be that as it may, although I have peered at many an inscribed Marion Press book, I do not recognize "S". Having previously been the head of the fine press division of De Vinne's shop, Hopkins had a large following among the book collectors of his day, and the possible suspects may be numerous.</i> Norman</blockquote>
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Norman Kane, who passed away last year at the age of 88, had bought the remaining Marion Press stock from the estate of Hopkins' son-in-law, and "<i>subsequently sold a ton of books to Larry </i>[McMurtry]." My copy of <i>The Wish, </i>however, was not part of the remaining Marion Press stock that went to Texas. S— had given my copy to Shackleton<i> </i>back in 1902. <br />
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<i>The Wish </i>was one of ten books I bought in Texas in June 2011. I made mention of it and my research of S— in my blog post for that month: <a href="http://mysentimentallibrary.blogspot.com/2011/06/ten-books-from-texas-and-two.html">Ten Books From Texas And Two Reminiscences</a>. And then I put my research of S— on the back burner. <br />
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But it didn't stay there for long.<br />
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I was poring over my books in August 2013, selecting choice passages for that month's blog post, <a href="http://mysentimentallibrary.blogspot.com/2013/08/elegant-extracts-about-books-booklovers.html">Elegant Extracts About Books, Booklovers, And Libraries</a>. And when I opened my copy of <i>A Shelf In My Bookcase, </i>by Alexander Smith, and looked at the front free endpaper, I had a sense of déjà vu.<br />
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But the handwriting was the same.<br />
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The "J" in "John" matched the "J" in "Jamaica."<br />
The "h" in "John" matched the "h" in "Shackleton."<br />
The "d"s in "Riddle" and ""friend" matched the "d" in "kind."<br />
And the S— matched in both handwriting samples.
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<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=H5U6AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1090&lpg=PA1090&dq=%22john+quinby+riddle%22&source=bl&ots=eAgXTMFK6I&sig=31pKKi8zlDDnyTXSSeb66mWoA7I&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1657U9DqK6XUsAS0toH4AQ&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22john%20quinby%20riddle%22&f=false">John Quinby Riddle</a> (1835-1912), a successful Cleveland businessman, was a member of the <a href="http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101063799421;view=1up;seq=61"> Rowfant Club</a> as well. Since Shackleton, Wood, and now Riddle were Rowfant Club members, I thought maybe S— was also a member of the Rowfant Club.. <br />
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There were 9 resident members of the Rowfant Club in 1902 whose last name began with "S" (not including Charles Shackleton) and 3 resident members whose first name began with the letter "S." Surprisingly, there were no non-resident members whose first or last name began with "S."<br />
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I was able to narrow the list of "<i>possible suspects" </i>down to three: Edward Tracy Scovill (joined 1894), Andrew Squire (1893) and Ambrose Swasey (1896). Yet, I could find no evidence that any of the three signed his name as S—. <br />
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Ambrose Swasey was no stranger to me. I have his signed copies of the <i>Transactions of the Grolier Club</i> in my own library.<br />
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Ambrose Swasey (1846-1937) joined the Grolier Club in January, 1918. He acquired Parts II and III of the <i>Transactions of the Grolier Club</i> on Jan. 31, 1921, Part IV on Mar, 28, 1921, and Part I on Nov 9, 1926. He pasted his bookplate of his invention, the Lick Telescope, in his books on Feb 8, 1930.<br />
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When I looked at Swasey's "J" and "S," they were significantly different than the "J" and "S" inscribed by S—. Ambrose Swasey was not the bookman who signed his name as S—.<br />
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I then queried the Rowfant Club, hoping they could match my inscriptions to writing samples from the early 1900s in their archives. But that lead didn't pan out.<br />
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I then checked the early Caxton Club members list to see if S— was a member of that club. And in the <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=9RQXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA13&dq=%22s+clifford+payson%22+signed&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UVRtU5j5NtHesASty4KYDQ&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22s%20clifford%20payson%22%20signed&f=false">1897 Caxton Club Annual Report and Members List</a>, I found this glorious name listed three times:<br />
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S. Clifford Payson originally from New York, moved to Chicago in 1886 and started working for the railroad in 1904. He became a member of the Caxton Club in 1895. When he gave Shackleton a copy of <i>The Wish, </i>he was a non-resident member of the Grolier Club, listed under his full name, Samuel Clifford Payson. Except for the possibility that he may have played tour guide for Shackleton in New York in 1902, I could find no connection between him and either Charles Shackleton or John Q. Riddle. <br />
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I then queried a friend in the Caxton Club, hoping the Club archives had a sample of S. Clifford Payson's handwriting to compare. And when that lead didn't pan out either, I put my research of S— on the back burner again. But I could now see a light at the end of the tunnel.<br />
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Fast forward to May 2014. I was almost certain that S. Clifford Payson was the person who signed his name as S—. All I had to do to prove it was to to find a connection between Payson and either Shackleton or Riddle.<br />
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I found it. <br />
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There are 20 early year books of the Rowfant Club available for full viewing online at the <a href="http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009041094">Hathi Trust Digital Library website</a>. And the names, S. Clifford Payson, Samuel Clifford Payson, or S. C. Payson are not listed in any of these year books.<br />
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But the earliest year book listed on the Hathi Trust website is from 1899. The Rowfant Club, however, was founded in 1892. Was it possible that S. Clifford Payson became a member of the Rowfant Club before 1899 and then quit? Highly unlikely. But not impossible.<br />
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I searched Google Books for "Rowfant Club" and "Payson." And the first two results provided online access to the Rowfant Club 1898 Year Book:<br />
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Charles Shackleton and S. C. Payson were elected together as Club members in 1898!</center>
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There was another Payson who was elected a member of the Rowfant Club in 1898; the same time that S. C. Payson was elected: George Shipman Payson. His name, however, was mispelled in the 1898 Year Book, first as "Payson, George S. Lipman," and then as "G. S. L. Payson." <br />
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I believe George Shipman Payson (1862-1943), born and raised in Chicago, was S. Clifford Payson's cousin, and his sponsor in both the book world and the business world. <br />
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George S. Payson was a founding member of the Caxton Club (S. Clifford Payson joined the Caxton Club shortly after the club was formed in 1895). Christopher de Hamel, in his June 2005 <i>Caxtonian</i> article, "<a href="http://www.caxtonclub.org/reading/2005/jun05.pdf">Single Leaves</a>," credits George Payson with suggesting the club be named after William Caxton.<br />
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George S. Payson became a non-resident member of the Grolier Club in Oct. 1893. Samuel Clifford Payson became a non-resident member of the Grolier Club in Feb. 1895.
From <i>Transactions of the Grolier Club Part IV, 1921</i>
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Also in 1895, both S. C. Payson and G. S. Payson were elected as American Candidate Members of the Bibliographical Society in Great Britain.<br />
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For unexplained reasons, both Paysons were members of the Rowfant Club for only one year: 1898. Were George Shipman Payson's feathers ruffled when the Rowfant Club misspelled his name in the 1898 Rowfant Club Year Book?<br />
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George S. Payson was a Yale University graduate, and a lawyer who became General Counsel for the Western Railroad Association in January, 1894. His father, George Payson (1824-1893), held that very position for almost 20 years until his death from pneumonia on Dec. 1, 1893. <br />
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I believe George S. Payson used his considerable influence to help his cousin, S. Clifford Payson, obtain a job as a freight agent for the railroad in Chicago in 1904.<br />
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S. Clifford Payson made a name for himself in the book world and later in the railroad world. He was listed in the 1897 edition of the <i>List of Private Libraries:</i><br />
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The books S. Clifford Payson gave to Shackleton and Riddle were books printed by private presses. The Marion Press reprinted <i>The Wish, </i>which was first published in 1693 and was a favorite of Ben Franklin. The Torch Press privately printed <i>A Shelf in My Book Case</i>, an essay from <i>Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country</i>, first published in 1863. <i>Dreamthorp </i>was a favorite of A. Edward Newton and Christopher Morley. The bookseller's ticket of The Burrows Brothers Company, Cleveland is pasted on the rear pastedown of <i>A Shelf in My Book Case</i>. And I wonder if Payson bought it there while on his way to visit Riddle in 1906? S. Clifford Payson's job as a freight agent could have reunited his friendship with Riddle, who was vice-president of the hugely successful and nationally known Lockwood Taylor Hardware Company of Cleveland. I also wonder if S. Clifford Payson discussed his Cruikshank Collection with Charles Shackleton, an artist, himself?<br />
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In 1893, the bibliophile, Eugene Field, mentioned "his Chicago friend, S. C. Payson" in the Introduction to Herbert S. Stone's <i><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=QbAzmJXWlVEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22first+editions+of+american+authors%22+stone%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YhyKU_frH4S_sQSs9IHgDA&ved=0CEIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22first%20editions%20of%20american%20authors%22%20stone%22&f=false">First Editions of American Authors</a>. </i>And <i>The Book-Lover </i>reprinted the Introduction, titled, "Ad Lectorem," in its entirety in its Autumn 1899 issue:<br />
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S. Clifford Payson displayed his Cruikshank Collection to Caxton Club members on <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=EsbvAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA66&dq=payson+cruikshank+caxton+club&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Fx-KU4ijAcnisATh4IC4BA&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=payson%20cruikshank%20caxton%20club&f=false">Dec. 15, 1899</a>:<br />
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And in 1897, S. Clifford Payson was one of the exhibitors of Nineteenth-Century Bookbindings:<br />
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When S. Clifford Payson started working for the railroad in 1904, he decided to make the railroad his whole life. And, surprisingly, book collecting was not part of it.<br />
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S— resigned his Caxton Club membership as early as 1901. And he resigned from the Grolier Club in April 1904. He contacted the London firm of Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, and in November 1904, the auction house sold the books he had put up for auction:<br />
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When the person who signed his name as S— sold his library in 1904, he no longer considered himself to be a bibliophile. The only book-related event afterwards was when he gave his friend, John Q. Riddle, a book in March, 1906. <br />
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Who's Who in the Pacific Southwest 1913</center>
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S. C. Payson 1910</center>
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Listed as Samuel Clifford Payson (1915)</center>
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Journal of San Diego History 1996 S. Clifford Payson (1915)</center>
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Santa Fe Magazine June 1919</center>
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The Theosophical Path Illustrated Magazine</center>
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The Late S. C. Payson 1865-1930</center>
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And so ends the biblio-sleuthing of the person who signed his name as S—.
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I thank my friend Asta for finding the image of the pet detective. And I thank the people at <a href="http://getmycat.com/">GetMyCat.com</a> for allowing me to use the image from their website.<br />
<br />Jerry Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12692297896214444738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693447195304802204.post-39274024248348576072013-12-23T12:05:00.000-05:002020-06-27T09:20:23.352-04:00 About Bibliomites, Biblionotes, and Walter "Wally" Harris <br />
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These illustrations, my friends, are not illustrations of bibliomites. They are illustrations of an <i>Anobium hirtum</i> – a bookworm, and a French one at that. Sir William Osler commissioned the artist Horace Knight to draw illustrations of the specimen of a bookworm he had found burrowed in a book he bought from a French bookseller. Knight's illustrations first appeared in the <i>Bodleian Quarterly Record</i> in February 1917. They were later reprinted in <i>The Collected Essays of Sir William Osler</i> by the Classics of Medicine Library in 1985.
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I have no drawings of bibliomites to display for you. But I can assure you that bibliomites were not creepy-crawly things. In fact, they were normal human beings who worked in the bookstores in England. I should note, however, that the specimen I researched had a head much too large for the rest of his body. I believe this to be an individual trait, and not one associated with all bibliomites; but more on my specimen later.
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The bibliomites first gathered together at the bookshop of Francis Edwards in December 1950 and formed a society that had a rather official-sounding name: The Society of Antiquarian Booksellers' Employees.
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Don't let the name fool you. This society was more of a social club than a union. When they weren't working, these bibliomites got together to have fun!
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They danced!</center>
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And they dined and they danced! <br />From the <i>Publishers Circular and Booksellers's Record, 1951</i></center>
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They drank pints of beer. They competed in darts tournaments. And one bibliomite, Frank Doel, of 84 Charing Cross Road fame, umpired the annual cricket matches against the "Guvnors."
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There is an excellent article by Dudley Massey and Martin Hamlin on both the ABA and the ILAB websites covering part of the <a href="http://www.ilab.org/fre/documentation/559-the_history_of_the_antiquarian_booksellers_association_a_b_a__part_2.html">History of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association</a>. And the bibliomites are mentioned several times in this article, from their first meeting in 1950, to their last Halloween dance and subsequent demise in 1974.
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Google displays many snippit views about the bibliomites from various issues of <i>Antiquarian Book Monthly Review (ABMR).</i> A 1999 ABMR article provides details about the creation of a magazine of sorts for the bibliomites in 1953.
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The British Library has a run of the first series of <i>Biblionotes</i>: Nos 1-13.
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And in my own library, I have a book by a Walter Harris titled, <i>Contributions to Biblionotes &C</i>.
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Walter Harris inscribed this book:
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<i>To my good friend <br />and colleague Mary Murray<br /> with sincere regards<br /> Walter Harris</i></blockquote>
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I acquired <i>Contributions to Biblionotes &C</i> from Questor Rare Books in August 2002, a few years before its owner, John Walwyn-Jones, closed up shop and went to work for Bonham's. When I bought the book, I thought <i>Biblionotes</i> was one of them there British periodicals about books. I had no idea who Walter Harris was, much less Mary Murray. And if you mentioned bibliomites, I would have thought you were talking about a species of bookish creepy-crawly things.
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I was going nowhere in my research for months. But fortunately, in March 2003, my London friend, Sandy Malcolm, who hails from Edinburgh, read an article by Anthony Rota in a recent issue of the <i>Scottish Book Collector.</i> In the article, Mr. Rota discussed the seating arrangement at an auction:
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I contacted Thomas Thorp Fine & Rare Books in March 2003, and was so pleased with Jim Thorp's response that I immediately ordered a book from him.
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Walter "Wally" Harris had already retired before Jim Thorp joined the firm in 1962. But he met him a few times and confirmed to me that Wally Harris did indeed have an enlarged cranium. Wally Harris was the editor of <i>Biblionotes</i> and, as such, was the major contributor to the publication. When Wally Harris retired around 1959-60, Mary Murray replaced him as shop manager at Thorp's.
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Jim Thorp believed the <i>Bookdealer</i> reprinted some of Wally Harris's pieces, and provided the contact information of its editor, Barry Shaw. I contacted Barry Shaw in 2003, but he could not recall if he published any of Wally Harris's pieces in the <i>Bookdealer.</i>
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The <i>Bookdealer</i>, however, published Sheila Markham's series of interviews of antiquarian booksellers, one of which in particular – her interview of Richard Hatchwell, published in the December 2007 issue of the <i>Bookdealer</i> – provided a wealth of useful information about Walter Harris. In the interview, Richard Hatchwell recalled his early days at Thorp's:
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Walter "Wally" Harris died at the age of 88 on Feb. 20, 1982. In his obituary published in the <i>ABMR</i> shortly after his death, he was described "as one of the three most knowledgeable bookmen who ever lived."
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To the best of my knowledge, only one of Walter Harris's twelve "Contributions to Biblionotes" has been reprinted elsewhere. In the 1960s, the old <i>Manchester Review</i> reprinted his piece on "Great Totham Press." There is another article by Walter Harris in the same journal, but that is not one of the pieces printed in <i>Biblionotes.</i>
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If Walter Harris was truly one of the three most knowledgeable bookmen who ever lived, then I believe I should share his knowledge with other bookmen. Each Christmas I will post one of his "Contributions to Biblionotes" on My Sentimental Library blog. The title of the blog posts is "Twelve Blogs for Christmas: Contributions to Biblionotes." And here is <a href="http://mysentimentallibrary.blogspot.com/2013/12/twelve-blogs-for-christmas.html">a link</a> to this year's post on <a href="http://mysentimentallibrary.blogspot.com/2013/12/twelve-blogs-for-christmas.html">Chapbooks</a>.
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<br />Jerry Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12692297896214444738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693447195304802204.post-35135743137484703022013-10-07T17:25:00.001-04:002016-03-26T16:30:26.715-04:00Is America Lost in the Funhouse?A funhouse is normally a place of amusement. But for Ambrose, the main character in John Barth's story, "Lost in the Funhouse," it is a place of fear<i>. </i>And for John Q. Citizen, in the ongoing government shutdown, the House of Representatives has become a place of fear and confusion.<br />
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"Lost in the Funhouse," is more than just a story; it is a lesson in how to write a story. Take Barth's description of a diagram called Freitag's Triangle (repetition of words in the description, not mine):<br />
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<i>While there is no reason to regard this pattern as an absolute necessity, like many other conventions it became conventional because great numbers of people over many years learned by trial and error that it was effective; one ought not to forsake it, therefore, unless one wishes to forsake as well the effect of drama or has clear cause to feel that deliberate violation of the "normal" pattern can better can better effect that effect. ... </i></blockquote>
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There is also a pattern of introducing government funding bills through Congress that has worked for over two hundred years. But House Speaker John Boehner has forsaken that pattern. Instead, he has introduced a bill to fund the government – and to defund the Affordable Care Act of 2010, President Obama's signature healthcare legislation. <br />
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House Speaker Boehner has the Constitution on his side. Article 1, Section 7 states,<br />
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And he has the words of James Madison on his side. In <i>The Federalist</i> No. 58, Madison wrote:<br />
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<i>...<b>The House of Representatives cannot only refuse, but they alone can propose the supplies requisite for the support of government</b>. They, in a word, <b>hold the purse. ...</b> This power over the purse may, in fact, be regarded as <b>the most complete and effectual weapon </b>with which any constitution can arm the immediate representatives of the people, <b>for obtaining a redress of every grievance, and for carrying into effect every just and salutary measure</b>.</i></blockquote>
You will see those words of Madison on numerous right wing websites, from the Heritage Organization, to the New American, to Freedom First. <br />
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What you will not see on those websites are Madison's words in the very next paragraph of <i>The Federalist </i>No. 58:<br />
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<i> </i><i style="font-weight: bold;">Those who represent the dignity of their country in the eyes of other nations will be particularly sensible to every prospect of public danger, or of dishonorable stagnation in public affairs. ... </i></blockquote>
For over two hundred years, lawmakers have debated their differing political views in the House and in the Senate. And in many a lawmaker's mind, it was "Country first." But when put to a vote, majority ruled.<br />
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Until now.<br />
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Here's an Oct. 04, 2013 excerpt from the Huffington Post website:<br />
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<i>As the U.S. shutdown continues, national monuments and parks remain closed, hundreds of thousands of American workers go without pay, and federally funded social services for millions of women and children have ceased operating. Abroad, the world is caught between laughter and confusion as a superpower is paralyzed by its inability to overcome a relentless minority of lawmakers who have put the entire government on the line to defund a health care law passed by Congress, signed by the President, and upheld by the Supreme Court. America's political meltdown, an international embarrassment, has compromised the country's global image and credibility.</i></blockquote>
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The Tea Party is "the relentless minority" mentioned in the article above. It is a minority faction of the Republican Party. Yet Boehner has allowed the Tea Party to be the controlling voice of the entire Republican Party. <br />
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James Madison defines a "faction" in <i>The Federalist </i>No. 10:<br />
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In the same <i>Federalist</i> number, Madison provides the means to defeat the attempts of a faction, a means House Speaker Boehner thus far refuses to undertake:<br />
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<i>If a faction consists of less than a majority, relief is supplied by the republican principle, which enables the majority to defeat the sinister views by regular vote. It may clog the administration, it may convulse the society; but it will be unable to execute and mask its violence</i> <i>under the forms of the Constitution.</i></blockquote>
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If House Speaker Boehner continues to decline to put "a clean CR" to a vote, Democrats are already working on a parliamentary procedure to "hijack a bill," and put the clean continuing resolution to fund the government to a vote before the House. The Democrats want the vote because they believe the majority of Republicans believe in "Country first."<br />
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Such a vote could occur only days before the next crisis: raising the debt ceiling. House Speaker Boehner has already said he will not schedule a vote to raise the debt ceiling unless there are negotiations beforehand with the President of the United States. And President Obama has reiterated that he will not negotiate the debt ceiling. Moreover, President Obama does not believe he has the constitutional authority to invoke the Fourteenth Amendment to prevent the United States government from defaulting on its debt.<br />
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No one is blinking. If House Speaker Boehner blinks, he will lose his speakership. If President Obama blinks, he will not only lose his signature legislation, he will open the door to future demands for concessions. <br />
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If all else fails, and the government is on the brink of defaulting, there is one other alternative, but one that wiser minds than mine need to explore: a <i><a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/mandamus">writ of mandamus</a> </i>against House Speaker Boehner, compelling him to schedule a vote on raising the debt ceiling. Such an action would enable the House of Representatives to fulfill its ministerial duty to pay our debts, as required by the Constitution.<br />
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<br />Jerry Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12692297896214444738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693447195304802204.post-22626045240173300122013-05-30T18:31:00.000-04:002019-12-29T12:59:40.433-05:00 A Well-Lobbied Government: How the NRA Won the Battle Over the Second AmendmentIn the aftermath of the Newtown shooting in December, there was talk nationwide of all sorts of gun control actions: banning assault weapons, limiting high-capacity magazines, and expanding background checks. In the months to come, after the NRA flexed its political muscles, the only thing left on the table was expanding background checks.<br />
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In April 2013, some of the parents of the slain children of Newtown walked the halls of Congress, and lobbied some of the members of Congress to expand background checks. But instead of presenting them with money for their campaign chests, the parents of the Newtown Dead presented the members of Congress with pictures of their slain children.<br />
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On April 17, 2013, the Senate failed to pass a bipartisan bill to expand background checks for new gun owners. There were 54 yeas and 46 nays. But 60 votes were required to pass the bill.<br />
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Why did the bill fail to pass? Because Senators were more afraid of the NRA than they were of the parents of the Newtown Dead. Why does the right to bear arms trump the dire need for some sort of gun control? And how did the NRA get so powerful? <br />
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If you believe the hype from the NRA, any gun control measure infringes on their individual right to bear arms, a right the Founding Fathers "supposedly" gave them over 200 years ago, a right commonly known as the Second Amendment. <br />
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A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.</blockquote>
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The NRA wasn't always the fanatical political organization it has become. It was founded in 1871 because some of the officers in the Civil War were unhappy with the marksmanship of their troops. And so the former officers formed the National Rifle Association, and members went to the rifle range to improve their accuracy. Here is an image of the NRA's first rifle range:<br />
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Yes. Creedmoor Psychiatric Center now stands on what was once the rifle range of the NRA. I attach no historical significance to this fact other than to say that the leaders of the NRA are crazy like a fox.<br />
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In order to learn more about the Second Amendment, gun control, and the NRA, I read <i>A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control</i> by the historian Saul Cornell.<br />
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The book was an eye-opener. Saul Cornell notes the conflicting interpretations of the meaning of the Second Amendment: the individual rights model, which first appeared after the first gun control measures in the Jacksonian era, and the collective rights (militia) model, which appeared during the Reconstruction era after the Civil War. Both models, he says, are wrong. He reasons that when the Second Amendment was written, it was a civic model containing both a right and a responsibility. The Second Amendment protected the individual's right to keep and bear arms necessary to meet his militia obligations. This civic responsibility to bear arms basically ended when the National Guard was created in the early 1900s. Which begs the question. If there no longer was a civic responsibility to bear arms, wouldn't that have made the Second Amendment moot, much like the Thirteenth Amendment made the Fugitive Slave Clause of the Constitution moot?<br />
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Cornell notes that throughout history gun violence precipitated gun control, which further incited gun owners. The NRA didn't jump into the political arena until 1911, in response to the gun control measures of the Sullivan Law, which was precipitated by a murder-suicide near Gramercy Park in New York. Cornell pinpoints the current militant form of the NRA as a response to the Gun Control Act of 1968, which was precipitated by the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King. At the time Saul Cornell's book was written in 2006, the grassroots efforts of the NRA and other gun-rights organizations had won everywhere except in the courts. <br />
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The Supreme Court did not consider the Second Amendment issue again until 1939 in <i>U.S. v Miller.</i> In this case, the Court stated that the Second Amendment protected a collective right that was tied to participation in the militia.<br />
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In 2006, when <i>A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control</i> was published, <i>Miller</i> was still the law of the land. Under the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms was still a collective right that pertained solely to the preservation and efficiency of a well-trained militia. But the author Saul Cornell, well aware of the gains of gun rights advocates, saw the handwriting on the wall, and realized that <i>Miller</i> would soon be revisited.<br />
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Saul Cornell noted that gun rights advocates in the legal academic community, monetarily supported by the NRA and other gun lobbies, "began churning out at an astonishing rate law review articles that supported the individual rights view of the Second Amendment (Cornell, 206)." In essence, this new modern interpretation, called the " Standard Model" of the Second Amendment, redefined what our Founding Fathers "really meant to say" when they wrote these words over two hundred years ago:<br />
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Indeed, numerous law reviews, both pro and con, are noted throughout Cornell's book, many of which can be viewed online. <br />
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In the October 1999 issue of <i>Constitutional Commentary,</i> Saul Cornell summarizes the Standard Model in no uncertain terms in "Commonplace or Anachronism: The Standard Model, the Second Amendment, and the Problem of History in Constitutional Theory."
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The flaws in the Standard Model are emblematic of deeper problems in the way history has been used by constitutional scholars. Partisans of the Standard Model have not only read constitutional texts in an anachronistic fashion, but have also ignored important historical sources vital to understanding what Federalists and Anti-Federalists might have meant by the right to bear arms. The structure of legal scholarship has served to spread these errors rather than to contain them. Once published, these errors enter the canons of legal scholarship and are continuously recycled in article after article. Upon closer inspection, the new orthodoxy on the Second Amendment shares little with the Standard Model employed by physicists. Indeed, recent writing on the Second Amendment more closely resembles the intellectual equivalent of a check kiting scheme than it does solidly researched history.</blockquote>
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But one of the law reviews on the Standard Model, and an exceptional one at that, "<a href="http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/common.htm">The Commonplace Second Amendment</a>" was written be Eugene Volokh, who was law clerk for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the Supreme Court prior to joining the UCLA law school. Justice Scalia was to cite Volokh's paper in his majority opinion in <i>Heller </i> in June 2008.<br />
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When George W. Bush was running for President in 2000, the NRA bragged that they would work out of his office; however, Bush said that he would be his own man. When Bush was elected, he appointed John Ashcroft as Attorney General of the United States. And the NRA worked out of Ashcroft's office instead.<br />
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May 17, 2001: Ashcroft writes to the NRA on DOJ letterhead, stating he supports the individual right to bear arms (from the <i>Northern Kentucky Law Review):</i><br />
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Ashcroft's NRA Letter and Second Amendment Interpretation <a href="http://www.vpc.org/studies/ashbody.htm">Shot Full of Holes</a> by the Violence Policy Center.<br />
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June 2001: Ashcroft suspends <a href="http://www.ashcroftgunwatch.org/">Brady Law Background Checks</a><br />
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July 3, 2001: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121519&page=1#.Uae6JOA06Rp">Ethics Complaint</a> Filed Against Ashcroft.<br />
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Dec 2001, Ashcroft bars the use of gun checks in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/06/national/06GUNS.html">terror inquiries</a> after 9/11.<br />
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May 2002 Solicitor General Olson notifies the Supreme Court that "it was now the policy of the Justice Department that the Second Amendment gives individuals the right to keep and bear arms." <br />
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May 2002: Since Ashcroft and the Justice Department vocally supported the individual right to bear arms, it didn't surprise me that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the lower court in <i>Emerson </i>that individuals have the Second Amendment individual right to bear arms. But the Court still ruled that the Texas gun control law did not violate the Constitution. What was disturbing to Cornell was that the Judges referred to law reviews concerning the Standard Model of the Constitution in their decision. <br />
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Here's a viewpoint from the NRA, who wanted the Supreme Court to review the case: <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/681851/posts"><i>Emerson </i> the Second Amendment</a>. The Supreme Court refused to review <i>Emerson.</i><br />
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While Saul Cornell's book was being published, the landmark Second Amendment case, <i>District of Columbia v. Heller</i> was slowly working its way through the courts. Because of its high crime rate, the District of Columbia passed The Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975:<br />
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The <b>Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975</b> was passed by the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="District of Columbia">District of Columbia</a> city <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_the_District_of_Columbia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Council of the District of Columbia">council</a> on September 24, 1976.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_Control_Regulations_Act_of_1975#cite_note-1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a></sup>On June 26, 2008, in the historic case of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="District of Columbia v. Heller">District of Columbia v. Heller</a></i>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court of the United States</a> determined that the ban and trigger lock provision violate the Second Amendment. The law banned residents from owning <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handgun" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Handgun">handguns</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_firearm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Automatic firearm">automatic firearms</a>, or high-capacity <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-automatic_firearm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Semi-automatic firearm">semi-automatic firearms</a>, as well as prohibited possession of unregistered <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Firearm">firearms</a>. Exceptions to the ban were allowed for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_officer" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Police officer">police officers</a> and guns registered before 1976. 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And here is <a href="http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/07-290.pdf">Justice Scalia's 5-4 majority opinion in </a><i><a href="http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/07-290.pdf">Heller</a> </i>where the majority, in referring to the Standard Model of the Second Amendment, overturned 200 years of constitutional precedent, and ruled that, under the Second Amendment, our Founding Fathers gave individuals the right to bear arms. A right the NRA believes stronger than ever, SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.<br />
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In closing I will refer to part of an address that Justice Scalia delivered in September 1988:<br />
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Let me turn next to originalism, which is also not without its warts. Its greatest defect, in my view, is the difficulty of applying it correctly. ... But what is true is that it is often exceedingly difficult to plumb the original understanding of an ancient text. Properly done, the task requires the consideration of an enormous mass of material–in the case of the Constitution and its Amendments, for example, to mention only one element, the records of the ratifying debates in all the states. Even beyond that, it requires an evaluation of the reliability of that material–many of the reports of the ratifying debates, for example, are thought to be quite unreliable. And further still, it requires immersing oneself in the political and intellectual atmosphere of the time–somehow placing out of mind knowledge that we have which an earlier age did not, and putting on beliefs, attitudes, philosophies, prejudices and loyalties that are not those of our day. It is, in short, a task sometimes better suited to the historian than the lawyer. ...</blockquote>
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Jerry Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12692297896214444738noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693447195304802204.post-54470715899204951402013-02-13T14:26:00.000-05:002013-09-21T11:55:33.526-04:00The Boswell Copy of Piozzi's Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson?<br />
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This blog was originally posted on my "Bibliophiles in My Library" blog on 03/12/2010. I am transferring it to my "Biblio Researching" blog because the subject matter of the blog post more properly applies to this blog.</blockquote>
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In lot number 2198 of the 1825 auction catalogue of the Library of James Boswell 1778-1822, there is listed this copy of Mrs. Piozzi's <i>Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson:</i><br />
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Most likely, this is the copy in the Hyde Collection at Harvard. However, there is no provenance evidence in the book to conclusively prove that one of the Boswells owned this copy.
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In 1786, the author, Mrs. Hester Piozzi, presented this copy of the book to Michael Lort. When Lort died in 1791, the book was listed in lot number 2913 of the auction catalogue of his library.<br />
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It was afterwards in the library of James Bindley. He had another copy of this work as well. Both copies were listed in the catalogue of his library.<br />
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I believe that one of the Boswells, either James Boswell the Younger or Sir Alexander Boswell acquired this copy shortly after the auction in 1818.
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NOTE: Terry Seymour, author and fellow Boswell enthusiast, has provided conclusive proof that James Boswell the Younger purchased books at the Bindley sale. He brought to my attention Boswell's note in lot 1262 of the 1825 Boswell auction catalogue, referring to a book by Stephen Hawes: "I bought this volume at Mr. Bindley's sale, Jan. 21, 1819 for Forty Guineas, &c. from my affectionate remembrance of its last two possessors, Mr. Bindley and Mr. Malone."<br />
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Further research of the Boswell Library catalogue reveals that at least <a href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog/JamesBoswell&tag=Mr.%2BBindley">five books</a> formerly owned by Bindley had found their way into the Boswell library. Two were presentation copies and three were bought by James Boswell at the Bindley Sales. There were four Bindley Sales, Part I beginning on December 7, 1818, and Part II, beginning on January 11th, 1819, Part III beginning on December 7, 1819, and Part IV beginning on August 2, 1820.<br />
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This copy was bought by the bookseller Thomas Thorpe at the auction of the Boswell Library in 1825. <br />
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This copy next appears as lot 325 of the catalogue of the sale of the Library of Miss Prudentia Lonsdale in 1897:
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">325. Johnson (Dr.). <span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant: small-caps;">Anecdotes </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant: small-caps;">Of </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant: small-caps;">The </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant: small-caps;">Late </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant: small-caps;">Samuel </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant: small-caps;">Johnson, </span>LL.D., during the last twenty years of his life, by Hester Lynch Piozzi. First edition. Original boards, uncut. 8vo. 1786. <i>Pearson, £5 <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">With the following inscription : " The gift of the Author to M. Lort, March 25, 1786." It also contains the autograph of James Bindley and T. Jeff". Hogg, as well as several contemporary cuttings relating to Dr. Johnson.</span></i></span><br />
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R.B. Adam, the Johnsonian collector from Buffalo, New York, was the next owner of this copy of the book most likely acquiring it from Stevens. Adam listed the Lort copy in his catalogue, <i><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=MrU8AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR25&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U0_qOMwoXUc_W7wfx_EGA3DEJQBVQ&ci=191%2C882%2C731%2C104&edge=0">The Catalogue of the Johnsonian Collection of R.B. Adam</a></i>, Buffalo, 1921.<br />
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Here is the listing of this copy in the catalogue of the library of <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/420338/details/53262280"> James Boswell on Library Thing</a>.<br />
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Yes. That is, in fact, a nun on the postal side of the counter in a post office. She is Sister Marciana, SSJ, and she was the postmaster of the Nazareth, Michigan Post Office. This picture appeared in newspapers around the country in 1974. But this blog post is not specifically about Sister Marciana; it is about the book she edited: <i>Serving You 1802-1976: Post Offices of Michigan.</i>
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Researching this book and its catalog records has become an adventure. I have no formal library cataloging training; but I have cataloged just enough books on <a href="http://www.librarything.com/profile/moibibliomaniac">Library Thing</a>, and researched just enough cataloging references online from AACR2 (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-American_Cataloguing_Rules">Anglo American Cataloging Rules</a>) and RDA (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_and_Access">Resource Description and Access</a>) to make me dangerous. I invite professional library catalogers to contact me and correct me when I "put book in mouth" while discussing library cataloging.<br />
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In July 1975, the President of the National Association of Postmasters, Michigan Chapter, appointed Sister Marciana, SSJ, Postmaster, Nazareth, Michigan to gather and edit a history of all of the post offices of the state of Michigan "serving the people of the world in 1976." The book was to be the contribution of the Postmasters of Michigan for the Bicentennial Year.
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Sister Marciana asked all of the postmasters of Michigan to submit brief histories of their post offices. And to identify the towns of Michigan, she acquired a copy of <i>Michigan Place Names</i>, a book published by Walter Romig in 1973. Here is the entry from <i>Michigan Place Names</i> for Nazareth:
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Together with Ruth M. Reed, Postmaster of Cloverdale, Michigan, Sister Marciana traveled to the General Services Administration in Washington, D.C., combed the micro-films of the General Archives—now called the National Archives—and gathered the names of Michigan Postmasters from the early 1800s on.
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When she finally finished gathering, compiling, and editing the mounds of postal information, her book contained 995 pages.
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To her book, Sister Marciana added a Dedication Page:
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Sister Marciana added an Editor's Note Page:
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Sister Marciana added an Editor's Acknowledgements Page:
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Sister Marciana added sixteen pages of Highlights of Postal History:
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But one page Sister Marciana did not add was a Title Page!
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The title page is the primary source of information for the library cataloger to create a bibliographic record or catalog record of a book. What happens when there is no title page? There is no Publication Statement to use to create the catalog record. According to current Anglo American Cataloging Rules (AACR2), when there is no title page, library catalogers look for secondary sources in order to create the catalog record. An excellent secondary source is the copyright statement usually printed on the verso of the title page. But, as there is no title page in this book, there is no title verso, and no copyright statement. In fact, I don't believe this book was copyrighted—at least I didn't see it listed in UPenn's <a href="http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/">Catalog of Copyright Entries</a>. If there is no title page, and no title verso, the cataloger looks at other parts of the book as secondary sources of information. And in some cases, when library catalogers use other secondary sources to create the catalog record, they sometimes create vastly different catalog records for the same book:
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The Library of Congress (LOC) catalog record:
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The Smithsonian Libraries catalog record of the copy in the National Postal Museum:
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The title, name of the author, and date of publication are different in these two catalog records. And the information recorded for name of publisher and place of publication is different.
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The LOC cataloger obtained the title and the name of the author from the cover, and the name of publisher and place of publication from the Editor's Acknowledgements Page. The cataloger most likely obtained the year of publication from the printing statement on the front flap of the dust jacket. There is, however, a doubt in my mind whether a printing statement can be considered a secondary source of publication information under current AACR2 cataloging rules. More on this later:
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The Smithsonian Libraries cataloger obtained the title from the cover, and recorded a probable date of publication with a question mark after it. There was no question mark after the date of publication in the LOC catalog record. For the place of publication and name of publisher, the cataloger recorded the abbrieviations "s.l" and "s.n.," which stand for the latin phrases "sine loco" and "sine nomine"—"without place" and "without name." Lastly, the cataloger obtained the names of the authors from the Dedication Page:
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Both the LOC catalog record and the Smithsonian Libraries catalog record are not completely accurate.
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The name of the publisher and the place of publication in the LOC catalog record are not accurate. The book was self-published; Walter Romig (1903-1977) was not the publisher. A closer look at the Editor's Acknowledgments Page reveals that Sister Marciana was merely acknowledging that she used Walter Romig's book, <i>Michigan Place Names,</i> to help identify the post offices of Michigan. She inserted Walter Romig's offical title of publisher and his address after his name purely as a means of formal identification. She did the same for the others listed on the Editor's Acknowledgements Page. As for Walter Romig, he was an author himself and a publisher of numerous books, all of which have title pages. If Walter Romig were the publisher of Sister Marciana's book, don't you think he would have included a title page?
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The name of the author, and probable date of publication in the Smithsonian Libraries catalog record are not accurate. The cataloger should have obtained the name of the author from the cover as well, instead of from the Dedication Page. The cover clearly states, "edited by Sr. Marciana, SSJ." Ruth M. Reed's name is not listed on the cover. Nor is Ruth M. Reed one of the signatories of either the Editor's Note Page or the Editor's Acknowledgments Page. The former page begins with the words, "Little did I dream," and the latter page begins with the words, "Were I to name all." If Ruth M. Reed were one of the editors, the word "we" would have replaced the word "I." Ruth M. Reed's only stated contribution to the book was helping Sister Marciana research the names of former postmasters in the National Archives, a contribution which Sister Marciana mentions in the Editor's Note Page. <br />
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The date of publication is incorrectly listed as 1976. I queried the Smithsonian Libaries, asking if its copy included the dust jacket. Baasil Wilder, Reference Librarian, History and Culture Department, Research Services Division, Smithsonian Libraries, verified that the Smithsonian Libraries copy, which the library received in 1980, lacks the dust jacket. The lack of the dust jacket deprived the cataloger of the source for the printing statement: "<b>LIMITED EDITION</b>, June 1977 Hastings Commercial Printers Barry County Hastings Michigan." Since the book was "a bicentennial project," the cataloger probably figured the book was published in 1976. A little later, I will show that dated entries in the book make it unlikely that the book was published in 1976.
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One thing I have not said is which title is the correct title. While I prefer the title from the LOC catalog record,"Serving you, 1802-1976: Post Offices of Michigan," it is interesting to note that the title from the Smithsonian Libraries catalog record, "Post Offices of Michigan," is the same title that is on the spine:
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And just to muddy up the waters a bit more, here is a little tidbit straight out of the horse's mouth, so to speak—Sister Marciana's mouth. Although she did not add a title page to her book, she did tell us the title of her book. On Page 795, in the history of the post office in Romeo, Mi., Sister Marciana wrote:
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"Post Offices Serving All the People of Michigan." Chime in librarians, please! Should Sister Marcians's own title be the title that is recorded in the catalog record of her book?
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There are at least thirteen other libraries who have copies of Sister Marciana's book, all but one of which I identified via <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3Apost+offices+of+michigan+au%3Amarciana&qt=advanced&dblist=638">WorldCat</a>.
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The catalog records of three of these libraries are practically mirror images of the LOC catalog record:
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The University of Michigan Library copy catalog record:
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The University of Western Michigan Library catalog record:
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The University of Texas at Dallas Library catalog record:
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The catalog records of seven libraries are practically mirror images of the Smithsonian Libraries catalog record.
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The Michigan State University Library catalog record:
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The Spring Arbor University Library catalog record:
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The Jackson [Michigan] District Library catalog record:
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The Lake Superior State University Library catalog record:
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The Michigan Technological University Library catalog record:
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The Wisconsin University Library (Wisconsin Historical Society) catalog record:
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The Newberry Library catalogue record:
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The catalog record of another library is similar to the Smithsonian Libraries catalog record, but with a variation of the title, one that is close to Sister Marciana's stated title:
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The Manatee County [Florida] Library catalog record:
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And the catalog record of yet another library has the same title and date of publication as the Smithsonian Libraries copy, but has a strikingly different place of publication and name of publisher. The catalog record indicates that the cataloger believed this book was self-published:
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The Eastern Michigan University Library catalog record:
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I queried the Eastern Michigan University Library, asking if its copy had the dust jacket. Keith Stanger, Information Services Librarian, responded that the EMU copy was lacking its dust jacket.
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For want of a title page, the publication statement was not found. For want of the publication statement, the name of the publisher, and place and date of publication were not found. For want of the name of the publisher, and place and date of publication, an accurate catalog record was not found. And all for the want of a title page.</blockquote>
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There is yet another catalog record, one that is not listed on WorldCat. I found it first via the <a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mivanbur/vbrgsholdQ-T.htm">Van Buren Regional Genealogical Society's Ancestry.com's pages</a>. Scroll down about four pages and you will see this listing:
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Here is the official Van Buren County District Library catalog record:
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I find this catalog record to be significant because it includes the dust jacket's printing statement as a core element in the catalog record. Earlier, I mentioned my doubts whether the printing statement can be considered as a secondary source of information under current AACR2 cataloging rules. Professional library catalogers reading this blog post should chime in and correct me if I'm wrong; but I don't believe the Printing Statement is considered to be a core element of the catalog record under AACR2.
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I don't have to worry about AACR2 much longer; RDA cataloging rules are scheduled to replace AACR2 cataloging rules in 2013. And the printing statement will be a part of the core element, the Manufacture Statement:
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The only thing I would change with the Van Buren catalog record is its title, "Serving You; Post Offices of Michigan." I believe the dates 1802-1976 should be included in the title because the book was a special project for 1976, the bicentennial year. Moreover, it contains the histories of the post offices of Michigan from 1802 to 1976.
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Earlier I mentioned that dated entries in the book will show it unlikely that the book was published in 1976. The entries are from the histories of the various post offices. The postmasters submitted histories of their post offices during the year 1976:
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Page 76: Larry Hester was appointed Postmaster, Bellevue,Mi. 49021 on July 3, 1976.
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Page 279: Alfred Hewitt was appointed Postmaster, East Tawas, Mi. 48730 on April 23, 1976.
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Page 284: Edenville, Mi. 49825. "...was housed in a one-hudred year old building until it was moved into a new building on May 1, 1976."
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Page 289: Elkton, Mi. 48731. "In 1955, in need of larger quarters, it was moved to a location on Highway M-142. and recently (May 29,1976) directly across the street into a new Postal Facility of 1056 square feet."
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Page 309: Fairview, Mi. 48621. "As of this writing, 1976, Postmaster Carl Krepp has already served the people of Fairview for twenty-five years."
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Page 522: Lansing, Mi. 48924. "During FY 1976 revenue from postage alone had grown to ...."
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Page 537: Limestone, Mi. 49851. "The postoffice [sic], as of 1976, is a fourth class office, serving the people of the area."
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Page 795: Romeo, Mi. 48065. "Romeo, in 1976, is a first class Post Office."
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Page 825: Saline, Mi. 48176. "Postmaster Heffington died in office in February 1976."
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Page 986: Winn, Mi. 48896. "Aside from the Post Office, 1976 is Winn's centennial year and a great celebration was held from June 17-20.... On August 27, 1976, we are doing the 'Patriotic Songs' at the Isabella County Fair...."
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The Postmaster of the Winn, Mi. Post Office submitted this last entry no sooner than June 21, 1976 and no later than August 26, 1976. The latest recorded dated entry in the entire book is July 3, 1976. If Sister Marciana's book were published in 1976, this effectively gives her less than six months to complete the compiling and editing of her book, not to mention how much time Hastings Commercial Printers would need to print it.
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I should also note that there are two copies of this book listed on AbeBooks, but with different titles and different dates of publication. One of them, <i>Post Offices of Michigan; Serving You, 1802 - 1976</i>, is a stated Limited Edition, and has a date of publication of 1977. This copy has the dust jacket. The other copy, <i>Serving You, 1802-1976: Post Offices of Michigan, Dedicated to Our Fellow Postmasters Who Have And Who Are "Serving You,"</i> is reportedly a first edition, first printing, and has a date of publication of 1976; however, the listing does not mention that the dust jacket is present. This copy has a presentation inscription from the author. The inscription, however, is dated 1977, which should send up red flares!
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In bold capital letters in the printing statement, or soon-to-be-called manufacture statement, on the front flap of the dust jacket are the words, LIMITED EDITION, which to me means there was only one edition, and only one printing. If there were 1976 and 1977 printings, I'm sure the 1977 printing would have said, "second printing," instead of "Limited Edition." But to rule out the implausible, I queried Toni I. Benson, Local History Librarian, Van Buren District Library, Decatur, MI, and asked her to verify the date of printing on the dust jacket of her copy. The date on her copy is June 1977 as well. Btw, kudos for the Van Buren District Library's page, <a href="http://www.vbdl.org/">vbdl.org</a>. Lots of information. I particularly liked the Election Information.
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Finally, this is how I have my copy cataloged on Library Thing:
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<br />Jerry Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12692297896214444738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693447195304802204.post-14379974990949253332012-09-12T18:55:00.002-04:002019-03-26T10:00:35.334-04:00About That Engraving By William Kneass . . .<br />
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In my August 2012 post to My Sentimental Library blog, "<a href="http://mysentimentallibrary.blogspot.com/2012/08/grammars-spellers-and-writing-guides.html">Grammars, Spellers, and Writing Guides</a>," I made particular mention of an engraving by William Kneass in the 1806 First American Edition of <i>Epea pteroenta; or, The Diversions of Purley</i> by John Horne Tooke:
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Of note is the frontispiece of the first volume, an illustration of prepositions. It was engraved by William Kneass (1781-1840), who later became the Chief Engraver of the United States Mint, a position he held from 1824 until his death in 1840.</blockquote>
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William Kneass impressed me with the design of his engraving. He pictorially defined the prepositions in a brilliant diagram. Here's an expanded view, with his last name and the abbreviation "sc," printed immediately below the circle. "Sc" stands for "sculptsit" or "sculpserunt." In layman's terms, the words mean "engraved by."
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In researching Kneass, I learned that numismatists at <a href="http://uspatterns.com/williamkneass.html">uspatterns.com</a> "are of the opinion that there is not a single United States pattern coin design that can be attributed to Kneass."
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To me, this made Kneass's engraving in <i>The Diversions of Purley</i> even more noteworthy.
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Just a few days after uploading my August blog post, I began researching for my September blog post. "Eloquent Words, Written and Spoken," I thought, would be the title for my September post. And the following engraving looked inviting as an Intro:
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The engraving is the front cover of a bookseller catalogue from the late 1980s.
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You will read more about Karen Thomson's catalogues of Books on Language in my October post to My Sentimental Library blog. I have over sixty of her catalogues.
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Here is Karen Thomson's listing of the 1668 book that contained the engraving I was interested in:
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The engraving appeared to illustrate how vowels and consonants were spoken. But I wanted to know more so I viewed Wilkin's work online via Early English Books Online (EEBO). Rather interesting, it is. Wilkins was attempting to make English the universal language, replacing Latin.
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I browsed the thumbnails on EEBO, and quickly found the illustration I was looking for:
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And in the same chapter on natural grammar I found this engraving as well:
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So much for Kneass designing the engraving in <i>The Diversions of Purley!</i> I don't know what they call it in engraving circles, but in writing circles we call it plagiarism. Granted, Kneass changed the man's clothes and even had the man's hand pointing straight instead of up, but everything else in the diagram is the same.
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The 1668 engraving is not signed, but John Wilkins was an engraver, and may have designed and engraved this illustration himself.
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Researching further –– something I failed to do before praising Kneass –– I notice that Wilkins, his figure of a man, and the phrase,"the following diagram," are mentioned in the chapter on prepositions in the 1806 First American Edition of <i>The Diversions of Purley.</i> But the diagram isn't in the chapter on prepositions; it is the frontispiece of the book.
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Notice anything different in the engravings? The man's hand is pointing in a different direction in each engraving: pointing up in the 1786 edition; pointing straight in the 1798 edition; and pointing down in the 1840 edition. The man's hand is pointing down in the 1840 and 1857 London editions as well. As mentioned before, the man's hand is pointing straight out in the frontispiece of the 1806 edition engraved by Kneass.
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Where there's smoke, there's fire, so I began to wonder if there was a little hanky panky going on with the frontispiece for Vol 2 of the First American Edition of <i>The Diversions of Purley</i> as well. William Kneass was also the engraver of the frontispiece of this volume, showing Mercury putting on his winged sandals. Kneass signed this engraving "W Kneass sc."
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I checked the frontispieces of the London editions online. There was no frontispiece in the 1786 edition, but Horne Tooke hired William Sharp (1749-1824) to design the engraving for the frontispiece of the 1798 edition: Mercury putting on his winged sandals. Sharp's engraving was used on all subsequent London editions.
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Kneass merely reversed the engraving, and had Mercury putting the winged sandal on his left foot instead of his right foot. Clever eh? Not.
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I should mention the following information concerning William Sharp which appeared in the <i>Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year 1825:</i>"He engraved the figure of Mercury putting on his sandal wings after a model or drawing by Banks for The Diversions of Purley (P225)."
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Banks would be Thomas Banks (1735-1805),Britain's first modern sculptor. I could find no recorded sculpture of Mercury putting on sandals by Banks. It may have been one of the models or drawings he created while still a student. At any rate, in regards to Sharp's engraving, I am pleased with the phrase "after a model or drawing by Banks." Too bad William Kneass didn't use such a phrase.
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<br />Jerry Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12692297896214444738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693447195304802204.post-26064345762800024992012-05-29T19:02:00.000-04:002013-09-21T11:58:52.768-04:00Biblio Researching 101A friend of mine recently asked me to put this book up for auction on eBay for him, with a starting bid of $19.99: <i>Historical Collections of All Nations</i> by John Frost, Columbus, 1852. We would split the proceeds. <br />
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There were three copies of this book listed for sale on the web –– excluding PODs, of course: An 1852 edition for $285, an 1854 edition for $115, and an 1857 edition for $250, all of which were in better condition than this copy.<br />
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I thought about rebinding the book, but decided it was better to preserve what was left of the original binding. A former owner had kept the book together by sewing the covers to the spine. <br />
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Before listing the auction, I decided to take a few pictures first, beginning with the frontispiece, the title page, and the former owner's inscription on the front free endpaper:<br />
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I googled the name, John C. Hardwick, and received over 30,000 hits. No help in identifying the former owner there. I began flipping its pages again, looking for interesting illustrations. I found some interesting pencil drawings too: drawings made by two different people: M. C. Slusser and J. B. Slusser, and on both sides of the the sheets:<br />
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I knew instantly that this Christiansburg, Va. Confederate Veterans' Reunion Ribbon was probably worth more than the book itself. I notified my friend of my findings. And we discussed selling the ribbon separately. But then I got to thinking. . . .<br />
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Everything might be worth more together if I can trace the history of the book, identify its former owners, and discover their link to the Confederate Veterans' Reunion Ribbon.<br />
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Googling M. C. Slusser brought me a mine of information –– excuse the pun:<br />
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The Slusser family owned a coal company store, supplying coal for the residents and businesses in the Blacksburg area.<br />
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The Virginia Tech Library has special collections of the <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/vt/viblbv00532.document">Slusser Business Papers</a> and the <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00198.xml;query=;">Slusser Family Papers</a>. The Slusser family owned and operated a coal mine in Blacksburg, Va. from 1840 to 1950.<br />
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Knowing their full names, I was then able to search for and find <a href="http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/montgomery/cemeteries/slusser1.txt">the gravestones</a> of most of the Slusser Family. Uncle Murry was Murray Custis Slusser (1872-1964). J. B. Slusser was Judson B. Slusser (1881-1906), Uncle Murray's brother. John C. Hardwick was John Cecil Hardwick (1895-1912). And John H. Slusser (1840-1909), on whose tombstone are the words "Confederate soldier," was John C. Hardwick's grandfather.<br />
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John Cecil Hardwick was a student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. And Virginia Tech has a <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00876.xml">Hardwick Family Collection</a> as well. <br />
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John C. Hardwick was the one who attended the Confederate Veterans Reunion at Christiansburg, Va. on August 22, 1906, probably with his grandfather, the Confederate veteran, John H. Slusser.<br />
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Dr. John B. Slusser (1802-1885), J. C. Hardwick's great-grandfather, was probably the original owner of this book.<br />
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John Harvey Slusser (1840-1909), J. C. Hardwick's grandfather, was probably the next owner of the book.<br />
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Murray Custis Slusser (1872-1964), J. C. Hardwick's uncle was the next owner of the book.<br />
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John C. Hardwick (1895-1912) was the last recorded owner of this book.<br />
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Update: I'll be selling the book and the ribbon separately on eBay, probably listing them the first week of June.<br />
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<br />Jerry Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12692297896214444738noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693447195304802204.post-44449862699532770212011-12-27T12:22:00.007-05:002014-07-19T10:07:52.693-04:00Researching the Value of Outlines of the Life of ShakespeareI received a comment to last month's <a href="http://mysentimentallibrary.blogspot.com/2011/11/jo-halliwell-phillipps-bibliophile.html">My Sentimental Library blog</a> from Chris Larizza of Stratford, Ct. regarding a book by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps. He recently acquired a presentation copy of an 1882 second edition of<i> Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare </i>by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps at an estate sale and queried me as to its value.<br />
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Chris acquired a second copy of this edition as well, but that copy was unsigned; however, it did have a bookplate that I found intriguing:<br />
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I will discuss the monetary value of both copies of this work in this blog post. But first, I will discuss the literary value. I can think of no better way to introduce the literary value of this book than refer to the book review by Henry B. Wheatley (1838-1917), which appeared in <i>The Bibliographer: a journal of book-lore</i>, London, 1882, Vol. 2, Page 147:<br />
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Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare By J. O. Halliwell Phillipps, F.R.S., F.S.A., etc. The second edition, London, Longmans, Green & Co, 1882, 8vo, pp. 703.<br />
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This book is a bibliographical curiosity, for the reason that in 1881 Mr Halliwell Phillipps printed it privately in an octavo volume of 192 pages, and within a year he has produced a second edition nearly four times as big, and now sells it for 7s 6d. It is certainly one of the cheapest books ever published. <br />
We do not propose to review the book as a life of Shakespeare because it is so full of matter, and contains so exhaustive a treatment of the information connected with its subject that we should need a whole number of our journal to do anything like justice to it, and moreover such a review would be more appropriate elsewhere. We wish however to draw special attention to the mass of bibliographical information which it contains. Mr Halliwell Phillipps has for so many years made a practice of studying the literature of Shakespeare's time for illustrations of the poet's life and works that any book which he produces is sure to be full of bibliographical detail. At p. 527 we find a series of copyright entries from 1593 (of Venus and Adonis) to 1623 (of the plays for the first folio). An account of lifetime editions follows these, and then there is a full account of the first folio. <br />
The volume is completed by the addition of a Documentary Appendix which contains particulars of all those documents that are important as giving us authentic information on the particulars of Shakespeare's life. These number fifty in all, and range from the conveyance (dated 17th July 1550) by Robert Arden, Shakespeare's maternal grandfather, of a house and land at Snitterfield, in trust for his three daughters (this farm was then occupied by Richard Shakespeare the poet's own grandfather), to some anecdotes respecting Shakespeare written in 1693. <br />
We have in this volume all those facts connected with the life of Shakespeare which are certainly known and we can find them kept apart from the conjectures so frequently hazarded in books of a similar character. </blockquote>
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A review in the Sept 16, 1882 issue of <i>The Academy</i> echoed the same sentiments: <br />
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The low price surprised me because many of Halliwell-Phillipps's works were published in pricey limited editions of 150 copies. In writing his obituary, a writer in T<i>he Critic</i> said he once asked Halliwell-Phillipps why only 150 copies were printed of most of his works? Halliwell-Phillipps replied that some collectors would pay extremely high prices for limited editions, but wouldn't even consider buying unlimited editions. <br />
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As for the 1882 edition of <i> Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare</i> being a bibliographical curiosity because of the vast expansion of its pages, I am reminded of Thomas Frognall Dibdin's book, <i>Bibliomania.</i> The 1809 edition was a mere 87 pages. But the 1811 edition was a whopping 782 pages!<br />
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Writing the 1881 edition of <i>Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare</i> wasn't the first time Halliwell-Phillipps wrote about the Life of Shakespeare. In 1848, he published a biography of Shakespeare which contained 336 pages: <i>The Life of William Shakespeare. Including Many Particulars Respecting the Poet and His Family Never Before Published</i>. In 1853, he included a "Life of the Poet" in Vol 1 of the massive sixteen-volume edition of the <i>Works of William Shakespeare</i>, London, 1853-65. Only 150 copies were printed of each volume. The first volume alone was priced at 70 guineas. The 1853 "Life of the Poet" was called by some Shakespeare scholars "an extension" of the 1848 Life, but it contained only 303 pages and that included the Preface and list of plates and woodcuts. If he wanted to, however, Halliwell-Phillipps could have used the phrase "never before published" for the many editions of <i>Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare.</i> From 1881 to his death in 1889, he consistently either added to or revised the contents of this work. Here is a sampling of the record of editions of this work which were published during his lifetime:<br />
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1882 Second Edition 703<br />
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1884 Fourth Edition 480**<br />
1885 Fifth Edition 640<br />
1886 Sixth Edition 784 (384 & 400)<br />
1887 Seventh Edition 851 (419 & 432)***<br />
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As far as literary value goes, the 1887 edition contains the most pages, but the early editions are nothing to sneeze at. I would want to compare the 1887 edition to the 1882 edition, and see how much the extended quantity of pages contributed towards an increase of literary value. <br />
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There were even editions published after Halliwell-Phillipps's death: an eighth edition in 1889, a ninth edition in 1890, and a tenth edition in 1898. These editions were simply reprints of the 1887 seventh edition because the number of pages remained the same. The year 1898 marks the end of Halliwell-Phillips's dominance because that is the year that Sidney Lee published his biography of Shakespeare. For over forty years, Halliwell-Phillipps researched and wrote about Shakespeare, leaving Sidney Lee and the many Shakespearian authors to follow a mountain of Shakespeariana to borrow from.<br />
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As far as monetary value goes, there is no mountain of information to research in order to determine the monetary value of the Larizza copies of the 1882 edition of <i>Outlines.... </i>There is only one copy of the 1882 edition listed for sale on the web. There are no listings of a presentation copy of the 1882 edition for sale on the web. Charles Parkhurst Rare Books in Prescott, Az. has a copy of the 1882 edition listed for $400, but the Parkhurst copy is in much better condition than either of the Larizza copies. Charles Parkhurst also has an 1883 edition of this work, acquiring both copies when he bought the Shakespeare collection of the late Los Angeles book collector, Jerry D. Melton. The 1883 copy is listed for $250.<br />
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In order to increase their monetary value, both Larizza copies are in need of minor repair by a professional bookbinder. The cloth of the presentation copy is split on the top right side. Additionally, a previous owner's label needs to be removed from the top of the spine:<br />
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After these copies are repaired, how much will the Larizza copies be worth? Exactly how much a buyer is willing to pay for them. The monetary value of a presentation copy depends upon the scarcity of the work, the collectibility of the author, and the prominence of the person the book was presented to. Obviously, the Larizza presentation copy is scarce because no other presentation copy of that edition is listed on the web. There is an 1887 seventh edition listed by a UK bookseller for $193 that could be a presentation copy.<br />
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There are only two copies of <i>Outlines...</i> listed on ILAB, the two Parkhurst copies mentioned above. There are eighteen copies of <i>Outlines...</i> listed on Abebooks, ten of which are exlibrary and in poor condition. The Parkhurst copies are listed on Abebooks as are two copies of the 1887 edition. <br />
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KHP Books in Vernon Hills, Il. has their 1887 copy listed for $350 with the only fault being that the spine of Volume 1 is weakened. Several pieces of Shakespearian ephemera belonging to a former owner are included with the set. The other 1887 edition is listed by Staniland Booksellers in Rutland, U.K. This set was bound in richly decorated contemporary green morocco with raised bands and marbled boards by Henry Sotheran & Co., probably shortly after its first owner purchased it. What is interesting is that in the listing it says that this copy is "inscribed by author on half-title," which makes me wonder if it is a presentation copy. If so, I believe it is underpriced at a mere $192. The only drawback would be the postage from the U.K. to the U.S.<br />
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I found five presentation copies of works written and inscribed by Halliwell-Phillipps. And the Staniland copy of <i>Outlines...</i> was the most expensive. One of them, <i>Memoranda on the Tragedy of Hamlet</i>, London, 1879 was only listed for $56. That copy was presented to Sir Arthur Hodgson, an Australian politician. I have a presentation copy of this work in my own library, but I believe the provenance of my copy increases its value. My copy was presented to the author James Russell Lowell. When I bought my copy six years ago, it was listed for $100. Today I believe it would be closer to $150.<br />
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The Larizza presentation copy of <i>Outlines... </i>was presented to F. H. Pryor, Mayor, Alderman, and Burgesses of the City of Gloucester. Both Halliwell-Phillipps and Pryor were members of the British Archaeological Association. I don't believe this provenance affects its monetary value. I do believe either a university librarian or a Shakespeare collector will buy this presentation copy. Once the copy is repaired, I believe it could fetch upwards of $500.<br />
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And now for the second copy with the bookplate and verse from Chaucer. The book belonged to Caleb Thomas Winchester (1847-1920). He was the librarian of Wesleyan University at Middletown, Ct. from 1869 to 1885, and Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature from 1873 to 1920. He was the author of a biography of John Wesley as well as a number of articles and books on literature. <br />
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In February 2010, James Caudle, Associate Editor of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, contacted me after reading my note in the September 2009 issue of the <i>Johnsonian News Letter. </i> I had informed Johnsonians and Boswellians that we were cataloguing the libraries of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell on Library Thing. James Caudle made our work more expansive, providing me with several catalogues and lists of books formerly owned by the Boswells. One of them was a copy of the <i>Catalogue of Greek & Latin Classics in the Auchinleck Library. </i><br />
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I recently completed the cataloguing of the <strike>279</strike>
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Of the <strike>279</strike> 290* works listed in the 1810 Catalogue, at least 75 of the them were sold during the 1893 Auchinleck Sale. Another five works were sold during the 1916 Sotheby Catalogue. Auction lot numbers are annotated in the right-hand column, with "A" denoting the works sold in the 1893 Auchinleck Sale, and "S" denoting the works sold in the 1916 Sotheby Sale. <br />
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I am providing an annotated copy below of the <i>1810 Catalogue of Greek & Latin Classics in the Auchinleck Library</i> for your research purposes. <i> </i>The official sources for this document are:<br />
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Marion S. Pottle, Claude Colleer Abbott and Frederick A. Pottle, eds. Catalogue<br />
of the Papers of James Boswell at Yale University, 3 Vols. (Edinburgh:<br />
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Boswell Collection. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MSS89, Box 60, Folder 1271, Catalogue of Greek and Latin Classics...(p15) 1810<br />
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The 1810 Catalogue is nowhere near perfect. Hardly any of the titles are provided. And some of the dates and places of publication are inaccurate–or at least they appear to be inaccurate. Some of them could be, as James Caudle cautioned, "ghost editions." I've annotated my corrections in the catalogue below. Please contact me if you believe any of my corrections are flawed.<br />
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P1 Aesop Latin R. Stephanus Lutet. 1550 Should be <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/11329910/details/73820209">1546</a>.<br />
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P1 Aristophanes Plant. Lugd. Bat. 15 Should be <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/10772883/details/73886892">1600</a>.<br />
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P1 Aristophanes Maire 1524 Should be <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/11336337/details/73887431">1624</a>.<br />
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P2 Ausonius Scaligeri Heidelb 1688 Should be <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/11339560/details/73919456">1588</a>.<br />
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P3 Claudianus Heinsius Elzevir Lugd. P. 1665 Should be <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/3879646/details/74157811">Amsterdam</a>.<br />
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P3 Dion Cassius Oporinus Basil 1557 Should be <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/11233199/details/72861971">1558</a>.<br />
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P5 Lucanus Elzevir Lugd B. 1658 Should be <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/11386598/details/74442110">Hackium</a>.<br />
P5 Lucanus Amst. 1658 Should be <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/11386630/details/74442492">Elzevir</a>.<br />
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P6 Pindar H. Steph. Antw. 1560 Could be <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/9218977/details/74886177">Paris</a>.<br />
P6 Plinius Senior Froben. Fol. Basil 1534 Could be <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/11480889/details/75363442">1530</a>.<br />
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P8 Statius Ed. Prin. Fol. Romae 1475 Could be <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/11532581/details/75911503">Venice 1483</a>.<br />
P8 Suetonius Jansson Amstel. 1531 Could be <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/11525522/details/75824430">1631</a>.<br />
P8 Suetonius R. Steph. 1533 Could be <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/10244640/details/62986733">Paris 1543</a>.<br />
P8 Terentius R. Steph. 4to Paris 1531 Could be <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/11531624/details/75897608">1541</a>.<br />
P8 Terentius R. Steph. Paris 1740 Could be <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/11534648/details/75930570">1540</a>.<br />
P8 Theocrites 8 vo Oxon. Could be <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/11535098/details/75934092">1699</a>.<br />
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P9 Virgilius H. Steph. 8vo no date Could be <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/11535972/details/75941106">Geneva 1576</a>.<br />
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Thanks again to James Caudle and Yale University for enabling us to catalogue another portion of the Boswell Library for viewing on <a href="http://www.librarything.com/profile/JamesBoswell">Library Thing</a>.<br />
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ADDENDA:<br />
Jul 31, 2011:<br />
My friend, Per Ralåmb, Proprietor of Rosenlund Rare Books & Manuscripts in New Jersey, and a collector of early printed books reviewed my corrections, using three bibliographies I was unfamiliar with: Schweiger, Renouard, and Brueggeman. His research recorded below is already included in the respective Library Thing listings.<br />
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P1 Aesop Latin R. Stephanus 1550. This is should be, as you indicated, the 1546 edition in 4to though it was printed in Greek and not Latin. The only 1550 Latin edition was printed in Basel.<br />
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P1 Aristophanes Plant. Lugd. Bat. 15 . This is, as you mentioned, the 1600 Plantin edition. <br />
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P1 Arsitophanes Maire 1524. This is the Scaliger edition of 1624. By the way, in order for this edition to be complete, it must contain the 56p of the Fragments which is sometimes missing.<br />
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P2 Ausonius Scaligeri Heidelb 1688. This is correct. Should be the 1588 Heidelberg edition.<br />
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P3 Claudianus Heinsius Elzevir Lugd. P. 1665. Should be Amsterdam. <br />
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P3 Dion Cassius Oporinus Basil 1557. The preface is dated November 1557, but the printed title page is dated 1558.<br />
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P5 Lucanus Elzevir Lugd B. 1658 The Hackius edition was printed in Leyden and the Elzevier in Amsterdam.<br />
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P5 Lucanus Amst. 1658 Should be Elzevir Correct<br />
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P6 Pindar H. Steph. Antw. 1560. Printed in Paris by the Estienne Press. <br />
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P6 Plinius Senior Froben. Fol. Basil 1534 . Froben printed one edition in 1530 and another 1535.<br />
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P8 Statius Ed. Prin. Fol. Romae 1475. Schweiger mentions a 1475 edition printed in Rome. <br />
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P8 Suetonius Jansson Amstel. 1531. This is tricky because there are a few choices, but no 1631 Amsterdam edition by Jansson in Schweiger. There is by Jansson a 1621 Amsterdam edition listed.<br />
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P8 Suetonius R. Steph. 1533. Agree. Should be 1543 by Estienne.<br />
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P8 Terentius R. Steph. 4to Paris 1531. A bit tricky as well. There is an 8vo edition printed in Paris 1531 and a 12mo as well as a 4to edition printed in Paris 1541. My guess, this is the 4to edition.<br />
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P8 Terentius R. Steph. Paris 1740. There is no Estienne Paris edition of 1540 according to Renouard. So, this should be the Estienne 12mo edition of 1541. Schweiger is a bit unclear, but seems to follow the same flow of editions.<br />
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P8 Theocrites 8 vo Oxon. Tricky. There are in Brueggeman three 8vo editions from Oxford, 1676, 1699 and 1760. There is even a fourth but 4to edition printed in 1770. <br />
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*Update: June 2013 After reviewing Terry Seymour's article in the March 2013 issue of the <i>Johnsonian News Letter,</i> I discovered that I hadn't cataloged all the entries listed in the 1810 Catalogue. Moreover, where there were duplicate copies of a work, only one work was counted by Library Thing toward the total count of the works. I listed all duplicate works separately and identified and catalogued the entries I had missed in 2011.
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Jerry Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12692297896214444738noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693447195304802204.post-41214179928826256242011-07-16T16:01:00.036-04:002018-12-23T09:31:35.116-05:00A Statius CheckWhen it comes to researching Greek and Latin classics, the phrase "that's Greek to me," accentuates its own meaning. The names of the authors, printers, and publishers are often spelled three different ways. And there are sometimes three different versions of the same title, whether it be in Greek or Latin. But I've been getting quite a bit of practice while cataloguing the Boswell Library on <a href="http://www.librarything.com/profile/JamesBoswell">Library Thing</a>. It took us 13 months to catalogue the 1825 Auction Catalogue, and another 13 months to catalogue the 1893 Auchinleck Sale. But we didn't stop there. Dave Larkin and Anna Ritchie started on the 1916 James Boswell Talbot Sale, while I concentrated on the 1810 Catalogue of Greek & Latin Classics in the Auchinleck Library:<br />
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I was going along fine––until I came to Statius. The two 1475 Romae editions confused me. And then it did a whole lot more than that!<br />
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Alexander Boswell wrote this catalogue in 1810. I just wish he was a bit more descriptive in his identification of the titles of the two 1475 Statius editions. Was the same title published in two different sizes in 1475? Or were these two works two entirely different books? Some explanations: "Ed. Princ." stands for "Editio Princeps" which means "First Edition." "Pannaru" is a different spelling of the name of Pannartz the publisher. Don't ask me what the "E.S." after "Silvae" stands for because I'd only be guessing (See Addendum 07/18/11). "Silvae" is the title of one of Statius's works. <br />
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I did a COPAC search using the following criteria: Author: Statius Date of Publication: 1475 Place of Publication: Rome<br />
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<a href="http://copac.ac.uk/search?rn=1&au=statius&date=1475&plp=romae&sort-order=ti%2C%2Ddate"> First Result </a><br />
<a href="https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/search?author=statius&date=1475&plp=rome&rn=2">Second Result</a><br />
<a href="https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/search?author=statius&date=1475&plp=rome&rn=3">Third Result</a><br />
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All three books were identified as 4to editions (quartos). And although the first one was identified as an "Editio Princeps" (First Edition), it was not a folio as called for in the 1810 Catalogue.<br />
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I then performed a search on Overcat, a special Library Thing search engine to find the exact editions of titles of books to catalogue for "Statius 1475." I got two hits. One was an edition of <i>Silvae</i>, but the listing said the book was published in (Venice after 1475). The brackets meant that the place and date of publication were not identified in the work). The other hit was for a book which included the <i>Silvae</i> of Statius, but Catullus was listed as the author. Next, I searched the Library Thing link to the GBV, a German network of European libraries. I got a hit on a title and edition that was <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/11305878/details/73605157">already catalogued</a> from the 1893 Auchinleck Sale, lot 752:<br />
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Looking for additional information, I searched COPAC by that title and got this <a href="http://copac.ac.uk/search?rn=1&ti=Hoc+volumine+Domitius+inseruit+Sylvarum+Statii+Papinii+quinque+a+se+emendatos%2E+&sort-order=rank">unexpected hit</a>: A folio edition that was a reprint of the 1475 edition Pannartz published in Rome. Again, the brackets meant the place and date of publication were not listed in the work. What's more, this work sounded suspiciously like the first result from the Overcat search (Venice after 1475). <br />
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I had noticed several references to a Statius 1475 folio edition on the web, but found no library listings of a 1475 folio edition of Statius published in Rome. So I rashly concluded that the circa 1482 Venice edition was actually the work identified in the 1810 Catalogue as "Statius Ed. Prin. Fol. Romae 1475." My thinking was that the Venice edition, in which the date and place of publication were not identified on the title page, may have had the title page of the 1475 edition inserted behind it. I further deduced that the work catalogued in lot number 752 of the 1893 Auchinleck Sale was the <i>Silvae</i> 4to edition listed in the 1810 Catalogue. In a "Correct Me if I'm Wrong" email, I announced my findings to the esteemed members of our Boswell Advisory Group to Library Thing: James Caudle, the Associate Editor of the Yale Editions of the Papers of James Boswell, Paul T. Ruxin, the Boswell collector, and Terry Seymour, the Boswell cataloguer.<br />
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Terry was the first to jump all over my s___. He insisted that the work listed in lot number 752 of the Auchinleck Sale was a folio edition. His reasoning was that Sotheby listed the work in the Folio section (works are separated by size: octavo et infra, quarto and folio)... I had to admit. He had a point there!<br />
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I remembered that Quaritch had bought lot 752, and that the Quaritch Rough List No. 135, Sept. 1893, was online:<br />
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<i> MCOOCLXXV . . </i>(1475) 10 0 0 <span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
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SErvIT. Syluarum Statii papinii libros quinque a se emendatos. Commen- <span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Lucida Grande';"><br />
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The key words in 941 of Quaritch's Rough List No. 135 are the words "small folio." This is the work listed in lot number 752 of the 1893 Auchinleck Sale. Remember the edition published in Venice after 1475? That sounds awfully similar to the edition identified in 942 of Quaritch's Rough List No. 135. Surprisingly, this book was not listed in the 1893 Auchinleck Sale.<br />
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But what about the other listing in the 1810 Catalogue? Time to do more research, but this time I hit some of the books in my own library. And I'm looking for an Editio Princeps of one of Statius's works that was published in Rome in 1475. There are four works to choose from, but only two works are possibilities: <i>Statii Opera </i>and the<i> Silvae. </i>The other two works, <i>Thebais </i>and <i>Achilleis, </i>were published before 1475.<br />
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Brunet's bibliography was first published in 1810, the same year Alexander Boswell created the 1810 Catalogue. In fact, there was a copy of the 1810 edition of Brunet's work listed in lot number 73 of the 1893 Auchinleck Sale. Which Boswell was the first to take it down from a shelf and refer to it? Was it Alexander Boswell? Did he read French? Could be! The Auchinleck Library also contained a seven-volume set of <i>Bibliographie instructive: ou, Traité de la connoissance des lvres et singuliers </i>by Guiillaume Francoois Debure, published from 1763 to 1768 (see lot number 262 of the 1893 Auchinleck Sale). Also in lot 262 of the 1893 Auchinleck Sale was a set of Adam Clarke's <i>Bibliographical Dictionary...</i> published in six volumes in 1803 with two supplements added on.<br />
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If you can read French, take a look at the Statius listings below, and have at it. It's Greek to me, although Brunet appears to be referring to a premiere edition (first edition) of a <i>Statii Opera</i> published in Rome in 1475. The <i>Statii Opera </i>contained all of the works of Statius.<br />
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Notice the Pannartz edition of <i>Sylvarum </i>published in Rome in 1475 "in 4-" below? That would be a 4to edition. I've seen several listings of this 4to 1475 edition on COPAC.<br />
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The first edition of Fournier's bibliography was published in 1805 and the second edition in 1809.<br />
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Fournier also presented information about a premiere edition of <i>Silvae </i>in 1475, but the edition he identified is a folio edition!<br />
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Have no fear, the next classical bibliography was published in English. Thank God! It was first published in 1825.<br />
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Moss's words about the <i>Statii Opera </i>are enlightening to say the least; but don't help much in identifying an Editio Princeps of a work by Statius that was published in Rome in folio in 1475.<br />
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Moss also lists the 1475 Rome edition of <i>Silvae </i>in folio<i>. </i>Could Pannartz have published the work in both folio and 4to at the same place in the same year?<br />
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And then there is the <a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/bibliothecaspenc02spen#page/366/mode/2up">Bibliotheca Spenceriana</a> catalogued by Dibdin. I have yet to acquire a copy of this work for my own library. But there was a copy of this work in the Auchinleck Library (lot number 73 of the 1893 Auchinleck Sale); however, the work wasn't published until 1814. What is striking in the <i>Bibliotheca Spenceriana </i>is that Dibdin identifies a 1475 folio edition of <i>Silvae.</i> In his bibliography previously presented, he identified a 4to edition of the same work by the same publisher in 1475, increasing the likelihood that Pannartz published both a folio and 4to edition of the work in 1475. The first paragraph of the Statius listings in the Spencer Library provides a summary of sorts for you, but doesn't help in identifying the 1475 Editio Princeps if one ever existed at all: <br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant: small-caps;">Statius. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant: small-caps;">Thebais </span>et <span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant: small-caps;">Achilleis. </span><i>Without Name of Printer, Place, or Date. </i>Folio.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant: small-caps;">Editio </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant: small-caps;">Princeps. </span><span class="gstxt_hlt" style="background-color: yellow; font-family: inherit;">There are few points in bibliography </span>more difficult to settle with satisfaction, than that of the exact chronological order of the publications of the several pieces of <span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant: small-caps;">Statius. </span>De Bure is exceedingly brief and superficial; and Ernesti and Panzer are not only a little confused, but incorrect. Brunet is somewhat methodical and satisfactory. The present impression of the <i>Thebais </i>and <i>Achillas </i>is called by Count Rericzky, in his usual style of designation, <span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant: small-caps;">Editio </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant: small-caps;">Primari</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant: small-caps;">A </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant: small-caps;">Princeps.</span>The Count considered it to be more ancient than an apparently similar impression in the <i>Cat. de la Valliere, </i>vol. ii. n°. 2544; and which impression Brunet introduces as the first genuine one, in the order observed by him in the <i>Manuel du Libraire, </i>vol. ii. 505. Whether the Valliere copy be the same as the present edition, is rather doubtful; but if we may judge from extrinsic evidence, there seems to be little or no doubt that the impression under description is more ancient than the <i>Sylvte </i>or <i>Achilleis, </i>each with the express date of 1472....<br />
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And then there is George Wolfgang Panzer's <i>Annales Typographici, </i>a massive eleven-volume bibliography published from 1793 to 1803. Its English title is <i>Annals of Typography From the Origin of Printing to 1536.</i>" As if there wasn't enough bibliographical references already available in the Auchinleck Library, this set was on the shelves as well (see lot number 449 of the 1893 Auchinleck Sale).<br />
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In his <i><a href="http://archive.org/stream/anecdoteslitera12belogoog#page/n405/mode/2up/search/statius">Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books</a>, </i> William Beloe was kind enough to translate the portion pertaining to Statius from Panzer's books:<br />
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In the accounts given by various Bibliographers of the editions of Statius, there is great confusion. That which is here offered is as accurate as an examination of several of them, and a diligent investigation of the different notices which are given of the others by various authors, has enabled me to draw up. There is only one edition of the 15th century, containing the entire works of this poet, which can be considered as valuable, and I suspect that to be of a much later date than has usually been assigned to it The others contain only separate pieces. Whether this has arisen from the manuscripts, which were in the hands of the editors, comprising no more than what they have published, or that were at the time the more admired and popular parts of the author, is not possible at this day to be determined.</div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdff01;">Stati I </span>Opera, i. e. Thebais, cum interpretatione Placidii Lactantii. Achilleis cum recollectis traditis a Domino Francisco Maturantio Perusino; Sylvarum Libri V. cum commentar. Domitii Calderini.</div>
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Sine nomine typographi, et cum alia praefatione ab ea quae est typis Arnoldi Pannartz Romae Calendis Sextilibus Mcccclxxv. Folio.</div>
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This book was in the Crevenna Collection, the learned possessor of which has given a very particular account of it, vol. iii. 234, by which it appears, that the date of the year, which is subjoined to the Sylvae, and to the Commentary of Calderinus, is not to be taken for the year in which the book was printed, but for that in which the Commentary was composed at Rome. That it was not printed in that city is clear, not only from the silence of Audiffredi concerning it, but because the types do not resemble those of any Roman printer. Nor was it so early as the year 1475, as the book has signatures, and every other appearance of having come out much nearer the end of the century. Crevenna himself, with some reason, supposes it to be no other than the edition set forth at Venice in 1490, by Jac. de Paganinis, as the contents are the same, and the characters exactly resemble those of that printer.</div>
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There is indeed another edition of the whole works of Statius, said to be printed at Rome, 1476, which is cited by Panzer ii. 467j 250, on the authority of Maittaire, but this is probably the same with that which has been just described, as Audiffredi gives no other account of it than what is derived from the Annales.</div>
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The Sylvae, which are to be first mentioned, are to be found with that most rare edition of Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius, which has already been noticed as printed (probably by Vindelinus Spira) at Venice, in 1472. They <i>are </i>also subjoined to another edition of the same author's, Ven. J. de Colonia, 1475, and to the edition of Catullus, Parmae apud Corallum, 1473.</div>
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An edition of the Sylvae, circa annum 1473, is mentioned by Panzer iv. 196. 11<i>69, </i>with reference to the Crevenna Sale Catalogue. Having never seen the book, I am unable to ascertain whether the antiquity of it is so great as is presumed.</div>
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With more certainty can I speak of a very rare and valuable edition of the Sylvae, with the comment of Calderinus, which was printed at Rome by Pannartz, in 1475, The text is in the same character with that which he used when he printed with Sweynheym; but the commentary is in a smaller and more elegant type, which he began to use after the death of his partner. This book is in Lord Spencer's and in the Bishop of Rochester's Collections.</div>
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The Sylvz were also printed at Florence in 1480, apud Sanctum Jacobum de Ripoli. All the books which came from this monastery are valuable. I have seen no copy of this edition.</div>
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This edition certainly exists, (though no copy is known in this kingdom,) as it is mentioned and particularly described by the accurate Audiffredi. Specim, 230.</div>
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Venetiis, 1472, 4to. In fine, Uteris qu&dratis, Papinii Statu Sursuli Achilleidos finis M.ccccixxii. Nicolao Trono principe Venetiis.</div>
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The character is that of J. de Colonia, and the book has 24 leaves, and 34 lines in each page.</div>
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The Colophon subjoined to this edition is very curious, and contains a severe censure on the editors of one or both the forementionod editions. "Si quas optime lector hoc in. opeie lituras inveneris nasum ponito, nam Stephaqus Corallus Lugdunensis invidorum quorundam malevolentia lacessitus, qui idem imprimere tcntarunt citius quam asparagi coquantur id absolvit ac summo studio emendatum literarum studiosis legendum tradidit Parmae. wcccc wsxi i1. x CaL April.</div>
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So what was that bolt of lightning which appeared directly above? Was this the mysterious <i>Statii Opera </i>cited by a number of bibliographers? Could this be the Editio Princeps Alexander Boswell was referring to in the 1810 Catalogue? Good question. <br />
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07/18/11. My friend Asta just informed me that "E.S." stands for "Editio Secundum." That would be correct because the 1475 edition was the second edition of <i>Silvae.</i><br />
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07/20/11. As far as cataloguing Statius's editio princeps on Library Thing, I'm going to go with the 1483 edition of the <i><a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/11532581/details/75911503">Statii Opera</a></i> that was published by Octavianus Scotus in Venice in 1483. Panzer's argument concerning the 1490 edition sounds good too, but the 1490 edition was already listed in the 1810 Catalogue and was catalogued as lot 753 of the 1893 Auchinleck Sale.<br />
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10/09/13 There have been over 100 page views of this blog post in the past two months. Has someone recommended it? Just curious.<br />
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I read Mark Garvey's book, <i>Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i>Strunk & White's The Elements of Style,</i> and I was disappointed. Although he provides a comprehensive history of E.B. White's editions, he doesn't do the same for William Strunk's editions. One Strunk edition, the undated Thrift Press edition, isn't even mentioned in Garvey's book.</span></i></div>
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In his Introduction, Garvey tells us that the story begins in 1957 when White received a copy of the 1918 edition in the mail. Garvey slants his story that way with hardly any mention of Strunk's other editions. He tells us that he visited the Cornell archives, and held a copy of the 1918 edition in his hands. Had he held a copy of the 1919 edition in his hands as well, he may have discovered that <a href="http://biblioresearching.blogspot.com/2009/09/corrections-to-bibliographic-records.html">W. F. Humphrey was the printer of the 1918 edition</a> and the 1919 edition, and not W. P. Humphrey, as everyone including E. B. White had believed.</div>
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The only thing slightly obsessive about Garvey's book is his inclusion of the thoughts of other writers concerning<i> The Elements of Style.</i> I'd rather know how many copies of the 1918, 1919, and 1920 editions were printed. The book is supposed to be about the history of <i>The Elements of Style. </i> Garvey tells us that another Cornell instructor, Edward A. Tenney, revised the 1935 edition and changed the title to <i>The Elements and Practice of Composition. </i>Did Strunk help revise it? What about the 1934 or 1936 editions? Did Strunk help revise them? And how many copies of the 1934,1935, and 1936 editions were printed? That is the slightly obsessive history I want to know.</div>
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The 1934 edition was undated, but Strunk and Tenney acquired the copyright on August 17, 1934. Tenney and possibly Strunk totally revised the format, replaced several words in Strunk's 1920 list of "Words Often Misspelled" with numerous new words, and replaced some of Strunk's recommended reference books. The title, however, remained the same: <i>The Elements of Style</i></div>
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Strunk and Tenney acquired the copyright for the 1935 edition of <i>The Elements and Practice of Composition </i>on September 17, 1935. Strunk had already been in Hollywood since July as an adviser for the MGM production of Romeo and Juliet. At the time, Strunk was considered to be one of the leading Shakespeare authorities in the country. Strunk remained in Hollywood until June 1936 and most likely played little part in the editing of the 1935 and 1936 editions. Except for one major change, the format of the 1935 and 1936 editions remained the same as the 1934 edition. The 1934 edition did not include the practice leaves; students had to purchase them separately. The 1935 and 1936 editions contained the practice leaves in the back of the book.</div>
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Strunk retired in 1937, and that should have been the end of the history of Strunk's early editions. But Garvey tells us that because of the shortage of instructors during the war, Cornell called Strunk out of retirement in 1943. Strunk only lasted two months because he got sick, but in that time, what book do you think he provided his students with? Do you think he provided them with Tenney's revised edition? I don't think so.</div>
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In my Elements of Style Collection, I have an undated edition of <i>The Elements of Style</i> that was printed by the Thrift Press of Ithaca, New York. When I acquired it in 2001, I thought the edition preceded the 1920 edition – until I glanced at the title page: <i>The Elements of Style</i> by William Strunk, Jr. Professor of English, Emeritus, Cornell University. The word "emeritus" means that this edition wasn't published until after Strunk retired in 1937. I had always thought that some of the other Cornell instructors had the Thrift Press edition printed because they didn't care for the Tenney editions. I now believe that Strunk had the edition printed when he returned to teaching in 1943. Except for minor revisions, the Thrift Press edition is a reprint of the 1920 edition.</div>
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In their listing of the Thrift Press edition, Cornell University has the publication date as circa 1958. I believe it was published in the early 1940s. One of the recommended references in the Thrift Press edition is <i>Webster's Collegiate Dictionary,</i> Fifth Edition, G. & C. Merriam Co.. This edition was first published in 1936 with numerous reprints in the 1940s. In 1949, Merriam published <i>The New Collegiate Dictionary,</i> replacing <i>Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.</i> If the Thrift Press edition of <i>The Elements of Style</i> were published in 1958, wouldn't the newer reference have been<i> </i>listed?</div>
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In his 1934 edition, Tenney deleted five of the "Words Often Misspelled" which were listed in Strunk's 1920 edition: affect, effect, impostor, incident, and Philip. In the early 1940s edition, four of the five "Words Often Misspelled" were reincarnated: affect, effect, incident, and Philip. The word not brought back was impostor. The fact that the word "Philip" was brought back makes me believe the word was one of Strunk's idiosyncrasies. Moreover, of the 47 new "Words Often Misspelled," Tenney added to the 1934 edition, at least 37 were deleted in the Thrift Press Edition, and replaced by 71 new words, three of which could describe the Tenney editions: contemptible, irrelevant, and outrageous. Was this Strunk's doing? Possibly.</div>
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I recently acquired a copy of the 1919 edition of <i>The Elements of Style</i> by William Strunk, Jr. for my Elements of Style Collection. While collating the book, I was surprised to see that the printer was identified on the verso of the title page as the Press of W. F. Humphrey, Geneva, N.Y.<br />
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I thought at first that it had to be a typo because the bibliographic records at the Library of Congress and elsewhere identify the Press of W. P. Humphrey, Geneva, N.Y. as the printer of the 1918 and 1919 editions. Moreover, W. P. Humphrey is listed as the printer of the <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=BwwDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA813&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U13y74deoF-Tff1Zbf8H9lCCNRAlQ&ci=47%2C1425%2C901%2C274&edge=0">1918</a> and <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=0hYDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA802&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U1QbEC8lEp7dcllQJDyuromS34Cog&ci=66%2C1349%2C927%2C292&edge=0">1919 </a>editions in the Catalogue of Copyright Entries published by the Library of Congress. A quick check online, however, revealed that there was a printing firm by the name of W. F. Humphrey in business in Geneva, New York during that period.
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I queried Cornell University, identified my findings, and asked them to examine their copies of the 1918 and 1919 editions. Patrick J. Stevens, Curator of the Fiske Collections<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">, </span></span> Kroch Library, Cornell University, performed the examination. Here are his findings:<br />
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"Examining first the 1919 copy, I saw that the very small typeface could easily be read as W. P. Humphrey. With my reading glasses, however, it is clear the name is W. F. Humphrey.</div>
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"As for the 1918 copies, both have what appears to be the same printerstatement on the title page verso as the 1919, but for the 1918, it isconsiderably harder to discern whether the letter in question is a P or an F. I think the impression is simply not a good, clean one and that it could therefore very well be an F. One cannot with absolutecertainty confirm it as a P. So I would, given the history, the appearanceof the typesetting and so forth, say it was an F.</div>
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Several days later I again examined the three items mentioned above
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"The 1919 edition we have is unequivocally W. F.
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impression. Thus the F in the word "of" in the statement is identical
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While Patrick was examining Cornell's copies of the 1918 and 1919 editions, I was researching the histories of the Press of W.F. Humphrey and the Press of W. P. Humphrey. If the records at Cornell were wrong, that meant the records at the Library of Congress, WorldCat, and everywhere else in the book world were wrong.<br />
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The Press of W. F. Humphrey had been in the printing business in Geneva, New York since the late 1890s. In 1896 its place of business was 30 Linden Street. In 1917, its place of business was 300 Pulteney Street. William Francis Humphrey was the proprietor of the W. F. Humphrey Press. While a student at Hobart College in Geneva, he was an editor of the <i>Hobart College Herald. </i>His firm later became the printer of the <i>Herald</i>. His firm also printed the <i>Cornell Law Quarterly.</i> William Francis Humphrey was very active in the community. He was a member of the Elks, the Masons, Trinity Church, the Chamber of Commerce, the Rod and Gun Club, the Geneva Country Club, and the United Typothetae of America. He died of pneumonia in 1934.<br />
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On the other hand, the Press of W. P. Humphrey was not in the printing business in Geneva, New York. At least Karen Osburn, Archivist of the Geneva Historical Society, could find no record of its existence. Google Books erroneously lists W.P. Humphrey as the printer of numerous works; but an examination of the printer's name on the publications will show the same problems with the typeface as experienced with the 1918 edition of <i>The Elements of Style</i>. The only publications listed in the records of the Library of Congress in which W.P. Humphrey is identified as the printer are the 1918 and 1919 editions of <i>The Elements of Style</i>.<br />
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Strunk received a few copies of the article, which was reprinted from the book. He gave a copy of the article to the author, Frederick Tupper. It is stamped "With the Compliments of" and signed "W. Strunk Jr."<br />
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Jerry Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12692297896214444738noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693447195304802204.post-3684205919703370142009-05-19T14:56:00.127-04:002022-01-20T12:23:00.194-05:00My Elements of Style Collection<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>Nota Bene</b>: I originally published this post on May 19,2009. I revised the post a week later to include a new addition to the collection. And I revised it again the next month to include another addition. I continued to revise the post with each new addition until 2012. This is how my Elements of Style Collection looked like in 2012.</span></span><div><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">.</span></span><div><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i><br /></i></span></span>
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I collect multiple copies of <span style="font-style: italic;">The Elements of Style.</span> In this blog entry, I will display my collection, and identify some of the revisions for each edition. To date, I have thirty-seven copies of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">The Elements of Style</span>, and one copy of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">The Elements and Practice of Composition. </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Ten</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"> </span>copies of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">The Elements of Style </span>are collectible copies of pre-1959 editions. One of them is a copy of the 1919 edition. Four of them are reprints of the 1920 First Trade Edition. Three of them are copies of the 1934 Revised Edition. And two are copies of the circa 1940 edition, published after Strunk retired.<br />
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I am actively seeking a copy of the 1918 edition. Please contact me if you have a copy for sale. In the meantime, I will refer to the <a href="http://www.bartleby.com/141/">1918 edition on Bartleby.com</a>.<br />
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Below is an image of a copy of a 1919 edition of<i> The Elements of Style </i>which I recently acquired.<br />
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What struck me right off was that the 1919 edition was privately printed by W. F. Humphrey, Geneva, N.Y.. The 1918 edition was supposedly privately printed by W. P. Humphrey, Geneva, N.Y. – at least, that's what everyone, including me, had been led to believe (See my post: <a href="http://biblioresearching.blogspot.com/2009/09/corrections-to-bibliographic-records.html">A Correction to the Bibliographic and Copyright Records of Strunk's Elements of Style).</a><br />
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The edition pictured above is not an image of the first trade edition. Harcourt Brace and Howe published the first trade edition in 1920. Will D. Howe left the firm sometime in 1921, and the firm officially changed its name to Harcourt, Brace and Company. I have four copies of the edition printed by Harcourt, Brace and Company. I bought my first copy in May, 2001, and have bought six copies in all (I gave two copies away as gifts). I have seen listings for another ten copies.</div>
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Surprisingly, the Table of Contents of the 1936 edition was totally revised from that of the 1934 edition. I believe that Edward Tenney was responsible for the changes because Strunk was in Hollywood from July 1935 to June 1936 as the technical adviser for MGM's Romeo and Juliet, directed by George Cukor.</div>
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The 47 practice leaves were included in the 1935 and 1936 editions. The practice leaves were in tablet form for the 1934 edition. This practice proved to be inconvenient and expensive. The practice leaves for the 1936 edition were removable, and students were instructed to tear out the assigned leaf , write the exercise in pen, and turn them in at the beginning of the class. Each leaf had two sides. My copy is lacking leafs 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12 ,14, and 36.<br />
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For the 1959 edition, E.B. White used a Table of Contents similar to that of the earlier 1918 edition, while adding a chapter on writing at the end:<br />
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Folded inside one of my copies of the 1959 edition was the following article about E.B. White, written by a well-known personality:<br />
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The price for the 5th printing is printed in the bottom right hand corner of the front inside flap, whereas it was printed in the top right hand corner of the first printing.<br />
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This is a paperback copy of the 1959 edition of <span style="font-style: italic;">The Elements of Style</span> by William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White. I have a sixth printing and a ninth printing.<br />
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Two copies of the 1962 Macmillan Paperbacks Edition. One of them is the fifteenth printing (1967) of the 1959 edition, and the other is the seventeenth printing (1968). Both copies were marked $.95.<br />
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This is a paperback copy of the 1972 Second Edition of <span style="font-style: italic;">The Elements of Style </span>by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White. I currently have three copies of this edition, one of whose marked price is $1.25, and another's is $1.65. The price on the third copy was punched out. White deleted the Note on this Book and included the information in the Introduction. He kept the same Table of Contents as before, while providing additional examples of rules and updating other examples.<br />
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Immediately below are three paperback copies of the 1979 Third Edition with Index, all of which are different printings. The listed price of the eighth printing was $2.95. The listed price of the twenty-third printing was $4.95. And the listed price of the thirty-second printing was $5.95.<br />
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Here are two oversized unpriced paperback copies of the 1979 Third Edition with the Index.<br />
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Here is an oversized hardback copy of the 1979 Third Edition. Its marked price on the inside flap of the dust jacket is $11.95.<br />
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Here are two later paperback printings of the 1979 Third Edition without the Index. As of June, 2010, I have four copies of this edition. One of them is price parked at $1.95. another is price marked at $2.25, and two are unmarked pricewise. The major difference between the second and third editions is that Strunk added four rules to Chapter I. Elementary Rules of Usage.</div>
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This is a later printing, in hardback, of the 1999 Fourth Edition of <span style="font-style: italic;">The Elements of Style.</span> Roger Angell, White's stepson, edited this edition, providing a new Forward, and updating some of the examples. The marked price of this edition is $14.95.<br />
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This is a softcover copy of the Fourth Edition. I currently have four copies of this edition.<br />
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This concludes the display of My Elements of Style Collection. If you'd like to see Strunk's other books which are in my library, <a href="http://biblioresearching.blogspot.com/2009/05/william-strunks-other-books-in-my.html">click here</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>
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George Birkbeck Hill wrote this letter to an unidentified American book collector while he was staying at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ashley, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the top left corner, a previous owner wrote the word, "Johnsoniana," and the name, "Cowan."<br />
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In this letter, Hill reveals his interest in a Samuel Johnson letter to the Reverend Compton that, according to the American book collector, an American publisher had acquired. This SJ letter was not identified in Hill's 1892 edition of THE LETTERS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON LL.D..<br />
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You will be surprised in receiving a letter from me written on your side of the Atlantic. My wife and I left Liverpool for Boston on May 11, & since Sunday week have been in the pleasant shelter of my daughter's house in this beautiful town. Unfortunately I caught cold on the voyage, in a fog off the Banks & so have been able as yet to see next to nothing. I am beginning to creep out a little, but am still weak. I hope soon to see Boston.<br />
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I am sorry that your letter should have been returned from Pembroke College through some mistake on the part of the porter. Had it been sent to my private residence it would have reached me. I have not been in Oxford since September. On our return from Switzerland early in May we only stayed in London and Liverpool.<br />
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I hope that your copy of Dr. Johnson's Footsteps has not miscarried. No tidings of it have reached me. If you have received it, I shall be happy to write in it as you request.<br />
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I am much interested by what you tell me of Johnson's Letter to the Rev Mr Compton & shall be greatly obliged by a copy of it. If James T. Fields was the publisher, his widow is living in Boston & is known by my daughter, so that I may perhaps be able to see the original.<br />
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Do you know Mr. R.B. Adam of Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, N.Y. a great Johnsonian Collector? From him I have lately received copies of four or five unpublished letters of Johnson.<br />
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The story told by Sir Walter Scott of the altercation between Johnson & Adam Smith has been shown in every particular to be untrue. It was no doubt one of those numerous inventions in which the Scotch might revenge for Johnson's wit.<br />
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P.S. Your letters were forwarded to me from England, having I think been sent first to Switzerland. My son who forwarded them had taken off the envelope, so it is unknown how far they had traveled. This explains my delay in sending you an answer.<br />
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The SJ letter referred to in this correspondence is the letter that Samuel Johnson wrote to the Rev. James Compton on Oct. 24, 1782. Compton was a Benedictine monk who, after reading Johnson's Rambler essay #110, wanted to convert to the Church of England. Johnson assisted him monetarily upon his arrival.<br />
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This letter first appeared in print in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY, Vol 8 No. 48, Oct. 1861,p.442, in "My Friend's Library," an article about a woman's library of choice books, many of them containing inscriptions from renowned authors of the day. The<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hny8w7&view=1up&seq=462&skin=2021&q1=compton"> letter to Compton</a> was found "in a well-preserved quarto copy of "RASSELAS," with illustrations by Smirke, which my friend picked up in London a few years ago."<br />
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In 1877, "My Friend's Library" was published in <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=UpJZ3kCumpwC&pg=PA3&dq=%22my+friend%27s+library%22&ei=z6kkR-7bMZCi7wKs263UBQ#PPA5,M1">UNDERBRUSH</a>, a collection of articles James T. Fields had contributed to the ATLANTIC MONTHLY. The SJ letter to Compton was printed on page 17.<br />
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In its Oct. 1, 1877 review of UNDERBRUSH, THE LITERARY WORLD, another Boston periodical, speculated that the library described in "My Friend's Library" belonged to Mrs. James T. Fields.<br />
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In the March 1888 issue of SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE, in "<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924097287134&view=1up&seq=293&skin=2021&q1=shelf%20of%20old%20books">A Shelf of Old Books</a>," Mrs. James T. Fields first revealed the true provenance of the books described in "My Friend's Library." She admitted that the library belonged to her late husband, James T. Fields.<br />
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In 1892, Hill published THE LETTERS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON L.L.D.. Johnson's Oct 24, 1782 letter to Compton was not included because Hill was still unaware of its existence.<br />
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Sometime shortly afterwards, the American book collector wrote a letter to Hill, informing him that an American publisher, possibly the late James T. Fields, had been in possession of the SJ letter to Compton (see GB Hill's June 1, 1893 letter).<br />
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A<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044092816982&view=1up&seq=367&skin=2021&q1=%22your%20business%22"> facsimile</a> of the Compton letter was first published in "A Third Shelf of Old Books," SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE, Sept 1894. This article, and two other articles written by Mrs. Fields, were published in <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=I8siAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3&dq=%22shelf+of+old+books%22&ei=3bAkR-79LISc7gKiyPntBw#PPA3,M1">A SHELF OF OLD BOOKS</a>, New York, 1894.<br />
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In his April 1895 ATLANTIC MONTHLY article, "A Talk Over Autographs," George Birkbeck Hill first publicly revealed that he knew Fields was the one who found the SJ letter; however, Hill said Fields found it in a book stall, and not in a bookshop. This article was later published in TALKS ABOUT AUTOGRAPHS, London, 1896.<br />
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George Birkbeck Hill printed a copy of Johnson's letter to Compton in JOHNSONIAN MISCELLANIES, New York, 1897, Vol. II, P.453. In his footnotes he cited the Sept 1894 SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE article, and UNDERBRUSH, Boston, 1877. Hill also corrected himself by saying that Fields found the letter "in a copy of RASSELAS purchased at a second-hand bookshop."<br />
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In 1906, Lucy Crump published her father's letters in THE LETTERS OF GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL, London. Hill's letter to the unidentified American was not included in the book.<br />
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After Mrs. James T. Fields died in 1915, the SJ letter to Compton was given to Harvard University.<br />
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Although I have learned just about all I can about Mr. James T. Fields and George Birkbeck Hill, I have learned very little about the American book collector Hill wrote to. I know he was a book collector because he mailed a book to Hill to inscribe. He either owned or had access to several of Hill's books, so he was probably a Samuel Johnson collector. He had a copy of Hill's FOOTSTEPS OF DR. JOHNSON, which was lost in the mail. He was aware that Johnson's letter to Compton was not included in Hill's edition of Johnson's letters. He was a reader of literary magazines. Unless he was the recipient of insider information, he had to have read Mrs. James T. Fields' April 1888 SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE article, "A Shelf of Old Books," as well as either the Oct 1861 SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE article, "My Friend's Library," or its inclusion in UNDERBRUSH, Boston, 1877. The book collector evidently had a very good memory.<br />
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As mentioned previously, a former owner wrote the word "Johnsoniana" and the name "Cowan" on the top of the letter. The only Cowan I know is Robert Ernest Cowan, the California bibliographer. I know he attended UC Berkeley from 1882 to 1884, and became a San Francisco bookseller in 1895; but where was he from 1885 to 1895? Ward Ritchie once said that Cowan had a fantastic memory. He also said that everyone called him by his last name, "Cowan."<br />
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On the negative side, there is no record of correspondence between Cowan and Hill at UCLA, its off-site location, SRLF, or at Pembroke College in Oxford. There were no Johnsonian books in the Robert E. Cowan Library at UCLA.<br />
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In the books that came with the Hill letter, Hill's edition of Boswell's LOJ, the bookseller's ticket of Jerrold Nedwick, Chicago bookseller, was pasted on the rear endpaper of the first volume. Nedwick was prominent in the early 1900s on. There are no other marks of provenance in the books; however, there are six short instances of marginalia, one of which is included below. You can view the other marginalia <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jerlin/sets/72157630530967154/">here</a>.<br />
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best,<br />
Jerry Morris<br />
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