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Published annually since 1948, Studies in Bibliography is the pre-eminent journal of analytical bibliography, textual criticism, manuscript study, and the history of printing and publishing. Volumes 1 through 45 were edited by Fredson Bowers; volume 46 to the present are edited by David L. Vander Meulen. The forthcoming volume (57) can be secured by joining the Society. The current volume (56) is available from the University Press of Virginia at $70.00.
Price: $50.00
Size: 9.5" x 6"
Pages: 159 pp. (includes 8 color illustrations and indexes)
ISBN: 978-1-883631-12-3
Five lectures that survey in magisterial detail the Art Deco livres d'art of the 1920s. The opening lecture describes the relation of French Art Deco books to livres d'art in general and the anticipations of Art Deco illustration during the 1910s in design, fashion, and theatre publications and the work of Robert Bonfils. The next three lectures are devoted to the major artist-illustrators George Barbier, François-Louis Schmied, and Jean-Émile Laboureur. The final lecture examines the design, materials, and techniques of Art Deco bookbinding, focusing on the bindings of Rose Adler and Pierre Legrain.
With a thorough knowledge of French literature and a style that is authoritative, perceptive, witty, and elegant, Ray has written a compact and reliable survey that will have a secure place in the future study of the Art Deco book in France.
The book includes eight color illustrations and side-notes to an additional 165 illustrations available on the website of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia.
From Gordon Ray's Introduction to Lecture 1: "The Livre D'art of the 1920s":
I propose to limit my account of the Art Deco book in France to the 1920s, or at least to the years 1919 to 1930. This decade was its heyday, the years which saw the appearance of most of the best work of its representative masters. Moreover, the period saw the reemergence of the livre d'art, as the fine illustrated book for collectors was then called, on a quite unprecedented scale. This crescendo of production led to notable achievements as well as deplorable follies and concluded with a catastrophic debacle. I shall thus be dealing with a self-contained episode in the history of book collecting, an episode which embodies some of the elements of high drama.
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The past half century has been one of the most active and provocative periods in the long history of textual criticism. In this series of six critical essays that survey theoretical writings in the field since 1950, the eminent textual scholar G. Thomas Tanselle chronicles a significant moment in intellectual history and offers a guide for thinking through the basic issues of textual criticism and scholarly editing.
Comments on the early essays in this volume:
"The pieces collected here provide readers with the only comprehensive history of modern textual editing available. . . . These essays have not only described the field, they have helped to define it by giving editors a standard of lucidity and cogency against which to measure their own work; they are indispensable for those who teach and study scholarly editing, and will enlighten anyone interested in knowing how and why editorial work is done."
Elizabeth Hall Witherell
Editor-in-Chief, The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
"These are the most reliable and readily available surveys of developments in this scholarly field. . . . Each essay provides the reader with a full and secure survey of the important theory and practice of textual editing during the period covered. It also makes clear the logical and practical strengths and weaknesses of what has been published and proposed. . . . Almost uniquely among textual scholars, Tanselle persuades by dealing fairly, open-mindedly, and yet rigorously with the variety of competing doctrines and practices that characterize the frequently partisan debate of the past decades. This collection provides both a shrewd evaluation and a brilliant example of serious thinking about textual scholarship."
Don L. Cook
Indiana University
2005, hardcover, 9.5"x 6", 373 pages
ISBN: 1-883631-11-4 / Price $60.00
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Oak Knoll Press of New Castle, Delaware is the distributor of our print publications. Orders may be placed electronically at the Oak Knoll Press website or by mail or phone to:
BSUVa members who identify themselves as such at the time of ordering will receive a 10% discount on the price of Society publications.
First edition, second printing. With a foreward by Irby B. Cauthen, Jr. and a "Note to the Second Printing." Major sections in this important book are The Bibliographical Way, Descriptive Bibliography, Analytical Bibliography, Textual Criticism and Editing, and a checklist of Bowers's writings to 1976.
2003, hardcover, 6x9 inches, 550 pages
ISBN 1-883631-08-4 / Order No. 74161 / Price $70.00
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This scholarly work contains fifteen essays exploring the interconnections between verbal works and the physical objects (primarily manuscripts and printed books) that transmit them. Divided into five groups with such chapters as "Libraries, Museums, and Reading," "The Latest Forms of Book Burning," "A Description of Descriptive Bibliography," "Books, Canons, and the Nature of Dispute," and "Printing History and Other History."
". . . Tanselle puts forward a powerful case, one that too often goes unexpressed and one that will affect every reader in the future."
David McKitterick, Times Literary Supplement
". . . should be read by anyone contemplating the use of books as historical evidence."
Robin Alston,SHARP News
1998, hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, 372 pages
ISBN 1 883631 06 8 / Order No. 53838 UVA / Price $60.00 or £37.00
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First edition. With a history of the Society by David Vander Meulen with a complete checklist of the Society's publications, also by Vander Meulen; a history of Studies in Bibliography by G. Thomas Tanselle; and an author index to the first fifty volumes of Studies by David L. Gants and Elizabeth K. Lynch. Also contains William Todd's entertaining and informative anniversary address.
"No bibliographer now active should neglect this book where the history is larger than the biography of any one individual that contributed to it."
T. H. Howard-Hill, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America
1998, hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, 282 pages
ISBN 1 883631 07 6 / Order No.53815 UVA / Price $60.00 or £38.00
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First edition. A catalogue and analysis of Henry Fielding's library as a means to understanding the development of his thought and art. Includes detailed annotations on the abbreviated entries in the 1755 auction catalogue, a full listing of Fielding's references to authors, editors, and commentators, a copious general index, and an index to printers, publishers, and booksellers listed. With a facsimile of the 1755 library catalogue.
"Not only bibliographers or biographers but all serious readers of Fielding's novels have reason to be grateful to the Ribbles for this catalogue."
Bertrand Goldgar, Eighteenth-Century Fiction
1996, hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, 520 pages
ISBN 1-883631-04-1 / Order No. 53824-UVA / Price $30.00 or £19.00
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First edition. The only full edition bibliography of the modernist poet Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961). Includes H.D.'s books, pamphlets, contributions to books and pamphlets, periodical appearances, translations, musical settings, recordings, and ephemera. A second section contains reviews of H.D.'s works and references to her life and work in books, periodicals, dissertations, theses, newspapers, published letters, and miscellaneous materials.
1993, hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, 238 pages
ISBN 0-8139-1412-4 / Order No. 53833-UVA / Price $39.50 or £25.00
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First editions of both titles. Bristol has added 11,200 entries to the original edition of Evans. He covers the period 1639 through 1800. Necessary complement to the original work.
1970, 1971, hardcover, 6 x 11 inches, two volumes, 846 pages
ISBN 0-8139-0287-8 / Order No. 53836-UVA / Price $70.00 or £43.00
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A twenty-fifth anniversary keepsake for members of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. Two facsimiles, the first of a manuscript copy of Mallarmé's sonnet to Poe and the second of a bookplate designed by Manet and autographed by the artist and by Mallarmé.
1971, paperback, 10 x 12 inches,4 pages and a broadside
Order No. 53835-UVA / Price $10.00 or £6.00
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A comprehensive guide to scholarly and critical work on Poe published from 1827 through 1967. Part I is a listing by author or title of books and articles in English. All entries are annotated, except those not verified by the compilers. Part II lists Poe criticism written in languages other than English. Contains over 4,500 entries.
1974, hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, 402 pages
ISBN 0-8139-0498-6 / Order No. 53814-UVA / Price $30.00 or £19.00
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Reprinted, with corrections and additions, from Studies in Bibliography. Sixty-nine books identified to which Johnson subscribed.
1993, paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 34 pages
ISBN 1-883631-01-7 / Order No.53831-UVA /Price $10.00 or £6.00
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Vol V. Part i--Introduction to the Smock Alley Macbeth, and Part ii--Text of the Smock Alley Macbeth. Two volumes enclosed in a slipcase. From the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. Contains partial text illustrations, an introduction, 21-page facsimile, and collations.
1970, paperback in slipcase, 9 x 12 inches, illust., 65 pages
ISBN 0-8139-0301-7 / Order No: 53839-UVA / Price $50.00 or £31.00
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Vol VI. Part i--Introduction to the Smock Alley Othello, and Part ii--Text of the Smock Alley Othello. Two volumes bound in one. From the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. Contains partial text illustrations, an introduction, 23-page facsimile, and collations.
1980, hardcover, 9 x 12 inches, illustrated, 64 pages
ISBN 0-8139-0831-0 / Order No: 53840-UVA / Price $50.00 or £31.00
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Vol VII. Part i--Introduction to the Smock Alley A Midsummer Night's Dream. Part ii--Text of the Smock Alley production. Two volumes bound in one. From the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. Contains partial text illustrations, an introduction, 18-page facsimile, and collations.
1989, hardcover, 9 x 12 inches, illustrated, 77 pages
ISBN 0-8139-1229-6 / Order No: 53841-UVA / Price $50.00 or £31.00
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First edition. This remarkable bibliography includes references to all known texts, works of criticism, articles, and reviews of Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburh through 1967. Over 2,250 entries.
1969, hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, 242 pages
ISBN 0-8139-0268-1 / Order No.53820-UVA / Price $25.00 or £16.00
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A warm biographical sketch of a noted calligrapher and private pressman by a close friend.
1954, self paper wrappers, 5 x 7 inches, 12 pages
Order No. 53911-V4/Price $7.50 or £5.00
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First edition. A study of the sequence of writing and revision of these two
D.H. Lawrence novels. Includes the history of Lawrence's involvement with
the drafts of each novel and the impact of literary agents and publishers on
the novels.
1979, hardcover, 5 x 7 inches, 178 pages
ISBN 0-8139-0704-7 / Order No. 53825-UVA / Price $25.00 or £16.00
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Annotated entries for all books, essays, articles, and doctoral dissertations on Austen, and for critical matter appended to every edition of her works in English and in selected translations for this eleven-year period.
1985, hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, 380 pages
ISBN 0-8139-1054-4 / Order No.53837-UVA / Price $35.00 or £22.00
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First edition. Widely acclaimed account of the remarkable career of Fredson Bowers, whose life (1905-1991) spanned the 20th century and who came to symbolize the fields of analytical and descriptive bibliography, textual criticism, and scholarly editing.
"G. Thomas Tanselle's highly readable biography of Fredson Bowers traces not only a life but a discipline, textual criticism."
Thomas L. Berger, Yearbook of English Studies
"...a model 'academic' biography."
Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World
2003 seond printing, hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, 210 pages
ISBN 1-883631-10-6 / Order No: 53830-UVA / Price $50.00
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First edition, third printing. Eight excellent essays on the discipline and art of textual criticism and scholarly editing by the preeminent scholar G. Thomas Tanselle. Many of these essays have played a role in ongoing debates, and some of them - such as "The Editorial Problem of Final Authorial Intention" and "The Editing of Historical Documents" - have become points of reference in the field.
2003 third printing,hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, 353 pages
ISBN 1-883631-09-2 / Order No.53816-UVA / Price $60.00
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First edition. The textual history of Longfellow's play John Endicott from its genesis in 1856 to its final form in 1872, as part of the trilogy Christus. Of the six texts of the play, the two that appear here for the first time are the prose version, A New England Tragedy, and a verse version, Wenlock Christison.
1985, hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, 245 pages
ISBN 0-8139-1039-0 / Order No. 53821-UVA / Price $26.50 or £17.00
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First edition. A comprehensive account of the composition and production of the first edition of Pope's Dunciad, accompanied by a photofacsimile of a copy recording Pope's original manuscript readings. The appendices identify hundreds of textual changes Pope introduced in the later 1728 printings and record the names with which pirate printers filled Pope's blanks. Award-winning design by Warren Chappell.
"The value of this volume extends beyond Pope and informs larger concerns--the creative process, the relationships of author, text, reader.... This handsomely printed, scrupulously reasoned book is a valuable contribution of our understanding of Pope..."
John Middendorf, TEXT
"The book abounds with good things.... This is a book which is going to remain in use for a very long time."
Michael Treadwell, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
1991, hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, 191 pages
ISBN 0-8139-1268-7 / Order No.53823-UVA / Price $40.00 or £25.00
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Limited to 750 copies, printed by the Stinehour Press. A facsimile and transcription of the surviving portion of Johnson's 1783 translation of Sallust's Conspiracy of Catiline. This is the first publication of Johnson's manuscript.
"...another fine example of the work of the Stinehour Press, of the resources of the Hyde Collection, and of the diligence of scholarly inquiry."
J.D. Fleeman, The Library
1993, paperback, 9 x 11 inches, 48 pages
ISBN 1-883631-02-5 / Order No. 53832-UVA / Price $25.00 or £16.00
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First edition. Pictorial history of the composition, publication, and subsequent suppression of Theodore Dreiser's famous first novel, Sister Carrie. Working with the manuscript, typescript, and drawing on Dreiser's correspondence and other literary papers, West gives a full account of the complicated history of the book.
1985, hardcover, 9 x 11 inches, 94 pages
ISBN 0-8139-1067-6 / Order No. 53818-UVA / Price $25.00 or £16.00
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First edition. This comprehensive bibliography includes Price's books, pamphlets, broadsides, contributions, translations, interviews, etc. Also includes coverage of juvenilia and an extensive annotated list of interviews.
1986, hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, 137 pages
ISBN 0-8139-1092-7 / Order No.53826-UVA / Price $25.00 or £16.00
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First edition. This work describes all the works of this Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and short story writer including appearances in periodicals, interviews, and published quotes and comments.
1988, hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, 240 pages
ISBN 0-8139-1168-0 / Order No.53827-UVA / Price $40.00 or £25.00
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Oak Knoll Press of New Castle, Deleware is the distributor of our print publications. Orders may be placed electronically at the Oak Knoll Press website or by mail or phone to:
BSUVa members who identify themselves at the time of ordering will receive a 10% discount on the price of Society publications.