English literature-BibliographiesThere are 7 items
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Libertine literature in England
New Hyde Park, NY, University Books, 1965(24.5 cm), xi (1), 70 pp., 13 plates. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - A revision a series of articles published in The Book Collector in 1963. “A pioneering exercise in the scholarly history and bibliography of pornography, and one still referred to today” (James McLaverty, “David Foxon, Humanist Bibliographer” in Studies in Bibliography, volume 54, 2001, p.99). ¶ Excellent, unmarked copy. -
New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, volume 2: 1660-1800
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1971(25.5 cm), xxii pp., 2092 columns. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - Previous edition published as The Cambridge bibliography of English literature in 1940. Graham Pollard’s sections on “Book production and distribution” were revised for the new edition by Terry Belanger, and remain useful to this day (cols.249-312). ¶ Ownership inscription in ink on endpaper; occasional annotation. Losses to dust jacket. -
Points in eighteenth-century verse : a bibliographer's and collector's scrapbook (Bibliographia, studies in book history and book structure, 1750-1900, no. 7)
[Folcroft, PA], Folcraft Library Editions, 1972(23.5 cm), ix (1), 144 pp., frontispiece and [8] leaves of plates. Publisher’s green buckram binding. - “This volume… is one which will make a strong appeal to everyone interested in the solution of bibliographical problems. It deals with forty-one volumes of verse, mostly minor, published in the eighteenth century, nearly all of which are of special interest either on account of the light which they throw on printing or publishing methods of their time or as offering a bibliographical puzzle of one sort or another” (R.B. McKerrow, in The Review of English Studies, volume 11, January 1935, p.118). Among the appendices is a list of books of verse to which Samuel Johnson subscribed. Reprint of the limited edition (500 copies) published in London & New York in 1934, as no. 7 of Michael Sadleir’s series “Bibliographia; studies in book history and book structure”. ¶ As new. -
Bibliography of English translations from medieval sources, 1943-1967
New York, Columbia University Press, 1974(23 cm), x, 274 pp. Publisher’s cloth. - A sequel to Clarissa P. Farrar and Austin P. Evans, Bibliography of English translations from medieval sources (New York 1946) with concise commentaries. ¶ Superior copy in new condition. -
Bibliography of English translations from medieval sources, 1943-1967
New York, Columbia University Press, 1974(23 cm), x, 274 pp. Publisher’s cloth. - A sequel to Clarissa P. Farrar and Austin P. Evans, Bibliography of English translations from medieval sources (New York 1946) with concise commentaries. ¶ Superior copy in new condition. -
English verse 1701-1750 : a catalogue of separately printed books with notes on contemporary collected editions
London & New York, Cambridge University Press, 1975Two volumes (29 cm), xxviii, 922, (2); 302 pp. Publisher’s brown cloth, gilt lettering and decoration; dust jackets; in original slipcase. - A catalogue of some ten thousand publications, “which has helped to revolutionize our understanding of eighteenth-century poetry” (James McLaverty, “David Foxon, Humanist Bibliographer” in Studies in Bibliography, volume 54, 2001, p.105). ¶ Superior copy in almost new condition. -
Hobbled Pegasus : a descriptive bibliography of some minor English poetry 1641-1660
Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1988(25 cm), 482 pp. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - The bibliography contains 853 items, presented chronologically by date of publication, with quotations illustrative of the “style, content, attitude, and tone” of the particular work. ¶ Excellent, unmarked copy.
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