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Method & practice, textual criticismThere are 15 items

  • International League of Antiquarian Booksellers
    Hertzberger (Menno), 1898-1982, editor-in-chief

    Paris, International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, 1956
    (27 cm), 190 pp. Publisher’s cloth binding - Original edition of a multi-lingual dictionary of 1225 terms used in describing antiquarian books. Each language has its own alphabetical list of terms with references to the numbered entries in the dictionary. Reviewed by John Hayward in The Book Collector, Autumn 1956, pp.293-295. Reprinted in 1978 (with Japanese added). ¶ Lacking printed dust jacket; a paper defect in pp.141-142 has caused the loss of some words.
  • Bowers (Fredson), 1905-1991

    New York, Russell & Russell, 1962
    (25 cm), 505 pp. Publisher’s cloth. - Reprint of the original edition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1949). Cf. David Vander Meulen, “The History and Future of Bowers’s Principles” in PBSA, volume 79 (1985), pp.197-219, on the reception of Bowers’s Principles and its likely influence in the future. ¶ Red inkstamp (“Released”) on endpaper. Ownership inscription in ink and some underlining and marginalia in ink and pencil.
  • Bowers (Fredson), 1905-1991

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1964
    (22.5 cm), xii, 207 (1) pp. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - In these lectures Bowers endeavoured to show “the way in which the bibliographical mind works when tackling a problem and its evidence” (Foreword). First edition. ¶ Ownership inscription in ink on endpaper. Good copy.
  • McKerrow (Ronald Brunlees), 1872-1940

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1964
    (22 cm), xv (1), 359 (1) pp., illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, printed dust jacket. - Reprint of the second impressions with corrections (1928). ¶ Occasional pencil marginalia. Tears and chips in dust jacket.
  • McKerrow (Ronald Brunlees), 1872-1940

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1964
    (22 cm), xv (1), 359 (1) pp., illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - Reprint of the second impressions with corrections (1928). ¶ Minor tears and chips to dust jacket. Good, unmarked copy.
  • Bowers (Fredson), 1905-1991

    Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1966
    (21 cm), viii, [i], 185, [1] pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - First paperback edition (originally published by Cambridge University Press, 1959). Contents: Textual criticism and the literary critic; The Walt Whitman manuscripts of Leaves of grass (1860); The new textual criticism of Shakespeare; Principle and practice in the editing of early dramatic texts. David McKitterick, The Sandars and Lyell Lectures: a checklist (New York 1983), pp.26-27. ¶ Bookstore price stamp on endpaper. Spine rubbed, minor loss.
  • Maas (Paul), 1880-1964; Flower (Barbara), translator

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1966
    (19.5 cm), (10) 59 (1) pp. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - “This book is so sane, its numerous examples are so instructive, its sweep is so inclusive that it is indispensable for all workers in textual criticism” (from a review by Hereward T. Price, in Shakespeare Quarterly, volume 11, 1960, pp.378-379). Translated from the German editions of 1949 and 1957; previously issued by OUP in 1958 and 1963. ¶ Few pencil notations; a very good copy.
  • Besterman (Theodore), 1904-1976

    New York, Burt Franklin, 1968
    (26 cm), xi, 81 (1) pp., with 12 plates. Publisher’s tan cloth. - Facsimile reprint of the revised, second edition (London: Oxford University Press, 1936). ¶ Very good, unmarked copy.
  • Carter (John Waynflete), 1905-1975

    London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1972
    (20.5 cm), 211 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - Fifth edition, revised. ¶ Dust jacket torn, significant losses. Ink ownership inscription on endpaper; annotations (mostly in pencil).
  • Gaskell ([John] Philip), 1926-2001

    New York & Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1972
    (24 cm), xxvi, 438 pp. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. ¶ Dust jacket damaged. Ownership inscription in ink on endpaper; occasional pencil annotation.
  • Kenney (Edward John), born 1924

    Berkeley & London, University of California Press, 1974
    (24 cm), xi, 174 pp. Publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jacket. - A history of the editing and criticism of classical (mostly Latin) texts from 1465 until the present day, with accounts of editorial practice across the same period. In the fourth chapter, the author surveys libraries, library catalogues, and the accessibility of manuscripts between the 16th and 18th centuries. ¶ Very good copy.
  • Gaskell ([John] Philip), 1926-2001

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1978
    (24 cm), xiii (1), 268 pp. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - Studies of twelve texts, ranging in date from Harington’s translation of Orlando Furioso (printed 1591) to Stoppard’s Travesties (1974), which present different kinds of editorial problems. First edition. ¶ Very good copy.
  • Tanselle (G. Thomas), born 1934

    Charlottesville, Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia / University Press of Virginia, 1979
    (24 cm), xii, 506 pp. Publisher’s cloth. - Eleven essays reprinted from Studies in Bibliography, 1967-1979. ¶ Fine, unmarked copy
  • Tanselle (G. Thomas), born 1934

    Charlottesville, University of Virginia, 1990
    (23 cm), [34] pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers (stapled). - Offprint from Studies in Bibliography, volume 43 (1990), pp.1-33. ¶ Author’s presentation inscription on cover, dated 9 March 1990, and “One of 10 copies”. Good copy.
  • Tanselle (G. Thomas), born 1934

    Charlottesville, Book Arts Press, 2002
    (27.5 cm), 257 (1) pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - 18th revision of Tanselle’s classified bibliography of the literature of textual criticism and scholarly editing. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy.
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