Project MUSE®: Studies in Bibliography - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Studies in Bibliography.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 55 (2002) through current issueLatest Articles: Studies in BibliographyTWOProject MUSE®Studies in Bibliography1553-38910081-7600Latest articles in Studies in Bibliography. Feed provided by Project MUSE®"Capítulo de una novela en prensa": Teaser Chapters and Marketing Strategies in Victoria Ocampo's Sur
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954085
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One of the greatest contributions to Latin American literary culture in the twentieth century came in the form of Victoria Ocampo's literary journal Sur (1931–92).1 With an unparalleled life span—when compared with similar literary magazines of the time—and an astounding list of international authors who lined its pages, Sur is an exemplar of literary excellence. Countless scholars and critics have discussed the pivotal role of Sur in introducing international writers to Latin American readers and simultaneously putting Latin American writers on the map for international readers.2 Above all, there has been a marked interest in examining Sur's impressive networks (Willson; Larkosh; Majstorovic [2013]), its lasting
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/298/image/coversmall"Capítulo de una novela en prensa": Teaser Chapters and Marketing Strategies in Victoria Ocampo's Sur2025-03-20text/htmlen-US"Capítulo de una novela en prensa": Teaser Chapters and Marketing Strategies in Victoria Ocampo's Sur2025-03-202025TWOProject MUSE®953352026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-03-20A Documentary History of the University of Virginia's First Library and Its Jeffersonian Catalogs
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954086
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In 1984, a manuscript catalog of Thomas Jefferson's library resurfaced at the Library of Congress. The rediscovery was announced by Douglas L. Wilson, who proposed that the catalog—dated 1823—reestablished Jefferson's system of library organization, lost after a fair copy of Jefferson's catalog disappeared with the transfer of his library to Congress in 1815. This 1823 manuscript filled an archival void in Jefferson studies and advanced a new and enduring view of Jefferson's book collecting habits in the final decade of his life (1815-26). In a subsequent analysis and edition of the rediscovered catalog, written with James Gilreath, Wilson affirmed that the document in question was a copy of Jefferson's catalog
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/298/image/coversmallA Documentary History of the University of Virginia's First Library and Its Jeffersonian Catalogs2025-03-20text/htmlen-USA Documentary History of the University of Virginia's First Library and Its Jeffersonian Catalogs2025-03-202025TWOProject MUSE®1652872026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-03-20Charles Dibdin and the Making of The Musical Tour of Mr. Dibdin (1788): A New "compact with the public"
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954087
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On 17 March 1787, Charles Dibdin (1745–1814) took the stagecoach from London to Oxford, "with a few shirts and books in a trunk, [and] a well-digested plan in [his] head."1 Famous first as an actor-singer, then as a theatre composer who collaborated with such luminaries as David Garrick and Isaac Bickerstaff, then as a writer for the theatre himself, Dibdin was "an extremely well-known public character"2 who was now, in the spirit of entrepreneurship increasingly shaping his activities, seeking to integrate his talents. The "well-digested plan" was for a one-man musical show which Dibdin intended touring round the country to fund his family's planned emigration to India; standing behind a piano (an instrument he
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/298/image/coversmallCharles Dibdin and the Making of The Musical Tour of Mr. Dibdin (1788): A New "compact with the public"2025-03-20text/htmlen-USCharles Dibdin and the Making of The Musical Tour of Mr. Dibdin (1788): A New "compact with the public"2025-03-202025TWOProject MUSE®624452026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-03-20Extra-Illustrating Horace Walpole's Description of Strawberry Hill: Three Case Studies
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954088
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Studies of the phenomenon of binding independent drawings, engravings, autograph letters, and other documents into printed books in the late eighteenth century have concentrated quite naturally on the elite social groups within which many of these extra-illustrated books were created.1 Less examined are the artists and booksellers who supplied the market for those books and provided the prints and drawings that adorned them. This paper explores that world by investigating the role of Horace Walpole's printer and amanuensis Thomas Kirgate and the Harding family of booksellers and artists in creating three extra-illustrated copies of Walpole's A Description of the Villa of Mr. Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/298/image/coversmallExtra-Illustrating Horace Walpole's Description of Strawberry Hill: Three Case Studies2025-03-20text/htmlen-USExtra-Illustrating Horace Walpole's Description of Strawberry Hill: Three Case Studies2025-03-202025TWOProject MUSE®849872026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-03-20John Carter: An Assessment and a Handlist
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954089
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John carter was one of the most prominent and significant figures in the Anglo-American book world in the twentieth century. Indeed, he held a unique position, for he distinguished himself as a bookseller, a collector, a scholar, and a writer, equally at home and equally recognized on both sides of the Atlantic. He created innovative rare-book catalogues for the Scribner Book Store; formed several notable collections, especially of Catullus and Housman; was a pioneer investigator of the bibliographical problems of nineteenth-century publishers' bindings; performed (with Graham Pollard) a classic piece of bibliographical detection in uncovering the Wise-Forman forgeries; produced a scholarly edition of Sir Thomas
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/298/image/coversmallJohn Carter: An Assessment and a Handlist2025-03-20text/htmlen-USJohn Carter: An Assessment and a Handlist2025-03-202025TWOProject MUSE®3365142026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-03-20Jonathan Richardson, Charles Chauncy, and the Manuscripts of Pope
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954090
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'As for his Essay on Man', recalled the man of letters Jonathan Richardson the younger, in a volume of reflections published in 1776, five years after his death,I was witness to the whole conduct of it in writing, and actually have his original MSS. for it, from the first scratches of the four books, to the several finished copies, (of his own neat and elegant writing these last) all which, with the MS. of his Essay on Criticism, and several of his other works, he gave me himself, for the pains I took in collating the whole with its printed editions, at his request, on my having proposed to him the 'making of an edition of his works in the manner of Boileau's'.1The literary manuscripts which Pope gave to Richardson
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/298/image/coversmallJonathan Richardson, Charles Chauncy, and the Manuscripts of Pope2025-03-20text/htmlen-USJonathan Richardson, Charles Chauncy, and the Manuscripts of Pope2025-03-202025TWOProject MUSE®669412026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-03-20Notes on Contributors
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954091
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G. Thomas Tanselle is a former president of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, and his most recent book, published by the Society, is Books in My Life. The present volume of Studies is the forty-sixth consecutive one to which he has contributed. In 2015 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Bibliographical Society in England.John Bidwell is a curator emeritus at the Morgan Library & Museum.Sam Lemley is curator of special collections at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. He is the editor of The Four Shakespeare Folios, 1623-2023: Copy, Print, Paper, Type (Penn State Series in the History of the Book). His work has appeared in The Library, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/298/image/coversmallNotes on Contributors2025-03-20text/htmlen-USNotes on Contributors2025-03-202025TWOProject MUSE®69602026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-03-20Stages Of Composition in Charlotte Brontë's Fair-Copy Manuscript of Shirley
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954092
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On September 8, 1849, James Taylor traveled from London to Haworth, Yorkshire, to collect the manuscript of Charlotte Brontë's novel Shirley for publication.1 His firm, Smith, Elder and Co., had been awaiting the completion of the book for nearly a year. Readers both in England and abroad were eager to read the next work by Currer Bell, whose first published novel, Jane Eyre, had attracted so much notice. Before that, the previously unknown writer had cowritten and published only an obscure collection of poetry with Acton and Ellis Bell that few had read. The public continued to speculate about the identity of this new author, who had written with such power and originality.Composed in three physically distinct
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/298/image/coversmallStages Of Composition in Charlotte Brontë's Fair-Copy Manuscript of Shirley2025-03-20text/htmlen-USStages Of Composition in Charlotte Brontë's Fair-Copy Manuscript of Shirley2025-03-202025TWOProject MUSE®2545802026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-03-20"The Brothers" and the English Comte de Gabalis
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954093
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Comte de Gabalis is a short novel in the form of five discourses, published anonymously in 1670 and certainly authored by the Abbé Nicolas de Montfaucon de Villars (1635?-1673).1 Anglophone readers are most likely to find it in a translation first published in 1913 and often reprinted.2 Attributed only to "The Brothers," it carries a pseudo-scholarly commentary every verso page and on 145 pages at the end, in which Villars' lively and satirical text is treated as a solemn source of esoteric teachings. Who were these Brothers? This article seeks to answer that question and to illuminate an enigmatic episode in Gabalis' reception history.Villars' novel was an instant success. It was soon banned in France, reprinted
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/298/image/coversmall"The Brothers" and the English Comte de Gabalis2025-03-20text/htmlen-US"The Brothers" and the English Comte de Gabalis2025-03-202025TWOProject MUSE®403912026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-03-20The Engravings of Pope's Works II (1735): 'Envy must own, I live among the Great'
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954094
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On 24 April 1735, or perhaps a little earlier, Pope published the second volume of his Works.1 It contained: 'Ethic Epistles to Henry St. John L. Bolingbroke' (An Essay on Man), 'Ethic Epistles, the Second Book. To Several Persons', imitations of Horace and Donne, and the Dunciad Variorum.2 Like the first volume of Works, which had been published just after his twenty-ninth birthday, on 3 June 1717 (Griffith 79–86), the second volume was issued in the formats of his Homer translations – small folio, large folio, and quarto – and both the large folios and the quartos had illustrative headpieces, tailpieces, and initials. The engravings of 1717 have been subject to lively critical engagement, and the thematic
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/298/image/coversmallThe Engravings of Pope's Works II (1735): 'Envy must own, I live among the Great'2025-03-20text/htmlen-USThe Engravings of Pope's Works II (1735): 'Envy must own, I live among the Great'2025-03-202025TWOProject MUSE®1422402026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-03-20The Sources of the Sussex Declaration: A Reconsideration
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954095
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In April 2017 several newspapers carried stories about the discovery of a manuscript Declaration of Independence. Conjectures about the political significance of the manuscript began to circulate in print and then proliferated on the web where the original announcements are still accessible. The discovery was sufficiently newsworthy that Prime Minister Theresa May and President Donald Trump took time to look at it while Trump was making his UK state visit in 2019. Unfortunately, they and their advisors were misinformed. Basic assumptions about the date and origins of the manuscript are in error and have prompted unfounded claims about its historical importance. I hope to correct those errors here and set the record
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/298/image/coversmallThe Sources of the Sussex Declaration: A Reconsideration2025-03-20text/htmlen-USThe Sources of the Sussex Declaration: A Reconsideration2025-03-202025TWOProject MUSE®928292026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-03-20Three Endings: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954096
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The original endings of three important American novels, recovered from surviving manuscripts and typescripts, have been restored in scholarly editions. Each restoration involves two marks of punctuation. The novels are F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise (1920), Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (1926), and William Faulkner's The Wild Palms (1939), which Faulkner wanted to call If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem. The punctuation marks are a period and a one-em dash for This Side of Paradise, a question-mark and a period for The Sun Also Rises, and a two-em dash and an exclamation point for If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem. An examination of the three endings, as first published and as later restored, will
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/298/image/coversmallThree Endings: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner2025-03-20text/htmlen-USThree Endings: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner2025-03-202025TWOProject MUSE®573252026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-03-20