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The Sociology of the Book   

authorship

reading, literacy & collecting

censorship & copyright

popular publications

specialized publications

private press & fine printing    


Authorship  


Beljame, Alexandre. Men of Letters and the England Public in the Eighteenth Century, 1660-1774: Dryden, Addison, Pope. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1948. 820.95 B41pN

Bentley, Gerald Eades. The Profession of Dramatist in Shakespeare's Time, 1590-1642. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. PN151.B54

Bonham-Carter, Victor. Authors by Profession. Los Altos, Calif.: W. Kaufmann, 1978-1984. 2 vols.: v. 1. From the Introduction of Printing until the Copyright Act of 1911; v. 2. From the Copyright Act of 1911 until the End of 1981. Z551.B7

Charvat, William. The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870: The Papers of William Charvat. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1968. 810.9 C385p 1968

Collins, A. S. Authorship in the Days of Johnson: Being a Study of the Relation between Author, Patron, Publisher, and Public, 1726-1780. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1929. Spec. Coll.:

Collins, A. S. The Profession of Letters: A Study of the Relation of Author to Patron, Publisher, and Public, 1780-1832. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1929. Spec. Coll.:

Cross, Nigel. The Common Writer: Life in Nineteenth-Century Grub Street. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Gross, John. The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters: Aspects of English Literary Life since 1800. New York: Macmillan, 1969. 93-00546

Lough, John. Writer and Public in France from the Middle Ages to the Present Day. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978. PQ146.L66

Macherey, Pierre. A Theory of Literary Production. London 1978. PN 45 .M31713

Miller, Edwin Haviland. The Professional Writer in Elizabethan England. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959. 820.93 M613p 1959

Minnis, A. J. The Medieval Theory of Authorship. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984. PN45.M526 1984

Saunders, J. W. The Profession of English Letters. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1964. Spec. Coll.:

Sheavyn, Phoebe. The Literary Profession in the Elizabethan Age. 2nd ed., rev. throughout by J. W. Saunders. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1967. 820.93 Sh3

Unseld, Siegfried. The Author and His Publisher, trans. Hunter Hannum and Hildegarde Hannum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Woodmansee, Martha. The Author, Art, and the Market. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

Woodmansee, Martha and Peter Jaszi, eds. The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.


Reading, Literacy, and Collecting


Adams, J. R. R. The Printed Word and the Common Man: Popular Culture in Ulster 1700-1900. Belfast: Queens University of Belfast, 1987.

Anderson, Patricia. The Printed Image and the Transformation of Popular Culture, 1790-1860. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.

Barry, Jonathan. "Literacy and Literature in Popular Culture: Reading and Writing in Historical Perspective." In Popular Culture in England, c. 1500-1850,. Ed. Tim Harris. (new York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.). pp. 69-94.

Benedict, Barbara M. Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Brodhead, Richard H. Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America. Chicago 1993.

Brooks, Jeffrey. When Russia Learned to Read. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.

Brooks, G. and Pugh, A.K., ed. Studies in the History of Reading. 1984.

Camille, Michael. "Reading the Printed Page," in Sandra Hindman, ed., Printing the Written Word. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989, 259-91.

Cipolla, Carlo M. Literacy and Development in the West. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1969. 379.24 C495l 1969

Clark, Peter. "The Ownership of Books in England, 1560-1640: The Example of Some Kentish Townsfolk." In Schooling and Society: Studies in the History of Education, ed. Lawrence Stone. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976, pp. 95-111. LC191.S265

Cressy, David. Literacy and the Social Order: Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. LC156.G7 C73

Davidson, Cathy N. ed. Reading in America: Literature & Social History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. Z1003.2.R424 1989

Finnegan, Ruth. Literacy and Orality. Oxford: Blackwell, 1988.

Flint, K. The Woman Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Z 1039 .W65 F57 1993

Furet, Francois and Ozouf, Jacques. Reading and Writing: Literacy in France from Calvin to Jules Ferry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. LA693.F8713 1982

Gilmore, William J. Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life: Material and Cultural Life in Rural New England 1780--1835. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989.

Goody, Jack. The Domestication of the Savage Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977. GN451.G66

Goody, Jack. The Interface between the Oral and the Written. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Goody, Jack. The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society, Studies in Literacy, Family, Culture and the State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Goody, Jack, ed. Literacy in Traditional Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968. Esp. Goody and Watt, "The Consequences of Literacy," pp. 27-68. LC149.G6

Graff, Harvey J., ed. Literacy and Social Development in the West: A Reader. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Harris, Victor. Ancient Literacy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Havelock, Eric A. The Literate Revolution in Greece and Its Cultural Consequences. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.

Iser, Wolfgang. The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.

Iser, Wolfgang. The Implied Reader. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.

Jauss, Hans Robert. Towards an Aesthetic of Reception. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1982. PN 98 .R38 J38 1982

Kaestle, Carl F., et al. Literacy in the United States: Readers and Reading since 1880. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

Kintgen, Eugene R. Reading in Tudor England. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1996. LA 631.4 .K56 1996

Klancher, J. The Making of English Reading Audiences, 1790-1832. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. Z1003.5.G7K57 1987

Lockridge, Kenneth A. Literacy in Colonial New England: An Inquiry into the Social Context of Literacy in the Early Modern West. New York: W.W. Norton, 1974. LC152.N57L62

Machor, James L. Readers in History: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.

McKitterick, Rosamund, ed. The Uses of Literacy in Early Medieval Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Munby, A. N. L. The Cult of the Autograph Letter. London 1962.

Myers, R. and M. Harris, eds. Serials and Their Readers, 1620-1914. Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1993. PN4701.S47 1993

Olson, David R. The World on Paper: The Conceptual and Cognitive Implications of Writing and Reading. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. P211.O53 1994

Ong, Walter J., S.J. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. New York: Methuen, 1982. P35.O5 1982

Raven, James, Helen Small, and Naomi Tadmor, eds. The Practice and Representation of Reading in England,. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Z 1003.5.G7P73 1996

Resnick, Daniel P., ed. Literacy in Historical Perspective. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1983. LC1.2.L71

Reynolds, Suzanne. Medieval Reading: Grammar Rhetoric and the Classical Text. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. PA 2061 .R48 1996

Rose, Jonathan. "Rereading the English Common Reader: A Preface to the History of Audiences." Journal of the History of Ideas 53 (1992): 47-70.

Rubin, Joan Shelley. The Making of Middlebrow Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. Z 1003.2 .R83 1991

Stewart, Garret. Dear Reader: The Conscripted Audience in 19th-Century British Fiction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. PR878.A79S74 1996

Stock, Brian. The Implications of Literacy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. P211.S69 1983

Stone, Lawrence. "Literacy and Education in England, 1640-1900." Past and Present, 42 (1969): 69-139. D1.P37

Thompson, James Westfall. The Literacy of the Laity in the Middle Ages. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1939. 370.5 C12 v.9

Vincent, David. Literacy and Popular Culture in England, 1750-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.


Censorship & Copyright


Armstrong, Elizabeth. Before Copyright: The French Book-Privilege System 1498--1526. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Barnes, James J. Authors, Publishers and Politicians: The Quest for an Anglo- American Copyright Agreement, 1815-1854. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1974. Spec. Coll.: SC Ref 49.C.9

Birn, Raymond. "Rousseau and Literary Property: From the 'Discours sur l'Inégalité' to 'Emile.'" Leipziger Jahrbuch zur Buchgeschichte, 3 (1993): 13-37.

Boyer, Paul S. Purity in Print: The Vice-society Movement and Book Censorship in America. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968. 323.4450973 B695p 1968

Brown, Heywood and Leech, Margaret. Anthony Comstock: Roundsman of the Lord. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. Spec. Coll.:

Burt, Richard. Licensed by Authority: Ben Jonson and the Discourses of Censorship. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.

Clark, Aubert J. The Movement for International Copyright in Nineteenth Century America. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1973. KF2995.C55

Craig, Alec. Suppressed Books: A History of the Conception of Literary Obscenity. Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1963. 098.1 C84 1963

Cranston, Maurice. "Voltaire and the Freedom of the Press." Essays by Divers Hands 46 (1990): 1-21.

Eaton, Andrew J. "The American Movement for International Copyright." Library Quarterly 15 (April 1945): 95-122. 020.5L616

Feather, John. Publishing, Piracy and Politics: An Historical Study of Copyright in Britain. London: Mansell Publishing, 1994.

Foxon, David. Libertine Literature in England, 1660-1745. New Hyde Park, N.Y.: University Books, 1965. Spec. Coll.: SC Ref

Grendler, Paul F. Culture and Censorship in Late Renaissance Italy and France. London, 1980.

Grendler, Paul F. The Roman Inquisition and the Venetian Press, 1540-1605. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1977. BX1723.G73

Haight, Anne Lyon. Banned Books, 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D. 4th ed. New York: Bowker, 1978. Z1019.H15 1978

Hyland, Paul and Neil Sammells, eds. Writing and Censorship in Britain. London, 1992.

Loades, D.M. "The Theory and Practice of Censorship in Sixteenth Century England." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, ser. 5 (1974): 141-57. 942.006 R81t

MacKinnon, Sir Frank. "Notes on the History of English Copyright." In The Oxford Companion to English Literature, 5th ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), pp. 1113-25. 820.3 H262

Meltzer, Françoise. Hot Property: The Stakes and Claims of Literary Originality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. PN 166 .M45 1994

Monfasani, John. "The First Call for Press Censorship: Niccolò Perooti, Giovanni Andrea Bussi, Antonio Moreti, and the Editing of Pliny's "Natural History"." Renaissance Quarterly 41 (1988): 1-31.

Myers, Robin and Michael Harris, eds. Censorship and the Control of the Press in England and France, 1600-1910. Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1992.

Nowell-Smith, Simon. International Copyright Law and the Publisher in the Reign of Queen Victoria. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. K1411.6 .N68

Parsons, Ian. "Copyright and Society." In Essays in the History of Publishing, ed. Asa Briggs. London: Longman, 1974, pp. 29-60. Spec. Coll.:

Patterson, Annabel. Censorship and Interpretation: The Conditions of Writing and Censorship in Early Modern England. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. Z658.G7P37 1984

Patterson, Lyman Ray. Copyright in Historical Perspective. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1968. KD1289.P37

Perrin, Noel. Dr. Bowdler's Legacy: A History of Expurgated Books in England and America. New York: Atheneum, 1969. Z1019.P4 1992

Rose, Mark. Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. KD1300.R67 1993

Ross, Trevor. "Copyright and the Invention of Tradition." Eighteenth-century Studies 26 (1992): 1-27.

Schreyer, Alice D. "Copyright and Books in Nineteenth-century America." In Getting the Books Out, ed. Michael Hackenberg. Washington, D. C.: Center for the Book, Library of Congress, 1987, pp. 121-136.

Siebert, Frederick Seaton. Freedom of the Press in England, 1476-1776: The Rise and Decline of Government Control. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1952. Spec. Coll.: SC Ref 49.C.4

Thomas, Donald. A Long Time Burning: The History of Literary Censorship in England. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969. KD4110.T56x 1969

Todd, Christopher. Political Bias, Censorship and the Dissolution of the Official Press in Eighteenth Century France. London: Edwin Mellen, 1991.

Zionkowski, Linda. "Aesthetics, Copyright and 'The Goods of the Mind.'" British Journal For Eighteenth-Century Studies 15 (1992): 163-174.


Popular Publications


Ashton, John. Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century. London: Chatto and Windus, 1882. 398.5 As3

Beetham, Margaret A. A Magazine of Her Own? Domesticity and Desire in the Woman's Magazine, 1800-1914. London: Routledge, 1996. PN5124.W6B44 1996

Blagden, Cyprian. "The Distribution of Almanacks in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century." Studies in Bibliography 11 (1958): 107-116. 010.6 V81s; Spec. Coll.: CURR D15

Blagden, Cyprian. "Notes on the Ballad Market in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century." Studies in Bibliography 6 (1954): 161-80. 010.6 V81s; Spec. Coll.: CURR D15

Blakey, Dorothy. The Minerva Press 1790-1820. London: Bibliographical Society, 1939. 010.6 B472p 1939

Bolleme, G. La Bibliotheque bleue. Paris, 1971. PQ789.B6

Bonn, Thomas L. Under Cover: An Illustrated History of American Mass Market Paperbacks. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982.

Burke, Peter. Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe. New York: New York University Press, 1978. CB203.B87 1978

Capp, Bernard. English Almanacs 1500-1800: Astrology and the Popular Press. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1979. Spec. Coll.: SC Ref 49.Ca.4

Cawelti, John G. Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. PN3355.C36

Collison, Robert. The Story of Street Literature: Forerunner of the Popular Press. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABCClio, 1973. Z1029.3C64 1973b

Curti, Merle. "Dime Novels and the American Tradition." Yale Review, n.s. 26 (1936): 761-78. Periodicals 305.Y1s.2

Dalziel, Margaret. Popular Fiction 100 Years Ago: An Unexplored Tract of Literary History. Philadelphia: Dufour, 1958. 823.098 D179p 1957

Davis, Kenneth S. Two-Bit Culture: The Paperbacking of America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.

Hart, James. The Popular Book: A History of America's Literary Taste. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961. 028 H25

Hindley, Charles. Curiosities of Street Literature. 1871; reprinted, Welwyn Garden City: Seven Dials Press, 1969. Spec. Coll.:

Hindley, Charles. The History of the Catnach Press, at Berwick-upon-Tweed, Alnick and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in Northumberland, and Seven Dials, London. London, 1887. 398.5 H58

Hindley, Charles. The Life and Times of James Catnach, Ballad Monger. London: Reeves and Turner, 1878. Spec. Coll.:

Jackson, Mary V. Engines of Instruction, Mischief and Magic: Children's Literature in England from Its Beginnings to 1839. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1989.

James, Louis. English Popular Literature 1819-1851. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976. PR1143.E5

James, Louis. Fiction for the Working Man 1830-1850: A Study of the Literature Produced for the Working Classes in Early Victorian Urban England. London: Oxford University Press, 1963. Spec. Coll.:

Johannsen, Albert. The House of Beadle and Adams and Its Dime and Nickel Novels: The Story of a Vanished Literature. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1950-62. 3 vols. 813.09 J59

Johnson, Richard and Tanselle, G. Thomas. "The Haldeman-Julius 'Little Blue Books' as a Bibliographical Problem." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 64 (1970): 29-78. 010.6 B47p

Kunzle, David. The Early Comic Strip: Narrative Strips and Picture Stories in the European Broadsheet from c.1450 to 1825. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. Spec. Coll.:

Lowenthal, Leo. Literature, Popular Culture, and Society. Palo Alto, Calif.: Pacific Books, 1968. PN51.L6

Mandrou, Robert. De la culture populaire aux 17e et 18e siecles: La Bibliotheque bleue de Troyes. Paris: Stock, 1975. PQ183.M3 1985

Martin, Henri-Jean. "The Bibliotheque Bleue: Literature for the Masses in the Ancien Regime." Publishing History, 3 (1978): 70-102. Spec. Coll.: CURR C45

Mayhew, Henry. London Labour and the London Poor. London, 1861-62; reprinted, New York: Dover Books, 1968. 4 vols. HV4088.L8M52 1968

Neuburg, Victor E. Chapbooks: A Guide to Reference Material on English, Scottish and American Chapbook Lit erature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. 2nd ed. London: Woburn Press, 1972. Spec. Coll.:

Neuburg, Victor E. "The Diceys and the Chapbook Trade." The Library, 5th ser., 24 (1969): 216-31. Spec. Coll.: CURR C18 (in PB RR)

Neuburg, Victor E. The Penny Histories: A Study of Chapbooks for Young Readers over two Centuries. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969. Spec. Coll.:

Neuburg, Victor E. Popular Literature: A History and Guide from the Beginning of Printing to the Year 1897. Totowa, N.J.: Woburn Press, 1977. Spec. Coll.:

Radway, Janice A. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.

Shepard, Leslie. The Broadside Ballad: A Study in Origins and Meaning. London: Jenkins, 1962. Spec. Coll.:

Shepard, Leslie. The History of Street Literature. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1973. Spec. Coll.: SC Ref Reserve C871

Shepard, Leslie. John Pitts: Ballad Printer of Seven Dials, London, 1765-1844.. London: Private Libraries Association, 1969. Z232.P68 S5

Spufford, Margaret. Small Books and Pleasant Histories: Popular Fiction and Its Readership in Seventeenth-century England. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1982. PR972.S65 1982

Stern, Madeleine. Publishers for Mass Entertainment in Nineteenth Century America. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1980. Z473.S8575

Sutherland, John. Bestsellers: Popular Fiction of the 1970s. London 1981.

Weiss, Harry B. A Book about Chapbooks: The People's Literature of Bygone Times. Trenton, N.J., 1942. Spec. Coll.:


Specialized Publications


Barnes, Sherman B. "The Editing of Early Learned Journals." Osiris 1 (1936): 155-72. Science: 505 Os26

Blunt, Wilfrid. The Art of Botanical Illustration. 4th ed. London: Collins, 1967. Science: QK 98 .B5

Blunt, Wilfrid and Raphael, Sandra. The Illustrated Herbal. New York: Thames and Hudson in association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1979. Science: folio QK14.5.B57

Drake, Stillman. "Early Science and the Printed Book: The Spread of Science beyond the University." Renaissance and Reformation 6 (1970): 43-52. CB359.R462

Gibson, Sarah. "Scientific Societies and Exchange: A Facet of the History of Scientific Communication." Journal of Library History 17:2 (Spring 1982): 144-163. 021.009 J826

Gingerich, Owen. "Copernicus and the Impact of Printing." Vistas in Astronomy 17 (1975): 201-09. Science: 520.8 B392v

Harley, J. B. and David Woodward, eds. The History of Cartography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Harvey, P. D. A. Maps in Tudor England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Karrow, Robert W. Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and Their Maps. Winnetka, Illinois: Speculum Orbis Press, 1993.

Kronick, David. A History of Scientific and Technical Periodicals: The Origins and Development of the Scientific and Technical Press, 1665-1790. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1976. PN4784.T3 K7 1976

Krummel, D. W. English Music Printing 1553-1700. London: Bibliographical Society, 1975. Music: ML112.K75

Lambert, Samuel W., Willy Wiegand, and William M. Ivins, Jr. Three Vesalian Essays. New York: Macmillan, 1952. Science: QM25.V47 L3

Sarton, George. "The Quest for Truth: Scientific Progress during the Renaissance." In The Renaissance: Six Essays New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1962, pp. 55-76. Spec. Coll.:

Thornton, John L. Medical Books, Libraries and Collectors. 2nd rev. ed. London: Deutsch, 1966. Science Library Z6658.T5 1986

Thornton, John L. and Tully, R.I.J. Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors. 3rd ed. London: Library Association, 1971. Science: ZY401.T45

Woodward, David, ed. Five Centuries of Map Printing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975. Spec. Coll.: Orbis Hist D63


Private Press & Fine Printing


Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. 2nd ed. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1983. Z321.5.P7C37 1983

Franklin, Colin. The Private Presses. Chester Springs, Pa.: Dufour, 1969. Z231.5.P7F7 1969b

Franklin, Colin. and Turner , John The Private Presses. 2nd ed. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1990.

Grannis, Chandler B., ed. Heritage of the Graphic Arts. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1972. Spec. Coll.:

Harrop, Dorothy A. A History of the Gregynog Press. Pinner, Middlesex: Private Libraries Association, 1980. Spec. Coll.:

Mardersteig, Giovanni. The Officina Bodoni: An Account of a Hand Press 1923-1977. Edited and translated by Hans Schmoller. Verona: Edizioni Valdonega, 1980. folio Z232.033M3713

Needham, Paul; Dunlap, Joseph; and Dreyfus, John. William Morris and the Art of the Book. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976. Spec. Coll.:

Peterson, William S. The Kelmscott Press: A History of William Morris's Typographical Adventure. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.

Ransom, Will. Private Presses and Their Books. New York, 1929; reprinted, New York: AMS Press, 1976. Spec. Coll.: SC Ref 55.C.7

RHM: Robert Hunter Middleton, the Man and His Letters: Eight Essays on His Life and Career. Chicago: Caxton Club, 1985. Z250.A2M657 1985


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