The sixty-first volume of Studies in Bibliography continues its tradition of presenting a wide range of articles by international scholars on bibliography, textual criticism, and other aspects of the study of books.

The volume opens with a bibliographical assessment of the contributions to the Anglo-American book world of the bookseller, scholar, collector, and writer John Carter, accompanied by a handlist of the nearly fifteen hundred items Carter is known to have published. Other major essays include John Bidwell’s analysis of the claim that a recently discovered manuscript is an early copy of the Declaration of Independence, James McLaverty’s study of the illustrations of Alexander Pope’s Works of 1735, Barbara Heritage’s detection of stages of composition in the manuscript of Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley, and James L. W. West III’s recovery of the authors’ punctuation in the endings of novels by Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner.

The articles and their authors are:
“John Carter: An Assessment and a Handlist,” by G. Thomas Tanselle; “The Sources of the Sussex Declaration: A Reconsideration,” by John Bidwell; “A Documentary History of the University of Virginia’s First Library and Its Jeffersonian Catalogs,” by Samuel V. Lemley, Neal D. Curtis, and Madeline Zehnder; “‘Capítulo de una novela en prensa’: Teaser Chapters and Marketing Strategies in Victoria Ocampo’s Sur,” by Nora C. Benedict; “The Engravings of Pope’s Works II (1735): ‘Envy must own, I live among the Great,’” by James McLaverty; “Jonathan Richardson, Charles Chauncy, and the Manuscripts of Pope,” by John Considine; “Extra-Illustrating Horace Walpole’s Description of Strawberry Hill: Three Case Studies,” by Stephen Clarke; “Charles Dibdin and the Making of The Musical Tour of Mr. Dibdin (1788): A New ‘compact with the public,’” by David Chandler; “Stages of Composition in Charlotte Brontë’s Fair-Copy Manuscript of Shirley,” by Barbara Heritage; “‘The Brothers’ and the English Comte de Gabalis,” by Joscelyn Godwin; “Three Endings: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner,” by James L. W. West III

Distributed for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia