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4. Most useful for students of English are J. W. Spargo, A Biblio-
graphical Manual for Students, Chicago, 1939 (Second ed., 1941);
Arthur G. Kennedy, A Concise Bibliography for Students of English,
Second ed., Stanford University Press, 1945.
5. E.g., W. W. Greg, A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to
the Restoration, Vol. I, London, 1939; F. R. Johnson, A Critical
Bibliography of the Works of Edmund Spenser Pri?ited before 1770,
Baltimore, 1933; Hugh Macdonald, John Dry den: A Bibliography of
Early Editions and Drydeniana, Oxford, 1939; cf. James M. Osborn,
"Macdonald's Bibliography of Dryden," Modern Philology, XXXIX
(1942), pp. 313-19; R. H. Griffith, Alexander Pope: A Bibliography,
2 parts, Austin, Texas, 1922-27.
6. R. B. McKerrow, An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Stu-
dents, Oxford, 1927.
7. Cf. bibliography, Section I.
8. On paleography of English literary documents, see Wolfgang Keller,
Angelsachsische Paleographie, 2 vols., Berlin, 1 906 {Palaestra, 43,
a and b). On Elizabethan handwriting, see Muriel St. Clare Byrne,
"Elizabethan Handwriting for Beginners," Review of English Studies,
I (1925), pp. 198-209; Hilary Jenkinson, "Elizabethan Handwrit-
ings," Library, 4th Series, III (1922), pp. 1-34; McKerrow, loc. cit.
(for Appendix on Elizabethan handwriting) ; Samuel A. Tannen-
baum, The Handzvriting of the Renaissance, New York, 1 930. Tech-
nical devices of investigating MSS (microscopes, ultra-violet rays,
etc.) are described in R. B. Haselden, Scientific Aids for the Study of
Manuscripts, Oxford, 1935.
9. Finely worked out pedigrees are to be found in such books as R. K.
Root's The Textual Tradition of Chaucer's Troilus, Chaucer Society,
London, 1916.
10. Cf. bibliography, Section I.
11. Cf. bibliography, Section I.
12. W. S. MacCormick and J. Haseltine, The MSS of the Canterbury
Tales, Oxford, 1933; J. M. Manly, The Text of the Canterbury
Tales, 8 vols., Chicago, 1940; R. W. Chambers and J. H. Grattan,
"The Text of Piers Plowman: Critical Methods," Modem Language
Review, XI (1916), pp. 257-75, and "The Text of Piers Plow77ian"
ibid., XXVI (1926), pp. 1-5 1.
13. For more elaborate distinctions cf. Kantorowicz, quoted in bibliog-
raphy, Section I.
14. Cf. Sculley Bradley, "The Problem of a Variorum Edition of Whit-
man's Leaves of
Grass,'''' English Institute Antiual, 1041, New York,