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Part 9
WRITINGS ON ANALYTICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
(This list is limited to the analysis of manufacturing clues in books and manuscripts; for the analysis of
design features, see 3C above. References to "Hinman (1963)," "Blayney (1982)," and "Tanselle (1999)"
are to the works listed at those years in A1 below.)
A1. THEORY
A. Selected Basic Readings
R.B. McKerrow, An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students (1927), pp. 175-263.
F.P. Wilson, "Shakespeare and the 'New Bibliography,'" in The Bibliographical Society 1892-1942:
Studies in Retrospect (1945), pp. 76-135. [See Thomas M. Parrott's letter, Library 5th ser. 3
(1948-49): 63-65.] Reprinted as a separate volume (1970), ed. Helen Gardner.
Charlton Hinman, The Printing and Proof-Reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare (1963), 1: 3-14,
52-334.
Fredson Bowers, Bibliography and Textual Criticism (1964).
D.F. McKenzie, "Printers of the Mind: Some Notes on Bibliographical Theories and Printing-House
Practices," Studies in Bibliography 22 (1969): 1-75. Reprinted in his Making Meaning: "Printers
of the Mind" and Other Essays, ed. Peter D. McDonald and Michael F. Suarez (2002), pp. 13-85.
Peter Davison, "Science, Method, and the Textual Critic," Studies in Bibliography 25 (1972): 1-28.
G.T. Tanselle, "Bibliography and Science," Studies in Bibliography 27 (1974): 55-89. Reprinted in his
Selected Studies in Bibliography (1979), pp. 1-36.
G.T. Tanselle, "Analytical Bibliography and Renaissance Printing History," Printing History 3.1 (1981):
24-33. Reprinted (as "Analytical Bibliography and Printing History") in his Literature and
Artifacts (1998), pp. 291-306.
G.T. Tanselle, The History of Books as a Field of Study (1981). Reprinted in his Literature and
Artifacts (1998), pp. 41-55.
Peter W.M. Blayney, The Texts of KING LEAR and Their Origins: Volume I. Nicholas Okes and the
First Quarto (1982), pp. 1-12.
G.T. Tanselle, "Printing History and Other History," Studies in Bibliography 48 (1995): 269-89.
Reprinted in his Literature and Artifacts (1998), pp. 307-27.
G.T. Tanselle, "The Treatment of Typesetting and Presswork in Bibliographical Description," Studies
in Bibliography 52 (1999): 1-57.
G.T. Tanselle, "The Concept of Format," Studies in Bibliography 53 (2000): 67-115.
A2. EXAMPLES OF ANALYSIS
W.W. Greg, "On Certain False Dates in Shakespearian Quartos," Library 2nd ser. 9 (1908): 113-31, 381-
409. Reprinted in Sir Walter Wilson Greg: A Collection of His Writings, ed. Joseph Rosenblum
(1998), pp. 35-67.
John Carter and Graham Pollard, An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets
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