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Author
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Text
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Editions
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Pedagogical Notes
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Jonson, Ben
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The Works of Ben Jonson
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- Volume the Third Containing The Alchemist. Catiline his Conspiracy. Bartholomew
Fair.
London: Printed for D. Midwinter et. al. 1755
Call # 822 J 738 A5
- In nine volumes with notes critical and explanatory, and a biographical
memoir by W. Gifford, Esq. London: Printed for G. and W. Nicol et. al.
1816
Call # PR2601 .G5 v.4
Volume the Fourth
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- The 1755 edition includes a list of Errata Note illustration opposite the
title page of
The Alchemist
Dedication to Lady Mary Wroth
Persons of the Play
The Scene, London
The Principal comedians were..
Next page: Title, argument, prologue,
play
- Containing
The Alchemist. Catiline. Bartholomew Fair, Epigraph by Cleveland
Notes on the play, then the dedication to Lady Mary Wroth, then “To the
Reader”
Then Dramatis Personae Next page; title, argument, prologue, play
- Compare notes of the two editions for the opening of
The Alchemist
- The Rare Book room does have a first edition of Jonson’s works, for further
comparison
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Pope, Alexander
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq.
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- In Nine Volumes, Complete with his last corrections, additions and improvements:
together with commentaries and notes of his editor. Dublin: Printed for
G. Faulkner, and A. Bradley, 1769
Call # PR 3621 .W3 1769 v. 1
- Containing the principal notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations
and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers,
F.S.A. and others. To which are added, some additional letters, with
additional observations, and memoirs of the Life of the author. By the
Rev. William Lisle Bowles, A.M. in ten volumes.
London: Printed for J. Johnson. J. Nichols. Et. al,
1806
Call # PR 3621 .W3 1806
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- Look at “The Rape of the Lock” (pp. 199-241 in the Dublin 1769 edition;
pp. 293-355 in the London 1806 edition)
- Compare the notes
- Evaluate illustrations in 1806 edition
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Malone, Edmond
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare
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Volume the First, Part II
Containing History of the English Stage
The Tempest
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Merry Wives of Windsor
London : Printed by Baldwin, 1790.
Call # 822.33 1 M 297 v. 1 pt. 2
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Volume the Third
Containing
Tempest
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Merry Wives of Windsor
Measure for Measure
Dublin : Printed for John Exshaw, No. 98 Grafton-Street, 1794
Call # 822.33 1M 297 1794 v.3
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- Note what’s included in the different editions Look at the opening of
The Tempest in both texts – and that the typesetting varies
Notice the notes from Warburton, Steevens, Johnson, and Malone – and
consider what’s important, what’s included, and why
- Consider compare/contrast with the Tonson edition of The Tempest ( London:
Tonson, 1734) Call # 822.33 4 TeT6 – which has no annotations at all…
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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The Song of Hiawatha
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- Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1855 (First edition, third printing) Call
# 811 L86s C. 3
- Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1855 (First edition, first printing). Bacon
Collection (uncatalogued)
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Poems . Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1984. Limited
Edition, Illustrated by David Frampton. Call # 811 L86p
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- The first edition, both first and third printings has notes in the back
of the text (pp. 299-313), and a vocabulary list (pp. 314-316). The Franklin
Center edition lacks both – and the illustrations are stylized
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Twain, Mark
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s comrade ).
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- New York : Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885
Call # 817
C591h6 f
Includes 174
illustrations by
E.W. Kemble
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The Writings of Mark Twain. Volume XIII: Hartford, CT: American
Publishing Co., 1899
Call # 817
c 591A4 v. 13
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- Compare the first pages of these two editions. Note that the punctuation
of the first page of the novel is different; the 1899 edition is missing
commas, substitutes a comma for a semicolon, etc.
- Note that the front matter is different from the 1885 edition
This edition lists six illustrations: a portrait of Twain from a bust
by Karl Gerhardt (etched by W.H.W. Bicknell); the title designed by Tiffany
& Co., etched by W.H. W. Bicknell; and four illustrations by E.W.
Kemble
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Abbott, Jacob
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Rollo in Naples
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- New York: Hurst & Co, 1856
Call # C813 Ab27 rn
- New York: J. R. Anderson Publishers
Call # CHILD 813 Ab27rn2 c. 2
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- The Hurst edition has a red cover with black and green, with the title
on the spine and the cover; the frontispiece says
Rollo’s Tour in Europe
- The Anderson edition has a green cover with gold embossing and a black
design; the spine says
Rollo in Europe
- The Hurst edition includes “Principal Persons of the Story” and the Anderson
edition does not
- The illustrations in the Anderson edition have captions, but do not in
the Hurst edition
- The Anderson edition has advertisements in the back (for other books in
the Rollo series, Roget’s
Thesaurus, Dickens’s
Little Folks Books,
The Boyhood and Manhood of James A Garfield, etc.; the Hurst edition
does not
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Kipling, Rudyard
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The Seven Seas
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- London: Methuen & Co, 1896
Call # 821 628ss2
- New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1896
Call # PR4854 .S3 1896
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- Both editions have advertisements in the back for their respective publishers
- Note the illustration of a sailor on the cover page of the British edition
(not US)
- Note differences in the Dedication poem – exclamation points where the
US edition does not; the US edition has a graphic with the poem but the
UK does not; the capitalization is slightly different too
- The British edition gives the first lines of the poems in the Table of
Contents, the US edition does not
- The British edition subdivides the “Songs of the English” the US edition
does not
- “In the Neolithic Age” is missing from the US edition
- The line “she’s a lady” is in quotes in the British edition, but not the
US edition
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Asimov, Isaac
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Foundation
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- New York: Gnome Press/Doubleday, 1951
Call#:
PS3551 .S5 168 1951
- Panther Science Fiction edition; Panther Books, 1960 rpt. 1969
Call # PS3551 . 55 F592 1960
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- The New York Doubleday edition has a black and white cover with a red ball,
and a photo of Asimov on the back
- The Panther edition is a British edition.
- Look at page 4 of the Doubleday edition versus page 8 of the Panther edition:
“forever” in the NY edition (versus for ever: in the British edition;
“interval” (NY) versus “intervals” (UK); “neighboring” versus “neighbouring”
etc.
- Multiple editions of
Foundationbesides these two in the collection
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