W. T. H. Howe (1868–1939) was one of the most prominent book collectors and literary patrons of the Golden Era of book collecting, yet his efforts have been largely forgotten. This piece strives to correct that oversight, providing information about Howe’s life and situating him among American book collectors of his period. Fellow collectors such as Barton Currie and Richard Curle lauded his foresighted purchases of Poe and Hawthorne works at the famous Wakeman sale of 1924; later he made splashy purchases of Lewis Carroll first editions that positioned him as a major contributor to the 1932 New York “Alice” exhibition. Howe accumulated a huge treasure trove of literary manuscripts and rare books that he kept in Cincinnati, where he was president of the world’s largest textbook publisher, the American Book Company. Friends with rare booksellers such as Walter Hill of Chicago and Alfred Goldsmith of New York, Howe shaped collecting trends to emphasize nineteenth-century and contemporary writers. When Howe died suddenly without a will, his collection was slated for auction, but bookman Mitchell Kennerley brokered a deal with Alfred Berg, who purchased the library en bloc and donated it to the New York Public Library. Ironically, this saved Howe’s collection intact, but obscured his role in building the foundation of today’s Berg Collection.
W.豪（W. T. H. Howe，1868-1939 年）是图书收藏黄金时代最杰出的图书收藏家和文学赞助人之一，但他的努力在很大程度上被人们遗忘了。这篇文章致力于纠正这种疏忽，提供有关豪的生平信息，并将他归入同时期美国图书收藏家的行列。巴顿-库里（Barton Currie）和理查德-库尔（Richard Curle）等藏家称赞他在 1924 年著名的维克曼拍卖会上购买坡和霍桑作品的远见卓识；后来，他又大手笔购买了刘易斯-卡罗尔的初版作品，这使他成为 1932 年纽约 "爱丽丝 "展览的主要贡献者。豪积累了大量的文学手稿和珍本，他把它们收藏在辛辛那提，并在那里担任世界上最大的教科书出版商美国图书公司的总裁。豪与芝加哥的沃尔特-希尔（Walter Hill）和纽约的阿尔弗雷德-戈德史密斯（Alfred Goldsmith）等珍本书商交好，他塑造了以十九世纪和当代作家为重点的收藏趋势。当豪在没有留下遗嘱的情况下突然去世时，他的藏书被计划拍卖，但书商米切尔-肯纳利（Mitchell Kennerley）与阿尔弗雷德-伯格（Alfred Berg）撮合了一笔交易，后者将图书馆全部买下，并捐赠给了纽约公共图书馆。具有讽刺意味的是，这虽然完整地保存了豪的藏书，但却掩盖了他在奠定今天伯格藏书基础中的作用。
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{"title":":Descriptive Bibliography","authors":"Kate Ozment","doi":"10.1086/726471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726471","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22928,"journal":{"name":"The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America","volume":"80 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139026008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":The Editor Function: Literary Publishing in Postwar America","authors":"Richard Saunders","doi":"10.1086/726472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726472","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22928,"journal":{"name":"The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America","volume":"36 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139018008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This talk asks what a bibliography of birch bark books might entail and how such research might challenge understandings of paper, print production and circulation, and readership. I take up these questions by examining an array of birch bark books and objects that informed the making and circulation of the Potawatomi writer Simon Pokagon’s birch bark booklet titled The Red Man’s Rebuke (alternately titled The Red Man’s Greeting). Although they are thought by many scholars to have been printed for the Columbian Exposition and World’s Fair in 1893, I illuminate a longer history of the booklets’ printing and circulation, including multiple editions and evidence of several readers. I ask what methods a bibliography of birch bark requires by reflecting on recent collaborative research with Pokagon Band of Potawatomi archivists and linguists. Attempting a bibliography of the birch bark booklets offers new insights on how Indigenous people acted as readers of periodicals and other printed objects as well as evidence of strategic circulation and archiving, from the nineteenth century to the present.
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The remarkable theatrical history of Joseph Addison’s 1713 tragedy Cato is well known, but the play is also an exceptional case in book history. This essay looks in detail at its two entirely distinct “first” editions. It resolves the relationship between these two editions and considers the quite different problems they raise for the bibliographer: the one of how we distinguish between edition and issue in a context of frenzied publication, standing type, and incremental resetting; the other, of how a manifestly substandard and suspicious edition came to carry the self-proclaimed hallmark of the play’s true publisher, Jacob Tonson. The early print history of Addison’s Cato, this essay shows, both puts pressure on the language of bibliography and also marks an important and revealing episode in a number of larger histories: those of the Tonson house, of book piracy and copyright protection, and of the bestseller. Appendices provide bibliographical descriptions of the 1713 Qα and Qβ editions, press variants of the earliest three issues of Qα, and uncorrected errors in Qβ.
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{"title":":Making the Miscellany: Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book in Early Modern England","authors":"Breanne Weber","doi":"10.1086/726467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726467","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22928,"journal":{"name":"The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America","volume":"19 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139015702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Albums assembled from fragmentary materials present a special set of problems for bibliographic research. Inaccurately described in catalogs and often caught between different fields, these hybrid objects can be tricky to find within collections and even more difficult to place historically in terms of genre. Yet understanding these seemingly idiosyncratic albums has become more important to book history than ever, as the field pushes to tell deeper histories of the material text. This essay begins from the premise that the modern library catalog is, as an ordering technology, incapable of accurately describing these unique books. In order to dispel the fog of naïve wonderment that often persists around them, I proceed to develop a taxonomy of what fragments are (whether remnants, snippets, or pieces, with the related notion of scraps) and a spectrum of their use within collections (as specimens of something or as raw stuff to create something new). Finally, I draw on the terms laid out in this essay to survey some major genres of assembled albums, including Romantic albums, scrapbooks, paper doll houses, chromolithographic albums, Victorian photocollage, design portfolios, sample books, leaf books, and extra-illustrated volumes. By beginning to trace connections across time, this essay shows how a more sensitive reading of fragments might transform book history.
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{"title":":Cover Treasure: The Life and Art of Margaret Armstrong","authors":"Constance McPhee","doi":"10.1086/727728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/727728","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22928,"journal":{"name":"The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138992651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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{"title":"Society Information","authors":"","doi":"10.1086/726469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726469","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22928,"journal":{"name":"The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134994432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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