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Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society, 1975. cloth. 8vo. cloth. 332 pages. Edited by Fredson Bowers. Article Joseph Johnson, an Eighteenth-Century Bookseller by Gerald P. Tyson [pp. … More...

Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society, 1975. cloth. 8vo. cloth. 332 pages. Edited by Fredson Bowers. Article Joseph Johnson, an Eighteenth-Century Bookseller by Gerald P. Tyson [pp. 1-16] Article The Minute Books of the St. James's Chronicle by Richmond P. Bond and Marjorie N. Bond [pp. 17-40] Article Further Texts of Chaucer's Minor Poems by A. I. Doyle and George B. Pace [pp. 41-61] Article William Hunnis and the 1577 Paradise of Dainty Devices by Steven W. May [pp. 63-80] Article Compositors D and F of the Shakespeare First Folio by John O'Connor [pp. 81-117] Article Richardson's Revisions of Clarissa in the Third and Fourth Editions by Shirley Van Marter [pp. 119-152] Article Vathek in English and French by Kenneth W. Graham [pp. 153-166] Article Greg's Theory of Copy-Text and the Editing of American Literature by G. Thomas Tanselle [pp. 167-229] Article A New Approach to the Critical Constitution of Literary Texts by Hans Zeller [pp. 231-264] Article John Stowe, The Craft of Lovers and T.C.C. R.3.19 by A. S. G. Edwards and J. Hedley [pp. 265-268] Article Authoritative Manuscript Corrections in Donne's Biathanatos by Ernest Sullivan [pp. 268-276] Article Shaftesbury Cursed: Dryden's Revision of the Achitophel Lines by Edward L. Saslow [pp. 276-283] Article Further Additions to Bond's Register of Burlesque Poems by A. B. England [pp. 284-290] Article The "Swingeing" of Cibber: The Suppression of the First Edition of The Refusal by Rodney L. Hayley [pp. 290-297] Article Piracies of Two Plays by Farquhar by Shirley Strum Kenny [pp. 297-305] Article Samuel Richardson and Defoe's Tour (1738): The Evidence of Bibliography by Pat Rogers [pp. 305-307] Article The Case for Fielding's Authorship of An Address to the Electors of Great Britain (1740) Reopened by Thomas R. Cleary [pp. 308-318] Article The 1785 Variorum Shakespeare by William C. Woodson [pp. 318-320] Article D. H. Lawrence's Progress to Maturity: from Holograph Manuscript to Final Publication of The Prussian Officer and Other Stories by Brian H. Finney [pp. 321-332]., Bibliographical Society, 1975, 0, First edition paperback, which is in fine condition and signed by the author. Seller will offer reduced shipping for this item.This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that brings dark truths to light and explodes long-suppressed emotions. Ambitiously conceived and stunningly written, A Thousand Acres takes on themes of truth, justice, love, and prideand reveals the beautiful yet treacherous topography of humanity., Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2003-12-02, 5<