The Printing and Proof-reading
of the First Folio of Shakespeare
By
Charlton Hinman.
A detailed bibHographical analysis, which
systematically reconstructs the printing of the first collected edition of
Shakespeare's plays. Students will find in it much important, and prob–
ably unfamiliar, information upon the production of the various parts
of the F,olio. Evidence is advanced for some fundamental changes in
understanding of the Folio text and editorial practices.
Two volumes.
14 half-tones;
36
figures.
$23.55
William Morris and
W.
B. Yeats
By
Peter Faulkner.
Quoting liberally from Yeats's works, including
lectures, reviews and poetry, Mr. Faulkner establishes the similarities be–
tween the political and social thought of the two men and contrasts their
attitudes toward reform. AIthough Yeats never criticized the poetry of
Morris, his social theories and courageous personality impressed Yeats
deeply, both as thinker and as ppet.
$1.70
Jean D'Alembert
By
Ronald Grimsley.
A leading figure of the French Enlightenment
and a mathematician of European repute, D'Alembert was considered
second only to Voltaire by his contemporaries. Mr. Grimsley discusses
fully his philosophical achievement, his activities with the
Encyc/.opedie
and the French Academy, and his relationships with Voltaire and Rous–
seau. Biographical data is supplied throughout.
$6.10
William Blake: Vala or the Four Zoas
By
G. E. Bentley, Jr.
This work reproduces for the first time in com–
plete facsimile what Northrop Frye has called "the greatest abortive
masterpiece
in
English literature." It provides, as well, an exhaustive
transcript and study of the poem and its ninety "illustrations," and it
advances interesting the,ories to account for its underserved failure.
142 half-tone plates.
$26.90
Oxford University Press
/
New York
16,
N. Y.
