Author

Text

Editions

Pedagogical Notes

Jonson, Ben

The Works of Ben Jonson

• 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
  

Pope, Alexander

The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq.

• 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
  

• 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

Malone, Edmond

The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare

• 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



• 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
  

• 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…

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The Song of Hiawatha

• 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)



• Poems . Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1984. Limited Edition, Illustrated by David Frampton. Call # 811 L86p
  

• See Stewart Plein’s notes on the differences between the first printing and the third
• 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

Twain, Mark

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s comrade ).

• New York : Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885
  Call # 817
  C591h6 f
  Includes 174
  illustrations by
  E.W. Kemble



• The Writings of Mark Twain. Volume XIII: Hartford, CT: American Publishing Co., 1899
  Call # 817
  c 591A4 v. 13

• 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
  

Abbott, Jacob

Rollo in Naples

• New York: Hurst & Co, 1856
  Call # C813 Ab27 rn
  

• New York: J. R. Anderson Publishers
  Call # CHILD 813 Ab27rn2 c. 2
  

• 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

Kipling, Rudyard

The Seven Seas

• London: Methuen & Co, 1896
  Call # 821 628ss2
  

• New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1896
  Call # PR4854 .S3 1896
  
  

• 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

Asimov, Isaac

Foundation

• New York: Doubleday, 1951
  
  
  
• Panther Science Fiction edition; Panther Books, 1960 rpt. 1969
  

• 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 Foundation besides these two in the collection