Item 222 - Excerpts from various works, compiled by W. W. Greg

1 volume (23 x 19 cm), containing 66 leaves, with a cutting inserted inside the front cover. Quarter-bound in calf and green cloth by J. P. Gray & Son, Cambridge.

The extracts in this book relate to various aspects of bibliography and textual criticism. The works from which they are taken, as listed in the Index (p. i), are as follows:

A. E. Housman, Introduction to Manilius
A. E. Housman, The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism.
M. A. Shaaber, Introduction to 'Henry IV' (variorum)
Virginia C. Gildersleeve, Government Regulation of the Elizabethan Drama
Evelyn M. Albright, Publication in England, 1580–1640
Evelyn M. Simpson, A Study of the Prose Works of John Donne
Evelyn M. Albright, 'To be Staied' [from Proceedings of the Modern Language Association of America, xxx (1915), 451–99]
H. J. C. Grierson, The Poems of John Donne (1912)
Marjorie Plant, The English Book Trade
Percy Simpson, Marlowe's 'Tragical History of Doctor Faustus'
W. Rowley, When you See me you Know me
A. H. Bullen, Introduction to Marlowe's Works
L. M. Sinistrari, De Daemonialitate
Simon Forman, The plot of Cox of Cullinton
John Mason, Princeps Rhetoricus
A. W. Pollard, Copyright in Josephus
J. M. Robertson, Marlow: a conspectus
Stationers' Court-Book C: Jaggard and play bills
B.M. MS. Sloane 640: Jaggard's disease
Successive drafts of the proclamation of 16 Nov. 1538
Grafton to Cromwell, 1 Dec. 1538

(There is a label on the spine inscribed in faded letters, 'Scraps'. On the front free endpaper is written, 'W. W. Greg | Park Lodge', and a coloured illustration of a medieval manuscript is pasted inside the front cover. The contents appear to have been written about the same time, probably about the date of the letter formerly inserted in the book (GREG 1/88), which accompanied a copy of the book from which the first extract was taken. This first extract was transcribed from a reprint of 1937 (see p. 1); the latest publication mentioned (see p. 15) is dated 1940.)

Paginated i–viii, 1–120, with an unnumbered flyleaf at the front and another at the back. Pages 1–76 were numbered by Greg; the other page-numbers are archival. Pages 1–120 are printed, or stamped, with the numbers 115–256, but these numbers have been superseded.

The leaves containing the numbered pages (i–viii, 1–120) are unstitched and detached from the boards.

A letter formerly inserted in this book is now catalogued as GREG 1/88.