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1484 Yale Station, New Haven, Connecticut.—Praises An Introduction to Bibliography, and sends some early examples of references to an author’s earlier work title-pages, compiled from the Monthly Review (Add. MS 355/4/31b–e).

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1484 Yale Station | New Haven, Connecticut
24 April 1928

My dear Mr. McKerrow,

Praise and appreciation of your invaluable Introduction to Bibliography must by now have become an old story to you; were it not, therefore, for some interesting titles which have fallen in my way during the last few weeks, I should hesitate to bother you with a note telling you of my own delight in it, and of the enthusiastic interest of several undergraduates who discovered it in my rooms, became fascinated, and ended by reading it from cover to cover.

The titles on the enclosed cards are of interest with reference to your discussion of the mention of an author’s earlier work on the title-page of a new one. It happened that when I read this passage (p. 93) I was engaged in going with some thoroughness through the files of The Monthly Review; since I had already worked my way through a great many volumes, I am not prepared to say that the earliest of my references is the earliest actual entry indicating this practice. Nor (and here is the fly in the ointment) have I been able to see copies of any of the books here represented; by a devilish chance our library possesses none of them! All my experience with the Monthly, however, tends to show that their invariable practice was to quote with scrupulous fidelity the title-page of each book reviewed, adding any supplementary information in the body of the review itself.

It seems extremely probable, therefore, that Mr. Sadleir’s suggested date of 1791 for the institution of the practice could be pushed back some years in the second edition of your work. I am sorry to be unable [to] assure you definitely that the actual title-pages read as these entries indicate, and sincerely hopeful that I am not sending you off on a false lead!

Most sincerely yours,
Benjamin C. Nangle

Ronald B. McKerrow, Esqr.
Great Missenden, Bucks.

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The Cottage; A Novel: in a Series of Letters. By Miss Minifie, Author of Barford Abbey. 12mo. 3 Vols. 7s. 6d. Durham, etc.
Monthly Review, XL, 519. (June 1769.)

See McKerrow: Introduction to Bibliography, p. 93 {1}

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The Fatal Connexion. By Mrs. Fogerty, Author of Col. Digby and Miss Stanby. 12mo. 2 Vols. 5s. Bladon. 1773.
Monthly Review, XLIX, 150.

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A Treatise on God’s Love to the World. . . . . By James Sloss, A. M. Author of Sermons on the Doctrine of the TRINITY.
Monthly Review, XLII, 243. (March 1770.)

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The Excursion; a Novel. By Mrs. Brooke, Author of Julia Mandeville, and Emily Montagu. 2 Vols. 12mo. 5s. sewed. Cadell. 1777.
Monthly Review, LVII, 141.

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Experiments and observations concerning agriculture and the weather. By Mr. Marshall, Author of the “Minutes of Agriculture.” 4to. 7s. 6d. sewed. Dodsley, 1779.
Monthly Review, LX, [241]. {2}

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1484 Yale Station, New Haven, Connecticut.—Sends an earlier example of the use of a title-page to advertise an author’s earlier work (Add. MS. a. 355/4/32b).

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1484 Yale Station | New Haven, Conn. U.S.A.
16 May 1928

My dear Mr McKerrow,

Since writing to you a week or two ago {1}, I’ve come across a much earlier example than any I had then seen of the use of the title-page for advertising. In this case I have seen the book, and can cite it with confidence. See the enclosure. There is no date on the title-page; this edition is reviewed, however, in The Monthly Review for August 1760 (Series I, Vol. XXIII, p. 156) and in The Critical Review for May 1760 (Vol. IX, p. 342.) I feel quite confident that a systematic review of titles during the ’60’s would result in the discovery of numerous examples of this usage.

They continue to appear as I work my way through the files of the Monthly. Yesterday, for instance, I noticed Miss Seward’s Monody, the title of which reads Monody / on Major André. / By Miss Seward. /(Author of the Elegy on Capt. Cook.) / – – – – – – Both the first and second editions of this appeared in 1781; I have examined no copy of the first; the above is from the title-page of the second.

Most truly yours,
Benjamin C. Nangle

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{1} See Add. Ms. 355/4/31.

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The / Life and Heroic Actions / of / Balbe Berton, / Chevalier De Grillon. / Translated from the French by a Lady, / And revised by / Mr. Richardson, Author of Clarissa, / Grandison, &c. / In Two Volumes. / Vol. I. [II.] / London: Printed for H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, at the / Golden Ball in Paternoster-Row. /

[The phrase In Two Volumes is omitted in the second volume.] {1}

Published April or May, 1760
See Monthly Review, I, XXIII, 136 (August) Critical Review, IX, 342 (May) Gentleman’s Magazine, XXX, 251 (May)

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