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GREG/1/90
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Part of a letter from Kenneth Sisam to W. W. Greg
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- 1916 x 1958 (Creation)
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1 slip, neatly torn from a larger sheet
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(The Clarendon Press, Oxford?)—Refers to the date of Greg’s edition of The Assumption of the Virgin.
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The case of The Assumption of the Virgin is an odd one. The title page has the date 1915, but in fact it was published in January 1916, and our catalogues have kept the later date against the title page. Such are the woes of bibliographers!
Yours sincerely,
Kenneth Sisam
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Typed, except the signature. The top part of the sheet has been torn neatly away.
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Formerly inserted in one of Greg's copies of his edition of The Assumption of the Virgin (1915 or 1916; see this letter) (Adv. c. 26. 17).
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This description was created by A. C. Green in 2020.