Presidential Address

Nicolas Bell, The revision of the Short-Title Catalogue

Society of Antiquaries Burlington House, Piccadilly, London

The STC is the largest and most complex enterprise ever undertaken by the Bibliographical Society. The revised edition brought new levels of sophistication and was the fruit of a major transatlantic collaboration, initially between F. S. Ferguson in London and W. A. Jackson in Harvard. This lecture will draw on a recently discovered treasure-trove of correspondence with all of the major figures in bibliography of the mid-twentieth-century, charting the first stages of the revision of the catalogue.

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