Synopses & Reviews
The culmination of five decades of research, this monumental work of descriptive bibliography, containing entries for more than 1,300 editions, assembles by date of printing the corpus of poetry composed and printed in the United States of America in books and pamphlets up through 1820. It also includes a revised version of Roger Stoddard’s seminal essay “Poet and Printer in Colonial and Federal America: Some Bibliographical Perspectives,” which explores the production of poetry in American culture from the colonial period to the early days of the American Republic. Enhancing access to this rich source of information are eight indexes: place of publication, printers and publishers, artists and engravers, signed or attributed bookbindings, dedicatees, provenance, subject, and author/title. This work is published for the Bibliographical Society of America by The Pennsylvania State University Press.
Synopsis
A bibliography of poetry composed in what is now the United States of America and printed in the form of books or pamphlets before 1821.
About the Author
Roger E. Stoddard worked for forty-two years in the Harvard Library, retiring in 2004 as Curator of Rare Books in the Harvard College Library, Senior Curator in the Houghton Library, and Senior Lecturer on English. Since then he has published bibliographies of Jacques-Charles Brunet, Primo Levi, and W. G. Sebald.
David R. Whitesell is Curator in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia; he previously served as Curator of Books at the American Antiquarian Society.
Table of Contents
Contents List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Poet and Printer in Colonial and Federal America: Some Bibliographical Perspectives
Some General Statistics
Dedications
Subscriptions
Recitations
Popular Texts
Publishers’ Bindings in Paper
Illustrations
Introduction to the Bibliography
Parts of the Entry
Abbreviations
Bibliographical Citations
Location Symbols
Conspectus of the Bibliography
The Bibliography
The Indexes
Index of Place of Publication
Index of Printers and Publishers
Index of Artists and Engravers
Index of Bookbindings Signed or Attributed
Index of Dedicatees
Provenance Index
Subject Index
Author and Title Index