| Descript |
xi, 338 pages ; 21 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1950. With new pref |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-331) and index |
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Preface to the Ohio State University Press Edition -- Introduction: The unsung scholar -- The secret of the ebony cabinet -- The case of the curious bibliographers -- The quest of the knight-prisoner -- Hunting for manuscripts -- Exit a lady, enter another -- A gallery of inventors -- The scholar and the scientist -- Secrets in cipher -- The destructive elements -- Shades of Mrs. Grundy -- Post-Mortems -- On the trail of Byron -- The search for Sambir -- Discoveries: 'The Book of Margery Kempe'; Medwall's 'Fulgems and Lucres; The poems of Thomas Traherne; The poems of Edward Taylor; The Conway letters; Browning's 'Essay on Chatterton'; The Bronte's childhood fantasies |
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English literature -- Research
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Learning and scholarship -- History
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life
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