Figure 3, page 60, Textual Cultures 6.1 (2011)*
Textual Cultures 6.1 (2011) is out, in the mail, and online. I confess that it was for me a “special issue”. Tom Tanselle’s touching tribute to Jo Ann Boydston, who was one of the Society for Textual Scholarship’s early moving forces and a voice of inclusion, and David Greetham’s remembrance of Trevor Howard-Hill, a stalwart defender of all things bibliographic and a fellow editor, are unique additions to this issue. Beyond their exemplary scholarly contributions, Boydston and Howard-Hill gave selflessly to colleagues and to our field. Once you read Tom’s and David’s essays you will understand why they appear at the beginning of the issue.
What might draw some criticism, the diversity of the essays in this issue, especially in light of the number devoted to W. W. Greg (4.2 [2009]), is one of the things that made 6.1 such a delight to edit. Donald McKenzie, Nicolaus Maniacutius, Max Beerbohm, Henry Lawson, Auguste Poulet-Malassis, Ole Worm, and Thomas Percy made informative and wonderfully cross-referential issue-fellows in a remarkably “visual” collection of essays that depended on the careful scholarship of Peter Schillingsburg, Marie Thérèse Champagne, Sarah Davison, Paul Eggert, Nicolas Valazza, and Robert W. Rix. An essential part of this issue depended especially on the skills of our compositor, Tony Brewer, who made text and image flow together in magical ways — a syntagm one seldom sees in journals devoted to philology and textuality. READ MORE.
Wayne Storey, Editor, Textual Cultures
*Figure 3. The title-page of Beerbohm's copy of Yeats, Poems (1909), reprinted in Sotheby, Illustrated Catalogues ofthe Library and Literary Manuscripts of the Late Sir Max Beerbohm: Removed from Rapallo (1960a), 71.
