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| Charlton Hinman with a Hinman Collator in the background |
Hinman’s
Own Annotated Set with Correspondence and Notes Laid In
Charlton
Hinman. THE PRINTING AND PROOF-READING OF THE FIRST
FOLIO OF SHAKESPEARE. Oxford: At The Clarendon Press, 1963. 2 vols. xvi 507 [1] + vii 560 p. Errata slip
in vol. 1. as issued. Frontis. in each
vol., plates, illus. Large 8vo. Blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt.
Charlton
Hinman’s own set with his annotations on approximately 100 pages. Laid in are four sheets and ten notecard
slips of autograph notes regarding corrections and emendations, citations to
other research, and miscellaneous information including a list of people to
receive complimentary copies and a brief outline of major references of
analytical bibliography. Also laid in
are thirteen pages of correspondence dated mainly 1964-1965, including six
TLs’s with Hinman’s carbon TL replies.
Correspondents include Prof. S.F. Johnson of Columbia University,
Akihiro Yamada of Shinshu University, Dr. J. Shafer of the Westfalische
Wilhelms-Universitat, Arthur Humphrey of the University of Leicester, and Giles
Dawson of the Folger Library. Dawson,
the curator of books and manuscripts at the Folger, was instrumental in
assisting Hinman with his work. All but
Dawson’s letter deal primarily with errata found in the book by the various
correspondents. Dawson’s three-page TLs
concerns Staunton’s photolithographic facsimile of the First Folio published in
1866 as well as personal news.
One of the monumental works in the
history of bibliography, and the greatest achievement in the field of
analytical bibliography. Hinman, using a
collation machine designed by himself and inspired by his service in WWII
intelligence, did a page-by-page comparison of over fifty copies of the First
Folio at the Folger Library. The results published here changed not only the
entire nature of Shakespearian scholarship but also heavily influenced the
general course of bibliographical studies.
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