HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H9938 6/15/99 "A LAODICEAN EDITION QUESTION" ======================================================= Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 21:39:09 +0200 From: Birgit Plietzsch Subject: Unidentified edition of _A Laodicean_ Cc: wrigcros@teleport.com Dear List Members, The following query has reached me, and since I don't know the answer, I was asked to forward it to the list. Is anybody able to identify this edition? Thanks, Birgit --------------- >Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 15:12:04 -0700 >From: "Paul M. Wrigley" >Organization: Wrigley-Cross Books >To: plietzsch@zusas.uni-halle.de >Subject: Bibliographic query >X-URL: http://www.zusas.uni-halle.de/ttha/ > >Hi. I'm hoping you can help us identify what edition of A Laodicean we >have. In all respects it looks like the first authorized American Edition >from Henry Holt and Co., 1881. It is mustard yellow and has advertising >endpapers that list other Hardy books, all earlier titles. What concerns >me is that the title page is a cancel. I can't find any mention of this >anywhere else. I would greatly appreciate any information you can supply. >Thank you in advance for your efforts. > >Regards, >Debbie Cross ========== Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:15:08 -0800 From: Betty Cortus Subject: Unanswered Questions Dear FORUM Members, From time to time inquiries come to the list which do not seem to elicit responses. Some of the more specific of these seem to warrant a second airing such as the two below. Please respond to the List. Betty Cortus On June 16, 1999 Birgit Plietzsch forwarded the following request which had been sent to her: >Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 15:12:04 -0700 >From: "Paul M. Wrigley" >Organization: Wrigley-Cross Books >To: plietzsch@zusas.uni-halle.de >Subject: Bibliographic query >X-URL: http://www.zusas.uni-halle.de/ttha/ > >Hi. I'm hoping you can help us identify what edition of A Laodicean we >have. In all respects it looks like the first authorized American Edition >from Henry Holt and Co., 1881. It is mustard yellow and has advertising >endpapers that list other Hardy books, all earlier titles. What concerns >me is that the title page is a cancel. I can't find any mention of this >anywhere else. I would greatly appreciate any information you can supply. >Thank you in advance for your efforts. > >Regards, >Debbie Cross ========== From: Sarah Dangelantonio Subject: RE: Unanswered Questions Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 15:27:09 -0400 I'd suggest you contact Dr. Jane Gatewood (at last check she was at Mary Washington College).  She's prepared the Oxford Worlds Classics edition of A Laodicean and may be the best bet for a quick identification.  Dr. Simon Gatrell at UGA might also be of help as he, too, is quite familiar with A Laodicean's editions.  Sorry I don't have either e-mail, but we were all at the University of Georgia together and working on Hardy editions (Jane and I for Simon)--Ethelberta is my project though.  Good luck and if I track either person down in the interim, I'll be back to the list. Cheers Sarah Dangelantonio Associate Professor of English Franklin Pierce College Rindge, NH 03461 603-899-4295 ==========