Introductory Material
Articles
- Morris to Swinburne: A Link in the Correspondence (1977)
- Anthony Trollope's Marginalia in Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays (2001)
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Garnett, Richard. Essays in Librarianship and Bibliography. New York: Francis P. Harper, 1899.
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