Henry James: A Bibliographical Catalogue of a Collection of Editions to 1921

Ex‐lawyer and banker, David Supino, who now “pursues a career as a bibliographer”, anticipates the query we might have on who on earth would want to compile a 500‐page “bibliographical catalogue” of the works of Henry James, or anyone else? To dedicatee Linda, “who believes that all this is a bit ‘dusty’”, he quotes Michael Sadleir:

How far we want to go along the road to the ideal of Fredson Bowers (also quoted), that “the form of bibliographical description should ideally be so full that previous unsuspected variation in the structure of the book can be brought to light by...