volume 73 no 1

spring 2024

From Oflag VII C to King‘s College, Cambridge: The Correspondence of A. N. L. Munby and W. S. Lewis Stephen Clarke . . . . 11

The Marvellous Monsieur Sardou, Part 3 Victoria Dailey . . . 23

Spectro Gasp Bła ej Mikuła . . . . . . . . . 49

Edward Killingworth Johnson‘s Illustrations for Rider Haggard‘s ’She‘ in The Graphic Simon Cooke . . . . . . . . 55

Marginalia in Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein Anthony Tedeschi . . . 67

Paratexts in Fénelon‘s Télémaque: The 1719 Edition by Hofhout and Wetstein Frans A. Janssen . . . . . . . . . 81

William Beckford‘s Poetry: with Notes and Observations about Misattributions Robert J. Gemmett . . . . . . . . 93

B. S. Johnson: The Novelist Who Wasn‘t Philip Gooden . . . 111

Lost Friends, Part 8 Brian Alderson . . . . . . . . 119

Leo Cadogan, The Markham Interviews (New Series) 31 Sheila Markham . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Two Mosaic Bindings Made in Paris for Maria Leczinska, c.1750: English and Foreign Bookbindings, 153 Mirjam M. Foot . . . 131

news & comment 134 ● sales & catalogues 153 ● book reviews 172 ● notes on contributors 184 ● notes for contributors 184 ● in the next issue 186 ● list of advertisers 192

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