College and Research Libraries under the imprint of the firm. The first Cooper title for which cost figures are given is The Prairie, published in 1827. The total cost of production of 5,000 copies was $7,322.24, of which $5,000 was paid the author for the copyright. Cooper's reputa- tion had already been established by the pub- lication of The Spy in 1821 for which he acted as his own publisher. By way of com- parison, it cost $7,607.97 to produce 3,500 copies of The Conquest of Granaqa by Irv- ing in 1829; of that amount $4,750 went to the author for copyright. Among the British authors, Jane Austen first appears in the Carey list with Elizabeth Bennett; or, Fride and Prejudice, in 1832. Described on its title page as "the first American edition from the third London edition," it was printed in 750 copies at a total cost of $351.48, illustrating the low cost of publishing foreign books with no copyright payment involved: The cost of printing from a printed copy rather than manuscript was a further saving to the American publisher and made the foreign book in English a smaller financial risk. Scott, Dickens, and Bulwer-Lytton were among other British authors frequently re- printed by the firm. The periodicals and annuals issued by the firm are taken out of the chronological list- ing with the books and are included in appendices where the consecutive numbers of each series are listed together. The Atlantic Souvenir, launched by Carey & Lea for the year 1826, was the first gift annual to be published in the United States. Full costs are given for each issue of this highly successful annual, including payments to authors for each individual contribution. It appears that $622.68 was paid for the literary contributions and $808 for engrav- ings (ten in all) out of a total cost of $5,040.12, for the 1827 issue. For three poems, "The Song of the Birds," "On Pas- saic Falls," and "Burial of the Minnisink," Longfellow received $1 0 "and Cooper's novels." J. K. Paulding contributed two articles, "The White Indian," and "The Lit- tle Dutch Sentinel of the Mahadoes," mak- ing a total of eighty pages, for which he re- ceived $120. The engravings in this volume, as in the others, are of superior quality; they include three by G. B. Ellis, two of them American scenes, one of Trenton Falls, and the other Passaic Falls. His honorarium for the three was $19 5. "The Legend of the Grisons," an engraving by William Hum- phrys, is made from a sketch by the noted American artist, C. R. Leslie. Humphrys is recorded as being paid $70 for the engrav- ing, but no mention is made of any compen- sation for Leslie. In some of the cost state- ments a sum is designated as being paid for the drawings from which the engravings were made. The figures on the cost of producing The American Quarterly Review, which the firm published from 1827 to 1833, are given in Appendix C. About two thousand copies of each issue were printed, at a total cost ranging from $1,084 to $2,773. Contribu- tors were paid two dollars a page, and the name of each author and his honorarium is listed for each issue. The cost data for the American Journal of the Medical and Phys- ical Sciences indicates that their authors were also paid at the rate of two dollars a page, and the cost of publishing an issue was sub- stantially the same as for The American Quarterly Revie-w. It is of interest to note that plates were used, and the cost of color- ing them by hand is recorded. The Ameri- can Journal of the Medical Sciences is still being published by the successor of Carey & Lea, the firm of Lea & Febiger. The labor of editing this volume was a large task which has been ably done. It is a valuable record and a significant contribu- tion to the history of the book trade. It will provide indispensable source material for the eventual writing of a comprehensive his- tory of American book publishing.-Ru- dolph Gjelsness, University of Michigan. The Wonder and the Glory. By Edward Alexander Parsons. New York: The This- tle Press, 1962. xvi, 383p. $12.50. [Dis- tributed by Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale1• The Wonder and the Glory is a curious and charming book-a biobibliography or bibliobiography of one of the great book collectors of our time and, perhaps (Robert Alonzo Brock, Charles Col cock Jones, and I. K. Tefft would doubtless nod approval to the "perhaps"), the greatest Southern col- lector of all time. Edward Alexander Par- sons' library, "some fifty thousand prints, books, autographs, bindings, manuscripts 66 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES + and historical documents," is now one of the libraries of the University of Texas. This book is the autobiography of the man who built that collection. To say again: It is a curious book. One learns more of the basic facts of Mr. Par- sons' life from the jacket copy than from the book itself. It is a rambling, random account of travels, a downpour of name-dropping (of the author's real and bibliothecal ac- quaintances), and a gallimaufry of interest- ing and trivial anecdotes of the "But thereby hangs a tale" school of writing. It is over- larded with quotations, albeit some delight- ful ones. Too small a proportion of the book is devoted to a description of Mr. Parson's collection. For this we must look some day to a proper catalog from the University of Texas. And to say again: It is a charming book. Mr. Parsons' style is graciously Bourbon, as were his concept and his manner of collect- ing. His bookishness is deeply ingrained and his knowledge of books exceedingly wide. His memories of a by-gone New Orleans are delightfully rose colored. And some of his anecdotes are quietly tickling, particularly his telling of his gentle rebuff at the hands -or, rather, by the tongue-of that most underrated American humorist, President Calvin Coolidge. The Wonder and the Glory is a book for the bookish. The nearer one approaches Mr. Parsons' own bookishness, the more he will enjoy the book. He writes of himself: I had no "small vices." I did not smoke, drink, gamble or follow the races or the ladies. I had no time for Clubs or social groups. . . . Whatever time was left from law and the mak- ing of money was too little indeed to satisfy the real purpose of it all: the building of a collec- tion . . . , and the alluring study necessary to acquire an approximate knowledge of [books1 and of that endless sea of learning-bibliog- raphy. It was a great life, but it took a day of forty- eight hours to do it justice.-Richard Harwell, Bowdoin College. Vermont Imprints, 1778-1820. Compiled by Marcus A. McCorison. Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1963. 597p. $15. (63-14992) This is the latest in a series of highly de- sirable lists of early imprints from specific JANUARY 1964 geographical areas; it is also a very welcome and worthy addition to the group of fine bibliographical studies that have come out of the American Antiquarian Society. This new volume identifies and when pos- sible locates 2273 books, pamphlets, and broadsides issued by the printers and pub- lishers who plied their trades in the Green Mountain State between 1778-date of the establishment of its first press in Dresden (now Hanover, N.H.) by the Spooners- and the year 1821. Bibliographical informa- tion includes author, his dates, title-page transcription, including place, publisher, and date, as well as pagination, size, locations of copies, and notes on copyrights. The work is obviously competently done. Compiler McCorison, who is librarian of the American Antiquarian Society, has com- pletely revised and included in the present volume the list of titles of Vermont Imprints before 1800 prepared by Elizabeth F. Cool- ey in 1937. By his own count he has elim- inated ninety-nine entries therefrom-sev- enty-four of which were newspapers and therefore covered definitively by Mr. Mc- Corison's someti.rpe colleague, the indefati- gable Clarence S. Brigham and therefore ex- cluded-and he has added 119 new items. Some rearranging of Cooley entries was also done because of revised authors or dates. Thus this list completely supersedes the Cooley list and is probably definitive. A sample check of McCorison's 1819 imprints, for example, against the recently-published volume of Shaw and Shoemaker's American Bibliography for the same year, shows some sixteen entries in the former which do not seem to appear in the latter. Some of the difference, however, might be accounted for by the different policies of inclusion used by the two works. McCorison includes as an appendix to his list a separate contribution of considerable consequence. This is a list of the more than three hundred individuals and firms that comprised the printing trades of Vermont during the period covered by the bibliog- raphy. Brief biographical sketches and ref- erences to further information are given for each. Herein are listed such important pub- lishers as Anthony Haswell and William Fessenden, such immigrant Scots and Irish bookmen as James Kirkaldie and John Hen- ry, and such printers as subsequently worked 67