Pamela in 1842

[victor steinbok]

I was happy with the citation I got and there was no citation to volume 4

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Robin Hamilton
<robin.hamilton2 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> as Robin points out. There is also a
>> volume 4 but I did not bother with that one.
>>
>> VS-)
>
> Shame on you, Victor -- I once managed to upstage Julie Coleman by
> referencing the third edition of David Haggart's _Life_.
>
> As Julie usually and quite meticulously cites works she refers to from their
> British Library catalogue numbers, this is a hard act to follow.
>
> I think I learned from Julie that you *always track down the earliest
> published first edition of anything, only I carried the lesson to some sort
> of extreme state that only geeks inhabit.
>
> Payed off, but -- managed to work out, by looking at the title pages, just
> why Samuel Rowlands was quite so pissed off with Thomas Dekker that he
> accused him of plagiarism  (in 1612).
>
> There's a lesson here somewhere ...
>
> Robin

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