Arthur Henry Bullen Letter

Collection — Box: VMF 2, Folder: 6

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf020

Staff Only

1884 January 10. Autograph letter signed from Bullen to an unidentified recipient, concerning publishing and printing details of his edition of the Work of John Day (1881). Bullen regrets that the edition was not bounf in two volumes and notes several problems in the printing of the volume. 4 pages.

Dates

Creation: 1884 January 10

Creator

Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry), 1857-1920 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Open

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Extent

1.00 items

1 folders

Additional Description

Biographical Information

Arthur Henry Bullen, often known as A. H. Bullen, (February 9, 1857 – February 29, 1920) was an English editor and publisher, a specialist in 16th and 17th century literature, and founder of the Shakespeare Head Press, which for its first decades was a publisher of fine editions in the tradition of the Kelmscott Press.

Bullen's interest in Elizabethan dramatists and poets started at the City of London School, before he went to Worcester College, Oxford to study classics. His publishing career began with a scholarly edition of the Works of John Day in 1881 and continued with series of English Dramatists and a seven-volume set of Old English Plays, some of which he had discovered in manuscript and published for the first time. He was also the first person to publish some early lyric poems. Bullen wrote more than 150 articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, lectured on Elizabethan dramatists at Oxford University and taught at Toynbee Hall.