Sid Huttner

Project site for information about the publication history of Owen Meredith's _Lucile_, a narrative romance in verse form first published in 1860 and kept in print until 1938. It saw several editions in England but became enormously popular in the United States, was issued by reprint publishers in as many as two thousand editions (Series, Libraries, etc.) and hundreds of thousands of copies -- probably millions. The web site organizes and images each of the editions identified in _Publishers' Trade List Annual (PTLA)_ (1873-1938), with bindings of the nearly 1500 copies in the Huttner collection shown in full color. The project has been underway since 1984; was first offered as an online site in the mid-1990s; and new material is added frequently. The site additionally includes considerable information about (and indexes to the annual volumes of) PTLA. "Owen Meredith" was the pen name of Edward Robert, first Earl of Lytton (1831-1891), son of the novelist Bulwer-Lytton, and a distinguished British diplomat who served as Viceroy of India 1876-1880, supervising the Assemblage at Delhi in 1877 that proclaimed Victoria as Empress of India.

Review of John Bidwell. American Paper Mills 1609-1832, A Directory of the Paper Trade with Notes on Products, Watermarks, Distribution, Methods, and Manufacturing Techniques. Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College Press, in association with the American Antiquarian Society, 2013. In Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing SHARP News  23:1 (Winter 2014), p. 5.