More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

Pagination, vol. 1: xiv, 347 p.; vol. 2: x, 338 p.; xii, 384 p. LC copy, vol. 1 & 2, inscribed: O.W. Holmes, Boston. Vol. 1 has laid in, a ticket for a benefit concert for the Columbia Polytechnic Institute held at Foundry M.E. Church on Dec. 4, 1928 with pen notations on verso; vol. 2 has laid in, a Halloween bookmark of a printed, hand-colored pumpkin with cat inside with the name "J.E. Lockwood" printed in pencil on it. Contents, vol. 1: Robespierre -- Carlyle -- Byron -- Macaulay -- Emerson. Vol. 2: Vauvenargues -- Turgot -- Condorcet -- Joseph de Maistre. Vol. 3: On popular culture -- The death of Mr. Mill -- Mr. Mill's autobiography -- The life of George Eliot -- On Pattison's memoirs -- Harriet Martineau -- W.R. Greg, a sketch -- France in the eighteenth century -- The expansion of England -- Auguste Comte.

Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.