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Alfred William Pollard (1859 – March 8, 1944) was an English bibliographer
Bibliography

Bibliography , as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology ....
, widely credited for bringing a higher level of scholarly rigor to the study of Shakespearean
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
 texts.

Pollard was educated at King's College School in London
London

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 and St John's College
St John's College, Oxford

__FORCETOC__St John's College is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It was founded by Sir Thomas White , a merchant, in 1555, whose heart is buried in the chapel....
 at the University of Oxford
University of Oxford

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. He joined the staff of the British Museum
British Museum

The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture situated in London. Its collections, which number more than 7 million Object , are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginning to the present....
 in 1883, as assistant in the Department of Printed Books; he was promoted to Assistant Keeper in 1909, and Keeper in 1919.






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Alfred William Pollard (1859 – March 8, 1944) was an English bibliographer
Bibliography

Bibliography , as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology ....
, widely credited for bringing a higher level of scholarly rigor to the study of Shakespearean
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
 texts.

Pollard was educated at King's College School in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 and St John's College
St John's College, Oxford

__FORCETOC__St John's College is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It was founded by Sir Thomas White , a merchant, in 1555, whose heart is buried in the chapel....
 at the University of Oxford
University of Oxford

The University of Oxford , located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation in the English-speaking world....
. He joined the staff of the British Museum
British Museum

The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture situated in London. Its collections, which number more than 7 million Object , are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginning to the present....
 in 1883, as assistant in the Department of Printed Books; he was promoted to Assistant Keeper in 1909, and Keeper in 1919. In the latter year, Pollard was appointed Professor of English Bibliography at the University of London
University of London

Based primarily in London, England, United Kingdom, the University of London is a federal mega university made up of 31 affiliates: 19 separate university institutions, and 12 research institutes....
. He edited the journal The Library for thirty years (1903-34), and was Honorary Secretary of the Bibliographical Society from 1893 to 1934.

Pollard wrote widely on a range of subjects in English literature throughout his career, and collaborated with various scholars in specialized studies; he edited Thomas Malory
Thomas Malory

Sir Thomas Malory was an English people writer, the author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur. The antiquary John Leland believed him to be Welsh, but most modern scholarship assumes that he was Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire....
's Le Morte d'Arthur
Le Morte d'Arthur

Le Morte d'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's compilation of some French language and English language Arthurian Romance . The book contains some of Malory's own original material and retells the older stories in light of Malory's own views and interpretations....
, and a collection of Fifteenth Century Poetry and Prose. He was a longtime friend of the poet A. E. Housman
A. E. Housman

Alfred Edward Housman , usually known as A. E. Housman, was an England classics and poet, best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad....
, and a close colleague of the prominent Shakespeare scholar Edmund Kerchever Chambers
Edmund Kerchever Chambers

Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers was an English people literary critic and Shakespearean scholar. His four-volume history of Elizabethan theater, published in 1923, remains a standard resource for scholars of the period's drama....
.

Selected Works by Alfred W. Pollard


  • Records of the English Bible: The Documents Relating to the Translation and Publication of the Bible in English, 1525-1611, London, Oxford University Press, 1911.
  • Shakespeare Folios and Quartos: A Study in the Bibliography of Shakespeare's Plays, 1909.
  • A New Shakespeare Quarto: Richard II, 1916.
  • Shakespeare's Fight with the Pirates, And the Problem of the Transmission of his Text, 1917.
  • The Foundations of Shakespeare's Text, 1923.
  • Shakespeare's Hand in the Play of Sir Thomas More (with W .W. Greg
    Walter Wilson Greg

    Sir Walter Wilson Greg was one of the leading bibliographers and William Shakespeare scholars of the 20th century.Greg was born at Wimbledon and Putney Commons in 1875....
    , Edward Maunde Thompson
    Edward Maunde Thompson

    Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, Order of the Bath was a British palaeography, best remembered today for his study of William Shakespeare's handwriting in the manuscript of the play Sir Thomas More ....
    , John Dover Wilson
    J. Dover Wilson

    John Dover Wilson Order of the Companions of Honour was a professor and scholar of Renaissance literature, focusing particularly on the work of William Shakespeare....
    , and R. W. Chambers
    Raymond Wilson Chambers

    Raymond Wilson Chambers was a British literary scholar, author, and academic; throughout his career he was associated with University College London ....
    ), 1923.
  • Early Illustrated Books: A History of the Decoration and Illustration of Books in the 15th and 16th Centuries, 1927.
  • English Miracle Plays, Moralities and Interludes; Specimens of the Pre-Elizabethan Drama, Oxford, the Clarendon Press, 1927.
  • The Trained Printer and the Amateur, and the Pleasure of Small Books, 1929.
  • A Census of Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto (with Henrietta C. Bartlett), 1939.


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