STEVE FERGUSON 

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 
DEPARTMENT OF RARE BOOKS 
    AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY 08544 
TEL 609 258 3165  FAX 609 258 2324 
EMAIL ferguson@princeton.edu 
 
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I. Articles:

1998 "Merging Theory and Practice: A Curator's Reflections on History of the Book" [publication pending of paper presented at the 1997 RBMS Preconference in Claremont, CA.]
1991 "The 1753 Carte chronographique of Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg" in the Princeton University Library Chronicle. (Winter). Précis in Historical Abstracts.
1988 Excerpt from "Materials for Publishing History in the Princeton University Library" in Newsletter of the Book Trade History Group Issue 7, September 1988 (Milton Keynes, England, 1988)
1987 "System and Schema: Tabulae of the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries recently acquired by the Princeton University Library" in Princeton University Library Chronicle (Autumn). Précis in Historical Abstracts.
1987 "Rare Books in University Libraries" in Library Trends (Summer, 1987).
1987 "Special Collections" in the 1987 ALA Yearbook covering events of 1986.
1986 "Special Collections" in the 1986 ALA Yearbook covering events of 1985.
1981 "Introduction: Part II. Printing and Literary History of The Goff" in The Goff: Facsimiles of the Heroi-Comical Poem by Thomas Mathison. Poems were first published at Edinburgh in 1747. Far Hills, New Jersey: United States Golf Association, 1981.
1981 "E.V. Connett III: A Brief Biography" in The Derrydale Press: A Bibliography. Goshen, Conn.: Angler's and Shooter's Press, 1981. Reprinted in the Summer 1991 issue of The American Fly Fisher.
1980 "Friends of the the Princeton University Library: A Photographic Essay" in Princeton University Library Chronicle (Winter). Also guest editor of the Chronicle for this issue honoring the fiftieth anniversary of the Friends of the Library.
1979 "The Gentlemen's Recreation" in Princeton University Library Chronicle. (Spring.) Précis in Historical Abstracts.
1978 "Recently Identified Braziliana" in The Inter-American Review of Bibliography. (July-Sept.) Précis in Historical Abstracts.
1976 "A Triple Volley" in Princeton University Library Chronicle. (Spring.)
1975 Annual report on the Library at the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum of our National Heritage, Lexington, Massachusetts.
1974 "The Codigo Brasiliense: Brazil's First Legal Code" in The Inter-American Review of Bibliography. (April-June.) Summary of this article appears in Francis A. Dutra. A Guide to the History of Brazil, 1500-1822. The Literature in English. Santa Barbara, 1980. Also, précis in Historical Abstracts.
1974 "West Indian Medical Graduates of Edinburgh to 1800" in The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. (January.)
 
II. Editing of the following books:

1998 Editor: John Steinbeck: The Collection of Preston Beyer donated to the Princeton University Library by his daughters, Barbara A. Rice, Marilyn S. Shuffler, Lynne B. Sagalyn. Annotated Catalogue of the Collection. Princeton, Princeton University Library.
1989 Assisting editor for: Carla Hesse and Laura Mason, Catalogue of the Pamphlets, Periodicals, and Songs of the French Revolutionary Era in the Princeton University Library. New York: Garland Publishing.
1989 Assisting editor for: William S. Heckscher, The Princeton Alciati Companion. New York: Garland Publishing.
1984 Assisting editor for: Emblem Books in the Princeton University Library. A Short-Title Catalogue. Compiled by W.S. Heckscher and Agnes B. Sherman. Princeton: Princeton University Library, 1984.
1983 Edited Guide to Selected Special Collections in the Princeton University Library first issued in May, 1983 in looseleaf by the Library. Describes more than 250 author and subject collections of printed books. Updated annually. Available on the World Wide Web at http://www.princeton.edu/~ferguson/handbook.html

III. Descriptive notes and checklists of recently acquired rare books at Princeton published in twenty two separate issues of the Princeton University Library Chronicle between Autumn, 1976 and Autumn, 1996 numbers.

IV. Exhibition catalogues issued by the John Carter Brown Library (six, 1971- 74) and at Princeton (five, 1979-90). (Subjects included: visualizations of knowledge and abstract ideas - Classical times to the Baroque; imaginary voyages; American bookbindings; missions in America; Thomas Hollis; sporting books and other topics.)

V. Book reviews of bibliographical works in The Wordsworth Circle (Summer, 1975) and Nineteenth Century (Summer, 1980) and Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (Fourth quarter, 1983) and review of the CD-ROM edition of the Eighteen Centry Short Title Catalogue in volume 8, number 1 (1993) of Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship

VI. Checklist of architectural books in the John Carter Brown Library (1971 and revised 1974).

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"Twee Orang Oetans bekijken een boek" by Allebe. This painting is in the Historisch Museum, Amsterdam



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And another picture elsewhere: That's me on the scaffolding

Revised 26 February 1998