Notes
1. Lisa Jaillant, Modernism, Middlebrow, and the Literary Canon: The Modern Library Series, 1917–1955, Pickering and Chatto, London, 2014.
2. On authors’ libraries see Amanda Golden’s Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets, Routledge, London, 2017.
3. Michael F. Suarez, S.J., ‘Book History from Descriptive Bibliographies’, in Leslie Howsam (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2015, pp. 211–12; as cited in Lise Jaillant, Cheap Modernism: Expanding Markets, Publishers' Series, and the Avant-Garde, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2017, p. 4.
4. F Madan, EG Duff and S Gibson, ‘Standard Descriptions of Printed Books’, in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, part 1, 1922–23, pp. 55–64.
5. Philip Gaskell, A New Introduction to Bibliography, Oak Knoll Press, New York, 1995.
6. ‘Middlebrow’ literary consumption habits are discussed in Jay Satterfield, The World’s Best Books: Taste, Culture and the Modern Library, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 2010, and Joan Shelley Rubin, The Making of Middlebrow Culture, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1992.