Kate, that's interesting. I have been looking for it, on and off, for years, always irritably wondering why I couldn't find it. I had to use the Evans edition for my dissertation, 15 years ago, because the Skretkowicz was prohibitively expensive even then. It does seem odd that the print run was so small. And Questia.com, which has many OUP books--even ones like D.M. Loades's book on Northumberland which seems equally hard to come by--doesn't have it either. I guess I'll contact the library.
Thanks, Liz
--- On Mon, 12/1/08, Kate Mould <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Kate Mould <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Skretkowicz edition of Sidney's Arcadia
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Monday, December 1, 2008, 5:34 PM
> Liz,
>
> A simple isbn search >019812743X will take you to
> BookFinder4u with links to
> online booksellers. It has an advanced search facility for
> titles no longer
> in print. A copy of Skretkowicz's Oxford edition hardly
> ever turns up,
> although it is listed by one or two suppliers. Our library
> copy went missing
> several years ago, and I rely on inter-library loans.
> Recently, Victor
> Skretkowicz kindly confirmed the current situation and
> market value -
> approximately $800 US - when I approached him with your
> question.
>
> Curiosity about Clarendon led me to OUP's archivist. As
> far as he could
> determine - more mystery - the print run for this edition
> and Robertson's
> was 1000, Ringler 2000. What a buy Dobell made when he paid
> 3 quid for a
> manuscript of the original Arcadia in 1906.
>
> Time for an Arcadia hypertext?
>
> Kate Mould
>
>
>
>
> On 2/12/08 1:46 AM, "Elizabeth Stein"
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > This seems to be the most recent scholarly edition of
> the New Arcadia, but
> > careful search of every used and new bookstore I can
> find online has not
> > turned it up. Does anyone know why? It was issued by
> Clarendon Press in
> > 1987, but OUP.com doesn't have it, and I can't
> find that Clarendon has a
> > separate site. What edition, then, is currently used?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Liz Ghiselin Stein
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