Second Sequence of Book Files from Accession 2

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 133 CPA/1/2/2
  • Former Reference
      GB 133 Sequence 2
  • Dates of Creation
      [ca 1973/4-1981]
  • Physical Description
      37 items; 74 pieces

Scope and Content

This series of book files predominantly relates to books published by Carcanet Press between 1979 and 1981, representing the full range of the Carcanet list at this time. The majority of the 37 volumes appeared in 1980; books published in 1979 and 1981 are represented by seven and six files respectively. There are only two files relating to volumes published earlier than this; one from 1977 and one from 1974, which only found their way into the archive at this stage. Some books documented here are also represented in the first sequence of book files in this accession, at CPA/1/2/1. Where this occurs, cross references have been supplied.

The files contain a range of editorial papers including the author's or editor's manuscript, author's proofs, collated proofs, and related papers such as correspondence and unpublished poetry manuscripts; some volumes are more fully documented than others. Peter Jones copy-edited a number of the volumes published during 1979-1981; Val Warner was responsible for copy-editing the 1974 text included in this accession (Robert Garioch's Made in Scotland anthology); and Helen Ramsbotham acted as copy-editor for one volume. Margaret Hutchinson was the principal proof-reader and collator during this period, and her work appears in many of the files listed here. It was her usual practice to produce the collated proofs by adding her own corrections to the marked author's set, meaning that in some cases authors' proofs do not have a separate catalogue entry of their own. Most of the typesetting during this period was still carried out in-house at Carcanet, and the main printers at this time were Billings.

Arrangement

A detailed outline of the principles of arrangement which apply to this material is supplied in the headnote at CPA/1/2. Whilst the books in this series are largely arranged according to these principles, there are two anomalies: the book file relating to British poetry since 1970 ed. Peter Jones and Michael Schmidt (CPA/1/2/2/28), is listed under 'S' rather than 'J' because it had previously been wrongly identified as an anthology edited by Michael Schmidt; and the volume by Carlos Drummond de Andrade (CPA/1/2/2/37) appears at the very end of the sequence, because it was discovered during cataloguing to be concealed beneath the title page of another volume.

Appraisal Information

Any unmarked sets of proofs have been disposed of, unless an unmarked set is the only surviving document representing the proof stage of a given publication.