[PW] Bunyan and de Geideville -- and Ms Curt.

[Peter Macinnis]

Dennis Lien wrote:

> I don't doubt that you doublechecked the names as SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
> had them, but SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN apparently had them wildly wrong:

About the only word I didn't search on was 'sowle'.  being wise after 
the events of your and Sue's posts, I tried <sowle Bunyan> and got the 
amended name in the second hit.  It WAS de Guileville.

Many thanks, I will do the next leg for myself and report back -- but I 
think I am just about there: Sci Am's Catherine Isabella Curt may in 
fact be Katherine Isabella Cust, daughter and editor of Nathaniel Hill.

He is credited with "THE ANCIENT POEMS OF GUILLAUME DE GUILEVILLE 
Entitled le Pelerinage de l’Homme Compared With the Pilgrim’s Progress 
of John Bunyan. Edited from Notes Collected by the ... of the Royal 
Society of Literature With Illustrations and an Appendix."  This was 
apparently published in 1858, says Worldcat.

I have identified a library copy in Sydney, and declare myself happy. 
For the record, Worldcat showed nothing in Australia, but 
http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/apps/kss revealed three in Oz.

Good.  A chance to waste sparklingly another day that could have been 
spent on dull workaday shuffling --  thanks, all!

cheers

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