In turn she has endowed fellowships at the Houghton Library and Bibliographical Society of America.STC was not all. Kitzi Pantzer practised bookbinding and linotype printing, contributed to a forthcoming series of "Modern Greek Poetry in Translation" and made her own version of the Greek New Testament. Her views on the Book of Common Prayer were unprintable, but her chart of its many editions is a masterpiece.In 1986 A-H came out; the revised STC was complete, 36,000 entries against 26,000 in 1926. She wrote a memorable preface describing it, the definition of "locations" characteristic:In the entries, the Atlantic Ocean is represented by a semicolon. Up to five locations on each side have been listed with a view to geographical distribution.The Bibliographical Society had matched her loyalty by raising the considerable sum needed to print the two volumes Nor was her task over.

"Later this week I'll start wading through Bible, and I'm already gritting my teeth." Shakespeare got off with a caution, but John Speed's monopoly of the divine genealogy filled her with exasperation. "I shall be getting to L14 for an afternoon or so, but, again, I don't want to get embroiled even with the nasties on a full scale," she wrote to a friend (L14 was the British & Foreign Bible Society, "nasties" bibles with false imprints). She and STC received the unexpected accolade of a portrait in The New Yorker. None of this went to her head, and she just went on as before.She had her own highly individual view of the task. She was surprised by the welcome the second half of the alphabet got. The Harvard English Department agreed to accept it in lieu of a dissertation for her doctorate - as well they might, since it contained a lot more serious scholarship than the usual thesis.

It covered I-Z; these were the letters she had herself worked on and felt sure of. Her English friends were rightly touched by her altruistic tenacity, but could only admire the hours of work spent on the administrative detail involved. Forms many pages long had to be filled in, especially when the National Endowment for the Humanities became a major funder.In 1976 the first volume of the revised STC was published. It has also formed a petrol retailing joint venture with the Chinese company which aims to have 500 stations in operation within three years..