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Divers Hands Today

The most common non-Chthulhu Mythos usage of the term 'divers hands' is "By (someone's real name) and Divers Hands", which tells people that the principal author wants to give credit to all the others who contributed. Example:

• Notes on League of Extraordinary Gentlemen hardcover edition, by Jess Nevins and divers hands This is deeply annotated study of all the eclectic literary references from the comic book.

The second most common usage of 'divers hands' is when you need to list name an author in an alphabetic list and when there isn't any author's name, use 'divers hands'.

• For instance, in the index for the magazine Baryon there are many entries for the author 'Divers Hands'
• In this SF Fiction Mags Index 'divers hands' is listed in Stories by Author - Section D

Otherwise, most of the usage seen for 'divers hands' is in literary criticism, for instance:

• From Happy Knack: "Depending on how the next volume pans out, the complete Life is going to be at least treble and possibly quadruple the size of your average biography of Auden, Eliot or Pound, and might even outdo the Bible, which was of course written by divers hands, over a 1500-year period, and may have been assisted in its composition by the Spirit of God Him or Herself."
• Essays by Divers Hands: Being the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature New Series, XLIV