by:
Greetham, D. C.

Publisher:
Garland Publishing
Published:May 1, 1994
ISBN:0815317913
Format:Textbook Binding
Pages:561

Description: From Book News, Inc.
The author is founder of the Society for Textual Scholarship. He writes to emphasize the continuities in the several parts of textual scholarship and to present the field in terms of a single narrative--a sequence from the discovery and enumeration of the text, to the history of its production, to its transcription and rendering into another medium (the modern typeset page), to its editing and its elucidation by annotation and commentary. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description:
Originally published in 1992 in hardcover, this paperback features a newly corrected text and a revised and expanded bibliography, which is updated to 1994. The book is the first to address the entire spectrum of textual scholarship: enumerative and research bibliography; descriptive and analytical bibliography ; paleography and typography; historical and textual bibliography; textual criticism and textual theory; scholarly editing
Designed for editors, literary and textual critics, and students, this historical and methodological survey is richly illustrated with line drawings and photographs. There is a bibliography of scholarship (including a list of standard editions in various fields), an appendix of illustrated types of scholarly editions with interpretive commentary, and a full index. The text is suitable for courses in research methods, critical editing, philology, paleography, manuscript studies, publishing, publishing history, and the history of the book and is an essential aid to graduate students in language and literature.