Editing Early Modern Texts : An Introduction to Principles and Practice

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments x Note xii Introduction 1(13) Manuscripts 14(10) The Role of Print 24(12) Types of Edition 36(22) Works 37(6) Correspondence and Papers 43(9) Archives 52(6) Presenting Texts (1) Printed 58(14) Presenting Texts (2) Manuscripts 72(14) Modernised Texts 86(6) The Apparatus 92(10) Front Matter 92(3) End Matter/Appendices 95(1) Annotation 96(3) Translations 99(3) Indexing/Searching 102(32) Appendices Alternative Methods of Transcribing a Seventeenth-century Manuscript 109(9) A Confusion of Brackets 118(3) Separate and Combined Versions of a Revised Text -- the 1597, 1612 and 1625 Versions of Francis Bacon's Essay `of Regiment of Health' 121(6) Unmodernised and Modernised Versions of the Last Section of Chapter 47 of Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan 127(5) Peter Nidditch's Description of the Evolution of his Editorial Method 132(2) Notes 134(11) Glossary 145(2) Bibliography 147(16) Index 163