ENGL371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Diplomatics
30 Sep 2016
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Consider the illuminated editions to be the main source for publication. Many texts can be taken as case studies for editing. When you"re trying to articulate what type of edition a text is, great. If not, describe what the edition is doing. Erdman seems to like authorial intention as a criteria. Erdman puts all the variants in the textual notes and he puts all the textual notes at the back, he also puts value on the author"s final intention. He does this by putting things in chronological order. For the 1981 edition, proofs are read against originals. The copies are named according to the letters of the alphabet. Though a copy text edition is a subset of an eclectic edition but we know he is not creating a copy text. If he was doing something that prioritized the printed plates more, he couldn"t do an eclectic edition. In print it is impossible to copy blake exactly.
