SMC228H1 Lecture Notes - Fredson Bowers, Textual Criticism, Laid Paper
19 Nov 2012
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Each gathering only has four signed leaves and then four blank ones. Format = size of sheet; how many pages printed on that sheet (later they cut the pages in half) Paper: laid paper with vertical chain lines, could not locate watermark. Paper: laid paper with horizontal chain lines bad grape watermark in the gutter (inside of the book) --> say where the watermark is. A work is an entity that exists in no single historical document. Scholarly editing entails, just like any act of reading, the effort to discover the work that lies behind the text(s) that one is presented with (thomas tanselle, a rationale of textual criticism) Text = what speci c edition (quarto, folio, modern edition) Work = e. g. hamlet higher level of text in some way. Good editors to limit random subjectivity by clearly outlining their goals and editorial practices: here"s the roadmap i look to whenever i have a question .
