SMC228H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Paper Size, Thrice
24 Apr 2015
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Textual criticism : follows threads of transmission back from an existing document to the form it originally took in the author"s manuscript. Critical editions are set from a base text. This chosen original text is called the copy text . All copies of a book printed from substantially the same setting of type or from plates made from that type or type image. All the copies of a book, produced by one pressrun, or printing. A new setting of type is printed ( rst edition, rst impression) That setting of type is kept, stored on a shelf for some time, and later printed again ( rst edition, second impression) Some time later, the same printer decides to print that work but resets the type (second edition, rst impression) Substantive alterations: changes of sense or wording made by the author in a later edition. Accidental alterations: changes of spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. Looks at the history of transmission of a work.
