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Thomas Satchell, "The Spelling of the First Folio," The Times Literary Supplement, 3 June 1920.

Edwin Eilott Willoughby, The Printing of the First Folio of Shakespeare, (1932), pp. 55-56.

Alice Walker, "The Folio Text of I Henry IV," Studies in Bibliography, VI (1954), 45-59.

Charlton Hinman, "The Prentice Hand in the Tragedies of the Shakespeare First Folio: Compositor E," Studies in Bibliography, IX (1957), 3-20.

Charlton Hinman, The Printing and Proof-reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare (1963), I, 180-226.

It is interesting to note that the stability of Jaggard's compositorial staff is attested to by the evidence presented by D. F. McKenzie, "A List of Printers' Apprentices, 1605-1640," Studies in Bibliography, XIII (1960), 125. At the time of the setting of the Paviers, the newest workman recorded in Jaggard's shop was Laurence Yardsley, bound in 1614. See this table also for the identification of Folio Compositor E as John Leason, bound to Jaggard on November 4, 1622.

For a convenient review of the unmasking of the Pavier quartos, see E. K. Chambers, William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems (1930), I, 133-137 and his bibliographical references, 127.

For these identifications, see W. W. Greg, A Bibliography of English Printed Drama to the Restoration (1939-1959), 4 vols., passim.

D. F. McKenzie, "Compositor B's Role in The Merchant of Venice Q2 (1619)," Studies in Bibliography, XII (1959), 75-90.

For a discussion of the crucial distinction between qualitative and quantitative evidence, see Fredson Bowers, Bibliography and Textual Criticism (1964), pp. 194-195.

Ronald B. McKerrow, An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students (1927), pp. 10-11.

For the demonstration of the effect of justification on the Pavier spellings, see my note, "The Influence of Justification on Spelling in Jaggard's Compositor B," Studies in Bibliography, XX (1967), 235-239.

My complete study, with the discussions of these orthographic groups and a statistical appendix of word counts, is available as a University of Virginia dissertation (1966).

Fredson Bowers, Bibliography and Textual Criticism, (1964), p. 113.

I. B. Cauthen, Jr., "Compositor Determination in the First Folio King Lear," Studies in Bibliography, V (1952-3), 73-80, especially 78.

Alice Walker, Textual Problems in the First Folio (Cambridge, 1953), p. 9 and "Compositor Determination and Other Problems in Shakespearean Texts," Studies in Bibliography, VII (1955), 14, note 8. The spelling tests employed by McKenzie and others are all derived from the previous investigations listed here.

See Charlton Hinman, "Spellings, Cases, and Compositors," The Printing and Proof-reading of the First Folio of Shakepeare (1963), I, 180-226, passim.

Walker, Textual Problems, p. 153.

Hinman, The Printing and Proof-reading, II, 524.

It must be remembered that Cauthen's investigations were contaminated by the then unknown Compositor E.

Willoughby, pp. 55-59.

Hinman, The Printing and Proof-reading, II, 514.

W. W. Greg, The Shakespeare First Folio: Its Bibliographical and Textual History (1955), p. 223.