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The Arrangement of Descriptive Bibliographies by G. Thomas Tanselle
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The Ranking of Variants in the Analysis of Moderately Contaminated Manuscript Traditions by Harold Love
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The Identification of Paper without Watermarks: The Example of Pope's Dunciad by David L. Vander Meulen
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The Mode of Existence of Literary Works of Art: The Case of the Dunciad Variorum by James McLaverty
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Stretching a Point: Or, The Case of the Spaced-out Comps by D. F. McKenzie
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APPENDIX Beaumont's Psyche (1702): A Case-Study
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Composition
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The London Thornton Manuscript: A Corrected Collation by Ralph Hanna III
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Models for the Textual Transmission of Translation: The Case of John Trevisa by D. C. Greetham I
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Misconceptions About the Geneva Bible by Naseeb Shaheen
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The Roaring Girl: New Readings and Further Notes by Paul Mulholland
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The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and "Contentation" Re-Considered by Alvin I. Dust
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Hidden Editions in Satires I and II of Edward Young's The Universal Passion by James E. May
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The Authority of Accidental Variants in the Tonson Second Edition of Edward Young's Love of Fame by James E. May
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John Clay of Daventry: The Business of an Eighteenth-Century Stationer by John Feather
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Isaac Reed and the European Magazine by Arthur Sherbo
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Additions to the Nichols File of the Gentleman's Magazine by Arthur Sherbo
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The Sons and Lovers Manuscript by Wayne Templeton
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Stephen Crane's Sale of "An Episode of War" To The Youth's Companion by Paul Sorrentino
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The Textual Development of William Faulkner's "Wash": An Examination of Manuscripts in the Brodsky Collection by Louis Daniel Brodsky
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The Setting and Printing of the First Edition of Cervantes's Novelas Ejemplares by R. M. Flores

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APPENDIX
Beaumont's Psyche (1702): A Case-Study

Loves mysteries in soules doe grow, But yet the body is his booke.

Psyche, or Love's Mystery, in XXIV. Cantos: Displaying the Intercourse Betwixt Christ, and the Soul. . . . By Joseph Beaumont, D.D. . . . The Second Edition, With Corrections throughout, and Four New Cantos, never before Printed. Cambridge, Printed at the University Press, for Tho. Bennet, at the Half Moon in St. Paul's Church Yard, London, M.DCCII. Collation: 2: a-b4 A-2Z4 3A2.

For a detailed description and production tables, see The Cambridge University Press 1696-1712: A Bibliographical Study. 2 vols. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1966, i. 219-221. The compositors' and pressmen's claims are reproduced in extenso (and indexed) in vol. ii. Briefly, as the collation shows, the book is a folio in fours comprising 101 sheets. With a text of 6-line verse stanzas in Pica roman fitting 18 to a page, double column, it would have been easy to cast off and set by formes. Composition was shared serially by six men. The sheets were printed off by six different men working in eight different combinations. The book was about 40 weeks printing—from May 1701 to February 1702. The edition was 750 copies.

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