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Problems of Literary Executorship by Norman Holmes Pearson
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Establishing a Text: The Emily Dickinson Papers by Thomas H. Johnson
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The Text of the "Envoy to Alison" by Harris Chewning
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Notes on the Wynkyn de Worde Editions of the Boke of St Albans and its Separates by Eloise Pafort
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The Copy for the First Folio Richard II by Richard E. Hasker
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Compositor Determination in the First Folio King Lear by I. B. Cauthen, Jr.
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The Issues and States of the Second Folio and Milton's Epitaph on Shakespeare by William B. Todd
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The Text of the Spectator by Donald F. Bond
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The Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language: Johnson's Revision and the Establishment of the Text by W. R. Keast
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I. The Second Folio Edition, 1755-56
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II. The Third Folio Edition, 1765
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III. The Fourth Folio Edition, 1773
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Notes
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Type Sizes in the Eighteenth Century by Philip Gaskell
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The Pre-Publication Printings of Tarkington's Penrod by Campbell R. Coxe
  
The Morgan Copy of Machlinia's Speculum Christiani Curt F. Bühler
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The Melancholy Cavalier: A Study in Seventeenth-Century Plagiarism Sarah Dickson
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The Early Editions of Dryden's State of Innocence Marion H. Hamilton
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The Pirated Quarto of Dryden's State of Innocence Fredson Bowers
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Thomas D'Urfey's Richmond Heiress (1693): A Bibliographical Study Raymond A. Biswanger, Jr.
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Variant Forms of Fielding's Coffee-House Politician Jeanne Addison Masengill
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The Case of the Planters of Tobacco in Virginia, 1733: An Extraordinary Use of Standing Type Oliver L. Steele, Jr.
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Baskerville and James Whatman A. T. Hazen
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The First Edition of Essays by Mr. Goldsmith, 1765 Arthur Friedman
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Some Notes on Edward Gibbon's Mémoire Justificatif Robert R. Rea
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Two New Works of Robert Southey Kenneth Curry
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The Printing of Jefferson's Notes, 1793-94 Coolie Verner P. J. Conkwright
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A Sheaf of Whitman Letters Walter Harding
  
Addendum Ernst Kyriss
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A SELECTIVE CHECK LIST OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SCHOLARSHIP FOR 1951

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II. The Third Folio Edition, 1765

This text of the Preface has no independent textual authority. It is a page-for-page reprint of the second edition, and follows that edition in all the readings in which it departs from the first edition. The third edition introduces no new substantive readings. It departs from the second edition text in only 12 places: five of these are sporadic normalizations of spelling, three are slight changes in punctuation, of which one is indifferent and two obscure Johnson's syntax, and four are clear compositor's errors.[4] The third edition may therefore be disregarded.

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