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Notes
Q1, 1600 (Creede for Millington); Q2, 1602 (Creede for Pavier); Q3, 1608 (1619) (Jaggard? for Pavier). Photographs are from the copies in the Capell collection of Trinity College, Cambridge. Folio references are to the (Old) Cambridge second edition, 1891.
Nicholson, Parallel Text edition, N. S. S., 1877, Introduction (by P. A. Daniel); Arthur Symons, Griggs Facsimile of Q3, 1886, Intro.; Chambers, William Shakespeare, I, 390.
On this subject, see T. Satchell, T. L. S., 3 June, 1920, p. 352; E. E. Willoughby, The Printing of the First Folio (1932), pp. 56ff.; Charlton Hinman, "Principles governing the use of Variant Spellings as Evidence of Alternate Setting by Two Compositors," The Library, 4th ser., XXI (1940), 78-94; I. B. Cauthen, Jr., "Compositor Determination in the First Folio King Lear," Studies in Bibliography, V (1952-3), 73-80; Alice Walker, Textual Problems of the First Folio (1953).
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