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Read on 3 November 1967 before the Bibliography section of the Midwest Modern Language Association, meeting at Lafayette, Indiana.

Donald F. Bond, "The Text of the Spectator," Studies in Bibliography, V (1952-53), 113.

Robert E. Scholes, "The Text of Dubliners: 'The Dead",' Studies in Bibliography, XV (1962), 199.

George Farquhar, The Recruiting Officer, ed. Michael Shugrue (1965), p. ix.

The English Works of Giles Fletcher, the Elder, ed. Lloyd E. Berry (1964), p. 50.

The Poems of John Cleveland, ed. Brian Morris and Eleanor Withington (1967), p. lxxvi.

The Works of Thomas Nashe, ed. Ronald B. McKerrow (1904), I, [vii].

See p. 12n.

W. W. Greg, "The Rationale of Copy-Text," Studies in Bibliography, III (1950), 19-36.

Fredson Bowers, "Current Theories of Copy-Text," Modern Philology, XLVIII (1950), 12-20.

In the case of the first instance, the editors might have identified the "Second Edition" (originally so called) as copy-text had they considered it an issue, not an edition.

Fredson Bowers, "Some Principles for Scholarly Editions of Nineteenth-Century American Authors," Studies in Bibliography, XVII (1964), 226.

In his latest article Bowers himself is perfectly aware of these qualifications, though he does not reconsider the word copy-text in the light of them. See "Old Wine in New Bottles: Problems of Machine Printing," in Editing Nineteenth-Century Texts, ed. John M. Robson (1967), pp. 20, 28.