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Notes

 
[1]

Cf. the distinction between "pattern of ideas" and "means of communication," or between "textual" and "bibliographical" analysis, in Vinton A. Dearing, A Manual of Textual Analysis (1959), pp. 1, 3.

[2]

See Greg, Collected Papers (1966), esp. pp. 385-86.

[3]

Billy Budd, Sailor, ed. Hayford and Sealts (1962), p. 23.

[4]

The goal of an edition, in Bowers's phrase, is the reconstruction of an "inferential authorial fair copy." See his essay in The Aims and Methods of Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures, ed. James Thorpe (1963), p. 26.

[5]

For copy-text is a text — a text used as the basis for the one in printer's copy (which is one copy).