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Notes
This study builds upon and substantially agrees with the unpublished findings of Professor Charlton Hinman, who collated the twelve American copies of the book near the beginning of World War II, which prevented access to the seven British copies; for Professor Hinman's study, see "The Printing of Othello," Diss. University of Virginia, 1941.
See Alice Walker, "The 1622 Quarto and the First Folio Texts of Othello," ShS, 5 (1952), 16-24; see also her Textual Problems of the First Folio: Richard III, King Lear, Troilus & Cressida, 2 Henry IV, Hamlet, Othello (1953), pp. 138-161. Fredson Bowers, Bibliography and Textual Criticism (1964), pp. 171-190.
Nevill Coghill, Shakespeare's Professional Skills (1964), pp. 200-202. E. A. J. Honigmann, The Stability of Shakespeare's Text (1965), p. 110.
In PPRF, what appears to be a colon following the speech-prefix on H2v:10 is not a genuine press-variant, for the punctuation mark is clearly a period in other copies of the first corrected state of H(o).
The extended bibliographical analysis of Q1 Othello which I have undertaken should offer more conclusive evidence about the method of printing.
Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing (1683-4), ed. Herbert Davis and Harry Carter, 2nd ed. (1962), pp. 304-305.
Fredson Bowers, "An Examination of the Method of Proof Correction in Lear," The Library, 5th Ser., 2 (June 1947), 20-44.
D. F. McKenzie, "Printers of the Mind: Some Notes on Bibliographical Theories and Printing-House Practices," SB, 22 (1969), 44.
W. W. Greg, The Variants in the First Quarto of 'King Lear': A Bibliographical and Critical Inquiry (1940), p. 52.
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