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Joseph Johnson, an Eighteenth-Century Bookseller by Gerald P. Tyson
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The Minute Books of the St. James's Chronicle by Richmond P. Bond and Marjorie N. Bond
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Further Texts of Chaucer's Minor Poems by A. I. Doyle and George B. Pace
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William Hunnis and the 1577 Paradise of Dainty Devices by Steven W. May
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Compositors D and F of the Shakespeare First Folio by John O'Connor
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Richardson's Revisions of Clarissa in the Third and Fourth Editions by Shirley Van Marter
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Vathek in English and French by Kenneth W. Graham
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Greg's Theory of Copy-Text and the Editing of American Literature by G. Thomas Tanselle
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A New Approach to the Critical Constitution of Literary Texts by Hans Zeller
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John Stowe, The Craft of Lovers and T.C.C. R.3.19 by A. S. G. Edwards and J. Hedley
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Notes
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Authoritative Manuscript Corrections in Donne's Biathantos by Ernest Sullivan
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Shaftesbury Cursed: Dryden's Revision of the Achitophel Lines by Edward L. Saslow
  
Further Additions to Bond's Register of Burlesque Poems by A. B. England
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The "Swingeing" of Cibber: The Suppression of the First Edition of The Refusal by Rodney L. Hayley
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Piracies of Two Plays by Farquhar by Shirley Strum Kenny
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Samuel Ruchardson and Defoe's Tour (1738): The Evidence of Bibliography by Pat Rogers
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The Case for Fielding's Authorship of An Address to the Electors of Great Britain (1740) Reopened by Thomas R. Cleary
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The 1785 Variorum Shakespeare by William C. Woodson
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D. H. Lawrence's Progress to Maturity: From Holograph Manuscript to Final Publication of The Prussian Officer and Other Stories by Brian H. Finney

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Corrections to the Table of Variants in Q1 Othello (SB, XXVII, 177-184)
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II

It remains to consider the relationship between Stowe's edition and Speght's (1598), the only other black letter edition. It seems clear that Speght took his text directly from Stowe. His text contains all the unique variants of Stowe with the following exceptions:

  • 8. S1 this: S2 these
  • 39. S1 worldy: S2 worldly
  • 151. S1 her: S2 hert
which may be taken as the sort of reasonable conjectural restorations that an editor of Speght's abilities would be capable of making.[7]

There are however three unique readings in Speght:

  • 5. S1 moral: S2 mortal
  • 26. S1 so: S2 do
  • 143. S1 hight: S2 high
It is possible the first is also an emendation by Speght. The other two are clearly compositorial errors. In any case there is no need to assume that Speght had access to any text other than Stowe's. Hence neither of the printed editions of the Craft of Lovers has any independent authority.[8]

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