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Notes
"The Compositors of Shakespeare's Folio Comedies," Studies in Bibliography, 26 (1973), 61-106. See also John O'Conner, "Compositors D and F of the Shakespeare First Folio," SB, 28 (1975), 81-117, and Gary Taylor, "The Shrinking Compositor A of the Shakespeare First Folio," SB, 34 (1981), 96-117. One must also note the admonition of D. F. McKenzie in his article "Stretching a Point: Or, The Case of the Spaced-out Comps" (SB, 37, 1984), 106-121. He quotes Gaskell as saying that all spaces were kept in the same box within the type-case. True enough, but the distinction must be made between spaces and quadrats; spaces were in the nearest box to the compositor, quads in three boxes in the lower-right corner of the lower case. Many of the distinctions which follow are between spaces and quads and so, I hope, side-step some of McKenzie's objections.
See his bibliographical note, "Substantives? Accidentals?" in The Library, 6th ser. 3 (1981), 149-151.
The designations of x, y, and z were made by Philip Edwards in "An approach to the problem of Pericles," Shakespeare Survey 5, (1952), and later adapted by David Hoeniger in the New Arden edition of the play. The attribution of part of the play to Creede has not been made before, but the type used in Creede's #5, as illustrated in SB, 23 (1970), 150. No other English printer used this type at this time.
The earlier view was put forth by Harry R. Hoppe in his The Bad Quarto of Romeo and Juliet, Cornell Studies in English, XXXVI, 1948. The view was challenged by J. A. Lavin in his 1970 study, "John Danter's Ornamental Stock", SB, 23 (1970), 21-45, and his view accepted by the New Arden editor, Brian Gibbons, in 1980.
One might object that it would have been impossible to pay a compositor for part-page setting. We know, however, that this was occasionally the practice, as Hinman has shown to be the case in the Shakespeare First Folio. The method of payment in the early seventeenth century was not fixed, and could have been at a rate per thousand ens, or at a fixed wage per week. The matter is discussed by D. F. McKenzie in his study, The Cambridge University Press 1696-1712 (1966). See Volume I, Chapter 5.
Privately communicated to Harold H. Hildenbrand in 1950, who used it in his 1953 New Variorum edition, p. 346f.
Funds for obtaining the tapes from Oxford were provided by the School of Graduate Studies and Research, Queen's University, and I wish to record my thanks. I warn users of this data base of a problem I encountered with it. I made the assumption that the quarto texts supplied by OCP would have used the standard through-line numbering system which was used in the published Oxford concordances, and asked for lines accordingly. However, the OCP tapes use a line numbering system of their own, and I had to re-do the concordance using their line numbers as figured out from the print-out I had.
In his New Arden edition of the play Kenneth Palmer states that sheet F was set by a third compositor. I can see no evidence that this is so, as the pattern of setting by A and C follows, as do their spellings. The words Palmer advances are infrequently used, and are not enough to set a variant pattern. Indeed, one of the words he cites, 'ticle/tickle', is spelled both ways by A, and appears only once in sheet F. Similarly, the word 'bucle/buckle' is found only three times in the text.
The easiest way to obtain the information required is to use the textual notes given in the Riverside edition of the play. I am most grateful that this information was so easily available. These notes were aided by the placing within brackets of all deviations from the quarto, which served as the copy-text for the edition. The errors for each man are given below. Words or letters within brackets are omissions, words following the slash are correct readings. I give the evidence in full, as some readers may object to the inclusion or omission of some instances, claiming the possibility of scribal error instead of compositorial error.
- A3 〈not〉
- A3 〈care〉
- A3 Helleu / Hellen
- A3 re〈s〉ides
- A4v liste / lifte
- B1 valiant〈l〉y
- B1 thee / the
- B1 por / pot
- C3 〈will〉
- C3 SP〈Agam.〉
- C4v SP〈Aiax.〉
- D1v domage / damage
- D1v surely / surety
- D2 of / at
- D2v vnrespect〈i〉ue
- D2v ttuce / truce
- D2v be / he
- E3 tell / let
- E3 humorous / humours
- E3v boord / bourn
- E3v This / Thy
- E3v call / cull
- E4v Queenm,y / (turn)
- E4v tawine / (turn)
- F1 shaft〈s〉 confound
- F1v her / thee
- F1v 〈he〉
- F2 teares / feares
- F2v 〈is〉
- F3v age / aye
- F3v 〈Yet〉
- F3v anthentic / authentic
- F4 〈Your〉
- F4 loue / come
- G2 obiect / abiect
- G2v goe / giue
- G2v That / Than
- G3 〈a〉
- G3v 〈most〉
- G4 〈he's〉
- G4 your / you
- H3v 〈so〉
- H3v so / 'come'
- H3v my throate / th' root
- I1v Patro〈c〉lus
- I1v vnclapse (turn)
- K1 this / these
- K1 box / boy
- K2v distruction / distraction
- K2v 〈adieu〉
- K3 〈these〉
- K3 (SP)Troy. / Cres.
- K3 loue,d / loue'd
- K4v 〈as〉
A
- B3 euer〈y〉
- B3v the / thy
- B3v ancient / patient
- B3v the / thy
- B4 influence / ill aspects
- B4 evil Planets (turn)
- B4v melts / meets
- C1 unsquare〈d〉
- C1v our / or
- C2 seat / sense
- C2v 〈t〉his
- C2v feeds / seeks
- C2v a / or
- D4 shrike / strike
- D4v not / —
- D4v course / corse
- E2 entertaine / enter you
- E2v liked/ titled
- H1 falfe / false
- H2 him / us
- H2 〈for him〉
- I3v thy / that I
- I3v earth / oath
- I3v th' / thy
- I3v shrupt / hemm'd
- K4 spoile / soile
- K4 finde / five
- L1 brothet / brother
- L1 intenr / intent
- L1 (SP)Cres. / Cas.
- L2 destruction / distraction
B
- A3v the〈y〉
- B2 man〈s〉
- B2 choiee / choice
- B2 an eye / money
- B2v two / too
- C4 〈a〉
- C4v It / I
- D1 The〈r〉sites
- D1 knock at / 'a knock
- D1 beains / brains
- D1 their / your
- D1 〈on their toes〉
- D1 first / fift
- D2 Sets / Lets
- D2 shore〈s〉
- E3 praiers / praises
- E3 Yon / You
- G2 passe / past
- G4v Lul'd / But
- H4 portion / person
- I1v nor / not
- I2 (SP)〈Agam.〉
- I2 〈in〉
- I2v day / drop
- K1v into morrows / in tomorrows
- K1v her's / heres
- K1v be / brother
- K1v 〈hanging〉
- K1v bare / brothers
- K1v her's / he is
- K1v day / dog
- K1v 〈not〉
- K1v God / Good
- K2 Sonne / Sun
- K2 (SP)Cal. / Cres.
- L3 〈thou〉
- L3v lust / luck
- L4 execut〈e〉
- L4v Lo〈o〉ke
- L4v prat (turn)
- M1 their / there
- M1v traitors / traders
- M1v 〈d〉ore
C
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