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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Most of the major works of English literature are readily available todayonly in versions that are sadly inadequate. There are few reliable specialisteditions: much worse the majority of paperback texts of English andAmerican authors that are sold in their millions to students and generalreaders are corrupt and misleading. This is as unnecessary as it isundesirable. By combining a critical judgement with an understanding oftextual bibliography an editor ?an establish a ‘critical text that is asauthoritative as the evidence allows and can present it in the form bestsuited to his intended audience. The examples given in this book show howthis may be doneDr Philip Gaskell author of the authoritative textbook A New Introduction toBibliography presents extracts from the early texts of twelve works ofliterature chosen because of their importance as works of art and on accountf the quality of surviving textual evidence. He follows them through all thestages from writer to reader giving the reader an insight into the subjectwhich will help all those engaged in the study of literature.