The Essayes Or Counsels, Civill and MorallThis edition of Francis Bacon's (1561-1626) The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, a re-issue of the first critical edition since the nineteenth century, uses modern editorial standards to establish an authoritative, unmodernized text. The textual apparatus includes a comprehensive, chronological record of the substantive readings of all these manuscripts and editions, so that for the first time the evolution of Bacon's texts may be studied conveniently in detail. |
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Page lxxix
... press - run , sixteen of the octavo's thirty - two formes show stop - press correction ; four gatherings have stop - press correction in both formes . In five of these sixteen variant formes the uncorrected state is present in only a ...
... press - run , sixteen of the octavo's thirty - two formes show stop - press correction ; four gatherings have stop - press correction in both formes . In five of these sixteen variant formes the uncorrected state is present in only a ...
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... press - run . The relative absence of gross typographical errors , even in uncorrected formes , suggests in fact that the majority of the stop - press corrections were preceded by one or more earlier proof - readings . 108 Much of the ...
... press - run . The relative absence of gross typographical errors , even in uncorrected formes , suggests in fact that the majority of the stop - press corrections were preceded by one or more earlier proof - readings . 108 Much of the ...
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... press corrector . More important to the student of Bacon's text , however , are the stop - press corrections ( more ... correction : alterations involving final ' s ' , and restorations of omitted material . Both categories of error suggest ...
... press corrector . More important to the student of Bacon's text , however , are the stop - press corrections ( more ... correction : alterations involving final ' s ' , and restorations of omitted material . Both categories of error suggest ...
Contents
REFERENCES ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS | xiii |
GENERAL INTRODUCTION | xix |
TEXTUAL INTRODUCTION | liii |
Copyright | |
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