Hardback. 268pp. How to establish an authoritative text a practical guide for editors with 10 examples drawn from writers as diverse as John Milton and Tom Stoppard. Cloth with gilt titles to spine is clean, bright and neat. Dust wrapper is rubbed to edges and unevenly faded. Near fine, bright copy in good dust wrapper Near fine, bright copy in good dust wrapper.

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Title: From Writer to Reader, Studies in Editorial Method
Publisher: Clarendon Press, Oxford
Publication Date: 1978
ISBN 10: 019818171X
ISBN 13: 9780198181712
Binding: Hardback
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Physical description: xiii, 268 pages: illustrations; 24 cm. Contents: 1. Harington, Ariosto's Orlando furioso, 1591 -- 2. Milton, A maske (Comus), 1634 -- 3. Richardson, Pamela, 1741 -- 4. Swift, Directions to servants, 1745 -- 5. Scott, The Heart of Mid-Lothian, 1818 -- 6. Tennyson, 'OEnone', 1833 -- 7. Dickens, David Copperfield, 1850 -- 8. Thackeray, Henry Esmond, 1852 -- 9. Hawthorne, The marble faun, 1860 -- 10. Hardy, The woodlanders, 1887 -- 11. Joyce, Ulysses, 1922 -- 12. Stoppard, Travesties, 1974. Subjects: English literature History and criticism. Editing English literature. Editing Decision-making.

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