8vo, (240x160mm), xiv,268p. 8 full-page illustrations. A good copy in original dark blue cloth, gile lettered, dustjacket spine faded; previous owner's signature on the front free endleaf.

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Title

FROM WRITER TO READER. Studies in editorial method.

Publisher

Oxford: Clarendon Press

Publication Date

1978

ISBN 10

019818171X

ISBN 13

9780198181712

Binding

Hardcover

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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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