Bibliography
Alistair Baron and Paul Rayson. VARD 2: A Tool for Dealing with Spelling Variation in Historical Corpora. In Proc. Postgraduate Conference in Corpus Linguistics, Aston University, 2008. Not used directly, but its design settles a problem met here independently: variant grouping needs a modern wordlist to anchor it, or `her' becomes a spelling of `here'. |
Michael Best. Internet Shakespeare Editions. 1996. https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/ Begun 1996 and continuing. Source of the old-spelling transcriptions used for calibration. |
Peter W. M. Blayney. The Texts of King Lear and their Origins, I: Nicholas Okes and the First Quarto. Cambridge University Press, 1982. |
Fredson Bowers. Principles of Bibliographical Description. Princeton University Press, 1949. |
Horace Howard Furness (Ed.). Much Ado About Nothing. J. B. Lippincott, 1899. |
W. W. Greg. The Shakespeare First Folio: Its Bibliographical and Textual History. Clarendon Press, 1955. |
Charlton Hinman. The Printing and Proof-Reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare. Clarendon Press, 1963. Two volumes. The compositor spellings, the type-recurrence method, the proof-reading, and the caveat about justification that the whole method turns on. |
D. F. McKenzie. The Cambridge University Press 1696–1712: A Bibliographical Study. Cambridge University Press, 1966. Two volumes. The one place where the working of a hand-press shop can be checked against its surviving output, and the source of nearly every correction this program has had to make. |
D. F. McKenzie. Printers of the Mind: Some Notes on Bibliographical Theories and Printing-House Practices. Studies in Bibliography 22, pp. 1–75, 1969. |
R. B. McKerrow. An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students. Clarendon Press, 1927. |
Joseph Moxon. Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing. London, 1683. Published in parts, 1683-4. The first account of the trade written from inside it. The lay of the case, the spaces, the reaching, and the corrector's reader all come from here. |
Richard Mulcaster. The First Part of the Elementarie which Entreateth Chefelie of the Right Writing of our English Tung. Thomas Vautrollier, London, 1582. The General Table gives some eight thousand words in the spellings he recommends, and the rule that a terminal E lengthens the vowel before it. |
Text Creation Partnership. Early English Books Online — Text Creation Partnership, Phase I. 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ad7da8fc-cd8e-4637-8b7c-99498436dbaa 25,363 texts released to the public domain under the ODC-PDDL. The 5,287 printed 1580–1640 are the attestation lexicon. |
Thomas Satchell. Shakespeare’s Spelling: A Study of the First Folio Text of Macbeth. The Times Literary Supplement, 1920. The first of the spelling tests, extended by Willoughby and built on by Hinman. |
Percy Simpson. Proof-Reading in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Oxford University Press, 1935. Reprinted 1970 with a foreword by Harry Carter, where most of the corrections to Simpson actually are. |