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G.T. Tanselle, "Greg's Theory of Copy-Text and the Editing of American Literature," Studies in
Bibliography 28 (1975): 167-229. Reprinted in his Selected Studies in Bibliography (1979),
pp. 245-307; and Textual Criticism since Greg (1987), pp. 1-63.
G.T. Tanselle, "Recent Editorial Discussion and the Central Questions of Editing," Studies in Bibliography
34 (1981): 23-65. Reprinted in his Textual Criticism since Greg (1987), pp. 65-107.
G.T. Tanselle, "Historicism and Critical Editing," Studies in Bibliography 39 (1986): 1-46. Reprinted in
his Textual Criticism since Greg (1987), pp. 109-54.
G.T. Tanselle, "Textual Criticism and Literary Sociology," Studies in Bibliography 44 (1991): 83-143.
G.T. Tanselle, "Textual Instability and Editorial Idealism," Studies in Bibliography 49 (1996): 1-60.
D1. ASSEMBLING ORIGINAL MATERIALS
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D. Assembling Materials and Collating Texts
"Assembling Potentially Relevant Forms of the Text," in Center for Editions of American Authors,
Statement of Editorial Principles and Procedures (rev. G.T. Tanselle, 1972), pp. 1-2.
G.T. Tanselle, "Locating the Relevant Materials," in his "Textual Scholarship," in Introduction to
Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures, ed. Joseph Gibaldi (1981), p. 44.
Martin L. West, "Collecting the Material," in his Textual Criticism and Editorial Technique Applicable
to Greek and Latin Texts (1973), pp. 62-68.
Alfred Foulet and Mary Blakely Speer, "Gathering the Materials," in their On Editing Old French Texts
(1979), pp. 45-49.
Mary-Jo Kline, "Initiating an Editorial Project," in her A Guide to Documentary Editing (1987), pp. 30-65;
(rev. 1998), pp. 33-69.
Gordon N. Ray, "The Importance of Original Editions," in Nineteenth-Century English Books: Some
Problems in Bibliography (1952), pp. 1-24. Reprinted in his Books as a Way of Life, ed. G.T.
Tanselle (1988), pp. 167-84.
Gordon N. Ray, "The Private Collector and the Literary Scholar," in The Private Collector and the Support
of Scholarship (Clark Library, 1969), pp. 25-84. Reprinted in his Books as a Way of Life, ed. G.T.
Tanselle (1988), pp. 233-77.
B. Richard Burg, "The Autograph Trade and Documentary Editing," Manuscripts 22 (1970): 247-54.
James Thorpe, The Use of Manuscripts in Literary Research: Problems of Access and Literary Property
Rights (1979).
G.T. Tanselle, "The Future of Primary Records," in Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science 58
(1996): 53-73. Also printed in Biblion 5.1 (Fall 1996): 4-32. Reprinted in his Literature and
Artifacts (1998), pp. 96-123.
David Shaw, "A Sampling Theory for Bibliographical Research," Library 5th ser. 27 (1972): 310-19. [See
also Paul Werstine, "More Unrecorded States in the Folger Shakespeare Library's Collection of First
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