This book provides a historical study on the evolution of editorial style and its progress towards standardisation through an examination of early modern English style guides. The text considers the variety of ways authors, editors and printers directly implemented or uniquely interpreted and adapted the guidelines of these style guides as part of their inherently human editorial practice. Offering a critical mapping of early modern style guides, Jocelyn Hargrave explores when and how style guides originated, how they contributed to the evolution of editorial practice and how they impacted the overall publishing of content.

Includes a critical mapping of early-modern style guides since 1608 Contributes to our understanding of editorial theory Traces the modernization and standardization of style and identifies key influences in the print trade

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Jocelyn Hargrave teaches writing, editing and publishing at Monash University, Australia, and the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her current research relates to colonial Australian print culture. She has worked in the educational publishing industry for twenty-two years, twenty as an editor.

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1. Introduction.- 2. The Beginnings of Editorial Style in Seventeenth-Century England: Joseph Moxon's Mechanick Exercises.- 3. The Architectural Principles of Moxon's Mechanick Exercises: Documenting the Early Modern Living Page.- 4. The Pinnacle of Editorial Style in Eighteenth-Century England: John Smith's The Printer's Grammar.- 5. Eighteenth-Century Editorial Style at Work: The Editing of The Elements of Euclid by Isaac Barrow and Robert Simson.- 6. The First Appropriation of Editorial Style: Philip Luckombe's A Concise History of the Origin and Progress of Printing.- 7. Nineteenth-Century Modernising Inheritance of Editorial Style: Caleb Stower's The Printer's Grammar.- 8. Nineteenth-Century Editorial Style at Work: Thomas Dunham Whitaker's Piers Plowman.- 9. Authorial Editorial Practice at Work: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Poems (Ashley MS 408).- 10. Conclusion.