Editing Historical Documents

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By Michael E. Stevens and Steven B. Burg

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This volume is aimed both at more experienced editors, who may wish to skip over the advice offered in the introduction, as well as at those who are new to the craft and want to know how to begin work on publishing historical documents of interest to them.

Résumé
This authors of this guide aim to provide a reliable resource and easy access to the innumerable issues and practices that historical editors deal with daily in their profession.

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chapter 1 About the Authors chapter 2 Preface chapter 3 Introduction chapter 4 What, Why, How and for Whom? chapter 5 Selection and Arrangement of Documents chapter 6 General Principles of Transcription and Proofreading chapter 7 Transcription: Types of Sources chapter 8 Presenting the Text chapter 9 Principles of Annotation chapter 10 Forms of Annotation chapter 11 Special Issues of Access and Indexing chapter 12 Front and Back Matter chapter 13 Bibliography and Short Titles chapter 14 Index