A Guide to Documentary Editing

Third Edition

Mary-Jo Kline and Susan Holbrook Perdue

Contents

• Foreword by Roger A. Bruns
• Introduction: What Is Documentary Editing? Where Did It Come From?
• 1. Initiating an Editorial Project
• 2. Putting the Control File to Work
• 3. Identifying Source Texts
• 4. Transcribing the Source Text
• 5. The Conventions of Textual Treatment
• 6. From Transcriptions to Editorial Texts
• 7. Nontextual Elements of an Edition
• 8. Publishing the Edition
• Appendix: Form Letters
• References
• Index