Introduction

We are all now for methods, keenly on the watch for every least indication of disturbance in the accurate transmission of a text, sorting out by many subtle and ingenious methods the first, second, or third stage of the composition, the original draft, the first completed form, the revision of this, that, and the other purpose, and so on. But there is much more in these modern methods of research than used to be understood by bibliography, and I am not sure that the recent extensions of the term have been altogether justifiable. The virtues of bibliography as we used to call it were its definiteness, that it gave little scope for differences of opinion, that two persons of reasonable intelligence following the same line of bibliographical argument would inevitably arrive at the same conclusion, and that it therefore offered a very pleasant relief from critical investigations of the more literary kind.1

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