The Evolution of Editorial Style in Early Modern England

lt;p>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.

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.