Preface
This book has been a long time a-borning and its gestation period has seen enormous changes in the way the field of textual scholarship is perceived by its practitioners.

Introduction
Textual studies is a discipline drowning in a sea of terms: enumerative bibliography, systematic bibliography, descriptive bibliography, analytical bibliography, historical bibliography, and textual bibliography, textual analysis and textual criticism, textual editing, documentary editing, and social textual criticism -- to say nothing of such older dispensations as epigraphy, paleography, codicology, and diplomatics, philology and historical criticism, higher and lower criticism, all of which may still be invoked by textualists.