Stevens, Michael E. : State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Burg, Steven B. : State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Review
"Historical editors have long wanted a reliable handbook that would provide easy access to the innumerable
issues and practices that they daily deal with in their profession. Editing Historical Documents provides a wonderfully
diverse examples of current documentary practice with full citations to the sources used as examples. With an emphasis
on the descriptive rather than the prescriptive, this guide shows the range of options available to editors as
they make the choices that will affect their editions and determine the policies and styles for the best possible
rendering of their documentary collections. The handbook couples a lively, clearly written narrative of theory
and practice with a selection of concrete examples drawn from the wisdom of generations of historical editors.
The handbook is logically arranged and is readily accessible to the novice as well as the experienced documentary
editor."
--John P. Kaminski, Association for Documentary Editing
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Web Site, February, 2003
Summary
Cosponsored by the Association for Documentary Editing and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Table of Contents
About the Authors
Preface
Introduction
What, Why, How and for Whom?
Selection and Arrangement of Documents
General Principles of Transcription and Proofreading
Transcription: Types of Sources
Presenting the Text
Principles of Annotation
Forms of Annotation
Special Issues of Access and Indexing
Front and Back Matter
Bibliography and Short Titles
Index
