DeFoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719):Introduction
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| The Marteau-text is a comparably radical attempt to offer insight into the copy text. | The Marteau-text is a comparably radical attempt to offer insight into the copy text. | ||
| - | *We reproduced all spelling mistakes (and added marginal notes with the “correct” readings), | + | *We have reproduced all spelling mistakes (and added marginal notes with the “correct” readings of subsequent editions), |
| - | *Letters which were lost in print have been supplemented in square brackets. | + | *letters which were lost in print have been supplemented in square brackets, |
| *“dowu" p.52 has been corrected to “dow[n]” and | *“dowu" p.52 has been corrected to “dow[n]” and | ||
| - | *“mav’st" p.134 to “ma[y]’st”. | + | *“mav’st" p.134 to “ma[y]’st”; |
| - | *p.343 reads: “goingt by Sea at all, except from ''Calais'' to ''Dover,'' thah I resolv’d to travel all the Way by Land; whice as I was not in Haste, and did not value th Charge” – a mistake we could not reproduce properly, as it was caused by the the individual letters t, h, e - the last of three sucessive lines - moving upward each one one line. | + | *p.343 reads: “goingt by Sea at all, except from ''Calais'' to ''Dover,'' thah I resolv’d to travel all the Way by Land; whice as I was not in Haste, and did not value th Charge” – a mistake we could not reproduce properly, as it was caused by the the individual letters t, h, e - the last of three sucessive lines - moving each one one line up. |
| - | Our edition try's to give a picture of the text's - hasty - composition. The preface was not proof read and the "Errata" p.364 shed light into what appears to have been a lack of interaction between compositor and author in this haste. It seems the compositor noted on p.46 – looking back to what had been said on p.7 – an incoherence in Crusoes reckoning of time. He left a blank where he is likely to have read the correct date and seems to have contacted the author with the question of the correct dates. The printing went on, p.7 remained as it was and p.46 came to be published with the provisional blank whilst the Errata eventually supplied the correct date for p.7. | + | Our edition trys to give a picture of the text's - hasty - composition. The preface was not proof read and the "Errata" p.364 shed light into what appears to have been a lack of interaction between compositor and author: It seems the compositor noted on p.46 – looking back on what had been said p.7 – an incoherence in Crusoe's reckoning of time. He left a blank where the manuscript seems to have given the correct date (the date p.7 contained the mistake), and it seems he contacted the author on the problem. The printing went on, p.7 remained as it was and p.46 was eventually published with the provisional blank whilst the Errata did at the End, p.364 supply the correct date for p.7. |
| - | We have reproduced these “Errors” with all the other “mistakes” later editions “corrected”, and we have taken special care to reproduce all the other graphical elements the text offered from the initials to the headpieces p.iii and p.1. The text is published with indication of the original pagination so that it is possible to quote our edition with page references to the first edition. | + | We have reproduced these “Errors” with all the other “mistakes” later editions “corrected”, and we have taken special care to reproduce all the other graphical elements the text offered from the initials to the headpieces. The text is published with indication of the original pagination so that it is possible to quote our edition with page references to the first edition. |
| If you find mistakes (or mistakes we failed to reproduce or note) do not hesitate to contact us at [mailto:olaf.simons@pierre-marteau.com]. | If you find mistakes (or mistakes we failed to reproduce or note) do not hesitate to contact us at [mailto:olaf.simons@pierre-marteau.com]. | ||
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Additional Materials
A Note on the Text
The present edition of Daniel DeFoe's Robinson Crusoe follows the first edition as published by William Taylor, London, 1719, copy of the British Library, shelf-mark: C.30.f.6, ESTC T072264, 18th Century Microfilm reel 6536, Eighteenth Century Collections Online.
The Marteau-text is a comparably radical attempt to offer insight into the copy text.
- We have reproduced all spelling mistakes (and added marginal notes with the “correct” readings of subsequent editions),
- letters which were lost in print have been supplemented in square brackets,
- “dowu" p.52 has been corrected to “dow[n]” and
- “mav’st" p.134 to “ma[y]’st”;
- p.343 reads: “goingt by Sea at all, except from Calais to Dover, thah I resolv’d to travel all the Way by Land; whice as I was not in Haste, and did not value th Charge” – a mistake we could not reproduce properly, as it was caused by the the individual letters t, h, e - the last of three sucessive lines - moving each one one line up.
Our edition trys to give a picture of the text's - hasty - composition. The preface was not proof read and the "Errata" p.364 shed light into what appears to have been a lack of interaction between compositor and author: It seems the compositor noted on p.46 – looking back on what had been said p.7 – an incoherence in Crusoe's reckoning of time. He left a blank where the manuscript seems to have given the correct date (the date p.7 contained the mistake), and it seems he contacted the author on the problem. The printing went on, p.7 remained as it was and p.46 was eventually published with the provisional blank whilst the Errata did at the End, p.364 supply the correct date for p.7.
We have reproduced these “Errors” with all the other “mistakes” later editions “corrected”, and we have taken special care to reproduce all the other graphical elements the text offered from the initials to the headpieces. The text is published with indication of the original pagination so that it is possible to quote our edition with page references to the first edition.
If you find mistakes (or mistakes we failed to reproduce or note) do not hesitate to contact us at mailto:olaf.simons@pierre-marteau.com.
Introduction and Notes
...will follow together with images of maps, tools, and ships based on contemoprary materials. The present edition is work in progress and requires a bit of patience
Olaf Simons and Christopher Villmar
