Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Before editing -- 1.1 Introducing archives -- 1.1.1 Approaching the archives -- 1.1.2 Catalogues and other finding aids -- 1.1.3 Primum non nocere: handling special collections material -- 1.1.4 Accessing hidden collections -- 1.2 Planning and proposing an edition -- 1.2.1 The uses of serendipity -- 1.2.2 The evolutionary edition -- 1.2.3 Getting started on proposing an edition -- 1.2.4 A publisher's perspective -- 1.3 Edition management and protocols -- 1.3.1 Organising a large edition -- An early modern addendum -- 1.3.2 The form of a documentary edition -- 1.3.3 Edition management and protocols -- 2 Editing: principles and practice -- 2.1 Apparatus -- 2.1.1 Introductions -- 2.1.2 Annotations -- 2.1.3 Images -- 2.1.4 Textual apparatus and reader engagement -- 2.1.5 Appendices -- 2.1.6 Indexes -- 2.2 Text: collation -- 2.2.1 Collating copies of Renaissance texts -- 2.2.2 Print collation -- 2.3 Text: modernisation and translation -- 2.3.1 To modernise or not to modernise? -- 2.3.2 The problems with old-spelling editions -- 2.3.3 In defence of old-spelling editions -- 2.3.4 Modernisation versus old-spelling for early modern printed prose -- 2.3.5 Translations -- 2.4 Text: arrangement and presentation -- 2.4.1 Transcription -- 2.4.2 The materiality of early modern letters -- 2.4.3 Mise-en-page: editing early modern letters -- 2.4.4 Mise-en-page: editing lyric poetry from manuscripts -- 2.4.5 Variety in copy-text -- 2.4.6 Edition defined by venue -- 2.4.7 Ordering the epistolary: letters or correspondence? -- 2.5 Unedited and oft-edited texts -- 2.5.1 Whether and how to edit manuscript miscellanies -- 2.5.2 The single-author edition and manuscript miscellanies