(d) illuminating conjectures or suggestions made by Spenserian
scholars and editors.
The four main sources for the text are quoted as follows:
1590: the 1590 quarto edition (Books I-III) 1596: the 1596 quarto edition (Books I-VI) 1609: the 1609 folio edition (Books I-VII) FE: the corrigenda (Faults Escaped in the Print) which accompany 1590 (Books I-III)
In the Textual Appendix, all original text is shown in "roman" type, except where it occurs in italic type in the sources. All editorial comment in the Textual Appendix is shown in "italic" type.
Examples
(a) Departures from the text of 1596
Elfe > Elfe, 1596
The lection from 1590 and 1609 is to be preferred, since 1596 (with an extraneous comma) appears to be in error.
sawe > saw 1596, 1609
The lection from 1590 is to be preferred.