London: T. FISHER UNWIN, PATERNOSTER SQUARE.

Transcriber's Notes

Page [2]: Shakesperean amended to Shakespearean

Page [55]: marvaylous sic ("marvayllous" in the excerpt in footnote 22)

Page [129]: Duplicate "and" let as is ("... seeme thou carelesse, and and then will she be carefull").

Page [317]: pourtraying amended to portraying

Page [424]: The index reference to Dekker's portrait has been amended from page 19 to page 333.

Footnote [68]: "conscience' sake" sic

Footnote [310]: "Bouvart et Pecuchet" sic

Generally punctuation has been standardised, with the exception of punctuation in the Index. Hyphenation has generally been standardised. However, when a word appears hyphenated and unhyphenated an equal number of times, both versions have been retained (bonheur/bon-heur; nowadays/now-a-days; playhouse/play-house; re-baptized/rebaptized; some-how/somehow).