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- # The text and typography of the first edition.
## Overview
This section, titled "The text and typography of the first edition.", is a textual document that was extracted from a larger file. It focuses on the printing history and textual variations of an early edition of a poem.
## Context
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## Contents
The text states that HARRISON and Field’s 1594 edition is the sole authentic source for the poem's text, as it was the only one based on the author's manuscript. Subsequent editions were set from earlier ones, with minor typographical changes introduced by press correctors. The text notes an exception in the 1616 edition, published shortly after Shakespeare's death, which shows signs of clumsy editorial revision.
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- The text and typography of the first edition.
HARRISON and Field’s first edition of 1594 is the sole authentic source of the text of the poem. That alone followed the author’s manuscript. The later editions were set up from those that went before. Small typographical changes were introduced into the reissues, but all the alterations may be put to the credit of correctors of the press acting on their own responsibility, excepting possibly in the case of the edition of 1616, which came out soon after Shakespeare’s death. In that volume there are traces of a clumsy editorial revision.
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- The text and typography of the first edition.