Maas P. Textual Criticism

Translated from German by Barbara Flower. — Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958. — 59 p.Until the publishing of this short book, there was no serious work in English on the principles of textual criticism. This book is written with the literatures of ancient Greece and Rome mainly in mind, but some essential principles of the subject are equally applicable to other literatures, especially Shakespeare.
Originally published in German under the title, Textkritik, in 1927, as part III of Gercke-Norden, Einleitung in der Altertumswissenschaft, vol. I, 3d ed.
Includes bibliographical references.Contents:
Basic notions
Recensio
Examinatio
Bearing of these arguments on the preparation of a critical edition
Examples