ABSTRACT
The title of this chapter might appear to be begging (or avoiding) the question. Conventionally, textual bibliography has been defined as ~4textual criticism adapted to the ... problems of editing printed texts" (Gaskell, New Introduction: 337), and therefore my adoption of the term defined restrictively by Gaskell might suggest that the problems of non-printed texts are somehow very different, and should therefore be treated separately, whereas they are in fact included in this chapter. Even Gaskell (who does deal only with printed texts) admits that the textual criticism of manuscripts is "analogous" to that of printed, but I would go further, and yet paradoxically limit the term more than would Gaskell and other textual bibliographers.
