Book Review: Melvyn New and Anthony W. Lee (eds), Notes on Footnotes: Annotating Eighteenth-Century Literature (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023)

Book Review of
Melvyn New and Anthony W. Lee (eds). Notes on Footnotes: Annotating Eighteenth-Century Literature (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023), xiii + 252 pp. ISBN 9780271093970. $119.95.

This excellent collection of erudite essays by distinguished scholars of the long eighteenth century addresses the subject of the modern annotation of eighteenth-century literary texts and annotative practice more generally. The contributors have been involved with major publishing projects of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, such as the multi-volume California Dryden, the Stoke Newington Defoe, the Wesleyan Fielding, the Florida Sterne, the Yale Johnson, the Cambridge Richardson, the Cambridge Swift, the Oxford Pope, and scholarly editions of Buckingham, Smart, and Barbauld...