Editing Piers Plowman: The Evolution of the Text Book

Acknowledgements; Introduction;

Part I. The Early Phase:

1. Crowley;
2. Percy, Warton, Tyrwhitt, Ritson;
3. Whitaker and Price;
4. Wright;

Part II. The Late Nineteenth Century:
5. The early English text society and its editorial context;
6. Skeat: Introduction;
7. Skeat's A-Text;
8. Skeat's B-Text;
9. Skeat's C-Text;

Part III. The Skeat Aftermath:
10. Manly versus Chambers and Grattan;
11. Excursus: Westcott and Hort;

Part IV. Chambers Grattan, Knott and Fowler:
12. Chambers 1909-10;
13. Chambers versus Knott;
14. Chambers' graduate students;
15. Chambers 1931;
16. Chambers 1935-42;
17. The Chambers and Grattan collations;
18. Grattan and Kane;
19. Knott and Fowler, Donaldson, Mitchell and Russell;

Part V. The Athlone Press Edition:
20. The Athlone A-Text;
21. The Athlone B-Text;

Part VI. Epilogue: The Athlone Aftermath: Schmidt, Pearsall, Rigg-Brewer, et al.; Indexes.