The record
Primary documents selected for their relationship to the subject, with provenance and source information retained.
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History, assembled from the record.
Daedalus brings primary sources, archival research, and editorial context together in carefully made documentary editions.
Documentary editions
Not a reproduction. A working archive in physical form.
Each Daedalus edition is conceived as a coherent body of evidence: primary documents, editorial context, source information, and physical materials organized around a defined subject.
The apparatus
Chronology, editorial notes, source descriptions, and finding aids that make the documentary record usable.
The object
Print, binding, enclosures, and sequence considered as parts of one deliberate physical edition.
Publishing and research
Two forms of the same documentary standard.
The publishing house assembles records for sustained public use. The research arm applies the same discipline to a defined question.
Editions
A subject given coherent physical form.
Documents, source context, and editorial structure are brought together as one documentary edition.
About editionsResearch
A question tested against the surviving record.
Records are located, placed in context, compared, and assembled into a defensible documentary account.
About researchCorrespondence
The record starts with a question.
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