Documentary editions

Documentary form

Editions

A body of evidence, made usable.

The edition

A Daedalus edition is more than a set of reproduced documents.

It brings primary material, editorial context, source information, and physical structure together around one defined subject.

The editorial standard

01

Documentary scope

The limits of the subject determine what belongs in the record and what does not.

02

Source context

Provenance, chronology, and editorial notes preserve the conditions in which evidence can be read.

03

Physical sequence

Paper, binding, enclosures, and order are treated as parts of the documentary argument.