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A Note on the Text
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xvii A Note on the Text The following edition of Lucinda; or, The Mountain Mourner reproduces W. & A. Child’s first edition in 1807 except for the two prefaces originating in William Child’s second edition (1810). Beyond a very few changed words in J. Comstock’s third edition (1817) and this edition’s change to the punctuation in Manvill’s title, other minor variations across the eleven printings of Manvill’s text are accidental in nature and nonauthorial. This text keeps intact the original spelling, usage, and punctuation. ...