Textual apparatus for "The Fortunes of Richard Mahony"

The Textual Apparatus (TA) is a public record of how the editors established their new text of Richardson's three novels, at the level of individual words and punctuation. It displays to the reader the choices that confronted the editors, and shows the materials on which they based their decisions: it also records Richardson's own first, second, third, and sometimes subsequent thoughts over various states of the typed and printed text, from the earliest surviving typescript (TS), its revision (TSR), to the first London edition (E1) and first American edition (A1).

文本校勘附录（Textual Apparatus，TA）是一份公开记录，详细记载了编辑团队如何以单词与标点为最小粒度，确立理查逊三部小说的全新校勘文本。该数据集向读者展示了编辑曾面临的各项抉择，并呈现了他们作出决策所依托的原始材料；同时还记录了理查逊本人针对各类打字与印刷文本的不同版本阶段所产生的初版、二版、三版乃至后续修订的思考历程，涵盖现存最早的打字稿（typescript，TS）、其修订稿（TSR）、伦敦首版（E1）以及美国首版（A1）。