Reviews

`Jarvis manages to combine minute textual detail with broad argument: he has written an excellent book for literary historians, bibliographers, and Shakespeareans...Jarvis has made a significant and timely contribution to 18th century Shakespearian studies...powerful and convincingly argued case.'
Times Higher Education Supplement
`a welcome look at the fluid nature of eighteenth-century English bibliographical, lexicographical, and editorial practices ... What supports Jarvis' argument throughout the book is his own thoroughness, his extensive range of reference, and his careful documentation: he nicely demonstrates the principles he admires ... Jarvis has peformed his task admirably ... for the expansion or clarification of the notes regarding collations ... the reader can be most
grateful. The bibliography is, in itself, a useful source that students will value ... Scholars and Gentlemen is not a quick read, but it is, nonetheless, a rewarding one which will pay fair dividends even
to those whose principal realm is not editorial practice.'
Early Modern Literary Studies
`Dr Jarvis picks his way sure-footedly through some very boggy ground, and has made a valuable contribution to the history of Shakespeare criticism and of textual criticism in general.'
English Studies
`Jarvis provides much interesting material to do with professional and gentlemanly views of the duties of an editor,'
Peter Seary/Modern Philology Vol 96 No 1 (Feb 1998)