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The Textual Apparatus consists of the following sections:
Description of Texts consists of three parts. The first part lists and characterizes the several copy-texts and sources of emendation used in the preparation of this edition of Roughing It. The second part lists derivative texts—that is, partial or complete reprintings which appeared during the author’s lifetime but which show no relevant authorial intervention. The third part lists all collations performed and specific copies used.
Textual Notes discuss problematic readings in the edited text and explain and defend editorial decisions.
Emendations of the Copy-Text and Rejected Substantives records every reading adopted from a source other than the copy-texts, as well as all instances in which a compound word is hyphenated ambiguously at the end of a line in the copy-texts. In addition, it records all variant substantive readings among the copy-texts and texts used as sources of emendation.