Materials for the Life of Nicholas Ferrar: A Reconstruction of John Ferrar's Account of His Brother's Life Based on All the Surviving Copies.(Review)

Edited by Lynette R. Muir and John A. White. Pp. xxi + 144 incl. frontispiece. Leeds: Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 1996. [pounds]16.50 within the EU, [pounds]19.50 overseas, incl. post and packing from The Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society Ltd, City Museum, Calverley Street, Leeds LS1 3AA. 1 870737 04 0

These editions are, in their completely different ways, peculiarly ambitious. Mario di Cesare's A diplomatic edition of the Bodleian manuscript (Tanner 307) is a further development in the bid to replace Thomas Buck's 1633 edition of The Temple as the authoritative source for editors of Herbert, a project which began with the 1984 facsimile edition …