Book People Archive

Re: Scholarly texts online



On 6/21/06, Larry Sanger <larry.sanger@[redacted]> wrote:
> All,
>
> I have a general question.  I'm new to the list, and by no means an expert
> about online texts.  Mostly I've been a consumer of them.
>
> Are there many *free* texts online that have been edited up to a high
> *contemporary* scholarly standard, that include all the sort of data (e.g.,
> alternate readings, etc.) that scholars might demand?

That's "the" contemporary scholarly standard? The Augustan Reprint
Society and the Scholars Press represented one scholarly standard with
their photocopies of the book and a short modern intro, as Pickering &
Chatto (http://www.pickeringchatto.com/) does today.