Download or read book Lewis Theobald, His Contribution to English Scholarship written by Richard Foster Jones and published by Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature. This book was released on 1919 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the 18th century British textual editor Lewis Theobold that asserts that the basic principles of critical editing in English were derived from Theobold's adaptation of the method employed by Bentley in the classics.