How It All Got Started
Textual Criticism is as old as the ancient Greeks. For as long as there have been books, there have been people interested in preserving them, studying them, and understanding their relationship to other books.
Modern-day Textual Criticism, though, took shape in that rainy little island called Britain in the early 20th century. That's when three chaps—A. W. Pollard, R. B. McKerrow, and W. W. Greg—revolutionized the field by bringing to it a greater degree of rigor and coherence. They also rocked those double initials.