# SOURCES.md — primary documents for the *Double Falsehood* / *Cardenio* dossier

All files here were fetched on 2026-09-14 with `curl -L`. Unless another URL is given, an archive.org identifier `ID` means the OCR text `https://archive.org/download/ID/ID_djvu.txt` (saved as `ID_djvu.txt`) and page images `https://archive.org/download/ID/page/nNN.jpg` (saved in `images/ID_nNN.jpg`). Companion register: `../../notes/documents.md`. Scholarship files live in `../scholarship/` with their own SOURCES.md.

## A. Editions of Double Falshood
| File / identifier | What it is | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| `doublefalshoodor00shak` | *Double Falshood* (Watts, 1728), first edition, BL copy (British Museum stamp) | OCR of licence, preface, text |
| `bim_eighteenth-century_double-falshood-or-the_theobald-mr-lewis_1728` (+ images n1–n3, n8–n9) | First edition, ECCO/BL microfilm copy | title, half-title, licence [image] |
| `bim_eighteenth-century_double-falsehood-or-th_shakespeare-william_1728` (+ images n2, n8–n10) | SECOND edition, 1728 ("The SECOND EDITION") | preface collation [image] |
| `bim_eighteenth-century_double-falshood-or-the_theobald-mr-lewis_1767` (+ images n0–n5) | Third edition, T. Lowndes, 1767 (Covent Garden revival) | title [image]; OCR poor |
| `bim_eighteenth-century_double-falshood-or-the_theobald-mr-lewis_1769` | Dublin, Charles Ingham, 1769 | title, dedication [ocr] |
| `K036934.000.xml`, `K036934.000_frontmatter.txt` | ECCO-TCP TEI transcription of the 1728 first edition (ESTC T34858; Gale CW3311703747); exact download URL not recorded (TCP mirror: https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/K036934) | licence, dedication, preface, prologue, epilogue [transcription] |
| `cu31924013363894` (also `../df_editions/`) | Walter Graham, ed., *Double Falsehood* (Western Reserve Univ. Bulletin, 1920), Cornell copy | collation notes, 1728 newspaper quotation [ocr] |
| `../df_editions/doublefalshoodo00conggoog.txt` | another OCR copy of an 18th-c. edition (Google scan), unused | — |

## B. Records: Register, court accounts, Warburton
| File / identifier | What it is | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| `1913transcriptof01statuoft` (+ images n441–n443) | Eyre & Rivington, *Transcript of the Registers of the Stationers' Company 1640–1708*, vol. i (1913) | 9 Sept 1653 entry, pp. 428–9 [image] |
| `transcriptofregi02statuoft` (+ images n282–n283; `_scandata.xml`) | same, vol. ii (1655–75) | 29 June 1660 entry, p. 271 [image] |
| `elizabethanstage0004ekch` (+ images n142, n192–n195) | E. K. Chambers, *The Elizabethan Stage*, vol. iv (1923) | App. B pp. 179–180 [image]; App. A calendar [ocr] |
| `extractsfromacco13greauoft` (+ images n46–n47); `extractsfromacc00cunngoog`; `revelscourt00cunnuoft` (partial) | P. Cunningham, *Extracts from the Accounts of the Revels at Court* (Shakespeare Society, 1842), three copies | Introduction pp. xlii–xliv [image/ocr] |
| `sim_library_1911-07_2_7` (+ images n5–n7); `sim_library_1911-01_2_5`, `-04_2_6`, `-10_2_8` | *The Library*, 3rd ser. ii (1911); no. 7 = Greg, "The Bakings of Betsy", pp. 225–259; the other issues checked for continuations (none) | Warburton's list pp. 230–232 [image]; Moseley analysis [ocr] |
| `lostplays_Cardenio.html` | Lost Plays Database, https://lostplays.folger.edu/Cardenio | Cook–Wilson wording, Tonson 1718, Freehafer [secondary] |

## C. Reception, 1726–1832
| File / identifier | What it is |
|---|---|
| `bim_eighteenth-century_shakespeare-restored-or_theobald-lewis_1726` | Theobald, *Shakespeare Restored* (1726) |
| `bim_eighteenth-century_the-dunciad-an-heroic-p_pope-alexander_1728` | *The Dunciad* (1728); OCR too poor to locate the "parallel" couplet |
| `bim_eighteenth-century_the-dunciad-variorum-w_pope-alexander_1729` (+ images n144–n147); `dunciadwithnotes00pope` | *The Dunciad Variorum* (1729), two copies; notes on iii. 272 and i. 106 [image] |
| `bim_eighteenth-century_miscellanies-the-last-v_swift-jonathan_1728` (+ images n36–n46, n66–n67, n84–n85, n116–n118) | *Miscellanies. The Last Volume* (Motte, 1728), containing *Peri Bathous* [image for pp. 51–52; "parallel" passage only in OCR] |
| `bim_eighteenth-century_a-compleat-collection-of_1728` | *A Compleat Collection of all the Verses, Essays, Letters and Advertisements ... occasioned by ... Miscellanies* (A. Moore, 1728): reprints Theobald's Mist's Journal letter of 27 Apr 1728 |
| `worksofshakespea001shak`; `worksofshakespe04shak`; `bim_eighteenth-century_the-works-of-shakespeare_shakespeare-william_1733_4` | Theobald, *Works of Shakespeare* (1733), vols. i and iv (two copies of iv) |
| `10447843bsb` | Nichols, *Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century*, vol. ii (1817), BSB copy: Theobald–Warburton letters |
| `lewistheobaldhis00joneuoft` | R. F. Jones, *Lewis Theobald* (1919) |
| `sim_gentlemans-magazine_1824-03_94` | *Gentleman's Magazine*, March 1824 (Watts's ledger, p. 223) |
| `bim_eighteenth-century_works-1790-the-plays_shakespeare-william_1790_1`, `_1790_1_0` | Malone, *Plays and Poems* (1790), vol. i parts 1–2 |
| `10749443bsb` | Boswell–Malone Variorum (1821), vol. ii |
| `biographiadramat02bakeuoft`; `p1biographiadram01bakeuoft`; `p2biographiadram01bakeuoft` | *Biographia Dramatica* (1812), vol. ii and vol. i parts 1–2 |
| `../scholarship/reed-1782-biographia-dramatica-vol2.txt` | Reed, *Biographia Dramatica* (1782), vol. ii |
| `accountofenglish00lang`; `bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-lives-and-characters_langbaine-gerard-young_1699_0` | Langbaine 1691; Gildon's continuation 1699 |
| `rosciusanglicanu00downrich`; `rosciusanglicanu00downuoft` | Downes, *Roscius Anglicanus* (1708), reprints |
| `someaccountofeng03geneuoft`; `someaccountofeng05geneuoft` | Genest, *Some Account of the English Stage* (1832), vols. iii and v |
| `historyofrestora0000alla` | A. Nicoll, *History of Restoration Drama* (unused) |
| `Alotaibi_2016_Liverpool_thesis.pdf/.txt` | N. Alotaibi, *Lewis Theobald's Double Falsehood: the authorship question reconsidered* (PhD, Liverpool, 2016), https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/2008887/1/AlotaibiNas_July2016_2008887.pdf |
| `lsdb/LondonStageFull.csv(.zip)`, `lsdb/double_falshood_rows.tsv` | London Stage Database full export (https://londonstagedatabase.uoregon.edu/), and the extracted rows for the play |

## D. Don Quixote texts (for the source comparison)
`cervantessheltondonquixote01` (+ images n244–n246, n296–n316; Shelton 1612, Blount), `historydonquixo00/01/02saavgoog`, `firstpartofdelig00cervuoft`, `historyofvalorou00cerv`, `historyofvalorou02cerv`, `historyofdonquix00cervuoft`, `historyofdonquix03cerv`, and `shelton/` (chapter extracts from the 1900 reprint).

## E. Tried and failed (kept as evidence)
`londonstage166010000geor`, `londonstage166010002unse_m8i0`, `londonstage166010000e4e4`, `londonstage166010000hsco` (London Stage printed volumes: 401 / error pages); `worksofshakespea004shak` (500); `bwb_P8-CNY-541` ("Item not available"); `1913transcriptof01statuoft_scandata.xml` (404); `india.history.resource.18269` (wrong item); `biographicaldict0004high` (error page); `hope-1994`, `muir-1960` (not on archive.org); oxfraud.com/CAR (proxy block page); archive.org searches for a 1770 edition of *Double Falshood* and for Theobald's *Richard II* (1720): no items; Mist's Weekly Journal originals: not found on archive.org.