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Grafton's book begins by considering the historians Edward Gibbon and Leopold von Ranke, who in their own ways raised the historical footnote to a level of high art both as a citational resource and a rhetorical outlet.
This was a dictionary--a bizarre best seller--in which even the footnotes had footnotes, and whose pages, Grafton notes, "offer the reader only a thin and fragile crust of text on which to cross the deep, dark swamp of commentary."
"Scholars," Grafton explains, "have placed the birth of the footnote in the twelfth century, the seventeenth, the eighteenth, and the nineteenth--never without good reason but usually without attending to the other chapters in this story."
Pedestrian Grafton Street is lined with well-known stores such as Marks and Spencer, the Body Shop, HMV records, and Laura Ashley.
[From a Paladin/Grafton book advertisement in The Guardian , n.d.
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