The answer is closely related to the answers to questions 4 and 5. People make money for producing scholarly editions. But they are in effect hobby editions, made available by the transcriber as found in, in many cases, nineteenth century editions, and chosen by virtue of availability and lack of copyright problems. A major gopher-based collection of world classics in English, compiled by Virginia Tech, but now defunct at that site. Mirrored at the University of Adelaide Library.
Texts are available there as zip archive files.
Used by permission. Provenance otherwise unknown. A. Talk with your professor about appropriate sources and how to access and use them. A. See this Brief History. How to Participate The dual mission of the Renascence Editions is to provide readable Web editions of early modern English works and translations to the general public and to provide a site for publication of such works.