Excerpt: ...intending for indenting, John for Jehu, Judges for Indies, scene for seene, sixteen for sexton, and for sixty-one, tops for toy, Venus for Venice. In connection with this work may be mentioned the late Mr. W. Blades's Shakspere and Typography, being an attempt to show Shakspere's personal connection with, and technical knowledge of the Art of Printing, also Remarks upon some common typographical errors with especial reference to the text of Shakspere (1872), a small work of very great interest and value. Mr. ...
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Excerpt: ...intending for indenting, John for Jehu, Judges for Indies, scene for seene, sixteen for sexton, and for sixty-one, tops for toy, Venus for Venice. In connection with this work may be mentioned the late Mr. W. Blades's Shakspere and Typography, being an attempt to show Shakspere's personal connection with, and technical knowledge of the Art of Printing, also Remarks upon some common typographical errors with especial reference to the text of Shakspere (1872), a small work of very great interest and value. Mr. Blades writes: Now these typographical blunders will, in the majority of cases, be found to fall into one of three classes, viz.: - Errors of the ear; Errors of the eye; and Errors from what, in printers' language, is called a foul case.' I. Errors of the Ear.-Every compositor when at work reads over a few words of his copy, and retains them in his mind until his fingers have picked p 105 up the various types belonging to them. While the memory is thus repeating to itself a phrase, it is by no means unnatural, nor in practice is it uncommon, for some word or words to become unwittingly supplanted in the mind by others which are similar in sound. It was simply a mental transposition of syllables that made the actor exclaim, - My Lord, stand back and let the parson cough ' instead of My Lord, stand back and let the coffin pass' Richard III., i. 2. And, by a slight confusion of sound, the word mistake might appear in type as must take: - So you mistake your husbands.' Hamlet, iii. 2. Again, idle votarist would easily become idol votarist- I am no idle votarist.'-Timon, iv. 3; and long delays become transformed to longer days- This done, see that you take no long delays. Titus, iv. 2. p 106 From the time of until now this similarity of sound has been a fruitful source of error among printers. II. Errors of the Eye.-The...
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