It consists in the fact that misprints are so often unnoticed, especially in rapid reading.
It is obvious that this phenomenon is exactly the same as the one we continually meet with when we overlookmisprints in a book, only that in our experiments a false reading is greatly favoured by the shortness of the exposition-time.
Only misprintsof interest in the Quartos and the First Folio are recorded.
A few misprints in the above have been corrected in square brackets to agree with B.
A few misprints in the above have been corrected in square brackets to agree with B.
First issue of the first Edinburgh edition, with the misprints "stinking" and "haggis" in the last stanza on page 263.
First London edition, copied from the first issue of the first Edinburgh edition, with the misprints in the last stanza of the poem "To a Haggis," on page 267.
The misprints in the last stanza of the poem, "To a Haggis," are repeated, page 187.
The Rizal edition misprints fuerca e premio as fuerza a premio.
They possess, first, the advantage of being free from the misprints which crept in with every fresh republication.
Thus Krochmal's work is printed on bad paper, and with faint ink; it is full of misprints and the text is sometimes confused with the notes.
If the present edition has its own share of misprints and oversights, at least it inherits none; and it contains no wilful alteration of the text.
As these variations are obviously misprints and nothing more, it would have been pedantic to record them in full, and these samples will doubtless suffice.
Obvious misprints have been corrected, but are mentioned in the footnotes (except in the case of mere errors of word-division, which it seemed unnecessary to notice).
The present text is taken direct from the British Museum copy, and has been re-collated with the original in proof: meremisprints I have, as a rule, not noted.
I found many misprints and corruptions in all except the edition of 1821, and a few even in that.
There are obvious misprints in the first edition which Scott himself overlooked (see on ii.
Almost at the start, however, I detected sundry obvious misprints in one of the many forms in which this edition is issued, and an examination of others showed that they were as bad in their way.
My thanks are once more due to reviewers and readers who have drawn my attention to mistakes and misprints in the first edition; and I am again indebted to Miss B.
However, considering that there are many thousands of citations, it would be a miracle if there were not numerous mistakes andmisprints in them, in spite of the great care which has been bestowed upon the matter.
The text in this part is evidently full of misprints and corruptions.
Unfortunately, a serious illness and his death interrupted this labour, so that numerous misprints remained uncorrected.
Distinguish' in the last line is one of the numerous misprints of 1656.
One or two extremely unimportant misprints occur in one or other version, but are not worth noting.
The play was never issued again, that we know of, till in the folio of 1623, where the repetition of various misprints shows it to have been reprinted from one of the quarto copies.
The play is not known to have been printed again till it reappeared in the folio of 1623, where the repetition of certain misprints shows it to have been printed from one of the quarto copies.
New chapters are sometimes made to begin in the middle of a sentence, and in addition to simple misprints there are numerous passages in which it is impossible to believe that we have the text as Malory intended it to stand.
Unfortunately, most of the worst misprints remained in the new edition, while certain new ones were added.
Many of the obvious misprints have been corrected; but two following chapters in Mansfield Park are still numbered xxxii, throwing out the numeration of all subsequent chapters.
At least then let me wait a few days; to correct the misprints which affect the sense, and to write you the history of it; what is necessary you should know before you see it.
Of course a large number of misprints are far from amusing, while a sense of fun will sometimes be
obtained by a trifling transposition of letters.
Several misprints are always recurring, such as the mixture of the words Topography and Typography, and Biography with Bibliography.
One of the slightest of misprints was the cause of an odd query in the second series of Notes and Queries, which, by the way, has never yet been answered.
One reason why misprints are overlooked is that every word is a sort of pictorial object to the eye.
A large number of their misprints could only have been perpetrated in the midst of the old orthographies.
Vieta's Canon Mathematicus (1579) is of great rarity, from the author being discontented with the misprints that had escaped his notice, and on that account withdrawing or repurchasing all the copies he could meet with.
Rabelais then laughed at his accusers for founding a charge of heresy against him on a printer's blunder, but there were strong suspicions that the misprints were intentional.
Pope), misprintsin his edition of the Vulgate, 135.
the most extraordinary misprints never get farther than the printing office or the study; but although they may have been discovered by the reader or the author, they were made nevertheless.
More tragic were the misprints in a work by the Italian poet, Guidi, which are said to have hastened his death.
There can be no doubt that, had there been no misprints in Shakespeare's quartos and folios, half the occupation of Shakespeare scholarship would have been lacking.
The expansive force of average wits cannot be reckoned upon, as we see, to drive them up as far as the temperate degree of misprints in one syllable, and those, too, in their native tongue.
One of the misprintswhich Mr. Spedding notices affords both a hint and a warning to the conjectural emendator.
Footnote 1: Misprints affecting only the word-division, however, have been corrected without remark.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "misprints" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
