Epigraph
“thoſe yet whom he left in trust to diſpoſe his things after....”
“and the rather to anſwere that trust which the deceaſſed repoſed in me,...”
Page 20: ‘fyrst’ has been retained.
“as the fyrst part doth of other mens,”...... “wurthy wittes to enterpryſe and performe the reſt.”
Sometimes, w was printed as vv (and W as VV). This has also been retained.
Page 36: ‘christopher Barker’ is as printed.
“... christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes moſt excellent Maieſtie.”
Page 36: Decorative ‘A’, or SA monogram?
“... and there are two large pictorial initials at the beginning signed A.”
(also on Page 38)
“I am ſory that I muſt deceive you; but you will not....”
Page 90: ‘MBurg.’ and ‘MBurghers’, with M and B close together - a monogram?
“... is signed “delin MBurg. ſculp. Univ. Ox.,” in the first two volumes, and “delin MBurghers ſculpt, Univ. Ox. 1704,” in the third,...”
Page 90: “A portrait of Clarendon, occurs as a frontispiece in each of the three volumes.”... either extraneous comma after ‘Clarenden’ or missing comma after ‘portrait’. Extraneous comma removed for clarity.
Page 94: ‘ſumum’ corrected to ‘fumum’
“Non fumum ex fulgore, ſed ex fumo dare lucem”
“Robinson Crusoe. The Life And Strange Surprizing Adventures Of, 97, 98”
Page 230: Greek transliteration:
kai mên arithmon
exochon sophismatôn
exeuron autois
grammatôn te syntheseis
mnêmên th’apantôn
mousomêtor’ ergatin
Page 230: Translation (from De Vinne Press: https: //printinghistory.org/de-vinne/):
“and further I discovered for them [i.e., mankind] numeration, most striking of inventions, and composition, nurse of the arts, producer of the record of all things.” - Prometheus
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