FOOTNOTES:[37]The necessity of giving strict attention to this rule was once exemplified in my experience, when the printing of a fine quarto was passing through my hands in 1882. The author desired to say in the preface, ‘The writer neither dares nor desires to claim for it the dignity or cumber it with the difficulty of an historical novel’ (Lorna Doone, by R. D. Blackmore, 4to, 1883). The printer’s reader inserted a letternbefore theor; the author deleted then, and thought he had got rid of it; but at the last moment the press reader inserted it again; and the word was printed asnor, to the exasperation of the author, who did not mince his words when he found out what had happened.—H. H.
[37]The necessity of giving strict attention to this rule was once exemplified in my experience, when the printing of a fine quarto was passing through my hands in 1882. The author desired to say in the preface, ‘The writer neither dares nor desires to claim for it the dignity or cumber it with the difficulty of an historical novel’ (Lorna Doone, by R. D. Blackmore, 4to, 1883). The printer’s reader inserted a letternbefore theor; the author deleted then, and thought he had got rid of it; but at the last moment the press reader inserted it again; and the word was printed asnor, to the exasperation of the author, who did not mince his words when he found out what had happened.—H. H.
[37]The necessity of giving strict attention to this rule was once exemplified in my experience, when the printing of a fine quarto was passing through my hands in 1882. The author desired to say in the preface, ‘The writer neither dares nor desires to claim for it the dignity or cumber it with the difficulty of an historical novel’ (Lorna Doone, by R. D. Blackmore, 4to, 1883). The printer’s reader inserted a letternbefore theor; the author deleted then, and thought he had got rid of it; but at the last moment the press reader inserted it again; and the word was printed asnor, to the exasperation of the author, who did not mince his words when he found out what had happened.—H. H.