ERRORS IN BOOKS
I It is an axiom df the publishing industry, that not a publisher has brought out a hook that has been wholly free from grammatical and typographical errors. The grammatical mistakes one ■could understand, for they are the author's affair, not the publisher's, and in any case there are points of -grammar which are 'both right and wrong according to taste. , ; Typography is a different matter, a large mechanical art in which one might expect perfection to have befell reached not once but several times. '"Yet it. is asserted that the average I'book'contains about 150 mistakes,-and khat there was one book of Joseph rConrad's that contained as many as 1400. The book nearest l to perfection lis the Bible. This ;is to be expected, •as it as said that the publishers of j Bibles are liable to severe penalties ii I errors creep into them.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 215, 20 August 1931, Page 6
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