Delight in other people's errors never dates, and this little book,
first published in 1893, is a fount of human folly and a joy to
read. Its compiler, Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838 1917), was a
distinguished librarian, bibliographer and scholar, and a prolific
author on London history and the history of books. This publication
displays his great sense of humour, and his effortless command of
far-flung sources in the search for a good joke. Citing examples
from historians to misguided schoolboys, as well as from everyday
conversation, Wheatley looks at comic misprints, misunderstandings,
and garbled English in foreign parts. However, the book also has a
more serious contribution to make: the chapter on printed errata
makes use of the earliest evidence of proof correction by authors,
and the analysis of misprints in early printing shows how many
variant readings in the works of Shakespeare came about.
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