upon the title-page.

It may be mentioned here, with respect
to tables of errata, that they are frequently
neglected in subsequent books. There are
many books in which the same blunders
have been repeated in various editions,
although they had been pointed out in an
early issue.



CHAPTER VI.

MISPRINTS.

OF all literary blunders misprints
are the most numerous, and no
one who is conversant with the
inside of a printing-office will be surprised
at this; in fact, he is more likely to be
struck with the freedom from error of the
innumerable productions issued from the
press than to be surprised at the blunders
which he may come across. The possibilities
of error are endless, and a frequent
cause is to be found in the final correction,
when a line may easily get transposed.
On this account many authors will prefer
to leave a trivial error, such as a wrong