A kind offer. However, I see there is a copy of the Dover edition in Cambridge Univ. Library - I can take a look at it next time I am there.
Smith gives some proof-reading symbols in The Printer's Grammar. But I didn't quote that passage, because I'd have needed to insert some of the symbols as images. Some of them are the same as those used nowadays, and some of them are slightly different. For instance:
'If a Space is wanting between two words, or letters, that are to stand separated, they draw a parallel stroke where the separation is to be, and put this sign # opposite in the Margin.'
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Date: May 22nd, 2007 11:11 am (UTC)A kind offer. However, I see there is a copy of the Dover edition in Cambridge Univ. Library - I can take a look at it next time I am there.
Smith gives some proof-reading symbols in The Printer's Grammar. But I didn't quote that passage, because I'd have needed to insert some of the symbols as images. Some of them are the same as those used nowadays, and some of them are slightly different. For instance:
'If a Space is wanting between two words, or letters, that are to stand separated, they draw a parallel stroke where the separation is to be, and put this sign # opposite in the Margin.'