Transcription Notes

Source

Form: printed book Title: Headlong Hall Author: Thomas Love Peacock Publisher: J. M. Dent & Co. at Aldine House, 69 Great Eastern St., London. Date: 1891 Editor: Richard Garnett, LLD. Printer: Turnbull and Spears, Printers, Edinburgh. [British Library] Shelfmark: 012611.i.37/1 Description: tan cloth over board binding, 122mm x 184mm x 21mm, 176 pages plus 2 at front and 1 at back

Modifications

Chapter head and foot decorations have been deleted — to simplify production to purely text.
Decorative chapter-start drop-caps have been replaced with large capitals — to simplify production to purely text.
Page numbers and headers have been deleted — the new document is unpaginated.
Fullstops have been deleted from chapter titles and song titles — they are superfluous.
All notes have been moved to the end of the document — to suit the unpaginated format.
All notes by the editor Richard Garnett have been deleted — to remove (insubstantial) attachments to the original text.
[Chapter 1 paragraph 7]: inserted closing quotes after "perpetually in statu quo." — they appear to be missing, since the speech is not continued in the next paragraph.
[Chapter 1 paragraph 8]: deleted fullstop after "astronomy——" — the sentence is truncated, it does not end.
[Chapter 1 paragraph 9]: deleted fullstop after "selfishness——" — the sentence is truncated, it does not end.
[Chapter 1 paragraph 10]: deleted fullstop after "cloth——" — the sentence is truncated, it does not end.
[Chapter 1 paragraph 11]: inserted a comma after "sprained ankle" — there is a small comma-sized gap at the end of the line where a comma appears to have been omitted.
[Chapter 2 paragraph 1]: deleted comma after "oils" in "oils, and colours" — "and" clusters things in an item, not separates items, in this list.
[Chapter 4 paragraph 13]: inserted closing quotes after "summit of Ararat." — they appear to be missing, since the speech is not continued in the next paragraph.
[Chapter 5 paragraph 33]: replaced emdash before "Exactly, sir: an' ye" with fullstop and space — it appears to be an erroneous inconsistency, there being no other like instances in speech indication.
[Chapter 7 paragraph 5]: deleted closing quotes after "confracti mundi rudera:" — the phrase is not quoted, and the speech does not end there.
[Chapter 7 paragraph 6]: replaced "procession" with "precession" in "The procession of the equinoxes" — it appears to be a spelling error, since Mr Foster is informed on the subject and not tending to make such mistakes.
[Chapter 7 paragraph 17]: inserted "Mr Escot." at start of paragraph before "Nor is" — to follow consistent indication and markup of speech.
[Chapter 8 paragraph 1]: replaced "befel" with "befell" — it appears to be a spelling error.
[Chapter 9 paragraph 16]: replaced fullstop with questionmark after "the tevil with" — the sentence is a question.
[Chapter 9 paragraph 22]: replaced fullstop with questionmark after "away with me" — the sentence is a question.
[Chapter 9 paragraph 23]: replaced "b" with "p" in "by his chost" — the sexton in all other cases says "py" instead of "by".
[Chapter 10 paragraph 6]: inserted single closing quote after "Οιοι νυν βροτοι εισιν" — it appears to be missing.
[Chapter 11 paragraph 3]: replaced "y" in "Vouley" with "z" — it appears to be a spelling error.
[Chapter 12 paragraph 1]: replaced "wolves" in "individual lion, tiger, wolves," with "wolf" — it is a list of singulars.
[Chapter 12 paragraph 9]: inserted paragraph start and opening quotes before "You observe, in both these skulls" — blockquotes cannot be inside paragraphs in the markup scheme.
[Chapter 12 paragraph 13]: inserted closing quotes after "becoming a judge." — they appear to be missing, since the speech is not continued in the next paragraph.
[Chapter 13 paragraph 17]: replaced "woful" with "woeful" in "by woful experience" — it appears to be a spelling error.
[Chapter 13 ballad]: replaced "feats" with "feasts" in "O rich are the feats" — it appears to be a spelling error.
[Chapter 14 paragraph 3]: replaced fullstop with questionmark after "Llewelyn Ap-Yorwerth" — the sentence is a question.
[Chapter 14 paragraph 5]: inserted comma after "said the lady" — one would be expected here.
[Chapter 14 paragraph 27]: capitalised "Squire" in "“Your daughter,” said squire Headlong." — all other instances of "Squire Headlong" are capitalised.