There are quite a few instances of missing punctuation. The conventional period following the character’s name is sometimes missing and has been added for consistency’s sake without further comment. Those missing from setting and stage direction are also added without comment, since there is no obvious purpose to be served by the omission. However, the restoration of punctuation missing from dialogue is noted below, since the punctuation is frequently expressive.
Volume I of this series included errata for each succeeding volume. Some, but not all, of the corrections indicated there had been made before the printing employed here. Those that remained unchanged have been corrected here, and noted as such.
Other errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original.
| [14.8] | something really grand[.] | Added. |
| [14.13] | Who knows what may befall one[?] | Added. |
| [21.12] | You beast[!] | Added. |
| [22.23] | I’ll be heaven high[.] | Added. |
| [25.10] | Oh, let them chatter[?/.] | Replaced. |
| [26.23] | Up with you, Peer, my lad[.] | Added. |
| [33.4] | Wherever he goes there is silence[;] | Added. |
| [47.26] | for a carcase like his[.] | Added. |
| [48.26] | With the bride[.] | Added. |
| [54.27] | roll down to bewilder him[!] | Added. |
| [66.11] | You’re a king’s son[?] | Added. |
| [67.24] | with us it[’]s precisely the same. | Inserted. |
| [71.21] | [“]Man, be thyself!” | Added. |
| [72.24] | fly off with your home-brewed drinks[!] | Added. |
| [82.6] | Let go will you, beast[!] | Added. |
| [83.3] | Mother, help me, I die[!] | Added. |
| [84.29] | the one only one[.] | Added. |
| [96.2] | tempted my poor boy astray[!] | Added. |
| [97.17] | I fear it’s a sin[.] | Added. |
| [122.6] | Yes, gentlemen, [comp[elety/letely] clear | Replaced. |
| [122.31] | Those noble-trolls[.] | Added. |
| [125.21] | Dear friends[,] | Added. |
| [127.28] | Well, but the African commod[it]ies? | Probably. |
| [140.15] | Since [though] art so wise | sic: Thou? |
| [148.1] | here are ferns growing—edible roots[.] | Added. |
| [148.12] | the Lord let[’]s lets me keep | Removed. |
| [157.35] | Tender, shrinking little hearts[.] | Added. |
| [164.22] | Your Emperor I am[!] | Added. |
| [164.32] | loved to this pitch[!] | Added. |
| [165.31] | Hearts tha[n/t] can love | Replaced, per Errata. |
| [168.36] | sober and wakeful.[”] | Added. |
| [172.7] | It[’]s secular traces | Removed. |
| [175.19] | A man[!] | Added. |
| [181.9] | out of his skin[!] | Added. |
| [182.23] | fathomed the Sphinx’s meaning[!] | Added. |
| [191.9] | Pray do not sputter[.] | Added. |
| [191.18] | a fate-guided pen[.] | Added. |
| [197.21] | a dram to their supper[.] | Added. |
| [199.29] | A wreck a-lee[!] | Added. |
| [206.3] | to make it come quicker[.] | Added. |
| [209.11] | His hand | Removed. |
| [220.16] | Twopence for the pedlar’s pack[!] | Added. |
| [221.28] | on Christmas Eve[.] | Added. |
| [226.8] | Man mus | Added, per Errata. |
| [229.34] | [“]Life, as it’s called, | Restored. |
| [231.29] | The worm has gnawed us[.] | Added. |
| [233.23] | With the switch from the cupboard[.] | Added. |
| [248.8] | You’re welcome[,] Peer. | Added. |
| [250.26] | It[’]s name shall be | Removed. |
| [264.7] | if I’m not mistaken[.] | Added. |
| [267.23] | for me and my sins[.] | Added. |