[25] Messrs. Ibbotson, of Fetter-lane, and Charlton and Co., of St. Anne’s, are the best-known Pulpers.
[26] Until Lord Balton (then Sir Charles Quarry) invented this part of the machine, poems, apologies for Christianity, &c., in fact all kinds of books, had to be torn laboriously into minute pieces by hand. It is difficult for us to realise now-a-days what exertion this involved. We live in an age of machinery!
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Footnote [18] is referenced twice from the table on [page 175].
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added, when a predominant preference was found in the original book.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.
[Pg 66]: ‘keep if for the’ replaced by ‘keep it for the’.
[Pg 79]: ‘and I wlll go’ replaced by ‘and I will go’.
[Pg 98]: ‘an insistance upon’ replaced by ‘an insistence upon’.
[Pg 108]: ‘were astonied at’ replaced by ‘were astonished at’.
[Pg 126]: ‘now no no longer’ replaced by ‘now no longer’.