Numbers with fractions are presented as number-numerator/denominator rather than using Unicode versions of the fraction without the hyphen.
Missing chapter titles added to text as needed.
If an illustration has a readable Japanese title in the image, that title is prepended to the caption.
Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end of the book.
Illustrations within a paragraph have been move to either before or after the paragraph. The page number in the “[List of Illustrations]� may not match the new location.
Blocks of text that had leading double quotes on each line have been replaced by a single double quote at the start of each paragraph.
The Japanese language legal contract starting on page [303] has been changed from vertical text read right to left into horizontal text read left to right
The Japanese publication data located before the footnotes is translated as:
First edition published Meiji year 32 June 30 (i.e. June 30, 1899)
Second edition printed Meiji year 38 Dec 1 (i.e. Dec. 1, 1905)
Second edition published Meiji year 38 Dec 5 (i.e. Dec. 5, 1905)
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