The following are inconsistently printed as one or two words:
- has na and hasna
- liege man and liegeman
- maybe be, maybe, and may-be (some hyphenated over line breaks)
- mean time and meantime
- mean while and meanwhile
- some body and somebody
The text contains the following apparent errors:
- p. 10 mis-spelling "ignominous"
- p. 27 missing space ("the shapes o'men?")
- p. 55 missing full stop ("behold he was wanting")
- p. 59 missing quotation mark ("till I speak t'ye, said")
- p. 104 mis-spelling "cutfing"
- p. 113 missing comma "Come away/Elfin grey,")
- p. 121 mis-spelling "quite" ("all was quite and gloomy")
- p. 124 comma instead of full stop ("the whole party in its consequences,")
- p. 137 comma instead of full stop ("exclamatory sound, Charlie had")
- p. 172 "22" instead of "21" ("22. So I borrowed me")
- p. 179 "she" instead of "he" ("21. And she said, Blessed")
- p. 188 missing space ("or a good shareo' ilka")
- p. 197 missing quotation mark ("afore I gi'e my gully")
- p. 212 comma instead of full stop ("thorns above them, "Now!"")
- p. 226 duplicate word ("all mankind it must must shock;")
- p. 229 extra quotation mark ("ane o' the best."")
- p. 229 duplicate word ("how to take care care o'")
- p. 261 mis-spelling "ty'e"
- p. 261 missing quotation mark ("sae ye may, my man!")
- p. 289 mis-spelling "espepecially"
- p. 300 duplicate word ("I was in one so so profound,")
- p. 337 missing quotation mark (" to the right hand or to the left.")
- p. 341 missing comma ("said he "that enables")
- p. 342 extra quotation mark ("give us a striking instance."")
- p. 352 missing quotation mark ("This is unfair, and")