- daylight and day-light
- Castlewearie and Castle-Wearie
- drawbridge and draw-bridge
- auldfarrant and auld-farrant
- bareheaded and bare-headed
- eyebrows and eye-brows
- outdone and out-done
- staircase and stair-case
The following are inconsistently printed as one or two words:
- fairy land and fairyland
- Gude faith and Gudefaith
- mean time and meantime
The text contains the following apparent errors:
- p. 10 missing apostrophe ("its only the devil")
- p. 17 missing quotation mark ("What do you think")
- p. 25 missing quotation mark ("is the better. The imps")
- p. 30 extra quotation mark ("behind the friar."")
- p. 46 missing quotation mark ("preserve their worshippers.")
- p. 47 missing quotation mark ("and who must yield.")
- p. 60 missing quotation mark ("all unsafe with such.")
- p. 62 question mark instead of full stop ("off thy frame?")
- p. 68 missing quotation mark ("those we love.")
- p. 79 two instances of missing quotation marks (""Stay, they cried, stay the solemnity,")
- p. 89 missing quotation mark ("your's was the best tale.")
- p. 98 mis-spelling "in the expecsation"
- p. 102 extra space in "the sweetest strain s"
- p. 112 missing quotation mark ("follow them.")
- p. 158 extra quotation mark ("ever cattle put on."")
- p. 163 mis-placed apostrophe ("that I ken o.'")
- p. 163 missing quotation mark ("and that of such momentous")
- p. 168 missing full stop ("them to think of")
- p. 183 extra quotation mark ("Scott'" said Yardbire:")
- p. 189 mis-spelling "possessession"
- p. 196 duplicate word "themsels; and and if ye hear a Laidlaw"
- p. 213 mis-spelling "disingeniousness"
- p. 205 missing quotation mark ("Strangers, I think!")
- p. 206 comma instead of full stop ("he says, We'll never make")
- p. 207 missing quotation mark ("But whoever refuses,")
- p. 222 duplicate word "the fourth was a a boy"
- p. 225 missing space "andbegan"
- p. 237 extra quotation mark (""Alas, for my beloved")
- p. 284 single instead of double quotation mark ("the like o' that?'")
- p. 299 missing quotation mark ("begging admission to your")
- p. 321 extra quotation mark (""The Queen crossed herself,")
- p. 331 extra quotation mark ("'it's 'God's will?'")
- p. 346 extra quotation mark ("new born beauties."")
- p. 349 full stop instead of comma ("from a beam's end.")
- p. 378 mis-spelling "convalesence"
- p. 379 missing quotation mark ("apply to him again.")
- p. 380 duplicate word "shew a a"
- p. 380 missing quotation mark ("Inferiority!")
- p. 382 missing full stop ("the lord Douglas—But")
- p. 389 missing quotation mark ("Oh Sir Charles!—")
- p. 391 missing quotation mark ("or an engagement say?")
- p. 393 duplicate word "to Sir Charles was was nothing"
- p. 405 duplicate word "she could not not be"
- p. 409 "They" instead of "The" ("They rest marshalling")
- p. 410 mis-spelling "Peatstackknowe"
- p. 411 missing space ("Gibbie,and")
- p. 422 missing space ("a delusion, avision")
- p. 423 comma instead of full stop ("all was darkness, There was no")
- p. 440 duplicate word "brought on by by the stroke"
- p. 447 extra quotation mark ("was killed."")