The Importance of
the Proof-reader
The Importance of
the Proof-reader
A Paper read before the Club of Odd Volumes,
in Boston, by John Wilson
CAMBRIDGE
The University Press
JOHN WILSON & SON (Inc.)
1901
THIS Paper upon “The Importance of the Proof-reader” is presented with the compliments of the University Press and the Author. The subject is one which the Author has endeavored to emphasize during his fifty years’ service in the printing business, and one for which the University Press has ever endeavored to stand.
1922
JOHN WILSON, author of this Paper and formerly proprietor of The University Press, died in 1903. His successors have now the pleasure of making a reprint, believing the subject to be of as much interest today as it was twenty years ago.
The Importance of the Proof-reader
IN preparing a work for the press, the author, the compositor, and the proof-reader are the three factors that enter into its construction. We will, however, treat more especially of the last-named in connection with the first.