Dialect, obsolete and alternative spellings were left unchanged. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, or partially printed letters, were corrected. Missing or misplaced stops, commas, quotation marks, parentheses, and accent marks were added or moved, as appropriate.
Additionally, the following items were changed:
—added missing footnote number to footnote [106];
—added missing page number to index entry of Blake, William; and
—added missing page number to index entry, “ratting and being married.”
In the Catalog at the end of the book:
—punctuation was standardized;
—misspelled words were corrected;
—inaccurate page reference numbers were not corrected;
—where the identity of a note could not be determined, link was not provided;
—the descriptive entry for “The Chronicles of Count Antonio” ends mid-sentence;
—the sections entitled “Antiquary’s Library” through “Connoisseurs Library” are printed twice, with minor variations;
—the section entitled “Rariora” listed in the catalogue contents is omitted in the text; and
—the entry for Jacobs, W. W. is missing, although the reference to it is listed in the alphabetical portion of Part II—Fiction.