In the Errata to his Life and Death of Thomas Wolsey, Cardinall (1599),
Thomas Storer writes: ‘there is no reason that a Booke should be without
faultes, when the person of whom the booke intreateth had so many in his
life'. I owe this witty remark to John Buxton, Sir Philip Sidney and the
English Renaissance, 1954, p. 28.
At 10:05 PM 2002-08-07 +0100, you wrote:
>By way of a post-script to this thread, there are some good examples of
>press corrections in Mark Bland, 'William Stansby and the Production of The
>Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1615-16', The Library, 20 (1) (1998), 1-33, esp.
>pp. 8-10. A good one is from T. Beard, A Retraction from the Romish Religion
>(1616): 'Thus it happneth (gentle reader) by an inevitable necessity, where
>the author cannot be present at the press. Amend therefore I pray thee these
>faults escaped'; Samuel Purchas records that Stansby delivered revises to
>his house in Ludgate.
>
>Colin Burrow, Fellow and Tutor, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge CB2
>1TA
>tel: 01223 332483
>web: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk
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