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INDEX.

  • Adder for nadder, 7.
  • Afghan for Anglican, 148.
  • Agassiz, Zoological Biography, blunder in, 64.
  • Alison's (Sir Archibald) blunder, 34.
  • Ampulle (Sainte), 35
  • Amsterdam, Guide to, 210.
  • Anderson (Andrew), his disgraceful printing of the Bible, 141.
  • Apostrophe, importance of an, 121.
  • Apron for napron, 7.
  • Arabian Nights, translations of, 45.
  • Arden (Pepper), 60.
  • Arlington (Lord), his title taken from the village of Harlington, 8.
  • Artaxerxes, 54.
  • Ash's Dictionary, 9, 10.
  • Averrhoes, 54.
  • Babington's (Bishop) Exposition of the Lord's Prayer, 92.
  • Bachaumont, Mémoires de, 33.
  • Baly's (Dr.) translation of Müller's Physiology, 51.
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  • Barcelona Exhibition (1883), 194
  • Barker (Robert) and Martin Lucas fined for leaving not out of the Seventh Commandment, 136.
  • Bellarmin, misprints in his works, 79.
  • Benserade's joke, 97.
  • Bible, blunders in the printing of the, 135.
  • —incorrect translations of passages in, 58.
  • —the «Wicked» Bible, 136.
  • Bibliographical Blunders 63 -77
  • Bismarck's (Prince) endeavours to keep on good terms with all the Powers, 145.
  • Blades's (W.) Shakspere and Typography, 104.
  • Blunder, knowledge necessary to make a, 2.
  • Blunders, amusing mistakes, 1.
  • Blunders in General, 1-30.
  • —of Authors, 31 -46.
  • —of Translators, 47-62.
  • —(Bibliographical), 63-77.
  • —(Schoolboys'), 157-187.
  • Boehm's tract on the Boots of Isaiah, 71.
  • Boyle (Robert) becomes Le Boy, 72.
  • Brandenburg (Elector of) and Father Wolff, 20.
  • Brathwaite's (R.) Strappado for the Divell, 94.
  • Breton's (Nicholas) tracts, 81.
  • —Wit of Wit, 93.
  • Bride (La) de Lammermuir, 49.
  • Brigham le jeune for Brigham Young, 67.
  • Britton's Tunbridge Wells, 37.
  • Broch (J. K.), an imaginary author, 64.
  • Buckingham's (J. Silk) anecdote of a wilful misprint, 140.
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  • Bulls, a sub-class of blunders, 24.
  • —made by others than Irishmen, 25.
  • —(Negro), 26.
  • Burton (Hill) on bulls, 29.
  • Butler's (S.) allusion to corrupted texts, 135.
  • —misprints in his lines, 127.
  • Byron's Childe Harold, persistent misprint in, 134.
  • Cæsoris (Mr. C. J.), 73.
  • Calamities for Calamites, 116
  • Calpensis (Flora) not an authoress, 68.
  • Campbell's (Lord) supposed criticism of Romeo and Juliet, 46.
  • Campion, Death and Martyrdom of, 81.
  • Camus, an imaginary author, 65.
  • Canons for chanoines, 48.
  • Capo Basso, 48.
  • Cardan's treatise De Subtilitate without a misprint, 97
  • Careme, Le Patissier Pittoresque, 74.
  • Cartwright (Major), 60.
  • Castlemaine's (Lord) English Globe, 87.
  • Chaucer's works, misprints in, 153.
  • Chelsea porcelain, 43.
  • Chernac's Mathematical Tables, 144.
  • Cicero's (Mr. Tul.) Epistles, 72.
  • —Offices, 51.
  • Cinderella and the glass slipper, 57.
  • Classification, blunders in, 73.
  • Clement XIV. (Pope), 26.
  • Clerk (P. K.) for Rev. Patrick Keith, 69.
  • Cockeram's English Dictionarie, 11.
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  • Collier (John Payne), blunder made in a newspaper account of his burial, 127.
  • Contractions, ignorant misreading of, 124.
  • Coquilles, specimens of, 147.
  • Correspondence, etymology of, 9.
  • Cow cut into calves, 129.
  • Cowley's allusion to corrupted texts, 135,
  • Cromwells, confusion of the two, 169.
  • Cross readings, 24.
  • Cruikshank's (George) real name supposed to be Simon Pure, 70.
  • Curmudgeon, etymology of, 10.
  • Damné et Calive, 49.
  • Darius, 54
  • Dekker's Satiro-Mastix, errata to, 80.
  • Deleted for delited in Shakespeare, 115.
  • De Morgan, on authors correcting their own proofs, 89.
  • D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature, 68, 69.
  • Do part for depart, 8.
  • Donis (Nicholas), an imaginary author, 66.
  • Dorus Basilicus, an imaginary author, 65.
  • Dotet in trouble, 55.
  • Drayton, misreading of, 6.
  • Edgeworth's Essay on Irish Bulls, 28.
  • Emendations of editors, 23.
  • English as she is Spoke, 206.
  • English as she is Taught, 160.
  • Enrichi de Deux Listes (Mons.), 68.
  • Erekmann-Chatrian's Conscript, 56.
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  • Errata (lists of), 78-99.
  • Estienne's (Henri) joke over a misprint, 152.
  • Etymologies (absurd), 9.
  • Ewing's (Bishop) Argyllshire Seaweeds, 74.
  • Examined, blunders of the, 157.
  • Faith, definition of, 158
  • Faraday (Sir Michael), 41.
  • Featley's (Dr. Daniel) Romish Fisher Caught in his own Net, 96.
  • Field the printer's blunders, 139.
  • Finis Coronat opus, 61.
  • Fitzgerald (Fighting), 32.
  • Fletcher's The Nice Valour, 96.
  • Fonseca and Carolino, Guide of the Conversation, 205.
  • Foreigners' English, 188-213.
  • Foulis's edition of Horace, 98.
  • French kings, anointing of the, 35.
  • Galt's Lives of the Players, 45
  • Garnett's Florilegium Amantis, 75.
  • Gascoigne's (George) Droomme of Doomes Day, 91.
  • Ghost words, 2.
  • Girardin's epitaph on Shenstone at Ermenonville, 212.
  • Gladstone's (Mr.) Gleanings of Past Years, 38.
  • Glanvill's (Joseph) Essays, 86.
  • «God save the King,» new verse by a Frenchman, 211.
  • Goldsmith's blunders, 31,
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  • Goldsmith's Deserted Village, translation of a line in, 56.
  • Gordon (J. E. H.) and B. A. Cantab, 69.
  • Greatrakes (Valentine), blunder in his name, 118.
  • Greeley's (Horace) bad writing, 126.
  • Grolier not a binder, 19.
  • Haggard 's (Rider) King Solomon's Mines, 74.
  • Hales's (Prof.) observations on misprints, 131.
  • Hall's (John) Horæ Vacivæ, 117.
  • Halliwell-Phillipps' Dictionary of Misprints, 80, 101.
  • Harrison's (Peter) bull, 29.
  • Henri II. not a potter, 19.
  • Herodote et aussi Jazon, 49.
  • Heywood's (Thomas) Apology for Actors, 83.
  • Hirudo for hirundo, 48.
  • Hit or Miss, 53.
  • Holy Gruel for Holy Grail, 149.
  • Homeric poems, author of the, 158.
  • Hood's lines on misprints, 151.
  • Hood (Thomas), Geometricall Instrument called a Sector, 82.
  • Hook's (Dean) bad writing, 123.
  • Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, corrections by the author, 93.
  • Hopton's (Arthur) Baculum Geodœticum Viaticum, 83.
  • Horse-shoeing husbandry for horse hoeing, 149.
  • Hotel-keepers' English, 192.
  • Howell's (J.) Deudrologia, 75.
  • Huet, «ancient» Bishop of Avranch, 51.
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  • Hugo's (Victor) translation, 50.
  • Hunt's (Leigh) specimens of misprints, 148.
  • Hyetts Flowers from the South, 74.
  • Ibn Roshd = Averrhoes, 54
  • Immoral for immortal, 120.
  • Independent Whig, 53.
  • «Indifferent justice,» 42.
  • Insurrection for resurrection, 133.
  • Jefferies (Judge) said to have presided at the trial of Charles I., 37.
  • Job's wish that his adversary had written a book, 58.
  • Jonson's (Ben) Every Man in his Humour, 95.
  • Juvenal, edition of, with the first printed errata, 78.
  • Lamartine's Girondins, translation of, 54.
  • Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, 45.
  • Lane's (E. W.) good writing, 123.
  • La Rochefoucauld as Ruchfucove, 53.
  • Layamon's Brat for Brut, 149.
  • Le Berceau, an imaginary author, 67
  • Leigh's (Edward) table of errata, 79.
  • Leviticus supposed to be a man, 17.
  • Leycester's (Sir Peter) Historical Antiquities, 97.
  • Littleton's Latin Dictionary, 10.
  • Lodge's (Prof. Oliver) series of examination papers 174
  • Logotypes, 113.
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  • London (William) not a bishop, 67.
  • Louis XIV., blunder of, 171.
  • —Secret Memoirs of the Court of, blunder in 55
  • Louis XVIII., Mémoires de, blundes in, 33.
  • Love's Last Shift, 52.
  • Macaulay's blunder as to the Faerie Queene, 39.
  • —opinion of Goldsmith's blunders, 31.
  • Malherbe's epitaph on Rosette, 145.
  • Mantissa, an imaginary author, 67.
  • Marmontel's Moral Tales, 51.
  • Maroni's (P. V.) The Opera, 73.
  • Marriage Service, misprint in, 8.
  • Marvell's Rehearsal Transprosed, 122.
  • Men of the Time, misFrint in, 155.
  • Ménage on bad writirlg, 122.
  • Mephistopheles, 151.
  • Milton said to have written the Inferno, 42
  • Misprints, 100-156.
  • —(intentional), 155.
  • Mispronunciations, 22.
  • Misquotations, 21.
  • Missæ ac Misselis Anatomia, 1561, book with fifteen pages of errata, 79.
  • Mistakes, A New Booke of, 1637, 24.
  • Monosyllabic titles, 40.
  • Morgan's (Silvanus) Horologiographia Optica, 85.
  • Morton's Natural History of Northamptonshire, 89.
  • Mourning Bride, 52.
  • Murray's (Dr.) ghost words, 6.
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  • Murrell's Cookery, 1632, 112.
  • Musical Examinations, blunders in, 164
  • Napier's bones, 38.
  • Napoleon III. said to be Consul in 1853, 35
  • Nash's Lenten Stuffe, 93.
  • Nicholson (Dr. Brinsley) on authors correcting their own proofs, go, 95.
  • Nicolai a man not a place, 65.
  • Nova Scotia for New Caledonia, 51.
  • Oxford Music Hall supposed to be at Oxford, 17.
  • Paine (Tom) confused with Thomas Payne, 67.
  • Paris Exhibition 1889, English guide to, 200.
  • Passagio (G.) not an author, 68.
  • Peacham's (Henry) The Mastive, 95.
  • Pickle (Sir Peregrine), 34.
  • Picus of Mirandula, edition of his works has the longest list of errata on record, 78.
  • Playford's John) Vade Mecum, 87.
  • Poluglossos, 208.
  • Pope's lines, misprint in, 125.
  • Porcelain, etymology of, 9.
  • Porson's Catechism of the Swinish Multitude, 130.
  • Printers' upper and lower cases, 110, 111.
  • Proofs corrected by authors in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, 89.
  • Prynne's Brevia Parliamentaria, 60.
  • Pythagoras as Peter Gower, 53.
  • Rabelais' blunder, 146.
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  • Raleigh (Sir Walter), 171.
  • Ray's (John) Remains, 118.
  • Render, a bad translator; 47.
  • Richardson's (S.) etymology of correspondence, 9
  • Ridings of Yorkshire, 7, 191.
  • Robertson's Scotland, translation of, 49.
  • Robinson (Otis H.), on «Titles of Books,» 75.
  • Roche's (Sir Boyle) bull of the bird that was in two places at once, 29.
  • Rogue Croix for Rouge Croix, 130.
  • Ruskin's Notes on Sheepfolds, 73.
  • Saints (Imaginary), 13.
  • Sala's (Mr.) opinion on misprints, 128.
  • San Francisco, Florence, mistaken for San Francisco, California, 18.
  • Saroom (Jean), 66.
  • Schoolboys' Blunders, 157-187,
  • Scot's Hop-Garden, 90.
  • Scott (Sir Walter), ghost word. 5.
  • —his real name said to be William, 71.
  • Scylla and Charybdis, 43.
  • Shakespeare's text improved by attention to the technicalities of printing, 105, 113.
  • Sharp's (William) misprint, 120.
  • Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, a copy in whole calf, 72.
  • Shenstone, epitaph on, by a Frenchman, 212.
  • Shirley's lines, misprints in, 125.
  • Sinclair's (Archdeacon) anecdote of an examination, 172.
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  • Sixtus V. (Pope), misprints in his edition of the Vulgate, 135.
  • Skeat's (Prof.) ghost words, 2.
  • —On misprints in Chaucer's works, 153.
  • Skimpole (Harold), 34.
  • Smith's (Sydney) ghost word, 4.
  • Souza's edition of Camoens, 98.
  • Stanyhurst's translation of Virgil (1582), 59, 91.
  • Stevens (Henry) on the «Wicked» Bible, 136.
  • Susannah called a maiden, 41.
  • Swinburne's Under the Microscope, 73.
  • Tellurium, supposed magnetic qualities of, 52.
  • «Thisms» for this MS., 119.
  • Tongs, strife of, 150.
  • Topography for typography, 121.
  • Translations, humorous, 61.
  • Translators said to be traitors, 47
  • Tressan (Comte de), 47.
  • Trinity (Master of), 60.
  • Twain (Mark) on schoolboys' blunders, 160.
  • Unite for untie, 149.
  • Ussher (Archbishop), 141.
  • Vagabond (Mr.) for Mr. Rambler, 60.
  • Vedast (St.), alias Foster, 13.
  • Venus for Venns, 130.
  • Viar (S.), 16.
  • Vieta's Canon Mathematicus, 144.
  • Virtuous Rocks for Vitreous Rocks, 150.
  • Viscontian snakes, 48.
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  • Vitus (Saint), 16.
  • Wade's (Marshal) roads, 26.
  • Walker, London, 53.
  • Walpole's (Horace) specimen of a bull, 29.
  • Wälsch for Welsh, 51.
  • Warburton's (Bishop) blunder in quoting Cinthio 34.
  • Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica, blunder in, 63.
  • Welsh rabbit, 52.
  • Wigorn (Bishop), 66.
  • William IV. when Duke of Clarence, 211.
  • Winton (George), 66.
  • Witt's (Richard) Arithmetical Questions, 90.
  • Words that never existed, 3.
  • Writing (bad) of authors, 122.
  • Xerxes, 54.
  • Xinoris (Saint), 13.
  • Ye for the, 6.
  • Yonge's Dynevor Terrace, misprint in, 120.
  • Yvery, History of the House of, 19.
  • Zoile (Mons.) et Mdlle. Lycoris, 59.
  • Zollverein, 40.
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