Headlong Hall
Thomas Love Peacock
TRANSCRIPTION NOTES
Source
Form: printed book Title: Headlong Hall Author: Thomas Love Peacock Publisher: J. M. Dent & Co. at Aldine House, 69 Great Eastern St., London. Date: 1891 Editor: Richard Garnett, LLD. Printer: Turnbull and Spears, Printers, Edinburgh. British Library Shelfmark: 012611.i.37/1 Description: tan cloth over board binding, 122mm x 184mm x 21mm, 176 pages plus 2 at front and 1 at back
Modifications
Chapter head and foot decorations have been deleted -- to simplify production to purely text.
Page numbers and headers have been deleted -- the new document is unpaginated.
Fullstops have been deleted from chapter titles and song titles -- they are superfluous.
All notes have been moved to the end of the document -- to suit the unpaginated format.
All notes by the editor Richard Garnett have been deleted -- to remove (insubstantial) attachments to the original text.
Chapter 1 paragraph 7: inserted closing quotes after "perpetually in statu quo." -- they appear to be missing, since the speech is not continued in the next paragraph.
Chapter 1 paragraph 8: deleted fullstop after "astronomy----" -- the sentence is truncated, it does not end.
Chapter 1 paragraph 9: deleted fullstop after "selfishness----" -- the sentence is truncated, it does not end.
Chapter 1 paragraph 10: deleted fullstop after "cloth----" -- the sentence is truncated, it does not end.
Chapter 2 paragraph 1: deleted comma after "oils" in "oils, and colours" -- "and" clusters things in an item, not separates items, in this list.
Chapter 4 paragraph 13: inserted closing quotes after "summit of Ararat." -- they appear to be missing, since the speech is not continued in the next paragraph.
Chapter 7 paragraph 5: deleted closing quotes after "confracti mundi rudera:" -- the phrase is not quoted, and the speech does not end there.
Chapter 7 paragraph 6: replaced "procession" with "precession" in "The procession of the equinoxes" -- it appears to be a spelling error, since Mr Foster is informed on the subject and not tending to make such mistakes.
Chapter 7 paragraph 17: inserted "_Mr Escot._" at start of paragraph before "Nor is" -- to follow consistent indication and layout of speech.
Chapter 8 paragraph 1: replaced "befel" with "befell" -- it appears to be a spelling error.
Chapter 9 paragraph 16: replaced fullstop with questionmark after "the tevil with" -- the sentence is a question.
Chapter 9 paragraph 23: replaced "b" with "p" in "by his chost" -- the sexton in all other cases says "py" instead of "by".
Chapter 10 paragraph 6: inserted single closing quote after "_Oioi nun brotoi eisin_" -- it appears to be missing.
Chapter 11 paragraph 3: replaced "y" in "Vouley" with "z" -- it appears to be a spelling error.
Chapter 13 paragraph 17: replaced "woful" with "woeful" in "by woful experience" -- it appears to be a spelling error.
Chapter 13 ballad: replaced "feats" with "feasts" in "O rich are the feats" -- it appears to be a spelling error.
Chapter 14 paragraph 5: inserted comma after "said the lady" -- one would be expected here.
Chapter 14 paragraph 27: capitalised "Squire" in ""Your daughter," said squire Headlong." -- all other instances of "Squire Headlong" are capitalised.