[glibrary] Request: checking some punctuation in Emerson's Conduct of Life (1876)

[David Carter]

Unsurprisingly, that's a rather rare edition. Here are the libraries that
own a copy:

AR    UNIV OF ARKANSAS, LITTLE ROCK    AKU
CA    UNIV OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY    CUY
CT    TRINITY COL    TYC
CT    YALE UNIV LIBR    YUS
IN    WABASH COL    IWC
MA    HARVARD UNIV, HARVARD COL LIBR    HLS
MN    MINNEAPOLIS PUB LIBR    MPI
NC    UNIV OF N CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL    NOC
NY    UNIV OF ROCHESTER    RRR
VA    LONGWOOD UNIV    VLC
VT    MIDDLEBURY COL    MDY


on 12/21/05 1:46 AM, Andrew Sly at sly at victoria.tc.ca wrote:

> My library does not have that particular title. However, it does have
> a number of editions of collected works of Emerson. (as you would
> probably expect from any research library.)
> 
> With a little more context, I could look up those spots in one of
> those collected editions.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Wally Thompson wrote:
> 
>> I'm working on Ralph Waldo Emerson's 'The Conduct of Life' as published in
>> 1876 by James R. Osgood and Company.
>> 
>> I harvested the images from Google Print, though they now seem to have
>> disappeared from Google's site. The images were made from a copy at Harvard
>> College Widener Library: they appear to have two copies:
>> 
>> 
>> http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/5KLTCUXI7EE13N2NS739T4IAIEANK7TNU3K5L596S3YL2EK819
>> -45655?func=full-set-set&set_number=049269&set_entry=000026&format=999
>> 
>> Punctuation marks are not always clear or have sometimes dropped out on the
>> images. I was wondering if someone could check the following against a paper
>> copy of the 1876 edition:
>> 
>> verso (line 3): Is there a period after 'Massachusetts'?
>> TOC (line 2): Is there a period after 'Page'?
>> page -1 (line 4): Is there a semicolon after 'bare'?
>> page -1 (line -1): Is there a period after 'creates'?
>> page 12 (line 11): Is there a semicolon after 'slate'?
>> page 58 (line 6): Is 'baby jumper' hyphenated?
>> page 74 (line 4): Is there a semicolon after 'nature'?
>> page 179 (footnote): Is there a period after 'worms'?
>> page 245 (line 10): Is there a semicolon after 'wave'?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Wally
>> 
>> wally.thompson at gmail.com
>> 
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