Request: checking some punctuation in Emerson's Conduct of Life (1876)
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@gmail.com
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:
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@gmail.com
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@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/5KLTCUXI7EE13N2NS739T4IAIEANK7TNU3K5L596S3YL2EK81... -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@gmail.com
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