Even since the time when Bohn wrote, the progress made in various branches of the printer's art has been such as might have astonished that famous publisher of so many standard works.

" Precisely thus had the paragraph originally stood from the printer's hands.

For this cursed printer is so given to mistakes, that there is scarce a sentence in the Preface without some false grammar, or hard sense [i.e., difficulty in gathering the meaning] in it; which will all be charged upon the Poet: because he is so good natured as to lay but three errors to the Printer's account, and to take the rest upon himself; who is better able to support them.

Dict.); here it is surely a corruption, whether Ophelia's or the printer's, of the Quarto reading, 'God a mercy' which, spoken quickly, sounds very near gramercy.

At the age of fifteen Richardson went to London and learned the printer's trade, which he followed for the rest of his life.

It is chiefly Great Britain which boasts of a free press; and assuredly in one sense the freedom is almost unlimited: for I saw placards with the printer's name stating that Queen Victoria is no lawful queen, and all those who rule ought to be hanged; but men only laughed at the foolish extravagance.

They take baths for their maladies, and have hot springs for this purpose, particularly along the shore of the king's lake (Estang du Roy, instead of Estang de Bay by a printer's mistake apparently), which is in the Island of Manila.

This is not a printer's error, nor a play upon words, much as the New Englander may suspect the one or the other.

Yet I wish I could have seen my articles in proof, for I seldom read over my things in manuscript, and always find infinite room for improvement at the printer's expense.

Constable, in reply, said he had no wish to invade literary property, but the verses had come to him without either author's name, publisher's name, or printer's name, and that there was no literary property in publications to which neither author's, publisher's, nor printer's name was attached.

An attempt to darken the lighter spots in his cuticle by the application of printer's ink had not proved equally successful,the retouching left the spots as much too dark as they had formerly been too light.

From the printer's he telephoned to the Farrons, but found that Miss Severance was out.

Mr. Taylor's poetical productions while he was still a printer's apprentice, made a strong impression on the writer's mind, and he gave them their due of praise accordingly in the newspaper of which he was then Editor.

The book, which records the difficulties and struggles of a printer's apprentice achieving this, must be interesting to Americans.

"Printer's Gram.

"Smith's Printer's Gram.

[Footnote A: Author, compositor, and proof-reader were evidently engaged in a "stampede,"the (Printer's) Devil having strict orders to make seizure of the hindmost.

[Footnote 16: The initials appended to the papers in their daily issue were placed, in a corner of the page, after the printer's name.

33) placed the control of printing in the Government, confined exercise of the printer's art to London, York, and the Universities, and limited the number of the master printers to twenty.

The printer's case used to be one of the highways to editorial and congressional honors; but the little fellows of the craft invented a machine which goes over it like a "header" over a wheat-field and leaves a dead level of stalks, all minus the heads, so that no tall fellows are left to shame them by passing on from the "stick" to the tripod or speaker's mallet.

(The British Museum copy lacks the printer's device on the title-page, possessed by other copies seen; it varies also slightly in spelling etc.) (G) The | Scornful | Lady: | A | Comedy.

Only the most obvious of printer's errors have been corrected in this electronic edition.

Some differences may be due to printer's errors.

"Bearing no printer's name, nor date of printing, I have placed it to Crowley, being a printer, as having the justest claim to it" (p. 762.).

Speaking of Reynart the Fox, I was made, by a slip of the printer's handI am accustomed to seeing slips from his hand, which is quite another thingto say that this mediæval romance "presents a truer picture of life than novels in which vice is punished and virtue patiently rewarded."