The Importance of the Proof-reader

The Importance of the Proof-reader - A Paper read before the Club of Odd Volumes, in Boston, by John Wilson

THIS Paper upon The Importance of the Proof-reader is presented with the compliments of the University Press and the Author. The subject is one which the Author has endeavored to emphasize during his fifty years service in the printing business, and one for which the University Press has ever endeavored to stand. JOHN WILSON, author of this Paper and formerly proprietor of The University Press, died in 1903. His successors have now the pleasure of making a reprint, believing the subject to be of as much interest today as it was twenty years ago. IN preparing a work for the press, the author, the compositor, and the proof-reader are the three factors that enter into its construction. We will, however, treat more especially of the last-named in connection with the first. The true proof-reader should not only be a practical printer, but he should be a lover of literature, familiar with the classics of all languages, with the results accomplished by science, and indeed with every subject that concerns his fellow-men. When an author prepares a work for the press, he often uses many abbreviations, his capitalization is frequently incorrect, his spelling occasionally not in accordance either with Worcester or Webster, his punctuation inaccurate, his historical and biographical statements careless, and his chirography frequently very bad. In such cases the proof-reader is sorely tried; and unless he is a man of much patience, well versed in the art of deciphering incorrigible manuscripts, and supplying all their deficiencies, his last state will, to speak mildly, be worse than his first. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 27583
Author: Wilson, John
Release Date: Dec 21, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English