emendator

• “To have taken so avowed a part in the first publication and none except that of corrector of the press and occasional emendator in this would I think have had a strange and undesirable appearance for you and for the poems: as if I had changed my mind as to you or them or both.”

  Letter 59

• “J.P. Collier in his edition of 1844 leaned, on the other hand, to the side of the Quartos, but later became a clever if somewhat rash emendator, who spoiled his reputation by seeking to obtain authority for his guesses by forging them in a seventeenth-century hand in a copy of the second”

  The Facts About Shakespeare

• “The veteran J. Payne Collier, the _emendator_ of Shakespeare, has recently put forth a work, in four volumes, entitled "A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867

• “Chatelain's genius as an emendator of Shakespeare.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873

• “It must, indeed, be confessed that the conjectural emendator, if he dispenses with the quasi-authority of contemporary precedents, has an all but unlimited range for the exercise of his ingenuity, the unsettled spellings of our ancestors rendering almost any emendation, however extravagant, a typographical possibility.”

  Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error"

• “Earlier in life he had nourished a hope that his name might become illustrious as the emendator of the 'Commentaries of John, Archbishop of Canterbury on”

  Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study

• “It must, indeed, be confessed that the conjectural emendator, if he dispenses with the quasi-authority of contemporary precedents, has an all but unlimited range for the exercise of his ingenuity, the unsettled spellings of our”

  Literary Blunders

• “One of the misprints which Mr. Spedding notices affords both a hint and a warning to the conjectural emendator.”

  Among My Books First Series

• “The MS. emendator, he says, reads _so worn_ for _sworn_; and adds:”

  Notes and Queries, Number 181, April 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

• “Notes and Emendations from which he dissents, MR. SINGER should not have noticed those which he regards with favour; and that, in his anxiety to vindicate the purity of Shakspeare's text from the anonymous emendator, he should have embodied that vindication in language, which, though we are quite sure it is unintentional on his part, gives his book almost a personal character, instead of one purely critical.”

  Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

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