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- n. A proof from type on a galley.
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“It is possible for an author to make comparatively few and simple changes each time he receives a new revise, but yet have a much larger bill for author's changes than another who makes twice or thrice as many alterations at one time on the galley-proof, and only requires another proof in order that he may verify the correctness of the printer's work.”
“The galley-proof, with the corresponding copy, is then handed to the proof-reader, who is assisted by a "copy-holder" (an assistant who reads the copy aloud) in comparing it with the manuscript and marking typographical errors and departures from copy on its margin.”
“This is the proof known as a "galley-proof," and is, in book work, printed on”
“To his editorial galley-proof Hal added two lines.”
“I wonder if you can realize what it means to have a face like yours looking up from every dirty strip of galley-proof, and a voice like yours sounding under the rumble of the big presses.”
“Chicago and Chautauqua took up nearly two weeks of my time and when I arrived in New York, huge bundles of galley-proof were awaiting me.”
“There exists a galley-proof of a Ballad by Borrow entitled _The Father's”
A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow
“Mr. Jones, proprietor of the _Banner_ Job Printing office, obligingly produced the "galley-proof" of the account of the People's Convention, prepared by his "city editor," Harry Squires, for the ensuing issue of the weekly.”
“Mr. Winthrop, who was as excited as Mallard himself, "looped," and the editor returned to the dining-room with a galley-proof slip in his hand.”
“Marion Reedy, editor of the St. Louis Mirror, had seen this famous tour de force circulated in the early 80's in galley-proof form; he first learned from Eugene Field that it was from the pen of Mark Twain.”
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bilby "Very little of the desk's surface was visible. Manuscripts, piles of correspondence, books and galley-proofs which had been sent to him were stacked everywhere and anywhere."
- 'The Dark Half', Stephen King. Dec 31, 2007