Misprints

For instance, if I am preparing an article on "Misprints," any examples noted are filed away in an envelope so marked, and when I get ready to write the article the material is ready at hand.

The Writer, Volume VI, April 1892. A Monthly Magazine to Interest and Help All Literary Workers Various 1904

Misprints taking wrong numbers by the hand, black and thorny creatures, dance their wild dance round him.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

Misprints the old gentleman thus addressed them [gentlemen] hastily walked the room in much visible agony of mind, [vissible]

Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father Daniel Jackson

There also are the Misprints to confuse the enemy at his onrush.

The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911

Misprints -- to use the handiest term -- range in importance from the innocent and obvious, like a turned _a_, and the innocent and obvious only to the expert, like a turned _s_, to a turned _n_, which may be mistaken for a _u_, or the change or omission of a punctuation mark, which may involve claims to thousands of dollars.

The Booklover and His Books Harry Lyman Koopman 1898

The late Mr. Halliwell Phillipps, in his curious privately printed volume (A Dictionary of Misprints, 1887), writes: "Such tests were really a thousandfold more necessary in editions of plays, but they are practically non-existent in the latter, the brief one which is prefixed to Dekker's Satiro-Mastix, 1602, being nearly the only example that is to be found in any that appeared during the literary career of the great dramatist."

Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error" 1893

Halliwell-Phillipps 'Dictionary of Misprints, 80, 101.

Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error" 1893

It is an important help to the editor of a corrupt text to know what misprints are the most probable, and for this purpose the late Mr. Halliwell Phillipps printed for private circulation A Dictionary of Misprints, found in printed books of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, compiled for the use of verbal critics and especially for those who are engaged in editing the works of Shakespeare and our other early Dramatists (1887).

Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error" 1893

Misprints are very irritating to most authors, but some can afford to make fun of the trouble; thus Hood's amusing lines are probably founded upon some blunder that actually occurred: --

Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error" 1893

Halliwell-Phillipps '_Dictionary of Misprints_, 80, 101.

Literary Blunders Henry Benjamin Wheatley 1877