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I make typos. You make typos. We all make typos. However.
This volume, no. 35 in the Penguin Little Black Classics series, joins no. 30 in misspelling a writer’s name on a cover. Penguin attributes no. 30, Thomas Nashe’s The Terrors of the Night, or A Discourse of Apparitions, to Thomas Nasha. I’ve checked the remaining volumes in the box set, and all names are spelled correctly on the covers.
I’ve written to Penguin Random House requesting two Coleridges to replace our Caleridges. No reply, of course, about either Caleridge or Nasha. But I will report back if I hear back.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Samuel Taylor Caleridge
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Of course, you realize that these Caleridges may become collector's items. $$
It makes you wonder what's going on in the great publishing houses, doesn't it? Theodore Bernstein used to say that great newspapers invested in layers of editing. Nothing was printed in The New York Times that hadn't been looked at by several editors.
Collector’s items: could be. But I don’t want to break up the set. :)
The disappearance of copyediting is a great shame. I wondered if optical scanning might explain Nasha and Caleridge, but still, someone should’ve caught the mistakes. (And the books were printed in Great Britain.)
I bought a series years ago where in at least two of the books, whole sections were bound in upside down. No response from the publisher. One thing for e-books — that can't happen. Or can it?
I had the upside-down years ago with an expensive CD box set, with a hundred or so pages of notes printed upside-down. I got home, was horrified, and drove back to Borders. They were willing to exchange it, and I checked the new one on the spot.
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