Penguin typos

From the BBC Radio 4 program Word of Mouth . Michael Rosen is interviewing Rebecca Lee, senior editor at Penguin and author of Rogues, Widows and Orphans: Mischief and Misadventures in the World of Books . The subject is typos:

Lee: Not all typos are equal. So, for example, spelling an author’s name wrong on the jacket of a book is an absolute nightmare.

Rosen: Has that happened?

Lee: Not to me.

It’s not clear whether Lee is referring to books she’s edited or books she’s written, but it’s happened at Penguin. The Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas Nashe volumes from our Penguin Little Black Classics sets misspell the authors’ names on their covers. I wrote to Penguin three times about this series, once for each misspelling and once about the six blank pages in the volume of Wilfred Owen’s poems — never no reply.

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[“Never no reply”: a nod to Duke Ellington’s “Never No Lament.”]