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PROOF-READING.
A SERIES OF ESSAYS FOR READERS ANDTHEIR EMPLOYERS, AND FORAUTHORS AND EDITORS.
BY F. HORACE TEALL,
Critical Proof-reader and Editor on the Century and StandardDictionaries; also Editor of Proof-room Notes andQueries Department of “TheInland Printer.”
Chicago:
The Inland Printer Company.
1899.
Copyrighted, 1898,
by
The Inland Printer Company,
Chicago, Illinois.
Press of The Henry O. Shepard Company, Chicago.
PREFACE.
THIS collection of essays will show very plainly that they were notwritten with a view to publication in a book. As a result of this,the subject-matter is not treated consecutively, systematically, orexhaustively. Some references to momentary events at the time ofwriting, even, have been left unchanged.
It is hoped, however, that, even with the acknowledged imperfections,the book may be found suggestive and useful by those to whose serviceit is dedicated in the title-page.
Some of the chapters are slightly technical, having been originallyaddressed to proof-readers only; but even these are thought to besufficiently general in their composition to be interesting and usefulto authors and editors.
CONTENTS.
| The Proof-room | 7 |
| Some Practical Criticism for Proof-readers | 11 |
| The Proof-reader’s Responsibility | 17 |
| Style and Style-cards | 22 |
| Whim versus Principle | 26 |
| Authorities and Opinions | 32 |
| Authoritative Stumbling-blocks in the Study of the EnglishLanguage | 37 |
| Preparation of Copy | 43 |
| Copy and Proof-reading | 48 |
| The Dictionary in the Proof-room | 53 |
| The Proof-room Library | 58 |
| The Copy-reader | 62 |
| Proper Order of Parts in a Book | 68 |
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