"Typographic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I wish to obtain an engraved plate; if I wanted to have a plate for typographic printing, I should have to take a negative. After exposure the plate must be at once developed, which is effected by dissolving in water those parts of the bichromated gelatine which have been protected from the action of light by the dark spaces of the clich; these parts ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 • Various
... Obvious typographic errors (incorrect punctuation, omitted or transposed letters) have been repaired. Otherwise, however, variable spelling (including proper names, where there was no way to establish which spelling was correct) and hyphenation has been left as printed, ...
— The 1926 Tatler • Various
... shoulder towards his breast [shoulders] The Latin reads "... umeroque suas a pectore [or: ad pectora] postquam / deduxit [or: diduxit] vestes ebur ostendisse sinistro". It is possible to construct a Latin variation that would translate as "from his shoulders", but editorial or typographic error is a much likelier explanation. VI.IV Exp: Livy and Quintus Curtius [Quintius] —: Marsyas may have been rash enough [Maryas] VI.V: beyond what is becoming [his] VI.VI: forced {from her} [{from} her] —: from excess of affection [from the excess] ...
— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Vol. I, Books I-VII • Publius Ovidius Naso |
