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Title: The Importance of the Proof-reader
A Paper read before the Club of Odd Volumes, in Boston, by John Wilson

Author: John Wilson

Release Date: December 21, 2008 [EBook #27583]

Language: English

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The Importance of
the Proof-reader

A Paper read before the Club of Odd Volumes,
in Boston, by JOHN WILSON

CAMBRIDGE
The University Press
JOHN WILSON & SON (INC.)
1901

_This Paper upon "The Importance of the Proof-reader" is
presented with the compliments of the University Press and the
Author. The subject is one which the Author has endeavored to
emphasize during his fifty years' service in the printing
business, and one for which the University Press has ever
endeavored to stand._

_1922_

_John Wilson, author of this Paper and formerly proprietor of
The University Press, died in 1903. His successors have now the
pleasure of making a reprint, believing the subject to be of as
much interest today as it was twenty years ago._

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PROOF-READER

In preparing a work for the press, the author, the compositor, and the
proof-reader are the three factors that enter into its construction. We
will, however, treat more especially of the last-named in connection
with the first.

The true proof-reader should not only be a practical printer, but he
should be a lover of literature, familiar with the classics of all
languages, with the results accomplished by science, and indeed with
every subject that concerns his fellow-men. When an author prepares a
work for the press, he often uses many abbreviations, his capitalization
is frequently incorrect, his spelling occasionally not in accordance
either with Worcester or Webster, his punctuation in