The little classics, even when of the right date and with all the right little headpieces and all the right misprints, have never been worth on their own merits more than a few pounds, while shabby, cropped copies have no selling value whatever.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
1468, but such misprints are common in early books, and no one now maintains that it was printed until ten years later.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
They are too much alike for many of them to have been committed to memory, while all the editions which I happen to have seen are full of misprints, and the four-line tunes which drove them out were early in the field, and increased rapidly.
"A Practical Discourse on Some Principles of Hymn-Singing"
Robert Bridges