TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
The title page is used as a cover.
Chapter numbering continues from the previous volume.
Page numbers are given in {curly} brackets. Endnote markers are given in [square] brackets in the plain text version.
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. anthill/ant-hill, conjurer/conjuror, drinking-cup/drinking cup, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Convert footnotes to endnotes. Relabel note markers: append the original note number to the page number.
Create errata page and copy corrigenda from volume III. Apply errata.
Add endnotes, press notices, and errata entries to TOC.
[Chapter VIII]
Change “interpretation of none of these presents any diffculty” to difficulty.
[Chapter XII]
“and whereever a society has passed beyond the nomadic stage” to wherever.
[Chapter XIV]
(entered his sept, and is truly his wife.” Among the) delete quotation mark.
[Endnotes]
A few trivial punctuation and italics corrections.
(p. 290, note 2) “the Welsh custom depends on he statement of a” to the.
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