TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
The Bernhard Tauchnitz edition (Leipzig, 1910) was consulted for many of the changes listed below.
Cyrus Cuneo provided the frontispiece.
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. Chatelet/Châtelet, music halls/music-halls, tiptoe/tip-toe, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Punctuation fixes: some quotation mark pairings, and some missing periods and commas. Also, adjust some of the letterheads’ location lines to end with a comma.
Change four instances of Mr. Fogg to Frogg.
[Chapter I]
Change “lunch in a frock coat and glory with Lea d’ Alençon” to d’Alençon.
[Chapter V]
“The suspicion that this chit of the fétes foraines may yet startle” to fêtes.
[Chapter IX]
“but you will not have come here for the fish ing, perhaps?” to fishing.
[Chapter XII]
“bears witness once more to the smallness of this terrestial globe” to terrestrial.
[Chapter XVI]
“for litttle Martha insisted on shewing me the greenhouses” to little.
[Chapter XIX]
“the house which their old comrade Mimi wil not enter” to will.
[Chapter XXVIII]
“Is it dreams, or is spirits about?” to are.
[Chapter XXXIV]
“She posed lanquidly and watched me with some cunning” to languidly.
[Chapter XLIX]
(letter signature) Change Lea d’Alencon to d’Alençon.
[End of text]