Note 35 — WHAT IS AN INDEX? (continued 2)
Reading edition
A friend asks me to give chapter and verse for this blunder, but it will be seen that nothing is more difficult than to find an authority for misprints which are corrected as soon as they are found out, perhaps even in the proof. A curious misprint occurred in The Times in a letter from Lord Shaftesbury (August, 1878), who wrote of the Bulgarians that “they panted for liberty,” but was made by the printer to say “they prated of liberty.”