Collier's New Encyclopedia

A complete general encyclopedia of 1921 — the world as it was understood just after the Great War, from Aachen to Zwingli, across twelve volumes and six thousand pages.

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CORRECTION OF. The corrections to be made on a "proof" of printed matter are marked on the margin; and for this purpose an established set of signs is used. The following specimens of a proof exhibits the application of most of these signs: "To rule the nations with imperial swøy, to impose terms of peace, to 1 a spare the humbled, and to rcush the 2 tr. proud, resigning itto others to de- 3# scribe the courses of the heavens, and 41 explain the rising stars; this, to use stand even. (18) Mark for a hyphen. (19) No new paragraph. (20) The manner in which the apostrophe, inverted commas, the star and other references, and superior or "cock-up" letters and figures are marked.

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