Transcriber’s Notes:
- Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_).
- Blank pages have been removed.
- Title page has been moved to start.
- Redundant chapter heading pages have been removed.
- Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected.
- Dropcaps image caption text is marked as [Dropcap caption: ...]
- Dropcapped paragraphs treated as the start of a new section.
- Illustration listing as facing page 183 changed to actual location
as frontispiece.