Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been
corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within
the text and consultation of external sources.
Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added,
when a predominant preference was found in the original book.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text,
and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.
p12: ‘had’nt’ amended to ‘hadn’t’
p18: ‘out of of sight’ amended to ‘out of sight’
p70: ‘bepoke’ amended to ‘bespoke
p95: ‘bacheldor’ amended to ‘bachelor’
p120: ‘fifteeen’ amended to ‘fifteen’
p125: Archaic spelling of ‘desert’ has been retained
p184: ‘valeable’ amended to ‘valuable’
p200: ‘we’ll’ amended to ‘well’