Chaucer, and the Copy-editor’s Tale
A Canterbury tale In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales there gather at the Tabard Inn in Southwark a motley and diverse crew of storytellers. The knight, the squire, the clerk, the priest, the [...]
CAXTON’S PROOFREADERS
Manuscript to Type Before printing with moveable type was introduced in the fifteenth century (in Europe) books were produced in manuscript form; every word had to be handwritten by accomplished [...]