NPPF - Foreword - Summary / Commentary (3)

[jbor]

on 15/7/03 10:39 AM, jbor wrote:

> The process I see is that the manuscript went to Frank, the galleys were
> returned to Kinbote with Frank's request to add the disclaimer, Kinbote
> wrote the additional sentence and the direction as to where it should be
> inserted, the "professional proofreader" checked the text of the poem (only,
> I think) in the galleys and found "trivial misprints" (which may or may not
> have been "trivial", and which may or may not have been corrected by
> Kinbote), and then it all went back to the printer, who mistakenly
> incorporated Kinbote's direction along with the additional sentence.

The "professional proofreader" would have to have done the check on the poem
before the whole manuscript was sent off to Frank.

best