History of the Postage Stamps of the United States of AmericaTiffany, John K. (John Kerr)
History
History of the Postage Stamps of the United States of America
Tiffany, John K. (John Kerr)
Postage stamps -- United States
219, "horizontically" to "horizontally" (49) (horizontally and
diagonally)
p. 220, "Ninty" to "Ninety" (27) (One Dollar and Ninety-Two)
p. 224, "classs" to "class" (11) (publications of the second class)
p. 227, "reveiw" to "review" (2) (by a brief review)
p. 228, "Treasuay" to "Treasury" (16) (the Treasury may be)
p. 229, "Ano" to "Anno" (0) (Anno Domini 1873)
p. 232, "addional" to "additional" (19) (four additional denominations)
p. 232, "excercise" to "exercise" (2) (exercise its own discretion)
p. 232, "chocineal" to "cochineal" (7) (War Department, cochineal red;)
p. 245, "judisdiction" to "jurisdiction" (0) (court of competent
jurisdiction)
p. 245, "theron" to "thereon" (9) (shall be stated thereon)
p. 246, "transmision" to "transmission" (9) (for the transmission of)
p. 246, "throught" to "through" (23) (through the mails free)
p. 247, "attatchment" to "attachment" (6) (attachment of official
postage)
p. 259, "genuiness" to "genuineness" (0) (no guarantee of genuineness)
p. 271, "Newpapers" to "Newspapers" (88+) (Three Dollars, Newspapers)
p. 275, "Britian" to "Britain" (0) (Great Britain and Colonies)
11. PRINTER AND TYPOGRAPHY CORRECTIONS: Words with missing and
misprinted letters, inconsistent hyphenation, punctuation and spacing
have been corrected without comment. Additional corrections;
p. 23, removed duplicate word "the" (the distances were so great)
p. 56, removed duplicate word "the" (the lower half of a circle)
p. 59, removed duplicate "of" (I, of R. I., and S of Cents)
p. 67-68, added Footnote anchor [A] (following advertising
editorial[A]:)
p. 75, removed duplicate word "be" (shall be subject to)
p. 76, removed duplicate word "been" (to have been distributed)
p. 82, removed duplicate word "be" (shall be deemed)
p. 98, removed duplicate word "the" ((A) show the paper)
P. 104, corrected duplicate instance of D^2 f^{1 2 3 4}, to
D^1 f^{1 2 3 4}, to match established pattern of data.
p. 139, 3rd through 6th line from bottom, changed fraction from 16-2/2
to 16-1/2.
p. 151, removed duplicate "the" (upper squares at the sides)
p. 177, changed "E. M. BARBER" to "E. W. BARBER" to match all other
instances.
12. WORD VARIATIONS:
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