Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book.
Discovered typographical errors were corrected. The non-trivial ones are noted below.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.
“livelihood” was consistently spelled as “livlihood”; not changed here.
Copyright page: The spelling of the author’s name has been changed from “Wheelright” to “Wheelwright” to match the spelling used throughout the rest of the book and the cover.
Page 11: The “Note” originally was at the bottom of the first page of the chapter.
Page 15: The attribution at the end of the long table originally was printed at the bottom of each of the pages containing that table.
Page 59: “parrafin” was printed that way.
Page 81: “may be charged to” was misprinted as “changed”.
Page 81: “case lining give access to moisture” was misprinted as “case linning five access to moisture”.
Page 85: “when the air becomes dry exposed edges” was misprinted as “when the air becomes due exposed edges”.
Page 91: No closing quotation mark for the paragraph beginning, “The Paper trade is essentially”.
Page 97: “CHAPTER TWELVE” was misprinted as “CHAPTER THIRTEEN”.