Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.
This book often uses commas where periods might be expected, particularly when the next text might be expected to be in quotation marks, but is not.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.
The first page is handwritten, with a woodcut illustration in the middle and a fingerprint between the words “his mark.”
Page 36: In the caption of the illustration, “Brains” was crossed-out (by the artist).
Page 76: In the caption of the illustration, the first “the” was crossed out (by the artist).
Page 350: “equinamity” was printed that way.