Original printed spelling and grammar are retained, with a few exceptions noted below.
Original printed page numbers are enclosed in curly brackets like this: {81}.
Footnotes were changed to endnotes, and renumbered 1–2808.
A few words found in the Indexes have been silently changed to match the spelling of the same word in the text. For example “Grewingk” occurs on page 47; the corresponding Index entry was changed to agree, from “Grewinck”.
Some missing commas and full stops have been inserted silently.
The cover image was produced by distorting the original cover, changing its height/width ratio from 1.63 to 1.33, and it is hereby placed in the public domain.
The original printed book did not include in its Tables of Contents either of the two Prefaces, or the Plates, or either of the two Indexes.
Ditto marks, including the word “Do.”, were generally replaced with the appropriate repeated text—for example, in the table starting on page 508. However, in the list of Woodcut Illustrations, the ditto marks and associated white space have been replaced with one em dash per word to be repeated.
Many of the Figures have notations that indicate the scale of the illustration as originally printed. These notations have been retained, although the illustrations do not in this edition retain their former scale.
Several footnotes contained references like this one on page 44: “Pfahlbauten, 1ter Bericht.”, where the first character in the “1ter” place could a priori be any numeric digit, and sometimes this digit was separated from “ter” by a space. In this edition, the spaces have been removed. In one case, in page 323, first footnote, “1ster” was printed; herein it is “1ter”.
In the General Index and in the Index, Geographical and Topographical, explicit nested list html structures have been adopted for this edition. In general, this reduces ambiguity, and is a good thing. However, a few examples could be quoted wherein the exact meaning of the original printed book was less than clear, and so mistakes could result from this reduction in ambiguity. Here's one. The original, on page 712, read like this—
- Ash, Irish arrow-shaft of, 408; in brick earth at Hoxne, 537
which has at least two distinct meanings. In this edition, a draft was originally rendered—
- Ash, Irish arrow-shaft of, 408;
- in brick earth at Hoxne, 537
but, upon examining page 537, we find that it should be, and finally has been rendered—
- Ash,
- Irish arrow-shaft of, 408;
- in brick earth at Hoxne, 537
Here's another nice example. The original ambiguous form printed on page 713 read
- Brooch of metal in interment, 214; possible use of ring as, 466
In this case, inspection of page 466 seems to confirm the form adopted for this edition. But not all such ambiguities have been checked.
Page 5. The Coptic word for iron is rendered using an image from the original printed page. The word looks here slightly different than the same word, also rendered as an image, in the Index, page 713.
Page 9. Here are Hebrew words rendered herein with images from the original. There's a similar instance on a later page.
Page 104, third note. There was no anchor for this note, which said “Arch. Journ., vol. xxxi., p. 301.”, so it has been moved here.
Page 112 note. “vol1 xvi.” is rendered herein as printed, though it might be a printer’s error.
Page 125 first note. No footnote label was printed, but this note has now been linked with its anchor.
Page 317. “produciug” to “producing”.
Page 341, note. There was no anchor printed for this note; a new one has been inserted at the top of the page.
Page 365. Closing double quotation mark added after ‘against the AITHADH or elf-shot.’
Page 368, fourth and fifth footnotes. These contained the word “I1.”. This has been changed to “II.”.
Page 370, first note. The Saxon word has been rendered herein as an image.
Page 399, fifth note. This had no anchor; a new one has been inserted after “those of other countries;”.
Page 558. A reversed “S” was printed; herein an image from the original is used.
Page 573, third note. The third footnote had no anchor on page 573; it evidently links to the anchor printed at the top of page 574. Both anchor and footnote had originally the label “3”.
Page 634 note. The left double quotation mark, unmatched in the original print, was removed from the word ‘Quar’.
Page 666, 1st note. This note had no footnote label; a new one was inserted.
Page 717, entry “Eolithic”. “762” changed to “702”.
Page 724, entry “Museums”. The entry “Neufchâtel” was changed to “Neuchâtel”
Page 745, entry “VIENNE”. “Chatellerault” to “Châtellerault”.