Beginning on p. #362, there is an enumerated outline, summarized as having four parts (1), (2), (3) and (4). The indicated sections subsequently appear, inconsistently, as ‘1’ (arguably ‘I’), ‘II’, ‘3tio’ and ‘4to’. These have been retained, adopting ‘I’ for the first section.
A large table, appearing between pages 638 and 639, was, according to a bracketed note included in the text, to be bound at the end of Volume I. That wish has been granted. The Table itself has been redesigned to better display in this medium.
The table of contents mistakenly implies that two sections (‘The question in dispute is not understood’, and the section following) appear on p. 606. They appear a page later, on p.607. This has been corrected.
Spelling, generally, is not ‘corrected’, given the age of the text, unless there is a clear preponderance of an alternate more standard spelling. ‘Knowledge’ appears three times as ‘knowlege’, but more than twenty times with the ‘d’. Verbs ending with -er (‘enter’, ‘render’) are frequently spelled without the ‘e’ when used in other tenses, as ‘entred’, ‘rendring’, etc.
Diacritical marks in non-English languages are frequently missing, and have not been added.
On p. 388, a parenthetical remark beginning ‘(by throwing a part of the wealth...’ is not closed, and it is not obvious where the author intended it to close. It is left to the reader to close it.
Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original. The following issues should be noted, along with the resolutions.
P. 569 was mispaginated as p. 561, which has no impact on this version.
| ix.12 | Men of parts and knowle[d]ge | Inserted. |
| xvii.4 | a perfect knowle[d]ge of facts | Inserted. |
| 22.24 | an entire depend[a/e]nce | Replaced. |
| 78.4 | seven times that number, or than 201[,]887 | Inserted. |
| 137.17 | no difference as to agricultu[t/r]e | Replaced. |
| 296.20 | to enable it to undersel[l] | Added. |
| 301.5 | after travelling over [eh/the] regions | Most likely. |
| 307.7 | that the wor[l]d luxury | Removed. |
| 331.6 | drain off the nation[’]s wealth | Inserted. |
| 368.30 | as saleable as [houshold] furniture | sic |
| 506.7 | and accounts bal[l]anced on both sides | Removed. |
| 518.26 | lead me to inqu[i]re | Inserted. |
| 592.11 | who is possessed of a sal[l]ary | Removed. |
| 624.31 | Without a thorough knowle[d]ge | Inserted. |
| 635.2 | or to sink it to per cent. below that price | Missing. |