(Bibliographer's offspring looks down their nose.) Differences between editions are always important.
Seriously, I'm glad you brought up this topic, because it does make a difference to reader experience, even if the differences are minor.
Okay, to start with, the dirty little secret of recent reprints of older books is that the new publisher usually does what the rest of us would do in that situation: they scan, OCR, and - hopefully! - proof the text.
The Mark of the Horse Lord
Front Street (Boyds Mill Press imprint), 2005
vs
Chicago Review Press, 2015
As far as I can tell from the capitalization of the first few words (the same words) of each chapter, both of these editions were scanned from the same previous edition, which was not the Walcz edition, because the Walcz edition didn't capitalize the first few words of each chapter. (I forgot to mention I own the Walcz edition of that novel; I'm in the midst of rereading it!) There's no significant difference between the Front Street and Chicago Review Press editions.
So . . . which of the earlier editions of The Mark of the Horse Lord capitalize the first line of each chapter? Can anyone check their copies?
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Date: 2022-09-27 03:31 pm (UTC)(Bibliographer's offspring looks down their nose.) Differences between editions are always important.
Seriously, I'm glad you brought up this topic, because it does make a difference to reader experience, even if the differences are minor.
Okay, to start with, the dirty little secret of recent reprints of older books is that the new publisher usually does what the rest of us would do in that situation: they scan, OCR, and - hopefully! - proof the text.
The Mark of the Horse Lord
Front Street (Boyds Mill Press imprint), 2005
vs
Chicago Review Press, 2015
As far as I can tell from the capitalization of the first few words (the same words) of each chapter, both of these editions were scanned from the same previous edition, which was not the Walcz edition, because the Walcz edition didn't capitalize the first few words of each chapter. (I forgot to mention I own the Walcz edition of that novel; I'm in the midst of rereading it!) There's no significant difference between the Front Street and Chicago Review Press editions.
So . . . which of the earlier editions of The Mark of the Horse Lord capitalize the first line of each chapter? Can anyone check their copies?