emendator

To have taken so avowed a part in the first publication and none except that of corrector of the press and occasional emendator in this would I think have had a strange and undesirable appearance for you and for the poems: as if I had changed my mind as to you or them or both.

Letter 59 2009

One of the misprints which Mr. Spedding notices affords both a hint and a warning to the conjectural emendator.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various

The veteran J. Payne Collier, the _emendator_ of Shakespeare, has recently put forth a work, in four volumes, entitled "A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various

Chatelain's genius as an emendator of Shakespeare.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

J.P. Collier in his edition of 1844 leaned, on the other hand, to the side of the Quartos, but later became a clever if somewhat rash emendator, who spoiled his reputation by seeking to obtain authority for his guesses by forging them in a seventeenth-century hand in a copy of the second

The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson

It must, indeed, be confessed that the conjectural emendator, if he dispenses with the quasi-authority of contemporary precedents, has an all but unlimited range for the exercise of his ingenuity, the unsettled spellings of our ancestors rendering almost any emendation, however extravagant, a typographical possibility.

Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error" 1893

Earlier in life he had nourished a hope that his name might become illustrious as the emendator of the 'Commentaries of John, Archbishop of Canterbury on

Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

It must, indeed, be confessed that the conjectural emendator, if he dispenses with the quasi-authority of contemporary precedents, has an all but unlimited range for the exercise of his ingenuity, the unsettled spellings of our

Literary Blunders Henry Benjamin Wheatley 1877

One of the misprints which Mr. Spedding notices affords both a hint and a warning to the conjectural emendator.

Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855

The MS. emendator, he says, reads _so worn_ for _sworn_; and adds:

Notes and Queries, Number 181, April 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852