Finally she got from the "library"-the little back room where the files and presses and gelatine copiers and a few books were kept-a number of old examination papers, and, finding a chair near the folding door that divided the lecture-room from the general-room, sat down and began to turn them over.
"The Story of Louie"
Oliver Onions
This they call correcting and restoring the Text; and it is much to be fear'd, that by this restoring and correcting of the Commentators, and the Mistakes, Blunders and Negligences of the copiers, we have few or no Books of the Antients in their original Purity and Perfection.
"An Essay on Criticism"
John Oldmixon
The stile of Shakespeare was in itself ungrammatical, perplexed, and obscure; his works were transcribed for the players by those who may be supposed to have seldom understood them; they were transmitted by copiers equally unskilful, who still multiplied errors; they were perhaps sometimes mutilated by the actors, for the sake of shortening the speeches; and were at last printed without correction of the press.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith