The book itself

.....being primarily an exercise in the minutiae of its typographic and allied features, with occasional reference to the minor variants of the subscribers' and trade editions.

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Number of copies
Title page
Length of Books
Pages interleaving each Book
Appendix
Numbering of chapters
Margin headings
Typographical errors and one 'accident of syntax'
Decorative initial letters
Pages ending with the end of a paragraph
Number of lines of text on the page
Page numbering
Words split and hyphenated at the end of a line
Page measurements
Typefaces
Textual differences between the subscribers' edition and the first trade edition