[Spellyans] Keigwin
nicholas williams
njawilliams at gmail.com
Fri Jun 27 21:56:58 BST 2008
Lhuyd was reprinted by the Irish Academic Press in 1970. That is the
copy I have.
Nicholas
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On 27 Jun 2008, at 16:29, Michael Everson wrote:
> At 11:14 -0400 2008-06-27, stinney at sas.upenn.edu wrote:
>
>>> I wonder if Jenner should be reprinted.
>>
>> Perhaps, though the PDF is quite readable.
>
> Not nearly as nice as a book. ;-)
>
>> A facsimile reprint of Lhuyd would be a Great Good, I think. It
>> would just need someone who is willing to sacrifice an original, or
>> who could contribute an original whose binding is already in poor
>> condition.
>
> I wouldn't sacrifice my original... it needs rebinding not because
> the spine or stitching is in bad shape, but because it was re-bound
> in 1955 in an icky university leatherette.
>
> Now that Unicode has all of Lhuyd's characters, however, the book
> could be re-published verbatim if it were keyed in. (Though one might
> have to choose whether to preserve the long s or not as it often
> interferes with reading for most modern readers.)
> --
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