2021-04-19

Minor fixes, continued

Finally managed to fix an extensive compositor's error, if such it may be called, dating back to 1887, in The Rosicrucians: their Rites and Mysteries.  The final chapter of that work (in the 4th edition, which is the basis for the CP re-set) consisted mostly of a series of excerpts in Latin from tom. I of Kabbala Denudata.  One such excerpt was interrupted in mid-sentence and concluded with the last sentence and a bit of a previous excerpt, followed by the repetition of another whole excerpt.  Since Jennings was rather sparing about giving page references and even the first volume of Kabbala Denudata runs to nearly 1400 pages and the OCR software available to me wasn't really up to dealing with the typography of the work, I was unable at the time to locate and restore the truncated paragraph.

So, I just discovered that Google Books has page images of both volumes of the rare 1887 third edition of The Rosicrucians (vol. 1 / vol. 2), the first in which that passage appear (though, owing to how appallingly badly indexed Google Books is when it comes to older printed books, it took me a while to find vol. 2).  The same editorial error occurred in the 3rd edition; however Google has better OCR software and by picking out a phrase without any long 's's complicating matters I was able to find the passage in Kabbala Denudata and restore it.  Since the omitted text (assuming the quote was meant to continue to the end of the paragraph in the original work) was significantly longer than the spuriously duplicated text, this meant that pagination and layout on the last six pages is no longer conformed exactly to the print edition.

The 2003 Celephaïs Press edition of the second edition of The Rosicrucians is seriously flawed and should not be re-posted / mirrored.  It appears that the omission of the circled cross emblem from the title page which appears, rubricated, on the original printing of the second edition, was because someone had for some unknown reason blanked it out on the crappy page images (a copy here) I was working from.

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