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- # Transcriber’s Notes
## Overview
This is a backmatter segment titled "Transcriber’s Notes" (lines 12841-12869) extracted from the text file [billy_budd.txt](arke:01KG89J1FFTGRE9J93Z3K29NGY). It is part of the novel [Billy Budd and Other Prose Pieces](arke:01KG8AJ7CG8SS24T79X9YN19QH) within the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection.
## Context
The "Transcriber's Notes" provides information about the editorial decisions made during the creation of the digital text. This segment follows segment [No. 1](arke:01KG8AJWC5G0HBHACB7H31MXQ6) within the novel's structure.
## Contents
The "Transcriber’s Notes" details specific changes made to the original text, including the addition of a new original cover art released to the public domain. It lists itemized changes such as supplying commas and quotation marks, and replacing words to correct errors found in the original text. The notes also indicate the use of underscores to denote italicized text within the digital edition.
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New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public
domain. This file uses _underscores_ to indicate italic text.
Itemized changes from the original text:
• p. 8: Supplied comma in phrase “found in every vocation, even the
humbler ones” as suggested by end-of-line spacing.
• p. 155: Supplied opening single quotation mark before phrase ‘it’s
plain that you have not heard the crow of the Emperor of China’s
chanticleer.’
• p. 223: Supplied closing single quotation mark after phrase ‘to
believe in the possibility of his existence.’
• p. 225: Replaced period with question mark after phrase ‘with the
poor, commonplace plodder Hautboy, an American of forty?’
• p. 238: Supplied comma in phrase ‘Sir, this is the very Paradise of
Bachelors!’ as suggested by end-of-line spacing.
• p. 365: Replaced ‘no-so-common’ with ‘not-so-common’ in phrase ‘thy
not-so-common virtues.’
• p. 375: Replaced question mark with period after phrase ‘That is in
compliment to our revolutionary ally.’
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