Re: "Mistakes" in Gulliver's Travels?

richard stoney wrote:
In a section of "Gulliver's Travels", Gulliver says there are mistakes
in the book put there by the printers of his manuscript, that he sent
the corrections to the publisher, but then says that he won't stand by
them and that the readers get to adjust the story. Comments on the
matter?

As you say, the correction is written by "Gulliver", not by Swift. It only appeared for the first time in the second edition. I would therefore very much like to see whether the second edition was printed from the standing type of the first.
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John W. Kennedy
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-- C. S. Lewis. "An Experiment in Criticism"
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