Collins - sixth edition (1928)

Sixth edition (7th impression) 1928
Published by Humphrey Milford, printed by John Johnson

The binding format and materials are the same as those used for the fifth edition. The full-title page is largely similar to the front cover, as before, and carries the same text, with the following publisher's imprint:

HUMPHREY MILFORD

LONDON EDINBURGH GLASGOW LEIPZIG COPENHAGEN
NEW YORK TORONTO MELBOURNE CAPE TOWN BOMBAY
CALCUTTA MADRAS SHANGHAI

NOTE
TO THE SIXTH EDITION

The fourth edition was revised under the direction of the late Mr. Horace Hart, Controller of the University Press, Oxford; Mr. F. Howard Collins having died on Nov. 16, 1910.

In going through the pages it was noticed that a number of other persons had died since the first edition was issued; and where dates could be ascertained they were inserted.

In the fifth and sixth editions the work of correction and improvement has gone further, thanks very largely to the kindness and zeal of many correspondents; and in the sixth edition the spelling of place-names has been made to agree with the practice of the Royal Geographical Society, so far as that has been established. For this service the publisher’s thanks are due to Mr. J. H. Reynolds, Secretary of the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names, who not only revised the spellings but also examined the proofs. His thanks are due also to the Editor of the Athenæum, who kindly gave permission for the use, as a preface, of an article contributed to that paper by Mr. R. W. Chapman, Secretary to the Delegates of the Oxford University Press.

As in the fifth edition, now again in the sixth, a special note of thanks is due to Mr. Edward Latham for his corrections and proof-reading.

Where the plan of this work differs (as in the matter of single and double quotations, and the use of the diphthongs æ, œ) from the practice of the Oxford Press, Mr. Collins’s plan has been left unaltered. The methods on which he proceeded are given below in extracts from his original Preface.

[Curiously for a book concerned with imposing good editorial practice, there is a discrepancy in the original text between the two forms of the italic ‘a-e’ ligature: the ‘closed’ (æ) used in Athenæum in the third paragraph, and the ‘open’ (æ) used in the diphthong in the last paragraph. While either form is possible—normally the choice is a function of font or context—both should not be mixed as here. The ‘open’ ligature benefits from being mistaken less easily for an ‘o-e’ ligature (œ), and was the form actually employed in the dictionary itself since the first edition. The mistake was finally corrected in the ninth edition, the ‘open’ ligature being used for both]

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