Many thanks, Kevin.  I had no idea how much I didn't know about the
printing of books!  But I'm grateful to the one of fifty who altered that
picture so that I've
now learned more than I knew there was to know!

Also, the Academia site has registered me among its members without my
hardly being involved at all.  I also divined who I knew who also belonged.

Anyway, I'm so pleased to have this introduction into the variety of your
output.  THANKS.  I expect to be reading more of it later.
Arianne


On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Kevin Mac Donnell <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Sorry about that Arianne--
>
> Both websites are badly designed, clearly the result of nerdy tech types
> being allowed to organize the design without input from actual people who
> would be using the sites. The ABAA website is currently being redesigned.
> The academia website is hopelessly clumsy, the sort of thing you'd expect
> if
> alien life-forms from another planet tried to imitate Facebook. The
> concepts
> of targeting audiences, market-testing, and user friendliness were ignored.
>
> Here are the links:
>
> http://hq.abaa.org/pubs/twain4.html
>
> This is the portion of my article about Huck Finn.
>
> http://independent.academia.edu/KevinMacDonnell
>
> As you scroll down the list of books, articles, and talks at academia the
> entire 1998 article is titled "Collecting Mark Twain" and you can then
> scroll through it to the section on Huck Finn. There is also a 2008 update
> that has "Update" somewhere in the title.
>
> Kevin
> @
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arianne" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 12:32 AM
> Subject: Re: Illustration problem: true?
>
>
> > Thanks for your details.  I wasn't able to find your article on either of
> > the links you gave.  Not qualified to join one, and got to your listing
> in
> > the Bookseller one, but couldn't figure out how to get to your article.
> >
> > Sigh.
> >
> > Do you think illustration given in the article I sent was the original
> one
> > or just made up to make a point?
> >
> > Arianne Laidlaw
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Kevin Mac Donnell <
> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> The basic outline of the story is true, but that writer garbles his
> >> facts.
> >> Only the earliest prospectuses contained the ribald drawing, and sales
> >> agents were instructed to remove the page and mail it to the publisher
> or
> >> else their orders would not be honored. It was not an act of revenge by
> >> Kemble for rejected drawings. No copies of the published book have the
> >> ribald state of the drawing and there is no evidence that any ever did.
> >> Copies were corrected before some sheets were collated and sewn (by
> >> replacing the entire gathering in which the illustration appeared), and
> >> others were corrected after some sets of sheets had been collated and
> >> sewn
> >> (by use of a cancel) but before any sheets were cased into bindings.
> Some
> >> sets of sheets that were set aside very early for leather bindings
> before
> >> the illustration plate was altered by somebody in the print shop using
> an
> >> awl actually have the first state of the plate before the alteration was
> >> made. All copies in the blue and green cloth bindings have the corrected
> >> state of the illustration. No copies of the book have the ribald state.
> >>
> >> It's a bit of an overstatement to claim it nearly derailed the book. It
> >> generated some publicity and gave the publisher a chance to wax
> >> sanctimonious about correcting the problem.
> >>
> >> It's not a new discovery either. Twain's bibliographer Merle Johnson
> >> wrote
> >> about it in 1910, 1935, and 1939, and so did others, and it's recorded
> in
> >> the Bibliography of American Literature, volume II (1957).
> >>
> >> I wrote about it at length, correcting errors of fact and speculative
> >> nonsense, in a 1998 article in Firsts Magazine whose text you can access
> >> at
> >> abaa.org or through my articles at academia.edu.
> >>
> >> Kevin
> >> @
> >> Mac Donnell Rare Books
> >> 9307 Glenlake Drive
> >> Austin TX 78730
> >> 512-345-4139
> >> Member: ABAA, ILAB
> >> *************************
> >> You may browse our books at
> >> www.macdonnellrarebooks.com
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Arianne" <[log in to unmask]>
> >> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 6:54 PM
> >> Subject: Illustration problem: true?
> >>
> >>
> >> >I hadn't heard this before, so don't know if it is true or not.
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> http://mentalfloss.com/article/31107/crudely-drawn-penis-almost-derailed-huckleberry-finn
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Arianne Laidlaw
> >> >
> >> >
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