"Marginalia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 4. S.T.C.... annotations. Lamb's copy of Daniel's Poetical Works, two volumes, 1718, and of Browne's Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors, folio, 1658, both with marginalia by himself and Coleridge, are in existence, but I cannot say where: probably in America. Lamb's copy of Beaumont and Fletcher, with Coleridge's notes (see "Old China"), is, however, safe in the British Museum. ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb
... difficult to resist the impression that they are pirated copies, similar to those of which Nathaniel Ponder complained so bitterly in the case of The Pilgrim's Progress. For both paper and typography are greatly inferior to those of the first edition; some of Bunyan's most characteristic marginalia are carelessly omitted; Bunyan's own title—'The Holy War made by Shaddai upon Diabolus for the regaining of the Metropolis of the World'—is altered to the feebler and more commonplace form—'The Holy War made by Christ upon the Devil for the Regaining ...
— The Life and Death of Mr. Badman • John Bunyan |
