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The present text follows that of the first edition as scrupulously as possible, except in such matters of typographical styling as the use of small capitals, not italic capitals, for words emphasized in direct speech. Misprints that were not picked up in later editions have been corrected, and the map of ‘The Land of A Scots Quair’ has been prepared from the one in the first edition.
A typescript of Grey Granite survives, all but the last page, in NLS MS Acc. 26042. It includes phrases and short passages which Gibbon altered for his final version. Thus at p.1, line 10, the typescript reads ‘and paused, breathing deeply, she could hear her heart, afore tackling the chave of the climb’, and at p.2, line 3, ‘And at sixty, with sweirty and creash combined, they’ll have carted you off to the creamery!’ Sometimes there is a weakening of the Scots, as at p.3, line 18, where the typescript has ‘hap of the fog’, the printed text ‘peace’. The NLS also has a complete set of uncorrected galley proofs. These appear to embody all corrections made on first proof: a spot check revealed no differences from the published text.
