Note 26 to Chapter 5 of the author's Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thackeray, which University Press of Virginia published in 1992. It has been included in the Victorian Web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
The records do show that "correction and alteration" of numbers 19-20 cost £3.10 on 15 July 1848, that unspecified plate "repair" cost £1.10 on 24 Feb 1849, and that unspecified "mending" of plates cost 15 shillings on 28 Feb. 1857. These charges probably refer to stereotyped plates of text rather than the steel engraved plates of full-page illustrations, for in a separate record of reprints there are standard charges for "bringing up plates and cuts." But it seems unlikely that the record of plate alteration is complete or that the cost of altering stereotyped plates totaled only £5 or £6, particularly when original corrections and night work on parts 19-20 alone came to £11.6.
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