Dimensions
130 x 180 x 16mm
Each demonstrates a sub-editor or proofreader taking their eye off the ball‚ to the delight of millions‚ every single example preserving the humble misprint as a perpetual source of 'schadenfreude'.
From the holy typo of 1631‚ when Barker and Lucas' 'Wicked Bible' exhorted people to commit adultery by omitting a crucial 'not' from the seventh commandment‚ A STEROID HIT THE EARTH reaches back in time to the days before modern printing and our own spell-check obsessed age.
It is a joyous and irreverent paean to gaffes of all sorts that have caused confusion‚ consternation and outright offence among readers‚ incorporating confessions from insiders - retired newspapermen and typesetters - for the inside story on both what was and what might have been.
A highly entertaining and deeply resonant book‚ appealing to the 'there but for the grace of...' feeling in all of us. It will be proof-read six times before publication.
