OK, sure. Which transcription is up to you. OLL has pretty good
transcriptions in my experience. Please send a link to your repo once
you start.
On 9/15/25 8:19 AM, David wrote:
> I've got an interest in reading/producing Walter Bagehot's The English
> Constitution <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
> The_English_Constitution> (2nd edition, 1872).
>
> There is a PG transcription <
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4351>, but
> my checking suggests it's fairly poorly done: missing paragraph breaks,
> omitting italics. Fortunately, there are a couple other sources,
> although I'm not sure which makes a better basis for SE:
>
> (1) The Online Library of Liberty (we've used their texts for three
> earlier productions) have the whole of Bagehot's works, and this one is
> found in vol. 5 of the edition of the Works they used: OLL Text
> <
https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/barrington-the-works-and-life-of-
> walter-bagehot-vol-5#lf1451-05_head_023> + matching scans <https://
>
archive.org/details/worksandlifewal06barrgoog/page/n126/mode/2up>.
>
> (2) Wikisource also has it: transcription <
https://en.wikisource.org/
> wiki/The_English_Constitution_(Bagehot,_1894)> + 1894 scans <https://
>
archive.org/details/englishconstitut00bageiala/page/n7/mode/2up>.
>
> If this looks acceptable, it would be good to know which of those to use.
>
> There is a long Introduction to the 2nd edition which sometimes gets
> numbered consecutively into the chapters; sometimes (in modern editions)
> it is placed as an appendix. It makes most sense to me to follow the way
> the 1894 scans above has it, simply as a standard preface.
>
> There are a smattering of notes and tables, but nothing too daunting, I
> think. Still, assuming I go ahead with this, I'll likely take my time
> over it (not precisely a page-turner, I think!).
>
> Grateful for any advice on the above!
>
> David / Fife, UK
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