I too very much would like to see the COLLECTED ESSAYS scanned as they are an invaluable asset to the Churchill canon. Scholars and laymen alike have everything to gain from this inestimable resource.
Wishing for the best, Keith Thomas Leonard [email protected] On Aug 4, 2012, at 9:37 AM, Editor, Finest Hour wrote: > This news was at first met by much excitement, seeing that 95% of my reading > is now done on the ipad, however looking at reviews of the volumes of the > Second World War they have already scanned and sampling myself, the volumes > are littered with scanning errors which one, makes this occaisionally a chore > to read and two, a less professional job that these works deserve. > I also assume that we are getting a scan of the four volume Colledted Essays? > > > ==== > Thanks for that information, I will pass it along to Rosettabooks. We have to > be optimists and assume that modern scanning techniques will improve on the > quality of that early scan of SWW. > > I have so not persuaded them to include the invaluable COLLECTED ESSAYS, but > haven't given up. They could be the centerpiece of the project, since they > are nowhere available except in the expensive original hardbacks. Nor has > Rosetta planned to include the COMPLETE SPEECHES. If the basic line is a > success, that will lead to expansion. > > Rosettabooks is NOT scanning volumes from the 1974 COLLECTED WORKS. Per my > book, "A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill," pp > 367-68, only eight of WSC's original titles in the COLLECTED WORKS are true > texts. The rest were reset, and some were edited by Fred Woods. Ronald Cohen > and I have labored to direct them to original texts in the form WSC finally > signed off on them. For example, the will use the University of Chicago > MARLBOROUGH, which is offprinted from the 1947 Harrap edition, Churchill's > final approved text. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ChurchillChat" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/churchillchat/-/BBTEV9nSSgoJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en.
