Well, guyfie, that site is very nice, but it reprints only one of the letters, in facsimile. The entire book ought to be on-line.
It would also be nice to read an edition rendered into modern typography, if possible; the old-fashioned "s" slows me down, as, to a lesser extent, do the other weird ligatures. To the modern eye, Franklin's prose looks like this:
"An electrified bumper is a fmall thin glafs tumbler, near filled with wine, and electrified as the bottle. This when brought to the lips gives a fhock, if the party be clofe fhaved, and does not breathe on the liquor."
(Whoopee!) This perhaps does not pose a problem to all you seasoned re-enactors, who presumably spend a lot of your time in the Eighteenth, or earlier, centuries.
I wonder if OCR software has 18th-century plug-ins?
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Date: 2005-08-27 06:04 pm (UTC)It would also be nice to read an edition rendered into modern typography, if possible; the old-fashioned "s" slows me down, as, to a lesser extent, do the other weird ligatures. To the modern eye, Franklin's prose looks like this:
"An electrified bumper is a fmall thin glafs tumbler, near filled with wine, and electrified as the bottle. This when brought to the lips gives a fhock, if the party be clofe fhaved, and does not breathe on the liquor."
(Whoopee!) This perhaps does not pose a problem to all you seasoned re-enactors, who presumably spend a lot of your time in the Eighteenth, or earlier, centuries.
I wonder if OCR software has 18th-century plug-ins?
P.S. See further ruminations on Franklin in