II, uses
material from two reprints:

George Bell (London, 1893, one volume). This edition is described on
its title page as "reprinted from the stereotype plates". These may have
been the original 1851 plates, since the entire _Classical Library_ had
been sold by Bohn to Bell & Daldy, later George Bell.

David McKay (Philadelphia, 1899, two volumes), with introduction by
Edward Brooks. The introductory material from the Bell/Bohn edition is
absent. This edition was freshly typeset, correcting a few errors in the
Bell/Bohn edition but also introducing a number of new errors.

The McKay edition was the "base" of the e-text. The scanned, proofread
text was computer-checked against the text of the Bell edition, and
differences were in turn checked against page images of the printed
books. Where appropriate, the text was checked against one or more
versions of the Latin original. Most differences are trivial. McKay uses
American spelling such as "honor" for "honour", and compound forms such
as "northwest" for "north-west"; punctuation is often changed, though
some apparent variations may be due to the quality of printing and
reproduction. Non-trivial differences are listed in the Errata, below.

Note that the title page of the Bell edition lists the translator as
"Henry T. Riley, B.A.", while the McKay edition has "M.A." The sequence
of dates-- original publication 1851, Riley M.A. 1859, reprint 1893--
supports the idea that the Bell edition is a strict facsimile.

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_Errors and Anomalies noted by transcriber_

Errors are grouped thematically:
significant errors and inconsistencies;
variant spellings, including name forms;
Greek;
punctuation;
line and footnote numbering.
Abbreviations in the form "II.XIV Exp" mean "Book II, Fable XIV,
Explanation" (appended to most Fables); "Syn" means Synopsis (prefaced
to each Fable).

_Shared errors and irregularities (present in both McKay and Bell
editions), with original text in brackets []_

I.XII: the light breeze spread behind her her careless locks
_read as "spread her careless locks behind her"_
_in McKay, "her her" is printed at a line break and can easily be
mistaken for an error_
I.XII Footnote 82, Pope quotation
_McKay reads "trembling dove" and "reached her"; other
modernizations in spelling are shared by both editions_
I.V: the dreadful carcasses
_anomalous