D'Ordel's Pantechnicon

[ffutures]

Having corrected rather a lot of errors, my HTML version of D'Ordel's Pantechnicon, an essential read for anyone interested in Victorian and Edwardian magazines is now on line as

http://www.forgottenfutures.com/pantech/pant1.htm

PLEASE let me know if you find any errors - I don't have links to it yet on my site, that'll come once I'm happy it's OK.

I hope to add a PDF of scans of the original book in a day or two.

Fanfic writers and RPG designers will probably find the later chapters especially interesting, especially Of the Serial Adventure and Of the Recital of Military Slaughter, and of Events affecting the Royal Blood

Later: May not be posting the PDF right away - it's 44mb! I'll have to see if I can tweak it to get the file size down without making it illegible.

Comments

Bugs, Mr. Rico, millions of them!

[nojay.livejournal.com]

I emailed these to you but I figured I'd embarass you publicly too.

the words " Dustmen remove dust in carts,"

The space before Dustmen causes an awkward line-break if the browser
size is just right (or wrong).

In the text labelling one of the images, "the Dustman, who above all
things Is a handy man," -- the capitalisation of "Is" is probably an
OCR error.

In Chestnuts!

"committed them both to prison without bail or mainprize.&spring;Joe
Miller's Jests."

I presume the "&spring;" part is supposed to be an HTML code. It
didn't render as anything in particular in Firefox.

Cheers.

Re: Bugs, Mr. Rico, millions of them!

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks - that's the sort of thing I'm looking for - not sure where &spring comes from, should probably be & mdash ; which registers as — No idea why I didn't spot it.

Re: Bugs, Mr. Rico, millions of them!

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

All now fixed.