Inconsistencies (including in spelling and hyphenation, also of proper and geographical names) have not been standardised, except as listed below.

The source documents contains some unusual geography (Maestricht in Germany, the Pacific Ocean near Somalia and South Africa). These have not been changed.

Some illustrations (mainly maps and plans) are available as larger images through hyperlinks (not available in all formats).

Page I-167: the number 7 is not visible in the illustration.

Page II-68, article 168: the reference to the bust of Buonaparte is blank in the source document; possibly the reference was intended to be to item 311.

Page II-106, article 255: his name was Bernard Germain Étienne de Laville-sur-Illon, comte de LacÉpÈde.

Page III-85, ... ranges westwards to the boundaries of Abyssinia: probably an error for ... ranges eastwards to ....

Changes made

Footnotes have been moved to under the relevant paragraph, illustrations have been moved out of text paragraphs.

Minor obvious misprints and typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected silently.

Some ditto symbols („) have been replaced with the dittoed text.

page I-vii: second A.M. for Sunday trains from Charing Cross changed to P.M.

page I-xvi. Philoe Portico: page number inserted.

page I-85: footnote marker [23] inserted.

page I-98: and in many days changed to and in many ways.

page I-109: Ludwig Scwanthaler changed to Ludwig Schwanthaler.

page I-110: Das Neue Testaments changed to Das Neue Testament.

page I-167: some background hatching removed in order to show the reference numbers.

The biographical data in the Portrait Gallery guide (between square brackets) have been standardised to centred lay-out.

page II-84: AndrÈ le NÔtre changed to AndrÉ le NÔtre.

page II-85: AndrÈ FÉlibien changed to AndrÉ FÉlibien.

page II-105: Aunonai changed to Annonai (2x).

page II-106: sur Mon changed to sur Illon.

page II-143, article 327A: Cristoph changed to Christoph; article 327C: C. Christoph changed to Christoph.

page II-150, article 341: Gutenburg changed to Gutenberg.

page II-223: le Soeur changed to le Sueur.

page II-228: 10* changed to 410*.

page II-229: Marin-Jean-Antoine changed to Marie-Jean-Antoine.

page II-230: 94 changed to 94*.

page II-232: Gutenburg changed to Gutenberg; 95 changed to 95*.

page II-232: Gutenburg changed to Gutenberg.

page II-234: 76 changed to 76*.

page III-55: Sun’s beam and faughter father changed to Sun’s beam and faughter father cf. other examples and explanation.

page V-48, section heading CUBICULA changed to sub-section heading.

page V-52: d’Ercalano changed to d’Ercolano.