misprint

“Wait,” I thought turning the page, “is this a misprint? It’s not?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025

Reaching the conclusion that what she had on her hands was not what commenters suggested was a "haunted" or "cursed" album, but a comical and likely valuable misprint, she laughed it off.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2023

The edition donated to the British Heart Foundation is thought to be incredibly rare, featuring a misprint unique to the first version of the record of which there are only 10,000 copies.

From BBC ● May 16, 2023

Professor Davison discovered, however, that the equation was a misprint and that what Orwell originally wrote was “2 + 2 = 5,” which comported with Big Brother’s Newspeak.

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2022

Furthermore, whoever would name their offspring after the Emancipation Proclamation should blame themselves for any misprint.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

An academic who was tasked with editing the Bible on which King Charles will swear his Coronation Oath has spoken about why he decided to include hundreds of misprints.

From BBC ● May 6, 2023

In 1993, 49 percent of Black children and 52 percent of Hispanic children were poor — figures that now look like misprints.

From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2022

Even the misprints are faithfully preserved: Peter Criss' solo single "You Matter To Me" appears as "You Still Matter To Me" on the label.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2012

It is tempting to wonder whether some curious misprints – "luther" for either; "bort" for both – constitute a sly joke about our own language-processing abilities.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2010

Lately I’ve started collecting old books that are famous for their misprints.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

The brand’s new owner, Spangler Candy Company, reintroduced Sweethearts to the candy market in 2020, though limited availability and production issues resulted in misprinted and blank candies.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

Baxter explained that he didn’t even know about the situation until the misprinted shirts started getting attention.

From Fox News ● Jul. 20, 2021

The clerk had stumbled across one of the most celebrated stamp mistakes in history, the famously misprinted Inverted Jenny.

From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2021

The company said Tuesday that it was working with China customs authorities on resuming clearance procedures that were disrupted due to misprinted labels on some of the sedans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2019

Hundreds of crates of misprinted dictionaries are stacked in the halls, and the girls burn them page by page in the potbelly stove.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The secret feuds of suppressing, misplacing, and misprinting, which it has carried on against us, have long deserved that this declaration should be held in honorable remembrance, and that continuously.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

The folio 1632 misprinted "surely" surly, as, in Julius C�sar, Act I. Sc. 3., it committed the opposite blunder, by misprinting "surly" surely.

From Notes and Queries, Number 195, July 23, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George

Mr. Westcott's book confuses this portion of his chronology by misprinting two or three dates, on the 113th page.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various

This is a valuable work, but marred, especially in the first volume, by the unparalleled misprinting, the engagements of the author not permitting him to correct the proofs.

From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Campbell, Charles

Turnbull perpetuates 1670's misprint of 'in' for 'with' in line 2, and adds one of his own in line 26, by misprinting 'guest' for 'guests.'

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard