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The tale of the misprint, and the ever-increasing sale prices, began to make the Inverted Jenny famous enough to be a cultural reference.

From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2023

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

About six months after he started work, Vecchione prevented a misprint of the text of the second presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 17, 2022

He looked as though they were discussing a misprint on a bus timetable.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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

Either Springsteen got the lyrics wrong in his own memoir, or he and his notoriously fastidious management team routinely signed off on misprinted lyrics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 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

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

Also where the employment or omission of a capital is plainly due to misprinting, as too frequently in the 1673 edition, I silently make the correction.

From The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

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 Kuno Francke

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

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 Richard Crashaw

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 Charles Campbell