The Elements of Style , 4th Edition

I’m starting a new business and the book is useful for writing letters to prospects. It’s a short reminder book on the basics of good communication said eloquently.

This is not the 4th edition copyrighted in 2000 by Pearson Education. The covers make it apparent that this is someone else's attempt at a facsimile. Page 77 includes the words "Thank you John" and then an e-mail address. These are not part of the Pearson edition.

The book is brilliant. This edition is atrocious. It's obviously been done as a scan/OCR of a previous edition, and then printed without being proofread. The line spacing varies wildly; the font changes size and between serif/sans-serif randomly; tabulation is all over the place; spaces are omitted; in some places, '$' is printed instead of 's'. The statement on the back cover that this is an "elegantly typeset edition" is a joke. That a book dedicated to excellence in writing should be published in such an edition is just appalling.

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