![Corrected proof of a plate from Richard Gough's Sepulchral monuments, folded into Bodleian Gough Warw. 22, William Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire (1656)](http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/113/2014/07/Gough-Warw.-22.jpg)
The CSB conference ‘Error and Print Culture, 1550-1800’ convened by Adam Smyth (Oxford) welcomed delegates to Oxford for a day of contemplation of errors, posing questions both historical and philosophical: why did printed materials deviate from authorial intentions – how can we be sure that any printed line is wrong, or right? – and when does an error happen: in the printing, or in the reading or theatrical or musical performance or the peal of church bells based on a printed guide?
See abstracts of the presentations at ‘Error and Print Culture’
![John Taylor's 'Errata, or faults to the Reader' rehearses the usual excuses - sickness, and a job put out to several printers - and the plea for readerly generosity.](http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/113/2014/07/John-Taylor.jpg)