Later Developments
According to Peter Brown, production editor of The Times in 1992, the compositor responsible was identified after an inquiry as G. Price; fellow Times journalist Philip Howard described him as "a disgruntled compositor who had been given his cards". A few months later a similar addition was made to an advertisement for the book Everyday Life in Our Public Schools in the issue of The Times for 12 June 1882. This book was said to include "a glossary of some words used by Henry Irving in his disquisitions upon fucking, which is in common use in these schools". The Times maintained a dignified silence about this, but for many years after it was a rule on the paper that any compositor who was sacked left immediately with a payoff and did not work out a period of notice. The copy of the edition containing the misprint which was delivered to the Library of the British Museum, was removed from the general collection and suppressed.
Bob Clarke, author of 'From Grub Street to Fleet Street', reported that a copy of The Times featuring the misprint had changed hands for £100 at an auction in the mid-1990s.
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