[GrannyGrump]

I know that much more knowledgeable folk will be along, but meanwhile I can tell you what I do when re-habbing public domain books.

1) I don't transcribe the original copyright page. Sometimes I make an image of a particularly attractive title-page from the original, and the info happens to be there.

2) I make a "About" page right after the titlepage. On it, I include the book title, author,
illustrator (if any), original publishing date, a short description of the book (Wikipedia, Goodreads, Library Thing are good sources if you can't think of what to say yourself - do give credit if you use these). On the bottom section of the page, I include information and credits for source text, illustration images, clip art, and embedded fonts. Also brief notes about the formatting used, such as "Cross-linked end-notes and HTML Table of Contents." Some folks put this information about the book production at the end of the book instead.

4) I have seen this in many 18th and early 19th century books, and I leave the non-capitals alone. However, I do often see a colon followed by an emdash, and in later editions they changed that to a colon only. So I use only the colon, even though the transcription is from the first edition. Also, sometimes spelling morphs throughout the course of a book, and I change spelling to match. This results in another note for my "About" page: "Minor spelling and punctuation changes for consistency."

I hope this might be a little helpful. Yes, DO post your new book in the MobileRead Library. Make us proud!