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Originally Posted by GeoffC
just as long as the errors did not also affect Dickens ! ....  .... |
Precisely because there were so many printing errors, late in his life, Dickens produced the "Charles Dickens Edition" of his books, which he personally checked for correctness. Pretty much all modern editions are based on those, but you still find variations in things like punctuation, capitalisation, and so on, between different editions.
I have the complete 36-volume hardback set of the "Oxford Illustrated Dickens", which is regarded as being pretty "authoritative", and it's those that I do all my proof-reading against.