Btw, I’ve recently been trying to access that other
massive tome of (utter nonsense) knots by Graumont
& Hensel (EKFRW), and IntArchive said that it wasn’t
(any longer) able to be Borrow’d!? --it used to be!
For that, Charles & I have been having a grand time
trying to figure out the changes made to the 1939
1st Edition though 1942, 1943, & 1952 (4th ed.).
In short, it’s a matter of putting in +4, +15, & +16
new Plates into the Appendix (with +1 Plate
added for 1942ff near end of main work).
And the publisher proclaimed “Completely
Revised & Enlarged” is pure grot, but for
those Appendix pages’ enlargement.
One amusing case : EKFRW has in its
one Bowlines page what it clumsily named
“the True Bowline” --somehow getting upside-down
on Burgess’s book’s assertion “… is NOT a true bowline”–,
but in his 1945 Handbook of Knots, Graumont turns
it around into “the False Bowline” --yet the 1952 4th
Edition doesn’t also right the ship. And in the List
of Illustrations, the Plate 50 Bowlines one got re-named
(wrongly) to “Simple Knotting”. Did someone think it
better not to highlight the widely separated 4 “Bowlines”
plate from the early trio (Plates 10..12, IIRC) ?!
–dl*
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