User:Keith Edkins

Awards for participation

	Participation archive January 2011 - December 2015

	Proofread of the Month January 2016 (first work) The Kiss and its History

	Proofread of the Month January 2016 (second work) The Comic English Grammar

	Proofread of the Month February 2016 (first work) Hunger

	Proofread of the Month February 2016 (second work) The Panchatantra

	Proofread of the Month September 2016 Plutarch's Moralia

	Proofread of the Month October 2016 My Life and Loves

	Proofread of the Month November 2016 Special: Validation month

	Proofread of the Month January 2017 Short works

	Proofread of the Month February 2017 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

	Proofread of the Month March 2017 Women Wanted

	Proofread of the Month April 2017 The Book of Scottish Song

	Proofread of the Month May 2017 (first work) The Tourist's Maritime Provinces

	Proofread of the Month May 2017 (second work) Savage Island

	Proofread of the Month May 2017 (third work) The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire

	Proofread of the Month August 2017 The Melanesians: Studies in their Anthropology and Folklore

Have been a Project Gutenberg distributed proofreader since October 2004 and have post-processed a variety of interesting works.[1]. I have copied the following to Wikisource (before September 2013 this was done under the now disused name User:Laverock):

18th century and earlier

• On the Magnet by William Gilbert (1600, tr. 1900)
• The Compleat Surgeon by M. le Clerc (1696)
• A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage by Jeremy Collier (1698)
• Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John by Isaac Newton (1733)
• Experiments and Observations on Electricity by Benjamin Franklin (1751)
• Zoonomia, or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin (1796)

Early 19th century

• Zoological Illustrations, or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson
  • First Series (1820-23) - Second Series (1829-33)
• Useful Knowledge, Vol. II: Vegetables by William Bingley (1825)
• Illustrations of Exotic Entomology by Dru Drury, edited by John Westwood (1837)
• A Conchological Manual by George Brettingham Sowerby II (1842)
• The Buke of the Order of Knyghthood by Ramon Llull, tr. Sir Gilbert Hay (edition 1847)

Late 19th century

• The English Housekeeper by Anne Cobbett (1851)
• The Crystal Palace: Its Architectural History and Constructive Marvels by Peter Berlyn and Charles Fowler (1851)
• A Graduated English-Welsh Spelling-Book by John Lewis (1857)
• Illustrated Index of British Shells by George Brettingham Sowerby II (1859)
• British Butterflies by William S. Coleman (1860)
• History, Theory, and Practice of Illuminating by M. Digby Wyatt (1861)
• The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1868)
• On the Genesis of Species by St. George Jackson Mivart (1871)
• A Budget of Paradoxes by Augustus De Morgan (1872)
• The Geographical Distribution of Animals by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
• The Scientific Basis of National Progress by George Gore (1882)
• Explanatory notes of a pack of Cavalier playing cards, temp. Charles II. by Edmund Goldsmid (1886)
• The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman by William Langland, ed. Thomas Wright (1887)
• Report on the Radiolaria collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876 by Ernst Haeckel (1887)
• Essays upon some Controverted Questions by Thomas Henry Huxley (1892)
• An Elementary Manual of New Zealand Entomology by George Vernon Hudson (1892)
• Illuminated Manuscripts in Classical and Mediaeval Times by J. Henry Middleton (1892)
• Descriptive Zoopraxography by Eadweard Muybridge (1893)
• A Hand-book to the Primates by Henry Ogg Forbes (1894)
• The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Walter William Skeat Editor, 1894-7)
  • Vol. I - Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems
  • Vol. II - Boethius; Troilus
  • Vol. III - House of Fame; Legend of Good Women; Treatise on the Astrolabe
  • Vol. IV - The Canterbury Tales: Text
  • Vol. V - Notes to the Canterbury Tales
  • Vol. VI - General Introduction to the Edition, Glossary, and Indexes
  • Chaucerian and Other Pieces - supplement to The Complete Works
• Island Life by Alfred Russel Wallace (1895)
• The Flags of the World by Frederick Edward Hulme (n.d., ca. 1896)
• New Zealand Moths and Butterflies by George Vernon Hudson (1898)
• The Principles of Biology (Volume I) by Herbert Spencer (1898)

20th century

• The Cambridge Natural History, Vol. X.—Mammalia by Frank Evers Beddard (1902)
• Esperanta Sintakso by Paul Fruictier (1903 - Vikifontaro)
• Lace, Its Origin and History by Samuel L. Goldenberg, (1904)
• Commentary on the Maya Manuscript in the Royal Public Library of Dresden by Ernst Förstemann (1906)
• Extinct Birds by Walter Rothschild (1907)
• The Moths of the British Isles by Richard South—First Series (1907) and Second Series (1909)
• The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-Night's Dream' by Frank Sidgwick (1908)
• Makbeto by William Shakespeare, Esperanto translation by Daniel Lambert (1908 - Vikifontaro)
• The Origin of Vertebrates by Walter Holbrook Gaskell (1908)
• Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary 1908
• Maps of Old London by Geraldine Edith Mitton (ed.) (1908)
• Hoyle's Games Modernized edited by Prof. Louis Hoffmann and Ernest Bergholt (1909)
• A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (1909)
• Measuring Tools - Machinery's Reference Series #21 (1910)
• Wood Carvings in English Churches—II. Stalls, Thrones & Chairs by Francis Bond (1910)
• English as we speak it in Ireland by Patrick Weston Joyce (1910)
• 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica—Austria, Lower to Bassoon and Bréquigny to Calgary
• A History of Inland Transport and Communication in England by Edwin A. Pratt (1912)
• A Short History of English Liberalism by Walter Lyon Blease (1913)
• The Right To Ignore The State by Herbert Spencer (1913)
• Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics by Max Planck (1915)
• An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs by Sylvanus Griswold Morley (1915)
• Mimicry in Butterflies by Reginald Crundall Punnett (1915)
• A Critique of the Theory of Evolution by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1916)
• The Diatomaceae of Philadelphia and Vicinity by Charles S. Boyer (1916)
• The Fight Against Lynching, report of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1919)

Works in Dutch

• Naakt Model door Carel Steven Adama van Scheltema (1917)

Works in Esperanto

• Esperanta Sintakso de Paŭlo Fruictier (1903)
• Makbeto de William Shakespeare, tradukita de Daniel Henry Lambert (1908)

Works in Portuguese

• Cartilha Maternal por João de Deus (1876)
• Historias de Reis e Principes por Alberto Pimentel (1890)

Works in Swedish

• Öfversigt af Nordiska Mytologien av Daniel Anton Sundén (1884)
• Genom Canada av Paul Petter Waldenström (1904)