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In the course of the last dozen years a number of errata in the original text as well as several additional items of relevant information have come to attention. As a service to readers of this book it has seemed useful to make available a compilation of this material. The items are cited by chapter, page and line.

p. 9	Seventh last line. "Sole example". but see Fig. VI 16.
	Another brass example has come to attention as well as a pair of left- and right- handed late 19th C. French silver servers, having straight edges and to be used together.
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p. 10	Fig. 10, line 2. Compare also Figs. 15 and 16.
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p. 12	Fig. 15, line 5. Replace "ribbed volute" by "acanthus leaf".
	Fig. 16, line 4. Change Fig.16" to "Fig. 18".
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p. 16	Fig. 17, line 8. Add Fig. III 75.

p. 44	Fig. 7, penultimate line. Change "96" to "98".
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p. 57	Fifth last line (a) Insert after word "trowels" the phrase "of preceding conventional types," (b) S.J. Shrubsole, New York, showed one by Aldridge and Green, dated 1777.
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p. 60	line 2. Insert after word "handles" the phrase "as did a few others e.g. Jas Boothe and Jeremiah Willsher, London (Bath), 1797.
	line 2. Change "1775" to "1777".
	line 2. Change "English" to "London"
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p. 64	Fig. 36a, last line. Insert "reeded" before "handle".
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p. 65	line 12. Delete words "neither saw nor"
	line 13. Add word "not" after word "was"
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p. 82	Fig. 62, line 1. Replace "unidentified" by "Wm. B. Meyer Co., Newark, New Jersey"
	Fig. 63a, line 7. Replace "cart" by "card"
	line 2. Insert after word "below" the following sentence; "Indeed, occasional examples persisted into the early 19th C, and before the Rococo Revival; see Phillips Sale, New Bond St., No.30, 652, 6Nov 98, Lot 53: a trowel maker E.J.E. Greve. Braunschweig (Germany, c. 1815)"
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p. 96	penultimate line. Insert word "side" after word "rear".
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p. 108	Fig.94, line 1. Insert "Skien," before "Norway"
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p. 110	Fig.99, insert at end: "The same handle appears on a matching scimitar slice and fork pair (unmarked)"

p. 120	Fig. 2, line 3. Insert after "server" the following "cf. Figs. III 87,88"
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p. 136	line 1. Insert comma after "shanks"
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p. 142	Fig.44, line 2. Insert words "double dished" before word "blade"

p. 152	End of page. Add sentence. "Many slices having conventional cutlery handles were originally part of a canteen"
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p. 154	BLADE SHAPE
	line 9. Replace word "only" by "unequivocally"
	End of par. 1. Add sentence "It arises in principle, as in Figs. 1 and 2, from the existence of a crest or one-sided engraving, etc."
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p. 156	line 1. Change "Fig. 29" to "Figs. 7, 29, 30"
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p. 171	penultimate line. Add "41" after "Figs."
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p. 184	Fig. 76, last line. Add "Silver plate analogues were also made later"
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p.190	line 8. Replace "Fig. III 36a" by Fig. III 60a"
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p.210	Figure 121, line 1. Insert "coin silver" after word "Knife"
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p. 212	Figure 124. Insert at end of last line and sentence: "In fact, the Gorham catalog of 1884 lists individual identical slices, but with foliate engraving on both sides, as part of stock ice cream sets"
	Figure 126, line 3. Replace "complimentary" by "complementary"
	Figure 126, line 4. Replace "a finger that curls" by "fingers that curl"
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p. 214	Figure 127, line 2. Delete word "cast"
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p. 224	Figure 148, line 3. Replace word "ten" by "thirty"

p. 244	Insert the following after Figure 5, as an intended Figure 6:
	6. SIDE FORK-SLICE, John Shekelton, London, 1806; solid fiddle handle. A slightly dished, long oval blade shape, having six down-turned tines on the right hand side that do not start from the tip of the blade, as in the preceding figures,but only several cm below. The blade is pierced with an engraved fish. It is decorated with two bands of circumscribing zig-zag reeding. This is the only example yet seen of a side fork-slice that has a pointed (rounded) tip. The finial carries the crest and motto of Dunbar of co. Nairn, Scotland. Thanks to S.J. Shrubsole, New York, for their informative communication and illustration dated 13 July 99.
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p. 250	line 2. Insert "(Fig. 10)" at end of sentence.
	line 6 from bottom. Insert the following sentence at end of paragraph. "A service for Lord Caernarvon by Wm. Traies, 1934, does include fish knives"
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p. 264	Figure 23, line 4. Delete word "carved"
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p. 276	line 1. Delete this line (duplicate)

p. 285	Entry for Howden. Replace "18" by "17"
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p. 287	line 4. Insert below "Theobolds" the new entry "Thomason, J. V 98"