Talk:The Ashley Book of Knots

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[edit] Duplicate knots

Is that right about duplicate knots? I haven't read my copy cover to cover, but I thought that each entry was original. --Blackcap | talk 03:16, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Yep, just added an example of it to the article. --Dfred 03:53, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
Deadly, thanks. Nice work on the article! Snoutwood (talk) 07:20, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. While doing some research before rewriting Constrictor knot I found eleven occurances of it in ABOK, and there may actually be more.
There are numerous examples. Sometimes it is an alternate way to tie the same knot. Sometimes it is an alternative use for a knot tied the same way (ie. Rolling Hitch 12 entries in the index or Overhand with 19 unqualifed index entries and 4 additional ways to tie, probably the champ) Ccalvin
Some more examples, for those interested. The "Tom Fool Knot" is shown as both #1141 and in more detail as #2534, the final illustration of which is actually that of the "Handcuff Knot", which in turn is shown as both #1134 and #1140. The error in #2534 brings up the question: Should a section on "Known Errors" be added to the main article? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ian Fieggen (talk • contribs) 23:00, 11 May 2007 (UTC).
There are many examples of duplicates. For example clove hitch has a huge number of entries. --Dfred (talk) 01:09, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Publisher

The 'Further Reading' gives the publisher as Faber & Faber. My edition is Doubleday. Should both be listed? Same ISBN. Ccalvin 20:29, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

I changed this a while back... I couldn't verify Faber & Faber, but found fairly definitive info for Doubleday as the publisher. If folks do have F&F editions of this book, please provide more detailed publishing info for your citations. Thanks. (BTW, I've seen a paperback edition of ABOK from a publisher called "Coles" in Canada, but I need to check my recollection of that...) --Dfred (talk) 01:09, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] The Shipping News

I've added Proulx's extensive use of passages from TABOK in The Shipping News to this article. Should it stay?Theenglishman (talk) 13:12, 9 April 2008 (UTC)