marginalia, printing error

in a used copy of SILAS MARNER, by george eliot, discovere in a used bookstore in wiesbaden, deutschland:

Happy Reading, Olaf!

Best Wishes

Denis
(too scribbled to be legible, perhaps a woman's name)

Also, inside the book, a printing error looks like someone placed a band-aid over two lines of print where ink skips and restarts on the other side. two words, lost. both adjectives. both necessary for clarity.

a sign of a great book: a simple printing error over two little words decimates the clarity of a scene.

a book where every word is precise. very nice.