The Handbook to English Heraldry

words removed
96,026
marks left
27,634
words a sentence
13.1
most used mark
,

Its punctuation fingerprint: each mark's share, on the same scale as every book on the shelf.

Its punctuation twin, the closest fingerprint on the shelf: The Weird of the Wanderer, Frederick Rolfe. More twins

Charles Boutell on the shelf

It's the only book by Charles Boutell on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Charles Boutell's punctuation is closest to Frederick Rolfe's.

Frederick Rolfe's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEvery book's median
Semicolons13.27.2
Commas127.076.6
Colons14.81.6
Exclamation marks0.32.8
Question marks0.13.7
Words per sentence13.117.0
Dialogue3%22%

Every mark in reading order, left to right, top to bottom. Sentence endings are pink.

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