Like Byron, who expected his publisher, John Murray, to tidy up his manuscript for him, Ruskin was as slapdash with punctuation, spelling and the use of the possessive in his literary drafts as in his diaries and letters (see period of composition of Modern Painters I). His first editor, William Henry Harrison, played an extensive role in correcting his literary manuscripts. Ruskin favoured either the Byronic dash, which served as anything from the comma to the full-stop, or the stop, which is sometimes a full-stop and sometimes, when placed halfway between the end of one word and the beginning of the next, a comma. Often however, and especially when lightly penned, the stop between words is simply a jeu d'esprit. Taking fol.8r of the Allen manuscript as an example ( Allen 8r), there are no commas, semi-colons, colons or inverted commas (possessives). (The transcription attempts to reproduce the spacing in the manuscript.) The disappearance between manuscript and printed text of many of Ruskin's emphases - made through underlining in the drafts - and initial capital letters for abstractions may reflect Smith Elder's house style.