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Notes
"The Printing of John Webster's Plays (I)" was published in Studies in Bibliography, VI (1954), 117-140. To my debt to Professor F. P. Wilson should be added that to Mr. John Crow; both have given generous help and advice.
Among the variants not listed because they were caused by deterioration of the type during printing, one may be specially noticed as it is just possible that it represents a genuine press correction: on K1v, Hn2 and Co read 'shrill;' for the 'shrill,' (IV.ii.181) of the other copies. There is evidence of frisket bite on B3 in some copies.
Among the variants not listed because they were caused by deterioration of the type during printing, one may be specially noticed as it possibly represents a genuine press-correction: on D3, O reads 'sakes;' for the 'sakes,' (II.i.358) of the other copies. There is evidence of frisket bite on A1v in some copies.
In the statistics that follow I discount the spelling of proper names and onesyllable words. I also, for contrast with the i'll spelling, discount I'll at the beginning of a sentence or line printed as verse.
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