University of Virginia Library

Early Editions of The Tatler
by
William B. Todd

The earliest printings of The Tatler, in folio, octavo, and duodecimo, all exhibit numerous undifferentiated editions and, in the course of issue, various textual alterations. Of the original 1709-1711 editions in folio, chance observation has already elicited some comment, one writer noting Steele's own reference to printing on different presses, another remarking two or more variant settings in at least 82 numbers, a third reporting variation after the 117th number.[1] Further examination, here extending to eighteen copies,[2] discloses a situation more remarkable than any yet envisaged, but still amenable to bibliographical analysis. Altogether, as we now may demonstrate, the 271 folio issues reveal three orders of presswork.

         

	Numbers		Settings
	Range	Total	Each no.	Total	Printing
(1)	1-32	32	2-4	76	Successive, in one shop
(2)	33-117	85	1	85	Single, in one shop
(3)	118-271	154	2	308	Simultaneous, in two shops

The several variants of folio numbers 1-32 occur in definite patterns of a kind never encountered in simultaneous, but always appearing in successive issues.[3] Obviously with The Tatler, as with other literary periodicals, the demands of later subscribers required later settings, here represented, exclusively, in collections lately assembled. Certain of these subsequent editions may be identified by an advertisement

entered intermittently from 14 to 114 and announcing "A New Set of CUTS for the Common Prayer." Though essentially of an identical setting throughout, this notice in issues of a single edition displays in the first line, from 33 to 54 a pointing hand and the reading "CUTS", from 59 to 114 triple stars and the reading "Cuts". Among earlier numbers 1-32 in variant settings the hand is exhibited in 14, 16, 20 of all printings, in 22, 27, 29, 32 only of one. Thus, we may conclude, numbers 22-32 with the starred variant must be of a second (or third) setting printed after 54, the last number of an invariant setting to display the hand. Collections of this later order are the ones identified in Table I as d, m, r, e, i, all with stars, the first two in 29 only, the third in 22 only, the last two in all four numbers. The three series r, e, i also share in numbers 6, 11, and 18 a common third setting with f, an uncut presentation copy collated and bound only after completion of issue, and in numbers 1-2 a common fourth setting not only with this same f but with various other copies. Hence all of these, in more or less degree, appear to have been collected at some time after original issue, and to contain, at least in five of these collections, the latest of several printings.

Once the latest settings are identified all others fall into an inalterable sequence, the earliest A with certain typographical features successively modified to the state represented by later editions B, C, D. Table II illustrates several peculiarities evident in the first four numbers, where in 1-3 a preliminary italic notice on recto occurs in three successive settings, all interrelated with 1-4 imprints on verso in seven different impositions or arrangements of type. The sequence there defined is confirmed and, on the evidence of heading rules, extended in this same Table beyond 32 to invariant settings. From the rules, all of one arrangement until superseded by another, it may be deduced that 1-3 of B edition are coeval with 2-18 of A, 1-3C with 19-29A, and 1-3D with 36-38 or later numbers of the single printing. How much later can be determined, for some editions, again by reference to the hand-star variants previously described, all of which are affiliated with certain others not bearing the advertisement. These affiliations, also noted in Table II, indicate that thirteen of the B editions 15-32, the five C editions 4-18, C edition 32, and D editions 2-3 were issued after number 54, dated 13 August 1709.

The chronology as established for 1-32 is specified in Table III along with a summary record of the points which most easily distinguish the editions. Of first priority, it will be noted, is an original number not in any sequence: an odd circumstance, but one not without

precedent, and not unexpected here since the earlier papers were distributed gratis and—among these eighteen subscribers, at any rate—before anyone had decided to collect the issues.[4] Also to be noted, though not readily apparent in the Table, are unmistakable signs of revision, all again substantiating the order adduced from typographical evidence and waiting to bedevil any future editor of The Tatler. A few specimens from number 2 will suffice, at this time, to exemplify the complexities in these 76 settings—and in the book editions yet to be considered.

               

Col. line	2.12	4.19	4.45	4.75
F° (A)	ungraceful	in the	as to make him hope	People of France
(B)	ungrateful	" "	" " " "	" " "
(C)	"	on the	" " " " "	" " "
(D)	"	" "	as to hope	People
12° (A)	"	in Behalf of the	or make any Hope	People of France
8° (B)	"	" " " "	or conceive any Hope	" " "
12° (C)	"	" " " "	" " " "	" " "

From 33 to 117 the publisher, John Morphew, was able to provide in a single edition sufficient copies for all needs present and prospective. With an ever-increasing circulation, however, he finally realized that, even with a two-day interval between numbers, the press could no longer meet the demand. Thus from 118 to 271 two settings appear, both of simultaneous issue and therefore mixed indiscriminately in all collected series. Since there is no priority of issue (and, as we may determine, no certain order of impression) it will be convenient in Table IV to label as edition A the one typographically equivalent to those earlier printed for Morphew,[5] and as B the alternate setting composed at his direction in another office. Whatever the order of printing, there can be little doubt that the editions come from separate establishments, since all type-matter, even including advertisements at end of text, is invariably of two different settings and never interchanged

between A and B. It is also evident that, despite the highly variable distribution, the editions were of equal size, for the 924 specimens cited in the Table are almost evenly divided, 466 being of the A type and 458 of the B. It further appears that one setting was composed from an early run (or proof-sheet) of the other, since the lineation in both is, normally, identical. In certain numbers, however, the shift of a word may displace subsequent lines; and by means of this variation we may ascertain that Steele examined setting A of numbers 120, 153, 157, 164, and 226, because the line references in the errata later supplied for these are occasionally inapplicable to setting B. Conversely, and to the despair of anyone speculating upon this circumstance, similar variation in other numbers indicates that Steele was reading edition B of 139, 148, 151, 227, 242, and 259, all with referents at times inapplicable to A. From this conflicting evidence the only deduction is that the author, like his readers, received some numbers of one setting, some of the other.

Of greater interest, and possibly of greater significance, are those numbers where Steele was allowed copy in time to amend in the later certain misprints occurring in the earlier setting. Twice in errata accounts the author notes that the errors then cited will be found only in the "faulty impression" (or first edition), a setting easily identified as B of 154 and A of 254. At another time, however, he fails to indicate that the correction pertains only to one setting, in this case to B of 166. And on numerous other occasions he neglects to supply errata notices of any kind, though alterations have again been entered only in one of the two settings. Instances of this silent correction appeared immediately in a random collation of two consecutive numbers, both of which, as it happens, also illustrate the variable order of editions.

             

No.	190		No.	191
Col.	Editions		Col.	Editions
line	A	B (corrected)	line	B	A (corrected)
1.16	on	upon	2.51	Artifice	Artifices
2.43	me I	me that I	3.11	Ornament	Ornaments
3.58	Circumference	Circumstance	3.21	draw out of	draw of
			3.33	off the	of the

However variable the order of impression—a matter determined, it seems, entirely by the convenience of the printers—and however erratic Steele's own editorial procedure, the author appears to have exercised the greatest care in selecting the better text as copy for the collected book editions then going through the press. Whether that copy is of the original impression A or B with the author's own MS corrections, or of the second setting B or A in amended form, is a question which a future editor must decide on the evidence of all the 154 numbers so affected. Any evasion of the problem will leave him with two alternatives, either to designate folio A as standard copy (since this preserves, at least in accidentals, the "house style" of the earlier single edition) or to adopt octavo or duodecimo as basic text.

The latter expedient, though always followed in times past, is particularly unwise because, as we now discover, both of these formats also exist in variable settings, all with different readings, and none with text in definitive state. The original book edition A doubtless is the 12° with errata lists in all four volumes and bearing a text, as the title declares, "Revised and Corrected by the Author." Most of the errata are corrected in later printings 8° and 12°, and the text further revised, with each edition set from copy of the same format yet incorporating, with some exceptions, amendments in a subsequent setting of another size. From the original printing A derives the octavo "subscription" edition of royal and medium paper issue B1,2: a text which in earliest numbers volumes I-II adopts or further improves 26 readings first introduced in 12° (Table V, order 1222, 1232, 1234), supplies 13 additional readings (1121, 1122, 1123), but fails to transmit 6 others revised in 12° (1211, 1212). These others, all rather insignificant, may represent entries in a 12° proof later than the one used as copy for subsequent editions, or readings entered in good time but deliberately rejected upon second printing and any copy dependent upon this. From the original printing also derives another 12° C, a supplementary issue presenting a text which, among the readings now under inspection, adopts or improves upon 30 entries in 12° A, including 6 not accumulated in 8° B (1222, 1121, 1123, 1212, 1232), incorporates 14 others first entered or reinserted in B (1122, 1211), and further amends a new reading first cited there (1234). Still another supplementary issue D, identical with C except for a resetting of volume I sheets B-F, occasionally in this resetting improves upon accidentals, e.g., at page 2, line 36, in the alteration of "dated from my own Apartment" to "dated, From my own Apartment". Supplementary to 8° B — and of all printings the only ones seemingly unattended by the author[6] —are two later issues each also of two impressions, one with an undifferentiated resetting of volume II and volume I dated 1713 (E1,2), the other with volume II reissued under title also dated 1713 (F1,2). Points distinguishing

the several issues are given, for 12° in Table VI, for 8° in Table VII.

Order of publication, as determined from advertisements in the folio Tatlers, confirms the textual relationship just described. Preceding any of the legitimate issues is a pirated two-volume 12° edition,[7] cited on 4 July 1710 in the same notice announcing as of "Monday next," or the 10th, the simultaneous issue of the authentic 12° and 8° (A,B). But where two 8° volumes had been proposed on 31 January, it is now admitted that only the first would appear, the second—according to an announcement of 6 July—"being necessarily defer'd for Want of Paper, which is just come by the Fleet now arriv'd from Holland." This volume B, then promised "in about a Fortnight," actually was delayed until 1 September, and thus follows the second 12° volume A, on ordinary paper, by seven weeks. Though the 12° goes unmentioned in later advertisements, it may be presumed that volumes III and IV in this format were issued, according to original intention, simultaneously with the 8° edition, III of this being announced (in final Tatler number 271) on 2 January 1711, and IV (in Harrison Tatler 316) 17 April 1711. The price of each volume of these several impressions is cited (in Tatler 196) as 2s.6d. for the 12° and (in Spectator 227) as 21s for 8° royal paper, 10s.6d. for 8° medium paper.

With all issues on record, it may be conceded that a definitive edition of The Tatler should take into account every printing except, perhaps, E and F of the collected series, and offer from a conflation of these an eclectic text. A full accounting, as calculated in this final summary, will range for any one number to as many as eight editions, for all numbers to some 1162 settings.

             

Volume	I			II	III		IV	Total
Numbers	1-17[8]	18-32	33-50	51-114	115-117	118-189	190-271
Total settings each no.
Folio editions A-D	2-4	2-3	1	1	1	2	2	469
12° issues A,C,D	3	2	2	2	1	1	1	422
8° issue B	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	271
Totals	6-8	5-6	4	4	3	4	4	1162

Table I. Arrangement of Folio Settings, Numbers 1-32

Note. Identifying letters merely signify order in which the following copies were examined: a-f. Harvard: * 57-1691F; 16441.3.9 *; 16441.4 *; 16441.4.6 * (nos. 1-235 only); P84.840; Widener (presentation copy, 2 vols, in green vellum gilt) g-i. Texas: q052.T188; 2d copy; 3d copy (nos. 1-229 only) j-k. North Carolina: Whitaker; T824.05/T219 (nos. 1-100 only) l-m. Professor Richmond P. Bond: Blue and Butler copies n-p. New York Public Library: Berg (Jerome Kern); Berg (Owen D. Young); reserve collection (miscellaneous lot, lacking early nos. 2, 4-5, 7-39) q-r. Columbia: special collection; Medical School Rules define the point where, except for an occasional purchase of missing copies, successive groups of readers appear to have collected numbers as issued. Certain collections, however, including presentation set f, may have been assembled later in the publisher's warehouse.

                                                                   

Copy	p	n	j	b	g	q	a	h	d	k	m	l	o	c	f	r	e	i
No.	Settings
1	1	2	2	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	4
2		1	1	2	2	2	3	4	3	3	4	3	3	3	4	4	4	4
3	3	1	1	2	2	2	2	3	1	1	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4
4		1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3
5		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	3	3
6	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	2	2	2	3	3	3	3
7		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
8		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	2
9		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
10		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
11		1	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	1	1	2	1	2	3	3	3	3
12		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	2
13		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
14		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
15		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
16		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
17		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
18		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3
19		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
20		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	2	1	2	2	2	2	2
21		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	1	2	2	2	2	2
22		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2
23		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2
24		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	2
25		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2
26		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2
27		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2
28		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	2
29		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	2
30		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2
31		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2
32		1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	3

Notes. Aberrant title setting with broken 'e' in 'The' is also found in single edition of nos. 41-42, occasionally in later editions of 2-32, but in conjunction with roman type 'Advertisements' only, as specified in Table, in B setting of nos. 16, 20, 21. All of these occurrences perhaps indicate an alternate setting of heading and/or imprint used when regular type was already at press for another number.

Table III. Folio Editions 1-32, Chronology and Points

                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

No.	Ed.	Issued[‡]		Variations in text
				line 3	line 7	2.cw
1	A	12	Apr	Main	think:	come
	B	16	Apr	Main	think:	ding
	C	24	May	main	think:	ding
	D	2	July	main	think:	ding
				2.11	3.73
2	A	14	Apr	Home----	Molly,----
	B	19	Apr	Home---	Molly,----
	C	24	May	Home---	Molly,---
	D	13	Aug	Home---	Molly,
				line 3	1.1|2
3	A	16	Apr	Main	Country|
	B	19	Apr	Main	Country-|
	C	24	May	main	Country|
	D	13	Aug	main	Coun-|try
				3.last
4	A	19	Apr	notice
	B	13	Aug	Notice
	C	13	Aug	Notice	[4 from last]
				1.1	4.penult
5	A	21	Apr	(out	this
	B	24	May	out	this,
	C	13	Aug	(out	this,
				3.15	4.1
6	A	23	Apr	Trojans;	Tranquility
	B	24	May	Trojans:	Tranquillity
	C	13	Aug	Trojans:	Tranquility
				4.2|3
7	A	26	Apr	Tran-|quility
	B	2	July	Tran-|quillity
				3.17
8	A	28	Apr	care
	B	18	June	Care
				4.21
9	A	30	Apr	supposed
	B	2	July	suppos'd
				2.19
10	A	3	May	pairing
	B	2	July	paring
				2.2|3	4.4
11	A	5	May	Greatness|	Wollen
	B	24	May	Great-|ness	Woollen
	C	13	Aug	Greatness|	Woollen
				1.cw.
12	A	7	May	[none]
	B	18	June	Place
				1.penult
13	A	10	May	Glasses
	B	18	June	glasses
				1.1|2
14	A	12	May	had | appear'd
	B	30	June	had ap-|pear'd
No.	Ed.	Issued[‡]		Variations in text
				2.8|9
15	A	14	May	a Bed-|Side
	B	13	Aug	a | Bed-Side
				2.2|3
16	A	17	May	to come,|As
	B	2	July	to | come, As
				1.8
17	A	19	May	from
	B	13	Aug	(from
				2.20|21 3.1st word
18[*]	A	21	May	Place,|'tis he
	B	24	May	Place,|'tis the
	C	13	Aug	the | Place, the
				1.10
19	A	24	May	Derision;
	B	18	June	Derision:
				1.9
20	A	26	May	Brown
	B	2	July	brown
				2.1
21	A	28	May	Comedy
	B	2	July	Comedy,
				4.10|11
22	A	31	May	many | Virgins
	B	13	Aug	ma-|ny Virgins
				2.6|7
23	A	2	June	a-|gainst
	B	13	Aug	|against
				1.6
24	A	4	June	Letter
	B	13	Aug	Letter,
				2.8
25	A	7	June	The Tale
	B	13	Aug	The Tale
				4.10
26	A	9	June	Death:
	B	13	Aug	Death?
				2.1st word
27	A	11	June	see
	B	13	Aug	we
				2.cw
28	A	14	June	a
	B	13	Aug	a Man's
				2.1st word
29	A	16	June	sters
	B	13	Aug	and
				3.13
30	A	18	June	Tender
	B	13	Aug	tender
				2.11
31	A	21	June	perform'd
	B	13	Aug	performed
				1.11	1.15
32	A	23	June	Norris, Idea's
	B	13	Aug	Norris Idea's
	C	13	Aug	Norris, Ideas

Table IV. Simultaneous Folio Issues, Numbers 118-271

The following account lists in order the settings represented in the four Harvard and two Texas copies designated in Table I as abcegh. Points differentiating the two editions:

                                                                   

	imprint reading, nos. 118-174[*]		TATLER heading, nos.132-271[†]
	A Advertisements		'R' perfect
	B Advertisements		'R' gouged
118 BBBBAA	149 BBAAAB	180 ABBBAB	211 AAABAA	242 BABBAB
119 BBAABB	150 BAABAA	181 BBABBA	212 ABAAAA	243 AABABB
120 BAABBB	151 BAABAB	182 BBBABA	213 BABBBB	244 BAABBA
121 BABBAA	152 BAABBB	183 BAABBA	214 BAABAA	245 ABBABA
122 BBBBAB	153 BAABAA	184 BABBBA	215 AAAAAA[‡]	246 BABABB
123 ABBBBA	154 BBAABB	185 ABAAAB	216 AABAAB	247 BABBBA
124 BAABBB	155 ABABBB	186 AAAABA	217 AABBBA	248 ABBAAA
125 BBBABB	156 AABABA	187 AAAAAA[‡]	218 ABBBAA	249 BBAABB
126 ABABAA	157 AAABBB	188 AABBBA	219 BABABA	250 BAAAAB
127 BABABB	158 ABABAB	189 ABBBAA	220 BBBBBA	251 BBAAAA
128 BABAAB	159 BAAAAA	190 BBAABA	221 AAABBA	252 ABABAA
129 BAAABA	160 AAABAB	191 BBBABA	222 BABAAA	253 ABAAAA
130 AABBBA	161 BBAAAA	192 ABAABA	223 BBAABB	254 AABBBA
131 BAABAB	162 ABBBBA	193 BBAAAB	224 ABAAAB	255 ABABAA
132 BABABB	163 AABBBA	194 AAAABB	225 BBAABB	256 BBAABA
133 BABAAB	164 ABABBB	195 AABBAB	226 AAAAAB	257 BAAABA
134 BAAAAB	165 AAABAA	196 BBAABB	227 ABAABB	258 ABBBAB
135 BBBBBA	166 BABBBA	197 BAABAB	228 AABABA	259 BABBBB
136 ABABBA	167 BABAAB	198 BAABAA	229 AAAABB	260 ABBBBA
137 BBAABB	168 BABABB	199 BABBAB	230 BAAAAA	261 AABAAB
138 BBBBAB	169 AABABA	200 AABBAA	231 BBAAAA	262 BBBBAB
139 AAAABA	170 BABABB	201 BABBBB	232 ABBAAA	263 ABAABA
140 ABAAAA	171 BBBBBB[‡]	202 AABBAA	233 BAAAAB	264 AAABBB
141 BBAABA	172 AABBBB	203 BABABB	234 ABBBAA	265 ABAABB
142 AABBAB	173 ABABAB	204 BABBBA	235 ABABBA	266 BAABAB
143 ABBBBA	174 AABAAA	205 BABBAA	236 BABBBA	267 BBBBBA
144 ABBBAA	175 BAAABA	206 BABABB	237 BBAAAB	268 AAABBA
145 AABBAB	176 AABBAB	207 AAAABA	238 BABABA	269 BAABBA
146 ABABAA	177 BABAAA	208 BABBBA	239 BABAAB	270 ABBABB
147 BBBABB	178 ABAAAA	209 BABABA	240 AABAAA	271 AAABBB
148 BBAABB	179 AABABB	210 BABBAA	241 BABBBA

Table V. Revision in 12° and 8° Editions, Volumes I-II

The 'order' identifies readings successively appearing in f°, 12° (A), 8° (B), and 12° (C), numbers 1 and 51. All page and line references are to 12°.

                                                                                                         

Order	Ref.	Readings
Volume I
1211	1.5	Kinds, they] Kinds, yet they
1212	1.11	being Persons] being Men
1234	2.7	It is also resolv'd by me] I have also resolved] I resolve also]
		I resolved also
1121	2.9	taken] invented
1211	2.14	all Persons] my Readers
1122	2.35	I shall on any other Subject offer] I have to offer on any other
		Subject
1211	2.37	Reader] Readers
1122	3.13	Helps] Force
1122	3.17	not speak of any Think 'till it is pass'd] speak but of few
		Things 'till they are pass'd
1211	3.20	April 7] April 11
1122	3.33	he sits] sits
1122	4.4	Play-house all the Week] Play-house every Night in the Week
1222	4.21	he's] he is
1222	4.22	he's] he is
1222	4.23	The Reader is desir'd . . . in Love.] omit
1211	4.23	acted] presented
1222	4.30	Distinction, the] as at that Time; the
1222	4.32	there appear'd also] it discovered even there
1222	5.2	Perfection, and there seem'd a peculiar Regard had to their
		Behaviour on this occasion: No one] Perfection; the Actors
		were careful of their Carriage, and no one
1222	5.5	Respect had] Respect was had
1222	5.33	late Favour] Favour
1222	5.36	may not] should be
1222	6.6	and is] wherein he is
1222	6.9	said] say
1222	6.24	Hand; which] Hand. This
1222	6.30	who come] that come
1222	6.37	Prince Eugene was then . . . Seven Vessels.] omit
1122	7.26	and that not] and not
1222	8.5	Penetration] Skill
1222	8.15	Advertisement. A Vindication . . . Year 1709.] omit
Volume II
1222	1.1	suitable] equal
1222	2.20	when a] by a
1122	3.1	and find] and to find
1121	3.5	the College] his College
1222	3.14	near] nearly
1122	3.16	A great deal of good Company] A good Company
1222	3.19	he presented us with] wherewith he presented us
1122	4.18	or how] and how
1222	5.18	Street] Secret
1222	6.18	a Bar] the Bar
1222	6.30	which will] that will
1222	6.34	is said] I said
1121	7.7	Last Night arrived . . . Common Cause.] omit
1232	7.12	is arriv'd] was arriv'd] omit
1123	7.14	taking] omit] making]

Table VI. Variant Issues A,C,D, First 12° Edition

All issues original and supplementary of invariant impressions, I-II of original on full sheets ordinary paper with horizontal chainlines, III-IV and all reprints on half-sheets of double-size paper with vertical lines. Originally published I-II on 10 July 1710, III 2 January 1711, IV 20 November 1711.

A. Volumes I-II of setting a, III of variant a, IV (all issues) with superfluous press figure page 286. Copy: Texas (the set used by George A. Aitken for his 1898-1899 edition).

Mr. D. G. Neill, who is now preparing a more detailed analysis of this issue, kindly advises me that volume II of his copy has in addition to the figures cited below a number 1 on page 22.

C. Apparently subsequent to octavo issue, volumes I-II of setting b, III of variant b with formes B and C(o) reimpressed, C(i) reset, figure on page 3 occasionally lacking. Copies: Bodleian, Columbia, Harvard, Todd.

D. As for preceding issue except volume I of variant c with sheets B-F reset. Copy: Professor Richmond P. Bond.

The following list cites by page-number the press figures in sheets so marked, by the letter(s) immediately above first signature a convenient point for unfigured sheets.

                                                                         

	Ia	Ib	Ic	IIa	IIb	IIIa	IIIb	IV
	1710	1710	1710	1710	1710	1711	1711	1711
A	d	d	d
B	he	22-2	11-3		23-5	24-1	3-5	4-5
		24-1	16-3	24-2	24-1		24-1	22-1
C	B	36-3	46-2	25-1	45-4	28-2	45-2	45-5
		46-1		46-4	46-4	____	46-1	46-4
D	fr	52-2	70-4	70-1	69-5	52-2	70-1
		71-5	72-4	72-1	71-5	70-5	72-2
E	ng	95-2	93-1	94-4	93-1	94-4	82-3
		96-4	98-5	96-1	95-2	96-3	96-4
F	e	118-3	100-5	118-3	118-4	98-2	118-5
			_____	120-3	120-4	120-3	120-1
G	nt	122-5	142-4	124-5	141-5	134-3
		144-4	144-3	142-5	142-2	141-2
H	ed	165-5	166-4	166-4	165-5	158-5
		166-2	168-3	168-1	166-2	168-4
I	.	190-3	190-3	190-3	191-5	190-3
		192-5	192-4	192-3	192-4	192-2
K	e i	213-5	215-3	214-4	214-2	203-5
			216-4	216-1	216-4	205-4
L	n	238-4	238-4	220-3	218-3	238-2
		240-5	240-3	238-4	240-5	240-1
M	ou	262-2	261-3	262-3	256-3	253-3
		264-3	262-4	264-5	262-2	262-4
N	ou	286-3	287-3	280-5	278-3	275-5
		288-4	288-4	286-1	285-4	288-1
O	a	310-5	302-3	292-2	310-2	304-2
		312-5	312-4	302-3	312-5	310-3
P	e	327-3	334-3	335-4	325-3	316-4
		333-3	336-4	336-2	334-4	334-5
Q	358-1	358-3	352-3	357-5	340-2	357-1
	360-2	360-4	358-4	358-1	358-4	359-2
R	364-3	374-5	364-3	382-4	381-2	374-5
	382-1	376-3	382-2	384-4	382-3
S			388-3	397-5	388-3
			398-4	398-4

Table VII. Variant Issues B,E,F, First 8° Edition

All issues original and supplementary of royal (22.3 x 14cm.) and medium paper (20 x 12.5cm.) impressions.[*] Original series published simultaneously with 12° edition A except for delayed issue of 2d volume, 1 September 1710.

B. Volume I dated 1710, II of setting a. 1. Royal-paper: BM (4 copies, one of vols I-II only), Harvard, New York Public (Berg copy vols I-II only), Bond. 2. Medium-paper: Bodleian (2 copies), Harvard, Texas (2 copies, one of vol I only), Bond.

E. Volume I reset and dated 1713, II of setting b except for sheet S which, in the one copy examined, is of a setting. 1. Royal-paper: none observed. 2 Medium-paper: Todd.

F. Volume I as in preceding issue, II reissued with reset prelims and title also dated 1713. 1. Royal-paper: BM, Bodleian. 2. Medium-paper: Columbia.

The following list cites by page-number the press figures in sheets so marked, by the letter (s) immediately above first signature a convenient point for unfigured sheets.

                                                                                                                                 

	I	IIa	IIb	III	IV
	1710	1710	1710	1711	1711
A	y,	s	s	m	e
B	id	14-2	he	e o	s
		16-1
C	,	30-2	rk	Ho	o w
		32-1
D	of	46-2	s D	V	st
		48-1
E	i	62-1	r	i	o h
		64-2
F	e	78-1	at	r	nc
		80-2
G	94-1	94-1	u	n	s,
	96-2	96-1
H	110-2	110-1	th	R	E
	112-1	112-1
I	126-1	126-2	r	e	ed
	128-2	128-1
K	142-1	142-2	s	r	142-1
	144-1	144-1			144-1
L	158-2	158-2	e C	ig	158-2
	160-1	160-1			160-2
M	174-1	174-2	ms	s s	174-1
	176-2	176-1			176-1
N	190-1	190-1	i	n f	190-1
	192-1	192-2			192-1
O	206-2	206-2	, a	d s	207-2
	208-1	208-1
P	222-1	222-1	t	v	219-2
	224-2	224-2			224-1
Q	238-2	238-2	y	l o	238-2
	240-1	240-1			240-1
I	IIa	IIb	III	IV
	1710	1710	1710	1711	1711
R	254-1	254-1	m	ho	254-1
	256-2	256-2			256-2
S	270-1	270-1	s	n	270-1
	272-2	272-2			272-2
T	286-2	286-1	o	st	284-2
	288-1	288-1			286-1
U	302-1	302-1	m	g I	302-2
	304-1	304-1			304-1
X	318-1	318-1	n	s w	318-2
	320-2	320-1			320-1
Y	334-2	wn	e	wh	334-1
	336-1				336-2
Z	350-1	, C	, C	e d	350-2
	352-1				352-1
2A	366-2	I	. I	o	367-2
	368-1
2B	382-2	h	he	d w	382-1
	384-1				384-2
2C	398-2	w	n	e E	396-2
	400-1				398-1
2D		g	ei	d	413-2
					415-1
2E		t	p	ec	431-2
					432-1
2F		m	me	he	445-2
					446-1
2G		.	Mi	s o	460-1
					463-2
2H				g t	t b
2I					e

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