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Photo-Facsimiles of STC Books: A Cautionary Check List
by
Franklin B. Williams, Jr.

The 1966 centennial of the first photo-facsimile of an early English printed book is a convenient occasion for a survey of these aids to the study of English literature and culture in the period before 1641. The probability that the next few years will produce a flood of them makes 1966 a convenient cut-off — though in fact the present Check List includes a few from 1967 programs. The usefulness of facsimiles is generally conceded, and the danger of naive reliance on them is often mentioned. Everyone is grateful that they make minor texts available. They also enable students to realize the general appearance — the "feel" — of early books and to do elementary bibliographical study without wear and tear on the scarce originals.[1] Wear on fragile originals is indeed a valid concern: as far back as the 1930's the Huntington Library prepared an extensive series of photostats of its chief rarities so that scholars can use them for casual or incidental reference — of course the originals are produced when needed. Preliminary textual study can be done with good facsimiles, though no one questions the principle that an editor must work finally with the originals.[2] Since this survey views a facsimile as a careful reprint of an individual original copy, there is no reason to argue why facsimiles cannot replace critical editions. Fredson Bowers has lucidly shown the problem — chiefly arising from


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press correction — of devising a compound facsimile edition from all available copies,[3] and one may hope that his utopian ideal will never be used as a working blueprint.

The purpose of photo-facsimiles, then, varies considerably. At one extreme is a simple desire to make a scarce text available without the labor of editing and without the expense — increasingly burdensome — of type composition. Such enterprise is commendable, and one would be boorish to insinuate vanity in collectors and libraries making their treasures thus available to the public. The inexorable laws of Tudor book survival and printing costs coincide to favor reproduction of small pieces (thin pamphlets or broadsides), but there are splendid exceptions, such as Chaucer and Shakespeare folios, Cotgrave's Dictionary, Hakluyt's Navigations, and the King James Bible (Geneva version is in planning stage). At the far end of the motivational spectrum is the idea of making material available for serious textual criticism, like Harris Fletcher's Milton or numerous Shakespeare titles (a model example is Folger Library's collotype of its unique and previously unused first quarto of Titus Andronicus).

Numerous in trade names and technical details, the processes of photo-facsimile reproduction fall into two practical groups.[4] On one hand is the expensive method — collotype and rival systems — giving the full tone of the original, including damp-stains, dirt, scribbling, paper-texture, etc., though seldom showing watermarks. Cheaper are the black-and-white systems like photolithography which, for readability, usually eliminate all features of the page except the type impression. There is nothing in either sort of reproduction to force or to prevent retouching of negatives or plates, but the sin of "cleaning up" — with resultant loss of stray letters or punctuation — is in fact commoner in black-and-white reprints (accounting, among other things, for the notorious errata list in the Yale facsimile of the First Folio).[5] One doffs one's cap to the new Scolar Press, which not only abjures any tampering with the type area, but claims to use a Hinman collator to check each reprint page against the original for complete fidelity! The logic is incontestable; its implementation will be scrutinized.


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Varieties of facsimiles earlier than the photographic deserve a brief review, especially since vague listing in booksellers' catalogues may confuse the inexperienced.[6] The type facsimile is the most common and, by general consent, legitimate and useful. Here the appearance of an original is approximated in a new setting that may even use the same type font and on occasion may recast special ornaments. The fastidious reproduction of George Herbert's The Temple, published in 1876 by A. B. Grosart, is a superior example. The vogue for such reprints, though not actually the earliest examples, arose from antiquarian interest early in the nineteenth century. The London printer I. Smeeton created the most notorious, for when cheats deleted the minute added imprint, they fraudulently sold them as originals. Of the Smeeton reprints, Thomas Kyd's Solimon and Perseda has a fantastic history: it was mistakenly used instead of the original for the collation in the standard edition of Kyd by F. S. Boas and for John Farmer's collotype facsimile! This Kyd is a careful reprint, and since Greg's Bibliography neglects to give any distinguishing points, nonspecialists may appreciate one: true STC 22895 has a swash N in the terminal FINIS, while Smeeton uses a plain N. Type facsimiles have been a boon to scholarship in the present century. The Malone Society reprints are invaluable, and one can cite Hyder E. Rollins' Elizabethan miscellanies among lesser series.

The decades before 1860 produced a few plausible reprints by careful hand-blocking; these are of rarities before 1550, like STC 14435. The method of lithography from hand-tracing was perfected by Edmund Wilson Ashbee. Sponsored by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, Ashbee executed A Collection of the Early Quarto Editions of Shakespeare in 48 volumes, 1861-1871: "Every single letter has been traced from the originals by hand." Halliwell-Phillipps signed the certificate in each volume that of the fifty copies nineteen had been deliberately destroyed.[7] Ashbee's later facsimiles include about a score of STC books. Since most are clearly traced, one must assume all are, and they are excluded from the Check List. This eliminates the serviceable facsimile of the unique Chatsworth Kynge Appolyn of Thyre — not in STC but now at last safe in the British Museum. Similarly Francis Fry's useful Bible facsimiles, including his 1862 reprint of Tyndale's New Testament, are hand-traced. Indeed, the period 1860-1885 is a


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distressing twilight age because some facsimiles give no clue to the method of reproduction and accordingly must be ignored.[8]

Meanwhile Victorian enterprise had inaugurated the age of true photo-facsimiles. Halliwell-Phillips was a forerunner, for in the late 1850's he experimented with simple photography; for instance, in 1857 he did STC 13073 in ten copies on photographic paper (surviving examples are too faded for use). Valid photo-facsimiles were a by-product of cartographic experiments at the official Ordnance Survey, and the chosen book was suitably the Shakespeare First Folio. In 1861 the noted chess-player and Shakespeare editor Howard Staunton induced the Survey to use its Southampton plant to reproduce the folio from Staunton's negatives of the "Dryden" copy, with understanding that no expense accrue to the Crown. After the Southampton office had photo-zincographed the preliminaries and the first 162 pages of text, the project was dropped. In 1862 the thirty copies were privately distributed.[9] With this background Staunton induced the London firm of Day and Son to do a complete Folio in the rival process of lithography. Published in 1866, this massive volume is a creditable product even by modern standards. The titlepage, the only editorial apparatus, credits R. W. Preston as the photo-lithographer and claims that the Bridgewater and Museum copies are being used rather than the "Dryden" — a curious and unconfirmed change. The volume is relatively common; apart from weight and fragile paper, it is as usable as the Yale facsimile. But since Lee's collotype is superior, Staunton's Folio is subordinated in the Check List. The honored pioneer is Stephen Ayling's 1869 photolith of a thin pamphlet of prayers (20195). The first substantial item is the 1870 facsimile of an annotated 1636 Book of Common Prayer. Like the 1862 Shakespeare, it was produced by the Ordnance Survey. This project, however, was sponsored officially on behalf of a royal commission on the perennial subject of Prayer Book revision (the book was not available to the public).

The next notable advance was the familiar Griggs-Praetorius series of Shakespeare quartos, 43 volumes, 1880-1891. The ambitious project was encouraged by the New Shakspere Society and was provided with introductions by Furnivall, Dowden, Daniel, and other scholars of repute. The photolithography was undertaken by William Griggs,


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succeeded in 1886 by the more prolific Charles Praetorius. While Ashbee's tracings had been offered at five guineas the volume, this photographic popular series was intended for subscribers at six shillings, a price level that could not be maintained. The editing and production are creditable for the period, the bibliographical information reasonably adequate.[10] Nearly a score are included in the Check List as not yet superseded.

Far and away the most extensive series before 1967 was launched in July 1907 by John S. Farmer, whose achievement and sins deserve a monograph. Biographical facts about Farmer are few (fruitless appeals appeared in volumes 173, 182, and 198 of Notes and Queries.) Bibliographical facts are innumerable but have not been systematically surveyed. Farmer planned two series, or rather, rival formats. "Tudor Facsimile Texts" for the luxury trade are large in size, interleaved, and provided with brief letter-press prelims, including boastful certificates on the quality and accuracy that are ironic in the light of facts noted below. For ordinary use, "Old English Drama Students' Facsimile Edition" have reduced margins and contain, besides the collotype, only printed labels for both sides of the front board. The labels are occasionally lost and some seem to have been wrong to start with. No one seems to know how many titles were issued as "Tudor," but it is assumed that all appear in the cheaper series. Farmer throws no light on this point in his prospectuses. His final brochure, A Hand List to the Tudor Facsimile Texts (August 1914), is the best point of departure.[11] Here Farmer claims to have issued 184 volumes to a total of nearly 10,000 copies, though his count appears faulty and one listing seems a ghost from confused notes. More than two dozen of the titles claimed were never actually published. The verifiable count of volumes issued is 153, of which eighteen are not STC material (manuscript or post-1640). After rejections for cause, the Check List uses Farmer for 132 STC titles.

Generations of students have been justly grateful for the texts Farmer provides; relatively few have been aware of the danger of relying on them as rigorous evidence. When he died during World War I (does anyone know the year?), he departed not to Arthur's bosom but to Bibliographical Purgatory. Souls in Purgatory welcome the fire, and Farmer will not resent a spot-check of his failures, which concern slipshod choice of originals rather than flaws in reproduction.


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Farmer honestly acknowledged most blunders that he learned about, as is clear in the retrospective Hand List.[12] Unfortunately his sporadic admissions seldom appear in the books themselves, and few students think of consulting the Hand List. An assortment of faults noticed during a rather casual search may serve as warning to users of facsimile reprints in general. To begin with, he unhappily used Smeeton's type facsimile instead of the genuine Solimon and Perseda. Exasperated because he was denied access to the Devonshire plays (which were in negotiation for sale to Huntington), Farmer faked at least three works from previous "facsimiles." He admits two in the Hand List. What is worse, he used Ashbee's hand-tracings, thus vitiating the whole point of a collotype reproduction. Use of the Museum copy of Ashbee's reprint of Jack Jugeler (14837a) accounts for collotype reproduction of BM stamps in a book the Museum never possessed! Other books clearly done from Ashbee are 22314 and 23949 (the former avowed in the collotype label).[13]

Readers will forgive a digression to dispose of a ghost variant of the first edition of Richard III (22314) that Sir Walter Greg doubtless solved to his personal satisfaction but neglected to mention in his Bibliography (# 142a). Ashbee and Griggs independently, and Farmer by transfer, all produce facsimiles of this 1597 Richard showing no ¶ initiating the imprint, although one should be there and naturally appears in Greg's collotype. But Greg was using the Museum's Huth copy, while his predecessors used the Huntington (Devonshire) copy, where the badly worn titlepage retains such a faint trace of the ¶ that Ashbee and Griggs apparently overlooked it.[14]

Since his attitude toward originals was lax, it is not surprising that Farmer shows little concern for the authenticity of individual leaves. John Rastell's interlude Of Gentylnes and Nobylyte (20723) will serve as a warning. Farmer's collotype gives no hint of imperfection in the Museum original, though his Hand List notes a facsimile first leaf. It is in fact no great secret that four leaves are supplied in type-facsimile on paper watermarked 1800.[15] The collotype of Skelton's Magnyfycence (22607) makes no mention of imperfection in the Museum


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original, although a Cambridge University shelfmark is visible on the titlepage (Hand List admits use of three Cambridge leaves). How many fake and substitute leaves appear in the whole series is a nice subject for speculation — the Hand List notes them in at least six other titles, with a different edition being used in one instance (12267). The collotypes are sometimes silent on the original used, or even mistake it (23544 with Dyce stamp in a "Museum" copy, corrected in Hand List). In at least one instance (24271) Farmer seems to have missed a leaf present in the original. Points of expertise can hardly be held against him: it is not surprising that he errs in designating an edition as first (4973), misdates an edition from a shaved imprint (6181), and mistakes an explicit for an imprint date (1305). In brief, students relying on Farmer for anything beyond a simple study text do so at their own risk.

During the present century several libraries and collectors have made rarities available to scholars in facsimile. Outstanding are the reproductions, usually collotype, from Cambridge, Folger, Huntington and John Rylands. More extensive are the various series sponsored by societies and subscription groups. Easiest to describe are the fifteen volumes in black-and-white published 1931-1938 by the Shakespeare Association. The general editor, G. B. Harrison, took an interest in technical problems, and his individual editors, though chiefly interested in intellectual background, usually provide bibliographical data. The Facsimile Text Society of New York, publishing through the Columbia University Press 1927-1942, produced a number of STC books, including useful literary titles absorbed from the London series of the 1920's known as Noel Douglas or English Replicas.

The most extensive recent program is Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, inaugurated in 1936 and still happily active. It has issued many STC items in economic, if not always handsome, reproduction. The original editor, Louis Friedland, did not have bibliography as a strong point, and some of his lapses are mentioned later. After 1948 greater rigor is shown by Prof. Harry R. Warfel, whose management of the series from Gainesville, Fla., deserves greater support from the scholarly world than it receives. The chief lapse of late is a fault of labeling. An overloaded 1957 titlepage begins Sir Thomas Overbury's Vision (1616), but the facsimile is of an 1808 reprint! The book should have used its spine inscription as title, English Sources of "The Scarlet Letter," for it is a collection of material consulted by Hawthorne — in brief, a parallel to C. W. Hodell's facsimile of The Old Yellow Book.

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collotype Shakespeare Quartos — models of reproduction and editing. The torch has passed to Charlton Hinman, and Oxford University Press progresses slowly — the fourteenth quarto appeared in 1966 and the next is not expected before 1968. Needless to say, the facsimile industry would come to a standstill if all editors observed the scrupulous standards of this series.

With photo-offset increasingly used for economy in reprinting trade books, scholarly facsimiles will doubtless multiply. While Shakespeare Quartos and Scholars' Facsimiles continue on their way, two major series were launched in 1966. The lesser seems aimed at the collector market rather than at Academia, and has probably priced itself beyond viability (the assurance that "only 3000" copies will be printed is curious for items selling at $45 and $60). This enterprise is the Bibliotheca Americana of World Publishing Company of Cleveland. The first three issues (incorporating five titles) appeared in 1966 as samples; the prospectus promises many more. These initial issues were handsomely reproduced in Italy on simulated aged paper, in elegant boxed bindings. The set promises to be usable, if arty. A. L. Rowse writes an essay for each title, and Robert O. Dougan provides bibliographical notes that incredibly neglect to identify the source copies.

Operating on a much larger scale and with more rigor if less art, the Scolar Press of Leeds initiated the first of several Renaissance series under direction of Dr. R. C. Alston of the University of Leeds. These economic reprints promise to be reliable, though the fastidious may resent the amount of show-through resulting from a declared policy of no retouching. The 1966 program of eleven issues in the "General" series was actually completed early in 1967. The first of an Elizabethan music series under the expert F. W. Sternfeld was scheduled for fall 1967. A staggering "English Linguistics" series was to begin in March 1967. Since subscriptions have closed, it is permissible to mention that institutions paying $6930 over a seven-year span are to receive 365 titles of the period 1500-1800 (of which the even century of STC titles pleasantly include several not in old STC). In sheer numbers, Farmer has at long last been out-Farmered! While this survey was in proof, Scolar Press moved to Menston, Yorks.

This survey of the field may conclude with a summary of desiderata in facsimiles and the rules for exclusion from the present Check List. Apart from integrity and legibility in reproduction, the standards of editing proper to photo-facsimiles are simple and rational, but rarely observed before Greg showed the way and often violated since. Readers should be alert to detect failure to comply with these standards:

  • a. The edition must be clearly identified, and the copy used must

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    exemplify it. If variants exist, attention should be called to them.
  • b. The source copy must be identified by location and, if multiple copies exist, by shelf-mark. This insurance of reliability was often neglected in early reprints and even in some Shakespeare Association issues. It is no less than a scandal that in 1966 Huntington's librarian is silent on this point in the Bibliotheca Americana.[16]
  • c. The editor must insure the integrity of his base copy, noting any imperfections and supplying full details on substitute leaves. Substitution is necessary to fill lacunae and in theory permissible to remedy smeared or faint impression; substitutions should be of the same proof state of the forme if possible. Violations were liberally illustrated from Farmer, and more recent examples may be cited. Among early issues of Scholars' Facsimiles, Palladis Tamia (17834) draws on three copies and nevertheless reproduces a crude pen-facsimile titlepage! The Beggers Ape (18516) submitted the titlepage from a shaved Museum copy and thus — without editorial notice — appears without date! Good copies were available at Folger and elsewhere.[17] Clarity surmises that the nominal editors had no control over the actual reproduction. On the other hand, the editor of Cotgrave (5380) has no qualms in admitting that he supplies his last five leaves from a later edition.
  • d. A facsimile reprint should be bibliographically complete, with notice of blank leaves regardless of their presence in the base copy. If it is not complete, clear statement must be made of the omissions. Criminal in this respect is the handsome reprint of Tusser's Good Husbandry. To save precious library time in Britain, the present writer relied on this reprint instead of the unique Museum original. It was years before he accidentally discovered that the reprint silently suppresses the dedication leaf! One may resent the economy omission of sigs. Pp8-Xxi from the reprint of DuBartas (21649), but at least the fact is clearly stated.
  • e. Besides stating the type of reproduction used, an editor may helpfully clear up blurred readings.
  • f. The presumption is that a facsimile is the same size as the original. Marked enlargement or reduction should be noted, with scale or original measurements. Serious reduction may make a reprint almost useless.


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The present Check List is limited to photo-facsimiles produced on some variety of printing press. Normally they were for general sale, although a minority were privately issued. Some editions were all too limited, so that copies seem as rare as originals. Without impeaching the value of such material, the Check List ignores the following:

  • a. Photographs and photostats. These include invaluable material, such as the corpus available in bound form from Huntington Library, or Americana series published years ago by the Massachusetts Historical Society.
  • b. Microfilm.
  • c. Xerox codices. Normally made to order, these in some instances now approximate books-in-print. Nevertheless they are individually made from microfilm.

This census of the output of the British press before 1641 deliberately excludes certain categories, including two failing to qualify for STC under its rules:

  • 1. Books printed abroad in Latin, such as More's Utopia (facsimiled 1966 at Leeds) and Harvey's De Motu Cordis, 1628 (several tercentennary reprints).
  • 2. Single-sheet engraved maps and prints (see A.M.Hind, etc., Engraving in England, I-III, 1952-1964).
The complier has further eliminated well over a hundred items on pretext that their doubtful interest to literary students does not outweigh the economy of reducing the Check List by 25%:
  • 3. Indulgences. A fairly complete collection of 45 is crudely but usably reproduced by K. W. Cameron in The Pardoner and his Pardons (Hartford, c.1965).
  • 4. Proclamations. Stray examples are facsimiled in many places. The chief collection was edited by Richard Garnett as Tudor Proclamations, unhappily restricted to 24 copies (Oxford, 1897).
  • 5. A few other documents and blank forms, such as the herald's summons reproduced by Charlton Hinman in The Printing of the First Folio (1963), I, 25.
  • 6. Bookplates (see Egerton Castle, English Book-plates, 1892).
  • 7. A few non-literary fragments, as of almanacks or a leaf of grammar (STC 7018).

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except a few still in press when the census was completed. All but a score were seen at Folger Library.[18] It is impossible to assert that scattered reproductions of broadsides may not have escaped the net, but the census of facsimile books is substantially complete. This statement is hazarded on the authority of thirty years of continuous work with STC books.

When more than one satisfactory facsimile exists, the best is given primary listing. Others are cited more briefly on the next line. Such duplication is uncommon except for Shakespeare. Listing is by STC number — that is, alphabetical. Information is abbreviated to the facts essential for precise identification of the original edition and for tracing the facsimile. The following sigla are appended to STC numbers:

* Title not in original (1926) STC
† This edition not in original STC
var. Variant imprint from STC or other minor variation
pt. Only part of the book is facsimiled.


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CHECK LIST OF STC FACSIMILES

                                                                                                       
Original Edition  Facsimile Reprint 
STC   Author  Title  Editor   Publisher 
16  A., R.  Valiant Welshman, 1615  J.S. Farmer, 1913 
* 18†  ABC  [Sarum ABC], 1535?  W.H. Allnutt, Oxford, priv., 1891 
19  ___  The BAC, n.d.  E. Shuckburgh, London, Stock, 1889 
Short Account Stationers, 1903 
20†  ___  The A B C [frag. 1584?]  H. Anders, Library, 4 se., XVI, 1935 
387  Almanack  Almanacke for xii, 1508?  "H.T.P.", Ann Arbor, Edwards, 1935 
* 400†  ___  Calendier historiael, 1570  E. Beloe, King's Lynn Museum, 1915 
424  ___  Buckminster for 1598  E. F. Bosanquet, Shakes.Assoc, 1935 
464  ___  Huring broadside, 1551  Bosanquet, English Almanacks, 1917 
471  ___  Laet broadside, 1530  Bosanquet, Eng. Almanacks, 1917 
* 489†  ___  Neve broadside, 1615  J. Lewis, Printed Ephemera, 1962 
733  Arden, T.  Arden of Feuersham, 1592  J.S. Farmer, 1911 
773  Armin, R.  Maids of More-clacke, 1609  J.S. Farmer, 1913 
786  Ars  Ars moriendi, n.d.  E. Nicholson, Quaritch, 1891 
789  Art  Art to dye, n.d.  ___, London, Lumley, 1875 
* 789†  ___  Arte of angling, 1577  G.E. Bentley, Princeton U.P., 1956 
832  Ascham, R.  Scholemaster, 1570  R.C. Alston, Leeds, Scolar, 1967 
968  Austin, H.  Scourge of Venus, 1613  P. W. Miller, Scholars' Facs., 1967 
991  Awdely, J.  Epitaph of Benison, 1570  Collmann, Ballads ω Broad., 1912 
1059  B., R.  Apius and Virginia, 1575  J.S. Farmer, 1908 
1137  Bacon, F.  Essayes, 1597  ___, N.Y., Dodd Mead, 1904 
1177  ___  Memoriae de Verul., 1628  W. Gundry, London, priv., 1950 
1267  Baldwin, W.  Morall philosophie, 1620?  R.H. Bowers, Scholars' Facs., 1967 
1279  Bale, J.  Temptacyon of lorde, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, 1909 
1287  ___  Thre lawes, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, 1908 
1305  ___  Chefe promyses, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, 1908 
1428  Barksted, W.  Hiren, 1611  P.W. Miller, Scholars' Facs., 1967 
1429  ___  Mirrha, 1607  With preceding 
1456  Barlow, W.  Summe a.Substance, 1604  Costello & K, Scholars' F., 1965 
1466  Barnes, B.  Diuils charter  J.S. Farmer, 1913 
1502a  Barrey, D.  Ram-Alley, 1611  J.S. Farmer, 1913 
1546  Basse, W.  Brit.sunnes-set, 1613  W.H. Allnutt, Oxford, priv., 1872 
1850  Bellot, J.  Booke of thrift, 1589  F.H. Cripps-Day, Manor Farm, 1931 
1978  Betson, T.  Profytable treatyse, n.d.  F. Jenkinson, Cambridge U.P., 1905 
1998  Bèze, T.  Ad ser. Elizabetham, 1588  E.M. Tenison, Eliz. England, VII, 1940 
2216  Bible  Holy Bible [K.Ja.], 1611  A.W. Pollard, Oxford U.P., 1911 
2738  ___  [Bay Psalm book], 1640  Z. Haraszti, U.Chicago P., 1956 
W. Eames, New Eng. Soc., 1903 
2742  ___  Psalmau Dafydd, 1588  T. Powel, London, 1896 
2823  ___  [Tyndale Testament], n.d.  A.W. Pollard, Oxford U.P., 1926 
3132  Blenerhasset  Reuelation Minerua, 1582  J.W. Bennett, Scholars' F., 1941 
3303  Book  Book of curtesye, n.d.  F. Jenkinson, Camb.U.P., 1907 
3307  ___  [De reg. principum], n.d.  W. Beattie, Edinburgh Bib.Soc., 1950 
3308  ___  Bokys of haukyng, [1486]  W. Blades, London, Stock, 1881 
3309  pt. ___  Treat. of fyshynge, 1496  J.D. McDonald, Origins Angling, 1963 
M.G. Watkins, London, Stock, 1880 
*3363†  ___  Newe booke copies, 1574  B. Wolpe, Oxford U.P., 1962 
3544  Brandon, S.  Vertuous Octauia, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, 1912 
3610  Brereton, J.  Briefe relation, 1602  L.S. Livingston, Bibliographer, I, 1902 
3631  Breton, N.  Arbor of deuises, 1597  H.E. Rollins, Huntington Lib., 1936 

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Original Edition  Facsimile Reprint 
STC   Author  Title  Editor   Publisher 
3633  ___  Brittons bowre, 1591  H.E. Rollins, Huntington Lib., 1933 
3747  Bright, T.  Treatise melancholie, 1586  H. Craig. Facs.Text Soc., 1940 
3767  Brinsley, J.  Consolation schooles, 1622  T.C. Pollock, Scholars' F., 1943 
3794  Bristol  Faire maide of B, 1605  J.S. Farmer, 1912 
*3830†  Brooke, C.  Late massacre Va., 1622  R.C. Johnson, Virg.Magazine, 1964 
3835  Brooke, T.  Certayne versis, 1570  E. Beloe, with *400†, q.v. 
4082  Bullock, H.  Oratio, 1521  H. Bradshaw, Cambridge, Clay, 1886 
*4087†  Bullokar, W.  Short introd. Inglish, 1580  B. Danielsson, Leeds Univ., 1966 
*4087†  ___  [Same], 1581  With preceding (more titles forthcoming) 
4246  Byrd, W.  Gratification, 1589  M.C. Boyd, Elizab.Music, 1940 
4252  var. ___  Parthenia, n.d.  O.E. Deutsch, Harrow Replicas, 1942 
4268  C., E.  Emaricdulfe, 1595  C. Edmunds, Roxburghe Club, 1881 
4275  pt. Page, S.  Amos and Laura, 1613  P.W. Miller, Scholars' F., 1967 
4281  C., I.  Two milke-maids, 1620  J.S. Farmer, 1914 
4340  Caesar  Caesar & Pompey, 1607  J.S. Farmer, 1913 
4343  Caius, J.  Boke against sweate, 1552  A. Malloch, Scholars' F., 1937 
*4371†  Calvert, C.  Baltemores plantat, 1633?  L.C. Wroth, Baltimore, 1929 
4589  Canutus  Boke pestilence, n.d.  G. Vine, J.Rylands Lib., 1910 
4720  Cary, W.  Herball, 1525  S.V. Larkey, Scholars' F., 1937 
4850  Cato, D.  Paruus Catho, n.d.  F. Jenkinson, Cambridge U.P., 1906 
4884  Cawdrey, R.  Table alphabeticall, 1604  R.A., Peters, Scholars' F., 1966 
4890  Caxton, W.  [Advertisement], n.d.  E.G. Duff, William Caxton, 1905 
Garnett & Gosse, I, 259; etc. 
4902  Cecil, W.  Execution iustice, 1583  ___, Scholars' Facs., 1936? 
4973  Chapman, G.  Eastward Hoe, 1605  J.S. Farmer, 1914 
4991  ___  Two wise men, 1619  J.S. Farmer, 1913 
5068  Chaucer, G.  Workes, 1532  W.W. Skeat, Oxford U.P., 1905 
5090  ___  [Anelida & Arcite], n.d.  F. Jenkinson, Cambridge U.P., 1905 
5099  ___  Maying of Chaucer, 1508  W. Beattie, Edinb.Bib.Soc., 1950 
5125  Chettle, H.  Hoffman, 1631  J.S. Farmer, 1913 
5204†  Christmas  Christmas carolles, n.d.  E.B. Reed, Huntington Lib., 1932 
Fragmentary 5204 and 5205 included with above 
*5206†  ___  [Old Christmas, frag.,n.d.]  Greg, Malone Soc. Collect.IV, 1956 
*5225†  Churchyard,T.  Dauy Dycars dreame, n.d.  Collmann, Ballads & Broad., 1912 
5380  Cotgrave, R.  Dictionarie, 1611  W.S. Woods, U.South Car. P., 1950 
5393  Cleland, J.  Institution noble, 1607  M. Molyneux, Scholars' F., 1948 
5400  Clement, F.  Petie schole, 1587  R.D. Pepper, Scholars' F., 1966 
5442  Clowes, W.  Booke obseruations, 1596  Starnes & L., Scholars' F., 1945 
5450a  Clyomon  Clyomon a. Clamydes, 1599  J.S. Farmer, 1913 
5452  Cobbe  Cobbes prophecies, 1614 A.H.  Bullen, London, 1890 
5457  Cockaine, T.  Treatise of hunting, 1591  W.R. Halliday, Shake.Assoc., 1932 
G.E. Cokayne, Roxburghe Cl., 1897 
5593  Comedy  Liberalitie a. prod., 1602  J.S. Farmer, 1912 
5594  ___  How chuse a wife, 1602  J.S. Farmer, 1912 
5673  Cooke, J.  Greenes tu quoque, 1614  J.S. Farmer, 1913 
5681  Cooper, M.  Woman possessed, 1584?  E.E. Baker, Weston-sup-M, 1886 
5745  etc. Coranto  Corrant, 18 iss., 1620-21  van Stockum, The Hague, 1914 
5748  ___  Corant, 11 oct. 1621  N.Y.Times, 17 aug. 1913, mag.sec. 
5774  Cornwallis, W.  Discourses Seneca, 1601  R.H. Bowers, Scholars' F., 1952 
*6089†  Crowley, R.  Philargyrie, n.d.  W.A. Marsden, London, Walker, 1931 
6150  Custom  New custome, 1573  J.S. Farmer, [1914] 

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6160  Cyrus  Warres of Cyrus, 1594  J.S. Farmer, 1911 
6178  D., R.  Epitaph vpon Price, n.d.  Collmann, Ballads & Broad., 1912 
6181  D., T.  Bloodie banquet, 1639  J.S. Farmer, 1914 
6202  Dallington, R.  View of Fraunce, 1604  W.P. Barrett, Shakes.Assoc., 1936 
6218  See Milton 
6277  Darius  Kyng Daryus, 1565  J.S. Farmer, 1909 
6278  ___  King Daryus, 1577  J.S. Farmer, [1914?] 
6289  Datus, A.  Super Tull. elog., n.d.  F. Jenkinson, Cambridge U.P., 1905 
6350  pt. Davies, J.  Epigrammes, n.d.  C. Howard, Facs.Text Soc., 1941 
also Poems of Sir J.D., Columbia, 1941 
6351  ___  Hymnes of Astraea, 1599  C. Howard, Poems of Sir J.D., 1941 
6355  ___  Nosce teipsum, 1599  C. Howard, with preceding 
6360  ___  Orchestra, 1596  C. Howard with preceding 
6363  Davies, J. (anr)  Sir Mart.Marpeople, 1590  P.M. Barnard, Tunbridge Wells, 1923 
*6389†  Dawes, T.  [Knights Garter], 1576  A.M. Hind, Engraving in Eng., I, 1952 
6404  Day, A.  English Secretary, 1599  R. Evans, Scholars' Facs., 1967 
6413  Day, J.  Ile of guls, 1606  G.B. Harrison, Shake.Assoc., 1936 
6442  Death  [Death-bed prayers], n.d.  Rylands Lib. Eng. Incunabula, 1930 
6518  Dekker, T.  Patient Grissill, 1603  J.S. Farmer, 1911 
6537  Dekker & W.  Sir T. Wyat, 1607  J.S. Farmer, 1914 
6539  ___  North-ward Hoe, 1607  J.S. Farmer, 1914 
6540  ___  West-ward Hoe, 1607  J.S. Farmer, 1914 
6557  Deloney, T.  Ioyful new ballad, 1588  E.M. Tenison, Eliz.England, VII, 1940 
*6558†  ___  Acts of Arthur, n.d.  W.A. Jackson, Harv.Lib.Bul., X, 1956 
6767  Description  Woman-hill, 1580  A.K., Aberdeen, 1884 
*6784†  DesPeriers, B.  Mirrour of mirth, 1583  J.W. Hassell, Univ.N.C.P., 1959 
6791†  Devereux, R.  Death of Essex, n.d.  J.W. Draper, Broadside Elegies, 1928 
6792  ___  Lamentable ditty, n.d.  E.M. Tenison, Eliz.England, XI, 1956 
6793  ___  Essex his death, n.d.  With preceding 
6826  Dictes  Dyctes & sayengis, 1477  W. Blades, London, Stock, 1877 
*6902†  Direction  Direction . . . plague, n.d.  F.P. Wilson, Plague . . . London, 1963 
6991  Dodypoll  Wisdome of Dodypoll, 1600  J.S. Farmer, 1912 
7022  Donne, J.  Anatomy of world, 1611  G. Keynes, Roxburghe Club, 1951 
7023  ___  First anniuersarie, 1621  ___, Facs. Text Soc., 1927 
7027  ___  Ignatius conclaue, 1611  C.M. Coffin, Facs.Text Soc., 1941 
7043  ___  Iuuenilia, 1633  R.E. Bennett, Facs.Text Soc., 1936 
7161  Drake, F.  World encompassed, 1628  R.O. Dougan, Cleveland, World, 1966 
7243  Drum, J.  Iacke Drums enter., 1601  J.S. Farmer, 1912 
7268  Dubravius, J.  Book of husbandry, 1599  J.M. French, Scholars' F., 1962 
7304  DuLaurens, A.  Discourse of sight, 1599  S.V. Larkey, Shake.Assoc., 1938 
7347  Dunbar, W.  Ballade of Barnard, n.d.  W. Beattie, Edinb.Bib.Soc., 1950 
7348  ___  [Flyting], n.d.  With preceding, i.e., Chepman &  
7349  ___  Golden targe, n.d.  Myllar Prints  
7350  ___  [Twa marrit wemen], n.d.  With preceding 
7493  Edmonton  Merry devill, 1608  J.S. Farmer, 1911 
7501  Edward III  Edward the third, 1596  J.S. Farmer, 1910 
7508  Edward VI  Prayer in sicknes, 1553  Collmann, Ballads & Broad., 1912 
7514  Edwards, R.  Damon and Pithias, 1571  J.S. Farmer, 1908 
7542  Eglamoure  [Syr Eglamoure], n.d.  W. Beattie, with 7347, q.v. 
7588  Elizabeth  Loe here pearle, n.d.  Brit.Mus.Huth Beq. Catalogue, 1912 
7591  ___  Quenes passage, 1558  J.M. Osborn, Yale Eliz. Club, 1960 
7631  Elyot, T.  Bankette of sapience, 1542  L. Gottesman, Scholars' F., 1967 

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7645  ___  Castel of helth, 1541  ___, Scholars' Facs., 1936? 
7664  ___  Image of Gouernance, 1541  L. Gottesman, with 7631, q.v. 
7672  ___  Pasquil the playne, 1533  With preceding 
7676  Em  Faire Em, 1631  J.S. Farmer, 1911 
8463  England  Declaration Bountie, 1610  J.W. Gordon, Monopolies, 1897 
9199  ___  Orders . . . plague, 1592  With 20868, q.v. 
10441  Erasmus, D.  Adagies, 1569  D.T. Starnes, Scholars' F., 1956 
10466  ___  Complaint of peace, 1559  W.J. Hirten, Scholars' F., 1946 
10603  Everyman  [Everyman, impf.], n.d.  With next 
10605  ___  How the hye fader, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, 1912 
10766  Fenner, D.  Artes of logike, 1584  R.D. Pepper, Scholars' F., 1966 
11024  Fitzjames, R.  Sermo die lune, n.d.  F. Jenkinson, Cambridge U.P., 1907 
11029  Flanders  Newes from Flanders, 1600  With 17671, q.v. 
11056  Fletcher, G.  Russe common wealth, 1591  R.E. Pipes, Harvard U.P., 1966 
11075  Fletcher & S.  Two noble kinsmen, 1634  J.S. Farmer, 1910 
11097  Florio, J.  Second frutes, 1591  R.C. Simonini, Scholars' F., 1953 
*11214†  Fowler, W.  Epitaphe vpon Seton, 1594  J.W. Draper, Broadside Elegies, 1928 
11474  Fulwell, U.  Like will to like, 1587  J.S. Farmer, [1914?] 
11488  Furio, F.  Of counselers, 1570?  K. Selig, Scholars' Facs., 1963 
11496  var. G., H.  Mirrour of maiestie, 1618  H. Green & C., Holbein Soc., 1870 
11527  Gale, D.  Pyramus a. Thisbe, 1617  P.W. Miller, Scholars' F., 1967 
11536  Galen, C.  De temperamentis, 1521  J.F. Payne, Cambridge, Clay, 1881 
11543  Galvão, A.  Discoueries of world, 1601  R.O. Dougan, Cleveland, World, 1966 
11585  Gardiner, S.  De vera obedientia, 1553  R.C. Alston, Leeds, Scolar, 1966 
11643  Gascoyne, G.  Glasse gouernement, 1575  J.S. Farmer, 1914 
11695  Gedde, W.  Booke of draughtes, 1615  ___, London, Leadenhall, 1898 
11716  Gemini, T.  Anatomie delineatio, 1553  C.D. O'Malley, London, 1959 
*11718†  ___  Morysse a. damashin, 1548  A.M. Hind, Engraving in Eng., I, 1952 
11719  Geminus, P.  Hermathena, 1522  ___, Cambridge, Clay, 1886 
11850  Gifford, G.  Dialogue witches, 1593  B. White, Shakes.Assoc., 1931 
*11926†  God  God speede plough, 1601  J.C. Bay, Cedar Rapids, 1953 
11984  Golagros  Golagros a. gawane, 1508  W. Beattie, Edinb.Bib.Soc., 1950 
12020  Goodman, C.  How superior powers, 1558  C.G. McIlwain, Facs.Text Soc., 1931 
12050  Goosecappe  Sir Gyles G., 1606  J.S. Farmer, 1912 
*12059†  Gordon, J.  In effigiem Mariae, n.d.  A.M. Hind, Engraving in Eng., II, 1955 
12174  Grange, J.  Golden Aphroditis, 1577  H.E. Rollins, Scholars' F., 1939 
12204  Gray, R.  A good speed, 1609  W.F. Craven, Scholars' F., 1937 
12212  Green, G.  George a Greene, 1599  J.S. Farmer, 1913 
12214  Greene, J.  Refutation of apology, 1615  R.H. Perkinson, Scholars' F., 1941 
12224  Greene, R.  Ciceronis amor, 1589  E.H., Miller, Scholars' F., 1954 
12267  ___  Frier Bacon, 1594  J.S. Farmer, 1914 
12300  ___  Quip for courtier, 1592  E.H. Miller, Scholars' F., 1954 
12343  Greepe, T.  Newes of Drake, [1587]  D.W. Waters, Hartford, Conn., 1955 
12381  Gringore, P.  Castell of laboure, 1506  A.W. Pollard, Roxburghe Club, 1905 
12504  Guilpin, E.  Skialetheia, 1598  G.B. Harrison, Shake.Assoc., 1931 
12571  H., J.  Work for chimny-sweep., 1602  S.H. Atkins, Shake.Assoc., 1936 
12625  Hakluyt, R.  Principall nauigat., 1589  D.B. Quinn, Hakluyt Soc., 1965 
12785  Hariot, T.  Report of Virginia, 1588  R.G. Adams, Clements Lib., 1951 
___, Bibliographer, I, 1902 
12786  ___  Briefe report of Va., 1590  W.R. Rylands, Holbein Soc., 1888 
J. Sabin, New York, 1872 
12931  Haughton, W.  English-men for money, 1616  J.S. Farmer, 1911 
13056  Helwys, T.  Mistery of iniquity, 1612  H.W. Robinson, Baptist Hist.Soc., 1935 
13072  Henry V.  Famous Victories, 1598  J.S. Farmer, 1912 
Praetorius, London, 1887 

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13149  Henry  [Wallace], 1570  W.A. Craigie, Scholars' F., 1939 
Jointly with Scottish Text Soc. 
13166  Henryson, R.  Traitie of Orpheus, n.d.  W. Beattie, Edinb.Bib.Soc., 1950 
13298  Heywood, J.  Johan Johan, 1533  J.S. Farmer, 1909 
13299  ___  Pardoner and frere, 1533  J.S. Farmer, 1909 
13300  ___  Foure PP, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, 1908 
13303  ___  Play of loue, 1534  J.S. Farmer, 1908 
13305  ___  Play of wether, 1533  J.S. Farmer, 1908 & -9 
13307  ___  Playe of weather, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, 1909? 
13309  Heywood, T.  Apology for actors, 1612  R.H. Perkinson, Scholars' F., 1941 
13341  ___  Edward the Fourth, 1599  S. d.Ricci, Rosenbach Co., 1922 
13529  Histrio-M.  Histrio-Mastix, 1610  J.S. Farmer, 1912 
13567a  Hole, R.  Parthenia in-viol., n.d.  R.J. Wolfe, N.Y.Public Lib., 1961 
13581  Holland H.  Baziliologia, 1618 see   H.C. Levis, Baziliologia, 1913 
13594  Holland, R.  [Buke of howlat], n.d.  W. Beattie, Edinb.Bib.Soc., N.S. II. 
13609  Holy Ghost  Abbaye of H. Ghost, n.d.  F. Jenkinson, Cambridge U.P., 1907 
13617  Holyday, B.  Technogamia, 1618  Sr.M.J. Carmel, Catholic U.P., 1942 
13689†  Hood, R.  Gest of R. Hode, n.d.  W. Beattie, Edinb.Bib.Soc., 1950 
13691  ___  Mery geste, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, 1914 
*13805†  Horatius  Poesyes of Horace, 1565  W.A. Jackson, Harv.Lib.Bul., I, 1947 
13813  Hornbooks  [Hornbook, n.d.]  A. Tuer, History of Horn-book, 1896 
13860  Howard, H.  Songes a. sonettes, 1557  R.C. Alston, Leeds, Scolar, 1966 
13890  Huarte, J.  Examen de ingenios, 1594  C. Rogers, Scholars' F., 1959 
13921  Hughes, T.  Certaine deuises, 1587  J.S. Farmer, 1911 
14039  Hyckescorn.  Hyckescorner, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, 1908 
14072  Image  [Image of pity, n.d.]  E.G. Duff, William Caxton, 1905 
14072a†  ___  Other versions: PMLA, LXXX;  Stonehill Cat. 145 (1940) 
14081  Information  Inform. f. pylgrymes, n.d.  E.G. Duff, London, 1893 
14085  Ingelend, T.  Disobedient child, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, 1908 
14096  Innocent VIII  Our holy fadre, [1486]  R. Garnet, Tudor Proclamations, 1897 
14110  Interlude  Welth and Helth, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, 1907; also in 
Farmer, Lost Tudor Plays, 1907 
14111  ___  Youth, n.d., frag.  With next; also Materialen, 1905 
14111a  ___  Youth, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, 1909 
14112  ___  Youth, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, 1914 
14114  ___  Impacyente pouerte, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, 1907; see 14110 note 
14277  Isocrates  Doctrinal of princes, n.d.  L. Gottesman, Scholars' F., 1967 
14327  Jacob  Iacob and Esau, 1568  J.S. Farmer, [1914] 
*14423†  James I  Funeral elegie, [1625]  J.W. Draper, Broadside Elegies, 1928 
*14426†  ___  New song . . . Iames, [1603]  W.A. Jackson, Library, 5 ser. XIII, 1958 
14522  Jest  Frere and boye, n.d.  F. Jenkinson, Cambridge U.P., 1907 
14643  John  Johan the euangelyst, n.d.  Farmer, 1907; see 14110 note 
14644  John  Troublesome raigne, 1591  J.S. Farmer, 1911 
Praetorius, London, 1888 
14645  ___  Second part of Iohn, 1591  J.S. Farmer, 1911 
Praetorius, London, 1888 
14657  Johnson, E.  Hymnus comitialis, n.d.  Elkin Wilson, Eng's Eliza, 1939 
14696  Johnson, R.  Essaies, 1607  R.H. Bowers, Scholars' F., 1955 
14751/4  Jonson, B.  [Parts of] Workes, 1616/40  H.H. Hudson, Facs.Text Soc., 1936 
14755  ___  Alchemist, 1612  ___, Facs. Text Soc., 1927 

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*14782†  ___  Time vindicated, n.d.  Pforzheimer Catalogue, II, 1940 
14816  Jourdan, S.  Discouery of Barmudas, 1610  J.Q. Adams, Scholars' F., 1940 
14843  Julius III  Bulla indulgentiae, [1554]  R. Garnett, Tudor Proclamations, 1897 
14926  Kempe, W.  Education children, 1588  R.D. Pepper, Scholars' F., 1966 
14964  King, E.  Justa Naufrago, 1638  E.C. Mossner, Facs.Text Soc., 1939 
15027  Knack  Knacke knowe knaue, 1594  J.S. Farmer, 1911 
15028  ___  Know honest man, 1596  J.S. Farmer, 1912 
15086  Kyd, T.  Spanish tragedie, [1592]  R.C. Alston, Leeds, Scolar, 1966 
15123  Laet, G.  Prenostica, [1518]  Bosanquet, Eng. Almanacks, 1917 
15224  Lant, T.  [Sidney funeral], 1587  A.M. Hind, Engraving in Eng., I, 1952 
15246  LaRamée, P.  The logike, 1574  R.C. Alston, Leeds, Scolar, 1966 
15316  Laudonnière  Notable historie, 1587  T.R. Adams, Farnham, Surrey, 1964 
15343  Lear  King Leir, 1605  J.S. Farmer, 1910 
15599  Lilburne, J.  Worke of Beast, 1638  W. Haller, Tracts on Liberty, I, 1933 
15614†  Lily, W.  Shorte introduction, 1567  V.J. Flynn, Scholars' F., 1945 
16267  Liturgies  Common prayer, 1549  G. Moreton, 1896 
16403  ___  Common prayer, 1636  A.P. Stanley, Ordnance Sur., 1870 
16441  ___  Common . . . noted, 1550  E. Hunt, S.P.C.K., 1939 
16610  Livingston, H.  Confession conuersion, 1629  G.P. Johnston, Edinb.Bib.Soc., 1924 
16680  Lodge & Gr.  Looking glasse, 1598  J.S. Farmer, 1914 
16739ff  London  [Plague bills], v.d.  F.P. Wilson, Plague . . . London, 1963 
16754  ___  Larum for London, 1602  J.S. Farmer, 1912 
16772  ___  Pharmacopoea, 1618  G. Urdang, Wisconsin Hist.S., 1944 
16778  ___  Den burgemeysteren, 1526  M.E. Kronenberg, Oxford Bib.Soc., 
N.S., I, 1949; does not belong in STC.  
16799  Look  Looke about you, 1600  J.S. Farmer, 1912 
16907  Lopez, F.  Conquest of India, 1578  H.I. Priestley, Scholars' F., 1940 
16949  Lupton, T.  All for money, 1578  J.S. Farmer, 1910 
17006  Lydgate, J.  [Assemble goddes], n.d.  F. Jenkinson, Cambridge U.P., 1906 
17008  ___  [Chorle a. birde], n.d.  F. Jenkinson, Cambridge U.P., 1906 
17017  ___  Gouernaunce Kynges, 1511  D.T. Starnes, Scholars' F., 1957 
17020  ___  Horse, sheep, ghoos, n.d.  F. Jenkinson, Cambridge U.P., 1906 
17032  ___  Temple of glas, n.d.  F. Jenkinson, Cambridge U.P., 1905 
17091  Lynche, R.  Diego and Gineura, 1596  P.W. Miller, Scholars' F., 1967 
17140  M., I.  Health to seruingmen, 1598  A.V. Judges, Shake.Assoc., 1931 
*17174†  Mackgueir, P.  Teares for Richmond, 1624  J.W. Draper, Broadside Elegies, 1928 
17188  Maid  Maydes metamorphosis, 1600  J.S. Farmer, 1912 
17294  Map  Map of mortalitie, n.d.  Collmann, Ballads & Broad., 1912 
17356  pt. Markham, G.  Pleasures of princes, 1614  J.M. French, Scholars' F., 1962 
17429  Marlowe, C.  D. Faustus, 1604  J.S. Farmer, 1914 
17411  ___ & Nash  Dido, 1594  J.S. Farmer, 1914 
17453  Marprelate  Oh read Bridges, [1588]  R.C. Alston, Leeds, Scolar, 1967 
17454-9  inc. ___  [Marprelate tracts]  Included with preceding 
17466  Mariage  Mariage of witte, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, 1909 
17495  Martialis  Martial to himselfe, 1571  E.J. Jones, U.Wales Celtic Stud., III, 1926-7 
17534  Mary  Commemoracon, n.d.  E.G. Duff, Bib.Soc.Lancashire, 1901 
17534†  ___  Compassio Marie, n.d.  E.P. Johnston, Pap.Edinb.Bib.S., 1930 
17543  ___  Psalterium [frag], n.d.  E.G. Duff, Pap.Edinb.B.S., I, 1896 
17550  ___  Universis. . ., 1521  Quaritch Cat. 436, 1930 
17557  Mary of N.  Lyttell story of, 1518?  H.M. Ayres & B, Huntington Lib., 1932 

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*17566†  Mary of S.  [Marriage, frag.], 1558  D. Hamer, Library, 4 se., XII, 1931-2 
17669  Maunsell, A.  Catalogue of bookes, 1595  D.F. Foxon, London, Gregg, 1965 
17671  Maurice  Battaile fought, 1600  D.C. Collins, Shake.Assoc., 1935 
17679  ___  True relation, [1600]  With preceding 
17778  Medwell, H.  Fulgens . . . Lucres, n.d.  S. d.Ricci, Huntington Lib., 1920 
17779  ___  Nature, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, 1908 
17834  Meres, F.  Palladis tamia, 1598  D.C. Allen, Scholars' F., 1938 
*17885†  Middleton, T.  Ghost of Lucrece, 1600  J.Q. Adams, Folger Lib., 1937 
17908  ___ & D.  Roaring girle, 1611  J.S. Farmer, 1914 
6218  Milton  Epitaphium Damonis, n.d.  H.F. Fletcher, Poet.Works, I, 1943 
17937  ___  A Maske, 1637  H.F. Fletcher, same as above 
Livingston, Bibliographer, I, 1902 
18076  pt. More, T.  Workes, 1557 thru p.288  Campbell etc., Eyre & Spott., 1927,31 
18118  Morley, T.  First . . . Canzonets, 1595  J.E. Uhler, Louisiana State UP, 1944 
18133  ___  Plaine introduction, 1597  E.H. Fellowes, Shake.Assoc., 1937 
18230  Mucedorus  Mucedorus, 1910  J.S. Farmer, 1910 
18255  Mun, T.  Discourse trade, 1621  ___, Facs. Text Soc., 1930 
18267  var. Munday, A.  Chruso-thriambos, 1611  J. Pafford, Univ. London, 1962 
18269  ___  Death . . . Huntington, 1601  J.S. Farmer, 1913 
18271  ___  Downefall Huntington, 1601  J.S. Farmer, 1913 
*18324†  N.  Christiani epistola, 1521  J.F. Payne, Cambridge, Clay, 1886 
18491  Newbery, T.  Diues pragmaticus, 1563  P.E. Newbery, J.Rylands Lib., 1910 
18516  Niccols, R.  Beggers ape, 1627  B.Harris, Scholars' F., 1936? 
18597  Nobody  No-Body a. some-body, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, 1911 
18599  ___  Welspoken Nobody, n.d.  Collmann, Ballads & Broad., 1912 
18602  Noot, J.  Theatre worldlings, 1569  ___, Scholars' F., 1939? 
18642  Norden, J.  Vicissitudo rerum, 1600  D.C. Collins, Shake.Assoc., 1931 
18656  Norris, R.  Warning to London, n.d.  Collmann, Ballads & Broad., 1912 
18662  North, G.  Description Swedland, 1561  M. Swan, Scholars' F., 1946 
18685  Norton & S.  Ferrex & Porrex, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, 1908 
18795  Oldcastle, J.  Sir J. Old-castle, 1600  J.S. Farmer, 1911 
19151  Palingenius  Zodiake of life, 1576  R. Tuve, Scholars' F., 1947 
*19229†  Parker, M.  Englands honour revived, [1628]  J.S. Cox, Beaminister, Toucan, 1964 
19310  Parnassus  Returne from P., 1606  J.S. Farmer, 1912 
19408  Parsons, R.  Iudgment of Catholicke, 1608  W.T. Costello, Scholars' F., 1957 
*19460†  Pater  [Pater, Filius, n.d., Greg 19]  Greg, Malone Soc. Collect. I, 1907 
19497  Peacham, H.  Garden eloquence, 1577  W.G. Crane, Scholars' F., 1954 
19511  Peacham jr.  Minerua Britanna, 1612  R.C. Alston, Leeds, Scolar, 1966 
19517  ___  Truth of times, 1638  R.R. Cawley, Facs.Text Soc., 1942 
19876  Phillips, J.  Commem. Hatton, 1591  C. Edmonds, Roxburghe Cl., 1881 
19886  Philos  Philos & Licia, 1624  P.W. Miller, Scholars' F., 1967 
19917  Pikeryng, J.  Horestes, 1567  J.S. Farmer, 1910 
19936  Pimlico  Pimlyco, 1609  A.H. Bullen, Oxford U.P., 1891 
*19975†  "Plato" 2 pts.  Axiochus, 1592  F.M. Padelford, J.Hopkins P., 1934 
Part ii.  Speech at tryumph  Pforzheimer Catalogue, III, 1940 
20057  Plutarch  Education children, n.d.  R.D. Pepper, Scholars' F., 1966 
*20059†  ___  Quyete of mynde, n.d.  C.R. Baskervill, Huntington L., 1931 
20120  Porteous  Porteous noblenes, 1508  W. Beattie, Edinb.Bib.Soc., 1950 
20122  Porter, H.  Two angry women, 1599  J.S. Farmer, 1911 

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STC   Author  Title  Editor   Publisher 
20169  Powell, T.  Vertues due, 1603  C. Edmonds, Roxburghe Cl., 1881 
20178  Poynet, J.  Shorte treatise, 1556  W.S. Hudson, U. Chicago P., 1942 
20195  Prayers  [15 Oes], n.d.  S. Ayling, London, 1869 
20288  Preston, T.  Cambises, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, 1910 
20573  R., I.  Elegie . . . Gustavus, [1632]  J. Draper, Broadside Elegies, 1928 
20578  ___  Taming of Shrew, n.d.  Maggs Cat. 574, 1932 [post-STC
20604  Rainolde, R.  Foundacion rhetorike, 1563  F.R. Johnson, Scholars' F., 1945 
20634  Raleigh, W.  Discouerie Guiana, 1596  R.O. Dougan, Cleveland, World, 1966 
20651  ___  Fight . . . Açores, 1591  R.C. Alston, Leeds, Scolar, 1966 
20655  ___  R. his lamentation, n.d.  C.H. Firth, Raleigh tercentenary, 1918 
20721  Rastell, J.  Bewte of women, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, 1909 
20722  ___  Nature iiij elements, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, 1908 
20723  ___  Gentylnes a. nobylyte, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, 1908 
20753  Ratsey, G.  [Life a. death, 1605]  S.H. Atkins, Shake.Assoc., 1935 
20753a  ___  Ratseis ghost, [1605]  H.B. Charlton, J.Rylands Lib., 1932 
Also in 20753, q.v. 
*20867†  Remedies  Sundrie remedies, n.d.  FP. Wilson, Plague . . . London, 1963 
20868  ___  Remedies ag. plague, 1603  W.P. Barrett, Shake.Assoc., 1933 
20970  Ribaut, J.  Discouerye Florida, 1563  Biggar & C., Florida Hist.S., 1927 
20983  Rich, B.  Faultes, faults, 1606  M.H. Wolf, Scholars' F., 1965 
20996  ___  R. his farewell, 1581  T.M. Cranfill, U.Texas P., 1959 
21005  Rich, R.  Newes fr. Virginia, 1610  W.F. Craven, Scholars' F., 1937 
21006  Richard  True tragedie, 1595  W.W. Greg, Shake.Quartos, 1958 
Praetorius, London, 1891 
21006a  ___  True tragedie, 1600  J.S. Farmer, 1913 
21124  Robinson, T.  Anatomie of nunnery, 1623  E. Beloe, King's Lynn Museum, 1916? 
21225  Rogers, T.  Celestiall elegies, 1598  C. Edmonds, Roxburghe Cl., 1881 
21416  Rowley, S.  Noble souldier, 1634  J.S. Farmer, 1913 
21418  ___  When you see me, 1613  J.S. Farmer, 1912 
21458  Russell, J.  Propositio oratoris, n.d.  H. Guppy, J.Rylands Lib., 1909 
21519  S., S.  Honest lawyer, 1616  J.S. Farmer, 1914 
21521  S., T.  Psalme thanksgiuing, 1610  Collmann, Ballads & Broad., 1912 
21528  S., W.  Locrine, 1595  J.S. Farmer, 1911 
21531  ___  The puritaine, 1607  J.S. Farmer, 1911 
21532  ___  T. Lord Cromwell, 1602  J.S. Farmer, 1911 
21649  Saluste du B.  Deuine weekes, 1605  F.C. Haber, Scholars' F., 1965 
Suppresses Pp8-Xxi. 
21741  San Pedro, D.  Castell of loue, n.d.  W.G. Crane, Scholars' F., 1950 
*21805†  Saxton, C.  [English atlas, n.d.]  E. Lynam, Brit.Museum, 1936 
21828  Schouten, C.  Relation of voiage, 1619  R.O. Dougan, Cleveland, World, 1966 
22195  Sempill, R.  Hailsome admounit, 1570  H. Murdock, Life of Kirkaldy, 1906 
22273  Shakespeare  [First Folio], 1623  S. Lee, Oxford U.P., 1902 
Also: Staunton 1866; Methuen 1910; Yale 1954; single plays 
22274  ___  [Second Folio], 1632  ___, London, Methuen, 1909 
22275  ___  Hamlet, 1603 [from HN.]  ___, Huntington Lib., 1931 
Greg [fr. L.] 1951; Griggs [fr.HN.] 1880. 
22276  ___  Hamlet, 1604 [from HN.]  O.J. Campbell, Huntington L., 1938 
Griggs [fr. HN.] 
22276a  ___  Hamlet, 1605 [Gorhambury]  Greg, Shake.Quartos, 1940 
22279a  ___  [I Hen. IV frag., n.d.]  With next 
22280  ___  Henrie the fourth, 1598  Greg, Shake.Quartos, 1966 [C2
Griggs [HN.] 

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STC   Author  Title  Editor   Publisher 
22288a  ___  Second part of Henrie, 1600  H.A. Evans, Griggs, n.d. [HN.] 
22289  ___  Henry the fift, 1600  Greg, Shake.Quartos, 1957 
Praetorius, 1886 
22291  ___  Henry the fift, 1608  A. Symons, Praetorius, 1886 
22292  ___  King Lear, 1608  Greg, Shake.Quartos, 1939 
Praetorius, 1885 
22293  ___  King Lear, "1608"  P.A. Daniel, Praetorius, 1885 
22294  ___  Loues labors lost, 1598  Greg, Shake.Quartos, 1957 [L.] 
Griggs [HN.] 
22296  ___  Merchant of Venice, 1600  Greg,Shake.Quartos, 1939 [L.] 
Praetorius [HN.] 
22297  ___  Merchant of Venice, 1600  Furnivall, Griggs, n.d. 
22299  ___  Merrie wiues, 1602  Greg, Shake.Quartos, 1939 [L.] 
Griggs [HN.] 
22302  ___  Midsommer dreame, 1600  J.W. Ebsworth, Griggs, n.d. 
22303  ___  Midsommer dreame, 1600  J.W. Ebsworth, Griggs, n.d. 
22304  ___  Much adoe, 1600  P.A. Daniel, Praetorius, 1886 
22305  ___  Othello, 1622  H.A. Evans, Praetorius, 1885 
22306  ___  Othello, 1630  H.A. Evans, Praetorius, 1885 
22307  ___  Richard the second, 1597  Greg, Shake.Quartos, 1966 [C2
Praetorius [Huth] 1888; Griggs [HN.] 1890 
22309  ___  Richard the second, 1598  A.W. Pollard, Quaritch, 1916 
22310  ___  Richard the second, 1608  W.A. Harrison, Praetorius, 1888 
22313  ___  Richard the second, 1634  P.A. Daniel, Praetorius, 1887 
22314  ___  Richard the third, 1597  Greg, Shake.Quartos, 1959 [L.] 
Griggs [HN.] n.d. 
22316  ___  Richard the third, 1602  P.A. Daniel, Praetorius, 1888 
22319  ___  Richard the third, 1622  P.A. Daniel, Praetorius, 1889 
22322  ___  Romeo and Iuliet, 1597  H.A. Evans, Praetorius, 1886 
22323  ___  Romeo and Iuliet, 1599  Greg, Shake.Quartos, 1949 [E2
H.A. Evans, Praetorius, 1886 [L.] 
22325  ___  Romeo and Iuliet, n.d.  H.A. Evans, Praetorius, 1887 
22328  ___  Titus Andronicus, 1594  J.Q. Adams, Folger Lib., 1936 
22329  ___  Titus Andronicus, 1600  A. Symons, Griggs, n.d. 
22332  ___  Troylus a. Cresseid, 1609  Greg, Shake.Quartos, 1952 [L.] 
H.P. Stokes, Griggs, n.d. [C2
22333  ___  London Prodigall, 1605  J.S. Farmer, 1911 
22334  ___  Pericles, 1609  Greg, Shake.Quartos, 1940 
S.Lee 1905; Praetorius 1886 
22335  ___  Pericles, 1609  P.Z. Round, Praetorius, 1886 
22340  ___  Yorkshire tragedy, 1608  J.S. Farmer, 1910 
22342†  ___  [Passionate pilgrime, frag.]  J.Q. Adams, Folger Lib., 1939 
Yale Eliz. Club, 1964 
22342  ___  Passionate pilgrime, 1599  S. Lee, Oxford U.P., 1905 [HN.] 
Yale E.Club [HN.] 1964; Griggs [C2], n.d. 
22343  ___  Passionate pilgrime, 1612  H.E. Rollins, Folger Lib., 1940 
22345  ___  Lucrece, 1594  S. Lee, Oxford U.P., 1905 [O.] 
Yale Eliz. Club 1964; Praetorius [L.] n.d. 
22353  ___  Sonnets, 1609  S. Lee, Oxford U.P., 1905 [O.] 
22353a  ___  Sonnets, 1609  J.M. Osborn, Yale Eliz. C., 1964 [Y.] 
Facs.Text Soc. [L.]; Praetorius [L.] n.d. 
22354  ___  Venus a. Adonis, 1593  S. Lee, Oxford U.P., 1905 
Yale Eliz. Cl. 1964; Griggs n.d. 

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STC   Author  Title  Editor   Publisher 
22367  "Shape"  Noble lyfe of man, n.d.  N. Hudson, Quaritch, 1954 
22407  Shepherds  Kalendayr of shyppars, 1503  H.O. Sommer, London, 1892 
22428  Sherry, R.  Treatise of schemes, n.d.  H.W. Hildebrandt, Scholars', 1961 
22464  Shute, J.  Grounds of architect., 1563  L. Weaver, Country Life, 1912 
___, London, Gregg, 1964 
22535  Sidney, P.  Defence of poesie, 1595  ___, Facs. Text Soc., n.d. 
22539a  ___  Arcadia, 1590  H.O. Sommer, London, 1891 
22554  Silver, G.  Paradoxes of defence, 1599  J.D. Wilson, Shake.Assoc., 1933 
22588  Sixtus IV  Sex epistole, n.d.  G. Bullen, London, 1892 
22593  Skelton, J.  Ballade of kynge, n.d.  J. Ashton, London, Stock, 1882 
22607  ___  Magnyfycence, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, 1910 
22789  Smith, J.  [Prospectus for next, n.d.]  L.S. Livingston, Camb.Mass., 1914 
22790  ___  Historie of Virginia, 1624  R.O. Dougan, Cleveland, World, 1966 
22896  Solinus  Excellent worke, 1587  G. Kish, Scholars' F., 1955 
22905  Solomon  S. a. Marcolphus, n.d.  E.G. Duff, London, 1892 
*22913†  Somebody  [Somebody, frag., n.d.]  Greg, Malone Soc. Collect. II, 1931 
22928  Soowthern, J.  Pandora, 1584  G.B. Parks, Facs.Text Soc., 1938 
22990  Spagnuoli, B.  Eglogs, 1567  D. Bush, Scholars' F., 1937 
23041 pt.  Speed, J.  Theatre Gt. Britain, 1611  J. Arlott, London, Phoenix, 1953-4 
23076  Spenser, E.  Amoretti, 1595  ___, Facs. Text Soc., n.d. 
23089  ___  Shepheardes Calend., 1579  H.O. Sommer, London, 1890 
*23224†  Stanhope, E.  Epitaph vpon S., [1607]  J.W. Draper, Broadside Elegies, 1928 
23263  Stevenson, W.  Gammer Gurtons nedle, 1575  J.S. Farmer, 1909 
23356  Straw, J.  Life a. death of I.S., 1593  J.S. Farmer, 1911 
23405  Stukeley, T.  Famous historye of, 1605  J.S. Farmer, 1911 
23544  Swetnam, J.  S. the woman-hater, 1620  J.S. Farmer, 1914 
23627  T., T.  Gloues for Newyeres, n.d.  Collmann, Ballads & Broad., 1912 
23644  Tales  C. mery talys, 1526  W.C. Hazlitt, London, 1887 
23667  Taming  Taming of shrew, 1594  Furnivall, Praetorius, 1886 
23668  ___  Taming of shrew, 1596  J.S. Farmer, 1912 
23790  Taylor, J.  Sad elegy . . . Wyan, [1638]  J. Draper, Broadside Elegies, 1928 
*23868†  Temperance  [Temperance, frag., n.d.]  Malone Soc. Collect., I, 1909 
24063  Tiberius  Tragedie of T., 1607  J.S. Farmer, 1913 
24104  Tomkis, T.  Lingua, 1607  J.S. Farmer, 1913 
24271  Trial  Triall of treasure, 1567  J.S. Farmer, 1908 
24336  Turler, H.  The traueiler, 1575  D.E. Baughan, Scholars' F., 1951 
24360  Turner, W.  Boke of wines, 1568  S.V. Larkey & W., Scholars', 1941 
24372  Tusser, T.  Hundreth good pointes, 1557  D. Hartley, Country Life, 1931 
Silently suppresses dedication. 
24481a  Ubaldini, P.  Expeditionis descrip., 1590  H.Y. Thompson, Roxburghe C., 1919 
*24636†  Vennar, R.  Plot of Eng.'s joy, [1602]  W.J. Lawrence, Eliz.Playhouse, II, 1913 
24798†  Virgilius  Fourth boke of V., n.d.  H. Hartman, C.H.Pforzheimer, 1933 
*24836†  Virginia  Good newes from V., [1623]  Robinson, Cat. 77, 1948 
24842a  ___  Note of shipping, [1620]  With preceding 
24865  Vocabulary  Doctrine lerne Frenssh, n.d.  J. Oates & H., Camb. U.P., 1964 
24873 pt.  Voragine  Legenda aurea, [1483]  A. Aspland, Holbein Soc., 1878 
24932a  Wager, L.  Marie Magdalene, 1567  J.S. Farmer, 1908 
24935a  Wager, W.  Tryall of cheualry, 1605  J.S. Farmer, 1912 
24933  ___  Inough good as feast, n.d.  S. d.Ricci, Huntington Lib., 1920 
24938  ___  Longer thou liuest, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, 1910 
25007  Walter of H.  Boke of husbandry, n.d.  F.H. Cripps-Day, Manor Farm, 1931 

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25016  Wanton  Nice wanton, 1560  J.S. Farmer, [1914] 
25017  ___  Nice wanton, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, [1914] 
25018  Wapull, G.  Tyde taryeth no man, 1576  J.S. Farmer, 1910 
25043  Ward, S.  1588-1605, 1621  A.M. Hind, Engraving in Eng., II, 1955 
25067a pt.  Ware, J.  Historie of Ireland, 1633  R.B. Gottfried, Scholars' F., 1940 
Only Campion's pt. of book 
25089  Warning  Warning for women, 1599  J.S. Farmer, 1912 
25106  Wateson, G.  Cures of diseased, 1598  C. Singer, Oxford U.P., 1915 
25118a  Watson, T.  Hekatompathia, [1582]  S.K. Heninger, Scholars' F., 1964 
25144  Weakest  Weakest goeth to wall, 1600  J.S. Farmer, 1911 
25149  Weaver, R.  Lusty Juuentus, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, 1914? 
25330  Wheeler, J.  Treatise of commerce, 1601  G.B. Hotchkiss, N.Y.U.Press, 1931 
25331  ___  [London ed. of same], 1601  Hotchkiss, Facs.Text Soc., 1931 
25347  Whetstone, G.  Promos a. Cassandra, 1578  J.S. Farmer, 1910 
25354  Whitaker, A.  Good newes, 1613  ___, Scholars' Facs., 1936? 
25399  White, J.  Planters plea, 1630  M.H. Savile, Rockport, Mass. 1930 
25438  Whitney, G.  Choice of emblemmes, 1586  H. Green, Manchester, 1866 
N.Y. reprint, B.Blom, 1967 
25635  Wilkins, G.  Miseries inforst mar., 1607  J.S. Farmer, 1913 
25764a  Wilmot, R.  Tancred a. Gismund, 1592  J.S. Farmer, 1912 
25781  Wilson, R.  Coblers prophesie, 1594  J.S. Farmer, 1911 
25782  ___  Pedlers prophecie, 1595  J.S. Farmer, 1911 
25783  ___  Three lordes, 1590  J.S. Farmer, 1912 
25784  ___  Three ladies of London, 1584  J.S. Farmer, 1911 
25799  Wilson, T.  Arte of rhetorique, 1553  R.H. Bowers, Scholars' F., 1962 
25818  Wily  Wily beguilde, 1606  J.S. Farmer, 1912 
25868  Wit  Wit of a woman, 1604  J.S. Farmer, 1912 
25900d  Wither, G.  Emblemes, 1635  J.M. Wells, Ren.Eng.Text S., 1967 
25948  Woman  Euerie w. in humor, 1609  J.S. Farmer, 1913 
25966  Woodes, N.  Conflict conscience, 1581  J.S. Farmer, 1911 
25982  World  Worlde a. chylde, n.d.  J.S. Farmer, 1909 
26076  Yarington, R.  Two tragedies, 1601  J.S. Farmer, 1913 
26099  York  First part contention, 1594  J.S. Farmer, 1913 
Furnivall, Praetorius, 1889 
26101  ___  Whole contention, n.d.  Furnivall, Praetorius, 1886 

ADDENDA

             
7483  pt.ii Edguardus  De indiciis, 1532  C.D. O'Malley, Stanford UP, 1961 
11966  Goes, D. a  Legacye prester John, 1533  E.B. Blackburn, Moreana #14, 1967 
16743†  London  [Plague bill 13 oc 1603]  W.H. Bond, Houghton Library, 1967 
22353a  Shakespeare  Sonnets, 1609  R.L. Eagle, London, Mitre, 1965 
24358  Turner, W.  De re herbaria, 1538  B.D. Jackson, London, 1877 
Also in next 
24359  ___  Names of herbes, 1548  W.T. Stearn, London, Ray Soc., 1965 

Notes

 
[1]

A teacher develops chicken-and-egg doubts whether students can use facsimiles before studying originals. Thus it seems impossible to convince M.A. students that the imposition in facsimiles rarely matches the originals. Alan Burns deserves credit for stressing this point in the foreword (p. vi) to the recent Hakluyt (STC 12625).

[2]

Though elementary, the handiest summary is Laurence A. Cummings, "Pitfalls of Photocopy Research," Bulletin of the New York Public Library, LXV (1961), 97-101. He is more concerned with film and photostat than printed facsimiles, and with good reason: the slapdash "editing" of early reels in University Microfilms makes the faults noted in this study fade into insignificance.

[3]

"The Problem of Variant Forme in a Facsimile Edition," The Library, 5th ser., VII (1952), 262-272.

[4]

Not widely available because privately distributed, the most useful survey of techniques, complete with sample pages, is G. B. Harrison's Facsimile Reprints (London, ?1931), a paper read at the 1931 Anglo-American Conference of Historians. One supposes this a by-product of Harrison's work with the Shakespeare Association series.

[5]

The earliest facsimile errata list I have noticed is a disturbing yet reassuring feature of the Griggs-Praetorius quartos.

[6]

See A. W. Pollard, Redgrave, Chapman and Greg, "'Facsimile' Reprints of Old Books," The Library, 4th ser., VI (1925-26), 305-328; also, Allen Hazen, "Type-Facsimiles," Modern Philology, XLIV (1946-47), 209-217.

[7]

Pollard, op.cit., p. 312, notes that more copies were lost by fire in 1874 so that surviving sets are indeed scarce. Ashbee does not identify his originals, but some were obviously Devonshire-Chatsworth-Huntington.

[8]

To my astonished delight, some major problems are solved in George Bullen's Catalogue of the Loan Collection for the 1877 Caxton celebration, pp. 218-219. Thus we learn that Rae's fine 9348 and Tupper's 5057 are tracing-lith, while Blades's elegant 6826 is photo-lith. Check List policy is to omit items that are in doubt.

[9]

Giles E. Dawson points out to me that the Folger copy belonged to Gilbert R. Redgrave and contains letters he solicited in 1925 to document the Pollard-Redgrave article previously cited (note 6).

[10]

Of some, if not all, a few copies were printed on vellum. Stray quartos on vellum without identifying prelims will prove of this origin.

[11]

I had the advantage of using a Folger copy annotated by James G. McManaway, but naturally he is not responsible for any errors in my figures.

[12]

Farmer artlessly cites the complete unreliability of his own earlier letter-press edition of STC 25982 as reason for buying his collotype (Hand List, p. 47).

[13]

Farmer apparently used stray leaves by Ashbee in some other issues (e.g., 12212). He seems not to have worried about copyright.

[14]

Miss Elizabeth Fry of the Huntington staff kindly verified for me the existence of the vestigial ¶ in the HN. copy.

[15]

I recall examining these substitute leaves as long ago as 1934 at the suggestion of Prof. B. J. Whiting.

[16]

It may be lots of fun, but why should editors require readers to exert the detective skills that enabled J. H. P. Pafford to identify the Guildhall copy of the First Folio as that used in the 1910 Methuen facsimile? See Notes and Queries, CCXI (1966), 126-127.

[17]

Prof. B. M. Wagner kindly inspected the British Museum copy for me.

[18]

Acknowledgments are due to the Library of Congress, Harvard Library, British Museum, and Miss Eleanor Pitcher.