ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
Addendum by Allan H. Stevenson to
"Watermarks Are Twins" in the present
volume:
The Quaritch-Folger copy of the Pide Bull Lear apparently has
no letter P in its Pot watermarks, merely two close bars
across the bowl of the twin variants. However, at least
sheet H of the Huntington copy does show a P on the lower
part of the bowl of variant a. It may be that this letter
dropped out in late reams made from mould a. Further
copies may clear up the point.
The Wheel or Flower mark of John Tate appears in a third
volume printed by Wynkyn de Worde—Chaucer's Canterbury Tales of 1498. See
The Victoria History of the
County of Hertford, ed. William Page, IV
(1914), 256. The Folger copy (one of three extant) has,
like the Bartholomæus, just the one pair of marks
throughout the volume.
Correction to Lawrence C. Starkey, "The
Printing by the Cambridge Press of A
Platform of Church Discipline, 1649," vol. II, pp. 91-92.
Editor's note: As explained in a note
to Dr. Starkey's article, the receipt of information about
the uniquely variant copy owned by Mr. Thomas W. Streeter
when proof was far advanced necessitated some slight
alterations in the text of the article and a series of
explanatory footnotes. In this process the editor believed
that he had rechecked the hypothesis for cut-sheet
printing in the light of the new characteristics of the
Streetcr copy, but, if so, he was seriously at fault,
since the hypothesis does not in fact work out although
consistent with the information of the copies at Dr.
Starkey's disposal when he wrote his account. It appears,
therefore, that thc outer half-sheet of the preliminary
gathering was not printed by cut-sheet imposition but,
instead, by ordinary half-sheet imposition, the correction
of the outer forme taking place when less than half of the
white paper had been run, and the correction of the inner
forme very shortly after perfecting had begun.
Errata for vol. II: on pp. 192-194 for Gist read
Cist. For vol. III: on p. 255,
line 3, for 1693 read 1695.
