When the late E. R. McC. Dix undertook his catalogue of
seventeenth-century Dublin books there were for him, apart from the
recording of readily recognizable
Dublin imprints, two problems: those of identifying books printed
there with false imprints on the one hand, or, on the other,
without any place of publication at all. A half century later, we
as bibliographers, with a somewhat more sophisticated approach to
such a subject, might do well to reconsider the ground
[1] so amply surveyed by Dix himself,
profiting from perceptions heightened by the work of men like Henry
Bradshaw.
