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V.
To complete the possible complications which should be considered it remains only to encounter false imprints "in reverse,"—that is, works purporting to be printed in Ireland which were not. Of such, an edition of Jacobus Sylvius's Novissima idea de febribus provides an example. Although Dix apparently accepted it as genuine, the imprint "Dublinii, MDC.XCIV. Sumptibus Zachariæ Conzatti" is unquestionably false. This edition, dedicated to "Io: Baptistæ Sylvestrino, Celeberrimo Pharmacopole" by Giovanni Baptista Conzatti, gives every evidence of having been printed in Italy, as one might deduce from such a dedication. Paper and type support this conclusion, while the copy in the Dix Collection at the National Library of Ireland is in a contemporary vellum binding which bears a manuscript inscription in Italian.
Similarly, the edition of A Declaration of the Commons of England . . . expressing their Reasons and Grounds of passing the late Resolutions with its imprint, "London, Printed for Edward Husband Feb. 16, 1647. Reprinted at
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