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Addenda
A. Graph of presswork. For purposes of illustration the number of copies printed for each edition is an arbitrary assignment based on the number now extant.
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| Edition | A | A-B | B | B-C | B | C | C | D |
| Shop | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 1-2 |
| Phase | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| Sigs. | B-N | O-X,A,a | B,D-E | C,F-K | L-N | L-N | A,a,B,D-E,O-Y | A-X |
| Copies | 1000 | 1500 | 500 | 1500 | 500 | 1000 | 1000 | 500 |
| Category | Set | (overprint) | Reset | (overprint) | (under-print) | (reimpressed) | Reset | Partially reset |
| Published | May 17 (A only) | May 20? | May 22 | September |
- Edition A
- DIALOGUES | OF THE | DEAD. | [rule] | [ornament] | [double rule] | LONDON: | Printed for W. Sandby, in Fleet-ſtreet. | [short rule] | M.DCC.LX.
- 8°. A4 a2 B8 C8 (± C1, 4-6) D-X8
- First state. Headpiece page [1] represents a pedestal in the center (Sale, Richardson, No. 15), a piece 3 mm. too narrow for the letterpress on this page. The copy with this varies also in having a figure 3 on page 316. Copy examined: CtY (Im L998 760) Second state. Headpiece, as in later editions, represents a globe in the center (Sale, No. 34), a piece approximating the measure of letterpress. Copies examined: B.M. (716.c.1), ICN, NN (Berg), Todd; reported: OrU.
- Edition B
- Description and collation as for A. Without cancels in C.
- Pages reset: 1-16, 19-22, 29-192; reimpressed: 17-18 and 23-28 (previously used for cancels in A); of same impression: i-xii, 193-320. Copies examined: B.M. (244.l.7), CtY (Fielding Sz 7601), DLC, NjP.
- Edition C
- DIALOGUES | OF THE | DEAD. | [rule] | The Second Edition. | [rule] | [ornament] | [&c. as in A].
- Collation as for B, with added errata list Y1.
- Pages reset: iii-xii, 1-16, 33-64, 193-320; reimpressed: title (altered), 145-192; of same impression: 17-32, 65-144.
- First state. Leaf I2 cancellandum, catchword on recto "Boileau."
- Copies examined: ICU (sheet F has figure 7 on page 78, sheets O, P, R, U, X of the earlier impression), NN; reported: NNUT (sheet L of B impression), NPV (sheet F figured as in ICU), PHC.
- Second state. Leaf I2 a cancellans, catchword on recto "fects".
- Copy examined: B.M. (8406.ccc.9).
- Edition D
- DIALOGUES | [&c. as in C except:] The Third Edition. . . .
- Collation as for C except that errata corrected and list removed.
- Pages reset: iii-xii, 17-32, 65-165, 168-72, 176, 183-98, 226-31, 235-39, 257-320; the remainder reimpressed.
- Copies examined: B.M. (8405.ccc.14), ICU, MH.
B. Bibliographical description.
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