University of Virginia Library

The Library, 5th ser., VI (1951), 100-108.

Candid and Critical Remarks on the Dialogues of the Dead (1760), pp. 1-2.

At F, an impression extending through two editions, two copies (ICU, NPV) have a mark only in the inner forme (78-7); the other nine, different marks in both formes (77-7, 78-8). This may indicate that when the order to expand the issue was received number 7 began to perfect first the several copies he had already printed, then those which 8 was now working. Admittedly the evidence for the shift is confined to two copies of the later edition; but this is perhaps of no great consequence, since what happened at an early stage of a continuous impression might well appear only in the last copies to be bound.

Sheets of a certain issue (phase 3) which is later increased (4) must necessarily be reset to make up the difference; but sheets deliberately underprinted to expedite an issue (5) need only be reimpressed, once the short count has served its purpose.

Sheets D and E, successively printed by one man in the preceding edition, are simultaneously machined by four in this.