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This study is based on research done while the author was the holder of a Folger Fellowship and a Fulbright grant. A preliminary account was read to the Society on 18 November 1955.

Not all copies of the Chronicle have the catalogue and advertisement at the end, some having merely a catalogue of publications of Henry Marsh, while others may have had a similar list for the third member of the responsible syndicate, Henry Brome. The Gibson entry for the book is not clear. A copy in Dr. Williams's Library is listed as having the catalogue, but the advertisement is not mentioned. The present writer has only seen the Folger copy. Another copy indeed figures in the Library of Congress catalogue, and hence in Wing and Gibson, but it has not been seen these eight and twenty years.

The Elder Brother and The Scornful Lady have, of course, only one entry each.

The incidence of the titling caps varies greatly, some books having very few, while later books have many more. Perhaps this indicates that several cases of the fount were in use, which had not been equally contaminated.

There is a suggestion that Tom Tyler has the later state among the three occurrences, but the apparent damage which the I there shows in some copies is not distinctive enough to be certain.

Fredson Bowers, "The First Series of Plays Published by Francis Kirkman in 1661", The Library, 5th ser., II (1947-48), 289-291.

The Spanish Gipsie (Wing M 1988), which occurs with a variant title listing Kirkman as the publisher instead of Robert Crofts, and with a similarly variant advertisement on K2v, has no place in this inquiry.

Though this practice is not so frequent as the other, seen for instance in Loves Mistress, of using smaller type at the end in order to avoid overrunning the sheet by half a page or so, other instances can be cited. One, in Locke's Two Treatises of Government, 1690, has already been the subject of controversy. Another, both more interesting and less ambiguous, occurs in the 1650 edition of Howell's Epistolœ Ho-Elianœ. There the compositor, resetting in a different format, first changes from his usual long primer to pica, and finally even to english, in order to make his link from E to 2A.

Note the collation of the Chronicle: 8°, i 2, a8 (—a1), A-O8, and then also note the arrangement in Griffith, published by Johnson, and certainly set up in the same shop as the Beggars Bush group, with A, B, E and F set by one man and C, D, G and H by the other (80: A-G8, H4(—H3, 4).)

Kirkman mentions his buying paper for Jane Bell when she printed Amadis de Gaule and Clerio and Lozia for him, and complains that when Thomas Johnson died, his housekeeper concealed his death and made away with all Kirkman's white paper, to the tune of £10. And one has only to look at books published by such a man as Moseley to see where the paper came from. Buck's Richard III was printed by three printers — but all use the same paper. And the Beaumont and Fletcher first folio was printed by as many as seven or eight printers who all start out on the same paper and all, if they change to a different paper, change to the same paper.

E3v cornfull. D4v,E4v Scornful.

H3 Scornfull. H4v Lady. [turned a]

Though the type-size and measure do not change much from E to F the difference in type-face is very marked.

Reckoning all the headlines on one sheet, actually in two formes, as one set.