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Mistaken report of the Morgan copy foliation (given earlier as "standard" but in Census as 1-28, 43-46, 29-37, 42, 38-41, 47-100, from a confusion of numerical equivalents) created a legend that there are three Blakean arrangements of plates, with the corollary that the "standard" order is that of "the majority of the copies" (Keynes, 1957, p. 981). To confuse matters further, a printer's error on the same page makes Keynes seem to declare that "the arrangement is constant except in one copy" (he meant to say "two"). Actually it is the variant order that is found in a majority of three of the available copies.

The possibility that some of the scattered single plates — the four printed in green or some of the seven in black — may be remnants of another complete copy does not seem great. For one thing, none of these single leaves has any trace of the foliation, outside the plate, which Blake inscribed on the leaves of all finished copies.