Table of Catchwords
Angle brackets signify deletion made in the copper; square brackets
conjectural readings. No catchwords appear in the plates not listed here. In
the Mellon copy the catchwords of Plates 5, 9, 12, 13, and 37 remain but
in effect are deleted by loops, lines, or washes. That of Plate 13 is hidden
also in the Morgan copy.
| Plate |
Catchword |
Plates so beginning; * means plausible fit. |
| 5 |
His |
6* 17 31[45] 38[45] |
| 7 |
<Con-> |
9* |
| 8 |
Con- |
9* |
| 9 |
To |
11* 65* |
| 11 |
<[?One]> |
14 |
| 12 |
And |
13* 15 30[44] 37 57 59 70 71 72 75 |
| 13 |
One |
14* |
| 14 |
|
(Deleted colophon: <End of the /
1st
Chap:>) |
| 18 |
<His> |
19* 17 31[45] 38[34] |
| 19 |
<Jeru> |
23* Jerusalem |
| 30[44] |
His |
31[45]* 38[34] 17 6 |
| 37[33] |
His |
38[34]* 31[45]* 17 6 |
| 38[34] |
By |
39[35]* 67 |
| 40[36] |
|
("Bath" not a catchword; see above.) |
| 43[38] |
With |
44[39]* |
| 47 |
These |
48* |
| 48 |
The |
49* 50* 60 74 90 5 |
| 49 |
The |
50* 60 74 90 5 |
| 50 |
|
(Colophon: End of Chap.
2d.) |
| 53 |
<The> |
50 49 60* 74* 90 5 |
| 65 |
I[n] |
(half hid by border) 66* 58 54 10 (Into) |
| 66 |
And |
70* 71* 72* 57* 75* 37[33] 30[44] 15* |
| 70 |
His |
38[34] 31[45] 17 6 |
|
|
(Mended in Rinder copy to And) 71* 72 75* . . .
15* |
| 79 |
En- |
80* (Encompass'd) 93 (Enitharmon) |
From these meager data, the following deductions are further
supported by graphic and textual evidence:
Plates 7 and 9 were originally together, and Plate 8 is an insertion.
Plate 10 is an amplification of material on 9, which was once followed by
11. If "One" is a correct reading of the deleted word on 11, the plate
originally following it must have been discarded. The deletion of "His" on
18, despite its present fit, signifies two moves — once to precede a
plate
that did not begin with this word, once to its present location. Thicker
lettering also suggests that 18 was not etched in the same period as 17 and
19. But we also know that 19 was once differently numbered (see note on
Numbering); and its deleted catchword shows that 19 was once followed by
23 (which itself once had a different number). Plates 20-22, however, do
appear to be insertions in the present position, and we know that 20 was
once numbered "16".
From the evidence of catchwords and plate numbers, then, Chapter
1 shows most signs of rearrangement and supplementation after the first
etching of plates. Little shifting seems to have occurred in Chapter 2 (but
see note on Numbering) until after the printing of two copies.
Several signs of earlier shifting turn up in Chapter 3. Plate 53 may
once have been followed by 60 or 74: each of the latter begins on the same
theme and one may have been made to replace the other and then in turn
been moved ahead. Plate 66 was not designed for its present position; 70
must have been followed by a plate now discarded.
