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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.