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Notes

 
[1]

The first part, comprising the Introduction and distinguished by a separate set of signatures, was printed by Richardson — see Wm. M. Sale jr, Samuel Richardson: Master Printer (1950), item 95.

[2]

D. F. McKenzie, The Cambridge University Press 1696-1712 (1966), I, 131.

[3]

Grolier Club accession number 19472, on loan to the Bodleian Library, Oxford. This is a compositors' and pressmen's check-book running 1730-39. The Bibliographical Society (London) proposes to publish facsimiles of this and other Bowyer printing ledgers, edited by the present writer.

[4]

Strahan to David Hall 15 June 1771, quoted R. A. Austen-Leigh, 'William Strahan and his ledgers', The Library, 4th series, III (1923), 272.

[5]

'William Somervile's "The Chace," 1735', PBSA LVIII (1964), 1-7, and see G. T. Tanselle, 'The Recording of Press Figures', The Library, 5th series, XXI (1966), 322.

[6]

Tanselle, op.cit., p. 325. For one such work by Baskett see under 1725 in K. Povey, 'Working to rule, 1600-1800: a study of pressmen's practice', The Library, 5th series, XX (1965), 39.

[7]

Fredson Bowers, Bibliography and Textual Criticism (1964), pp. 71 ff.