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A few new facts about the printing of two early editions of Sir John Suckling's Fragmenta Aurea and the engraved portrait by William Marshall should be added to Greg's account in A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration; namely, that there were not two but three states of the general title-page of the first edition (1646), and that the order of printing of the states was in fact the reverse of what Greg very reasonably supposed it to be; that there are two states of Marshall's engraved portrait, which is found in several of the early editions; and that Francis Kirkman was probably the pirate responsible for a surreptitious reprint of the third edition (1658), a complete copy of which is here recorded as such for the first time.
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