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Notes & Queries, CC (March, 1955), 109-110. In A Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe (1960), p. 7, Moore mentions the possibility of at least seven issues, but he does not elaborate.

The Life of Daniel Defoe (1841), p. 12, and Daniel Defoe: His Life and Recently Discovered Writings (1869), I, 38. Those in the Chalmers' camp are Wilson, Hazlitt, Wright, Trent, Jacob, and Moore; those in Lee's, Dottin and Sutherland.

Henry Plomer, A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers Who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, ed. Arundell Esdaile (1922), p. 76.

Of the three 1697 Three Legs copies examined, two have obviously conjugate title pages — the copy in the Kress Collection, Baker Library, Harvard University, and Boston Public Library's Defoe 21.E87. 1697A; and one looks conjugate but the binding is too neat and sturdy for positive evaluation — Yale University's Ik.D362. 697i. Of the three 1697 Warwick Lane copies, only Yale NZ.Z697de can be positively identified as conjugate. Both BPL G4079.22 and BPL Defoe 27.67 title pages are parts of rebound or altered copies.

J. W. Ball, "A Commentary on Daniel Defoe's An Essay upon Projects" (Unpub. Diss. Cincinnati, 1947), p. 6, basing his findings on the Term Catalogues, asserts that the 1697 Three Legs in the Poultry address probably predated the 1697 Warwick Lane. However, he seems not to have known about the other issues or to have seen the 25 January 1696/7 Gazette advertisement.

N & Q, CC (March, 1955), 110.

Ibid.

John Dunton, Life and Errors (1705), p. 290, mentions that Mr. Nathaniel Taylor preached Cockerill's funeral sermon. Since, according to John Shower, A Funeral Sermon Occasion'd by the Sudden Death of the Reverend Mr. Nathanael Taylor (1702), p. 32, Mr. Taylor's last discourse in his church was 21 April 1702, Cockerill must have died in the early spring of 1702.

By late 1702 Ballard had been in business for only four years, but Dunton, Life and Errors, p. 300, notes that Ballard is "a young Bookseller, in Little-Britain, but is grown Man in Body now, but more in Mind."

Specifically, "Projects" has been changed to "Subjects" (l. 3); the semicolon separating "Usefulness" and "of" (l. 16) has been deleted and the line justified to remove the resulting gap; and a semi-colon has been inserted in place of the type space between "Poor" and "of" (l. 14).