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QUIRE B The Mad Lover I.i-II.ii
Presswork
In Skeleton I Rule 14 was replaced by Rule 15, which continues into subsequent quires, an indication that B2v:3 preceded B1v:4.[17]
Composition and Distribution
The following types and rules appear in B2v and B4v:
d25, d26, e25, e28, g23, g36, h22, h43, o33, r22, u21, A21, A25,
C22, G22, G24, W27, C22, C30, and
CR29
and the following in B3 and B4:
b22, d27, d41, I22, and CR28.
The reappearance of type from both pages of B2v:3
implies that this
forme was printed and distributed before either B4 or B4v
was set and
hence before either B1v:4 or B1:4v was
machined. That it shares
no types with B2:3v suggests that B2:3v
was run either
immediately before or immediately after B2v:3 and the
fact that
B2:3v was not distributed until Quires C and D were in
progress (C
graph, lines 3, 4, and 6; D graph, line 4) indicates that
B2:3v followed
B2v:3 through the press. There is no way to prove that it
was not
composed before B2v:3, but its later machining clearly
suggests that its
composition also followed. Since B4 type reappears before B1 type (C
graph, lines 5, 9, and 11), B1v:4 must have preceded
B1:4v. The
order of printing was thus:
Skeleton: | I | II | I | II |
Forme: | B2v:3 | B2:3v | B1v:4 | B1:4v |
Center-rule: | 29 28 | 30 36 | 32 28 | -- 29 |
Because B2v type is found only in B4v and B3 type only in B4, it is unlikely that both type pages of the forme were distributed into the same type case, and spelling evidence indicates that two compositors were at work in the quire, Compositor A setting B1-B2v and B4v and Compositor B setting B3-B4. The two runs of pages are distinguished by the following variant spellings:
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Case: | A | A | A | A | A |
Compositor A: | B2v | B2 | B1v | B1 | B4v |
Case: | B | B | B | ||
Compositor B: | B3 | B3v | B4 |
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