Anomalous Types
Of anomalous appearances of distinctive types in the pages of quire
G, Hinman wrote: "The distribution of most of the pages of quire F having
been irregular, it is impossible to say which quire-F types, if any, appear
anomalously in quire G. None of the types that are found in any two
quire-G pages appears anomalously in the later of those pages" (II, 387).
Re-examination of Hinman's type-recurrence evidence (exclusive of the first
three formes of quire F distributed during work on quire F) reveals just one
anomalous appearance of a distinctive type from quire F in quire G.
Distinctive type p39 (see Table II, l. 17) is common to both
F5va63
(distributed into Bt) and G6b53 (set by Cr). This single anomalous
appearance of a distinctive type, of course, has no significance for the
argument that Compositors C and F used different cases to set their portions
of quire G, nor is one anomalous type sufficient evidence to question the
use of separate cases by Compositors B and C.