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"a"

The dedication (pages a2r-v) contains italic raided from D2r and 4r. All
three pages of preliminaries are imposed together and printed by work-and-turn.
There is no evidence of the use of bearer types on blank a1v. Most likely, each
sheet is perfected immediately.

Pauses for correction: one, correcting a typo on a2v. Part-way through the cor-
rected state, the "O" in l.3 of the title page suffers damage.

After printing: acorns and direction line stripped on a2r, otherwise all type-
pages kept standing.

The number of sheets printed, on the evidence of surviving copies, is about
20% greater than those of the other quires.

At this point, the products of Phase I either leave Norton's shop or are pack-aged and remain unmixed with later printings. A few sets of sheets apparently
linger without quire D, which was printed a bit short.

Meanwhile, composition is proceeding on another unidentified job or jobs
which cause italic passages to be removed from the standing type in quires A,
C, and D.

B. PHASE II

The sequence of quires in this phase is less certain than for Phase I (see §9B).
The history is complicated by the two sub-phases of quire A, and there is no
evidence for the position of quire "a" in the sequence because after Phase I it
has no typographic interaction with the other quires. I have placed it last below,
as it was normal to print the preliminaries after finishing the text.