Notes
[[100].]
That this London edition was printed, not from a manuscript copy, but
from the printed Boston edition, broken up for the compositors, is clear to any
printer who compares the two. See, for details, a paragraph in the N. Y.
Nation for November 5, 1908 (LXXXVII. 435), or the descriptive note of G. F.
Black in the New York Library's List of Works relating to
Witchcraft in the United States (Bulletin,
1908, XII. 666). All extant copies of the Boston edition seem to have the
title-page date “1693” (an alleged exception proves to be a myth);
and this probably means that till January, at least, the book was withheld from
circulation. As to all the early editions, see Moore, Notes
on the Bibliography of Witchcraft in Massachusetts (American Antiquarian
Society, Proceedings, n. s., V.), and the New York
Library's List, as above.
[[101].]
The type being set from the first London edition, but the proofs read by
the Boston one. (See Drake's preface, p. vii, and his postscript, p.
247.)
