humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

Tom Reedy wrote:
> IIRC, there is more than one state of the printing, indicating that
> corrections were made during the course of the printing. It would be
> instructive to determine which sheet the corrections were made on to
> see if any of them were on the same sheet as the dedication (I know
> it's nor really that, but it's been referred to as such I use the term
> for convenience). If the dedication was on a sheet that had already
> been broken up when the others were printed, there would have been no
> opportunity to correct the misprint, of course.

I don't know about the 17th century, but the 18th generally did the
front matter last.

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John W. Kennedy
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that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
-- Charles Williams. "Judgement at Chelmsford"