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Excerpt from The Honorable Historie of Frier Bacon, and Frier Bongay
The present facsimile mainly from the e.m. Copy of the edition of 1594 (034. C. This original is imperfect (a fact unnoticed by Greg), lacking sigs. I and I 2 (3 pages). The only other copy known of the same edition (the Devonshire) also lacks (grosart) a leaf between A3 and B, and one at end. For completion one was throw) back on the edition of 1630, for although Dyce, Ward and Grosart mention a reprint of 1599, nothing now seems known of it, and it is not, as formerly indicated, to be found either in the b.m. Or Bodley. In this matter, and also generally, students must not fail to consult Prof. Cayley's masterly and exhaustive critical essay on the play in Representative English Comedies. Coming therefore to the edition of 1630, the only copy mentioned by Greg as in the e.m. Is 644. E. 23. After a long hunt (a lot of these books being in course of transfer to the new building) I found it useless, having been clipped down right into type. By good fortune I came across another copy of this edition (162. H. 1) unrecorded by Greg, which is fair condition. The re-setting of the type is not the samefbut by another bit of good luck the three pages required start just right, that is to say with the catch-word pleasure, the only difference being what is a verso in c. 37 is a recto in the other. The spelling and some of the type differ, but nothing much. The reproduction is satisfactory and well-done throughout.
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