Catalogue Of English Literature Poetic Dramatic Historic Miscellaneous

Excerpt from Catalogue of English Literature, Poetic, Dramatic, Historic, Miscellaneous: With Works on the Topographical and Genealogical History of Great 'Britain and Ireland, and a Collection of Volumes Produced by the Earliest English Printers, Caxton and Others Only one other copy known, which is in the British Museum, and which is described by Mr. Blades as having 72 leaves and as perfect. If it has only 72 leaves it cannot be perfect. The original ms. Signatures are still visible in the copy above described, and the collation maybe given as follows a, b, c, d, in sheets of eight leaves each (the first leaf of a was a blank) e in ten leaves; f, g, h, i, in eight leaves each. The leaves deficient are i 2, i 7, i 8, - that is, three leaves out of a complete sequence of 73 (or, counting the first blank. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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