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Excerpt from Nature One copy only of tlze original edition is known to be extant it is now in t/ze Britislz Museum (c 34, e. Tile Museum copy has bound up wit}: it, at tbe end, two duplicate leaves, c z and c iv. A fragment (a iiii.) in tlze Bodleian (rawl. 410, Anot/zer frag ment of two pages, of some value as supplying two clipped lznes (g recto and verso), was found m an album consisting entirely of Specimens of tbe Englzs/z printers from Caxton to Robert Barker, wlziclz Sir yalm Fenn lzad co llected for t/ze completion of Ames Herbert's Typograp/zical Antiquities. Lis volume was ofered for sale by Mr. Bernard Quaritclz in Catalogue No. 237, pp. 97 - 99, t/ze price afixed being 1; 2 80. From this source, tlzroug/z tlze courtesy of Profi Bang of Louvain University, I am able to give tbese two missing lines. It has not been possible to do tlze like in respect to the clipped lines on leey' g i. 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.