Quoting Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>:
"Hey, at least this shows that the 1702 edition was popular enough
> to be actually worth the trouble of setting it up in print again ten years
> later, rather than just running off a few more copies from the same formes
> with a different title date."
Would there have been printing shops that kept formes set up for long?
I assumed type was so valuable it would always promptly be, what is the word,
distributed (?) straight after printing was over.
Max
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