Correspondence

Sirs,

In my recent article, ‘The Printers of the “Ajax” Pamphlets of 1596–97’ (The Library, vii, 17 (2016), 317–30), I concluded by listing those thirteen pamphlets on p. 329. In doing so, however, I inattentively credited STC 12783 with the same collation (A⁴ B–E⁸ F⁴) as its copy. As I am grateful to John Lancaster for reminding me, the reprint contains only four sheets (A–D⁸) rather than five.¹

Because I made that mistake before calculating the printers’ shares in those pamphlets, in the first line of my conclusion the total number of edition-sheets should be corrected from 66 to 65, and Edward Allde’s share (five lines later) from 28½ to 27½. And as if that were not enough, I have also belatedly noticed that on the same page, I mistyped what should have been STC ‘12773.5’ as ‘12273.5’. It seems curiously appropriate that the book in question is the first edition of An Apologie. I hereby offer my own.