1585.
P. [14]. Bilson, Thomas. Add at end:—
A curious account of an abortive effort on the part of Edmund Bollifant and three partners to produce a reprint of this book, will be found in Arber’s Transcript of the Stationers’ Registers II (1875), p. 793.
P. [17]. Parsons, Robert, (2nd entry, no. 6). Add at end:—
An explanation of this reprint will be found in Arber’s Transcript of the Stationers’ Registers II (1875), p. 793 (a petition from N. Newton, E. Bollifant, and others, in the winter of 1585
6), from which it appears that John Wight, printer, of London, who had entered a copy of his edition of the book at Stationers’ Hall on 28 Aug. 1584, sent his son to Oxford to buy up the whole of Barnes’s reprint: which was done. But Barnes promptly printed “two ympressions more,” of which the present volume is no doubt one. Possibly the preceding art. is the other re-impression, and Wight effectually suppressed the whole first edition.