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.
1586.
P. [17]. Insert:—
Brasbridge, Thomas, of Magdalen college, Oxford. QVÆESTI-|ONES IN OF-|FICIA M. T. | CICERONIS: | Compendiariam totius | Opusculi Epitomen | continentes. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 5: 1586: (eights) 12o: pp. [68], signn. A-D8 E2: sign. B 1r beg. rum alterum: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. A 1r, title within a border, A 2r-2v, dedication to Laurence Humphrey, signed “Thomas Brasbrigius,” “Banburiæ, Idibus Nouembris, 1586”: A 3r-E 2 (printed E 3)v, the questions and answers: E 2v, two Latin lines signed “I. P. Iohannensis.”
Very rare. For the author, see Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, i. 526. The preface contains some autobiographical details. There appear to be at least three editions of this work, 1586, 1592 (q. v.) and 1615 (q. v.), all printed at Oxford.
1589.
P. [28]. Skelton, John.
Lord Spencer’s copy is of course now in the John Rylands Library at Manchester.