| Item Description: | Actually the third edition, third issue, second state; the titlepage is a cancel (with vertical chain lines); in this state the final "I" of the imprint date has been scraped away by the publisher to simulate the first edition; a variant state retains the final "I" in the date. - English Short Title Catalog, N23184. - Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library. - Todd, W. B. 'The early editions and issues of The monk, with a bibliography'. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, vol, II, pp.3-24 |
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