Press Variants

In the early modern period, when a book was being printed, pages were corrected while the presses continued to run, and the uncorrected versions of pages were incorporated into copies of the book alongside corrected ones. The Shakespeare First Folio provides us with examples of this practice.

Correcting The Tempest State I (Folger Copy 024)

Proofing Antony and Cleopatra Proof Page (Folger MF1)

 

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