Notes and Queries, Number 68, February 15, 1851

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 68, February 15, 1851

Notes

DEFENCE OF THE EXECUTION OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS

DE NAVORSCHER

A BIDDING AT WEDDINGS IN WALES

COLERIDGE'S "RELIGIOUS MUSINGS."

FOLK LORE

Minor Notes

Queries

FIVE QUERIES AND NOTES ON BOOKS, MEN, AND AUTHORS

Minor Queries

Replies

MEANING OF EISELL

DESCENT OF HENRY IV

FOSSIL ELK OF IRELAND

Replies to Minor Queries

Miscellaneous

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE

Отрывок из книги

Allow me to supply a deficiency in my last volume of Extracts from the Registers of the Stationers' Company, printed by the Shakspeare Society. It occurs at p. 224., in reference to an entry of 11th Feb., 1587, in the following terms:

In the note appended to this entry I point out a mistake by Herbert (ii. 1126. of his History of Printing), who fancied that the Defence of the Execution of Mary Queen of Scots, and Kyffin's Blessedness of Britain, were the same work; and I add that "the Analogy here entered is not recorded among the productions of John Windet's press." This is true; but Mr. David Laing, of Edinburgh, has kindly taken the trouble to send me, all the way from Scotland, a very rare volume, which proves that the Analogy in question was printed by Windet in consequence of the registration, and that it was, in fact, part of a volume which that printer put forth under the following title:

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Some readers of "Notes and Queries" may be interested in a reading of a few lines in this poem which varies from that given in Pickering's edition of the Poems, 1844. In that edition the verses I refer to stand thus (p. 69):

I happen to be in possession of these lines as originally written, in Coleridge's own hand, on a detached piece of paper. It will be seen that they have been much altered in the printed edition above cited. I am now copying from Coleridge's autograph:

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