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of the "Poems", is obviously a re-issue, not a new edition. The 

 British Museum copy is nicely bound in dull claret-colored leather, 

 with marbled fly-leaves, and bears the book-plate of "Henry Francis 

 Lyte" ; there are some MS. notes by different hands attributing the 

 volume to Henry King. The various different title-pages, lists of 

 Errata, and extra leaves appear in various unhapp}^ combinations 

 in various copies. 



2. A genuine Second Edition appeared in 1671 ; Henry King's 

 name appears in full on the title-page and at the end of the Preface. 

 The two 1651 and the 1654 title-pages are not included, and there 

 is now a frontispiece^ presumably due to Playford, since he used it for 

 many others of his publications, viz.: David, in royal robes, seated, 

 with crown and harp and upturned eyes, shone upon by rays in- 

 scribed "Gloria Deo": the whole being entitled, "Cantate Domino 

 Canticu Nouvm Psal 95." But one version (the second) is given of 

 Psalm cxxiv, and but one (the first) of Psalm cxxx. The pagination 

 is correct where it was defective in the earlier printing, but new errors 

 appear in the numbering of page 10 and in this garbled sequence : 

 224, 223, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225. Consequently, 

 though the last page of the text is numbered 232 and Hannah gives 

 that as the total number of pages included, there are really 240 pages 

 in the text of the Psalms here.^ Again, the headings of Psalms 

 and Pages are correct where they were faulty before, but new errors 

 of the same sort appear on pp. 36, 71, 90, 91, 216, and 223. The 

 Errata noted before are corrected in this printing, but several new 

 slips appear. This Edition, however, is not so poor a piece of work 

 as Hannah asserts ; ^ on the whole, it is an improvement on the other. 

 It is now an octavo. In the British Museum copy (catalogued 3433. 

 b. 20) , seven Errata are corrected in ink in the text and recorded in 

 pencil on the rear fly-leaf. Finally, on the half-page below Henr}- 

 King's signature at the end of the Preface, the following announce- 

 ment is printed : "Advertisement. There is published newly a book 



1 Unknown to Hannah ; his several inaccuracies in describing this edition 

 seem to be due to the fact that he himself never saw a copy (as is implied 

 in his statement on p. cxxx and in his footnote to p. 215) but had to rely upon 

 the Lambeth Palace Librarian's report on the copy in the Archbishop's 

 collection; this copy (catalogued 94. I. 31) happens to be imperfect, further- 

 more, for the front cover and frontispiece are missing. 



2 The number given in " Bibl. Ang.-Poet.," viz. "pp. 246", evidentlj^ 

 includes the Preface and the additional leaves containing "Hymns of the 

 Church." 



