Abstract
The printing method known as concurrent perfecting, discussed by Greg and McKerrow in the 1920s, is not mentioned by either Loys le Roy (1579) or Moxon (1683). Sometimes considered as a possibility in the 1940s and ’50s, it was dismissed as improbable by Gaskell in 1972. But some printer’s waste found in a group of Cambridge bindings proves beyond doubt that it was practised for at least one book of 1637. The evidence survives because ink dries more slowly than paper. A consideration of that fact, with some evidence from three slightly earlier books, leads the author to suggest a hitherto-unsuspected routine that London printers may sometimes have adopted, and which might explain the curious behaviour of the skeleton formes in the ‘Pavier Quartos’ of 1619.
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