1
I must gratefully acknowledge the financial assistance of the University of St. Andrews, the help and encouragement of Professor A. E. Sloman, and the advice of Professor E. M. Wilson in the preparation of this note.
2
I have observed the following error of signature : E5 for F5; and the following errors of pagination : 360 for 160; 502 for 205; 252-255 for 253-256; 298 for 289; 495 for 295; 399 for 299; 398 for 368; 373 for 372; 375 for 374; 382 for 381; 385 for 384; 382 for 392; 390 for 399; 365 for 465; 405 for 505.
3
See for instance that used in 1623 and 1630 by Jerónimo Margarit of Barcelona and reproduced in Francisco Vindel, Escudos y marcas de impresores y libreros en España durante los siglos XV a XIX (Barcelona 1942), no. 454; or that used in 1633 by Francisco Martínez of Madrid in Vicente Carducho's Dialogos de la pintura; or that used in 1635 and 1638 by the Imprenta Real of Madrid in Salas Barbadillo's Coronas del Parnaso and Montalbán's Segundo tomo de las comedias.
4
The Rimas also contain both the composite ornaments (A) and (C). These are of so common a type as normally to have no evidential value, but their reappearance in company with (B) is surely significant.
5
Volumes like these are mentioned in Bibliotheca Bultelliana: seu Catalogus librorum bibliothecae V.CL.D. Caroli Butteau, I (Paris 1711), 441 (referred to in C. de la Barrera, Catálogo... del teatro antiguo español, Madrid 1860, 865), and in A. L. Stiefel, «Notizen zur Geschichte und Bibliographie des spanischen Dramas», ZRP, XV (1891), 224.
6
See for instance Diferentes 28, Huesca 1634; Diferentes 42, Zaragoza 1650; and three volumes of 1640, 1642 and 1646 listed in Vindel, Escudos y marcas, no. 487. Possibly Pedro Escuer had special preliminaries printed for these copies because he was sending them for sale in Seville -by Andrés Grande? Grande seems to have ceased to print there after 1637; see especially F. Escudero y Perosso, Tipografía Hispalense (Madrid 1894); C. L. Penney, List of books printed 1601-1700 in the library of the Hispanic Society of America (New York 1938), 330 and 506; and Santiago Montoto, Impresos sevillanos (Madrid 1948); but he is named as the printer in Fray Juan de Quirós, Rosario inmaculado de la virgen santissima... Primero tomo (Sevilla 1650).
7
Note howevwe that here page 205 is correctly numbered-i.e. not mis-mumbered 502.