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49 According to the Advertisement (p. 5 but unnumbered) of the 1742 and 1770 editions ‘the Undertakers’ had ‘possession of the original plates’. It is therefore a little surprising that the block should have needed so much subsequent reworking after an initial printing of only 120 copies.

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