``Good Mr. Hooker, I pray you be so
good as to send us the next leaf that
followeth this, for I know not by what
mischance this of ours is lost, which
standeth uppon the finishing of the
book.''[7]


[7] _Notes and Queries_, 7th Series, viii. 73.



Another proof of the general practice
will be found in N. Breton's _The Wit of
Wit_ (1599):--

``What faultes are escaped in the printing,
finde by discretion, and excuse the
Author by other worke that let him from
attendance to the Presse; non h che non
s. N. B. Gent.''

At the end of Nash's dedication ``To
his Readers,'' _Lenten Stuffe_ (1599), is this

interesting statement: ``Apply it for me
for I am called away to correct the faults
of the press, that escaped in my absence
from the printing house.''