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THE SPECULUM SALUTIS.
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before the types, as is clearly proved by the discovery that on some pages the types slightly overlap the cuts.[1]
The Second Edition is in Latin, and is like the first, with this odd exception: twenty pages of the text are printed from engraved blocks of wood. These xylographic pages are distributed in irregular order, as if by accident, as will be shown by the italic figures, which represent these pages, in the following table. It should be noticed that the xylographic pages,
| First Section of Six Leaves. | Second Section of Fourteen Leaves. | Third Section of Fourteen Leaves. | Fourth Section of Fourteen Leaves. | Fifth Section of Sixteen Leaves. |
| – 5 | . 6 – 19 . | 20 – 33 | 34 – 47 | 48 – 63 |
| 1 – 4 | . 7 – 18 . | . 21 – 32 . | 35 – 46 | 49 – 62 |
| 2 – 3 | 8 – 17 | . 22 – 31 . | 36 – 45 | 50 – 61 |
| . 9 – 16 . | 23 – 30 | 37 – 44 | . 51 – 60 . | |
| . 10 – 15 . | 24 – 29 | 38 – 43 | 52 – 59 | |
| . 11 – 24 . | 25 – 28 | 39 – 42 | 53 – 58 | |
| . 12 – 13 . | . 26 – 27 . | 40 – 41 | 54 – 57 | |
| 55 – 56 |
as well as the typographic pages, are always found in couples. The types are those of the first edition, but there are varia-
- ↑ There are two copies of the book which exhibit the blemish of a leaf made up of two distinct pieces of paper, each piece printed by a different impression, but so pasted together as to constitute one perfect page. We do not certainly know the cause that made this patchwork necessary, but it would seem that a gross blunder had been made in the printing-office; perhaps a transposition of lines by the compositor, or illegible presswork by the pressman. It was necessary that the sheet containing the error should be canceled and replaced. But the frugal printer refused to destroy the entire page for an error confined to but half a page. He tore off the lower half of the leaf, and replaced it by attaching a piece of white paper to the bottom of the upper half, which contained the engraving in brown ink. On this pasted piece of white paper, he took a corrected or perfect impression from the types. In this copy, the impression, which deeply indented the paper in the double thickness where it was pasted, proves that the types were printed after the engravings. There is another copy in which the illustration on the upper half of the sheet was canceled, and replaced by the same method.
