[W. H. Allnutt, in a MS. note inserted in the Bodleian copy of Arber's Reprint of the Characters, states that Arber has mistaken the order of priority of the three 1628 edd. Arber places the ed. with the above title-page second, and that of which the title is copied on p. 330, third. The second ed., called by Arber the first, is not in the Bodleian.] The last written page of the Durham MS. has by way of Colophon Finis. December anno Do This 14th mini day 1627. "This little volume in calf binding, about 12mo size, is doubtless one of those referred to by Ed. Blount in his address to the Reader. The MS. is written in an exceedingly neat and small hand on the pages of the previously bound book, with margin lines ruled in red. At the top of the first page is written in a different hand, 'Edw. Blunt, Author.' The MS. contains 46 Characters in all, and is free from some evident blunders in the first printed copies, as if they had been done from dictation." This MS. in the Durham Cathedral Library is entered in the catalogue (of the Hunter MSS.) as "Characters by Edward Blunt," and dated "about 1636," the date _in the MS._ having been overlooked. Dr. Fowler in _Notes and Queries_, Nov. 4th, 1871. EARLE'S MICROCOSMOGRAPHY. --------------------------------------+------+----------+-----+-------+-------- | | |Bliss| | |Bliss,| Bliss, |Sale,|British| EDITION. |1811 .| 1812-57. |1858.|Museum |Bodleian --------------------------------------+------+----------+-----+-------+-------- "W. Stansby for Edward Blount,"[EV] | | | | | 1628(_a_) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes "W. Stansby for Robert Allot," 1628 | | | | | (_b_)[EW] | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No "W. S. for Ed. Blount," 1628 (_c_)[EX]| Yes | | Yes | Yes | Yes 4th | No | No | No | No | No 5th 1629 | Yes | | Yes | Yes | Yes 6th 1630 | No | No | No | Yes | No "6th" 1633 | Yes | | Yes | Yes | Yes 7th 1638 | Yes | | Yes | Yes | Yes (A reprint of one of the | | | | | first four) 1650 | Yes | | Yes | Yes | Yes (Very doubtful) 1659 | No |"Mr. | No | No | No | |Gilchrist"| | | | |told him | | | | |he possessed a | | | |copy by the same| |