An explanation of this reprint will be found in Arber’s ©Transcript of
the Stationers’ Registers© II (1875), p. 793 (a petition from N.
Newton, E. Bollifant, and others, in the winter of 1585/6), from which
it appears that John Wight, printer, of London, who had entered a copy
of his edition of the book at Stationers’ Hall on 28 Aug. 1584, sent
his son to Oxford to buy up the whole of Barnes’s reprint: which was
done. But Barnes promptly printed “two ympressions more,” of which the
present volume is no doubt one. Possibly the preceding art. is the
other re-impression, and Wight effectually suppressed the whole first
edition.
1586.