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_Typographical Antiquities_, that among Bagford's curious collection of title-pages in the Harleian Collection of MSS. (which I doubt if Dr. Dibdin ever consulted with care), there is the last leaf of an edition of the _Ortus Vocabulorum_, unnoticed by bibliographers, with the following colophon: --
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He was undoubtedly an ardent book-collector, and I possess copies of the _Ortus Vocabulorum_, printed by W. de Worde, in 1518, and the
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Wynkyn de Worde printed with it, in the same year or the year following, an _Ortus Vocabulorum_.
A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 Henry R. Plomer 1901
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