TRADE EDITIONS—COTTLE'S LIFE OF COLERIDGE

Sir,—In the 2nd vol. of Mr. Collier's valuable and interesting Extracts from the Registers of the Stationers' Company, p. 28, is the following entry:— "Thos. Dason. Licensed unto him the praise of follie; to print not above xv° of any impression, with this condition, that any of the Company may laie on with him, reasonablie at every impression, as they think good, and that he shall gyve reasonable knowledge before to them as often as he shall print it." This is both curious and important information as being, in all probability, the earliest recorded instance of a custom still kept up amongst…