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Excerpt from The Non-Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker, Vol. 3 of 5: Dekker His Dreame, 1620; The Belman of London, 1608; Lanthorne and Candle-Light, 1609; A Strange Horse-Race, 1613 All these in a slender pamphlet, and mer-and-above scarcely numerable departures from orthography, capitals, italics, etc., etc.7'zt/e-fiage - The woodcut of 'dekker' m bed asleep in no way is faithful to the original. The features especially are grotesquely false. The dreaming poet's nose IS in the original narrow and sen51t1ve, in Mr. Halliwell -ph1ll1pps' th1ck and gross; the cheeks thin and worn, in the reproduction fat and bloated, and so through out. Our admirable fac-simile (1n will therefore be doubly acceptable. The late Rev. Thomas Corser, in his 'collectanea anglo-poetics. (s. Has re-used Mr. Halhwell-phlllipps' wood block, and by the kindness of the Chetham Society I am enabled to give an impression from this as used by both (page to prove how utterly unfaithful it is to the original. See memorial-intro duction on the probable likeness of the Author herein. The original tractate consists of 22 leaves (b Museum 39, c. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.