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- ↑ David McKitterick (28 September 1992). A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 1, Printing and the Book Trade in Cambridge, 1534-1698. Cambridge University Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-521-30801-4.
- ↑ Charles Henry Timperley (1842). Encyclopedia of Literary and Typograpical Anecdote: Being a Chronological Digest of the Most Interesting Facts Illustrative of the History of Literature and Printing from the Earliest Period to the Present Time ... H.G. Bohn. p. 258.