Morus, after all, it will be seen, had been obliged to acquiesce in Ulac's arrangement (Vol.IV.p.

634).

Instead of trying vainly any longer to suppress Milton's book on the Continent, he had exerted himself to the utmost in preparing a Reply to it, to go forth with that reprint of it for the foreign market which Ulac had been pushing through the press and would not keep back.
Although Milton complains that Ulac's edition of his book for the foreign market was not only a piracy, but also slovenly in itself, with printer's errors vitiating the sense and arrangement in some cases,[1] it was substantially a reprint of the original.

Its interest for us, therefore, lies wholly in the preliminary matter.
This consists of a short Preface headed "_Lectori_" ("To the Reader") and signed "GEORGIUS CRANTZIUS, _S.S.Theol.

D._," and a longer statement headed "_Typographus pro Se-ipso_" ("The Printer in his own behalf") and signed "A.