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- Duplicate Setting. A little nightmare of a problem. At times bibliographers discover that the same text has been set twice over. Several explanations are possible. First, that a “second edition” was set and printed as an exact duplicate of the princeps. Second, that, after a certain point in printing the run was increased, so the early gatherings had to be reset. Third, that leaves were reset at a later date in order to make up incomplete copies. Nevertheless cases have been discovered, in which the bibliographical evidence suggests that both settings of type were extant at the same time in the same shop, and in which no really convincing explanation of the fact is forthcoming; see W.W. Greg, ‘“The Triumph of Peace”: A Bibliographer’s Nightmare”, The Library, s. 5, vol. 1 (1946), pp. 113-126; Martin Boghardt, ‘Partial Duplicate Setting: Means of Rationalization or Complicating Factor in Textual Transmission?’, The Library, s. 6, vol. 15 (1993), pp. 306-331.