1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 >>     Aurelia - The Work          Aurelia (1593) is the second edition of another book An Heptameron of Civill Discourses (1582).        Aurelia was issued by the usual Printer of its author R. Jones. Parhaps, he reissued the book under a new title for commercial reasons.        At the time, books were not sold alt all. R. Jones reissued also another book by Whetstone under a new title. It was A Mirrour for Magistrates of the Cities (1584) reissued in 1586 under the title The Enemy of Unthriftness (1586). E.H. Miller shows that the Printer reissued it “to impress reader with variety of Whetstone’s works and writings”. Whetstone’s books were not selling and the printer wanted to sell them. Probably the text we are considering was reissued for the same reason.        The second edition hasn’t many differences from the first. There is one cut in the fourth day’s exercise – the book is divided in days – which can have a political justification. Other differences include some modernizations in the spelling or form of some words. Probably because the English prose of the period was searching for a correct form of its expression. There are more in the first edition than in the second. The short forms were used for typographic reasons.        The Printer had to concentrate many words in a line. This element however required a public able to read them. The second edition has only a few short forms.       An evident difference in the Title of each day.        In the first edition we read: “ the first daies exercises”; instead, in the second edition we read: “Madonna Aurelia, her first daies pleasures”. Parhaps, it was an expedient of the printer to underline the pleasant aspect of reading. So he presented the book adding the word pleasure even if it wasn’t in the first edition. In this way the printer hoped to sell many books. 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 >>