Chapter IV: On Typographers and Editors of Books

Argument of the chapter

In this chapter, the discipline concerning the censure and edition of books is completed by certain precepts or warnings which, although they are not strictly proper to typographers and editors, nevertheless pertain to them in a peculiar way. Moreover, in the inscription itself, as is clear from article 46, which is concerning sellers of books, by the name of editors all, however many, who contribute labor to spreading books are called broadly.