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1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 394 Send me down a whole set of the sheets, that I may look them over; and see what cancels are necessary.

1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. II. 332 It was his pride to read these cancels [suppressed by the censor] to his friends.

1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. II. 333 These cancel sheets, or castrations.

1861 D. G. Rossetti Let. May (1965) II. 401 There are five cancel leaves already in the book.

1862 National Rev. Jan. 38 This title-page is a manifest cancel.

1872 J. A. H. Murray in Complaynt Scotl. Introd. p. xxxiii The leaf..is a cancel replacing the original 31.

1908 F. Madan in Trans. Bibliogr. Soc. 9 62 Cancels are newly-printed leaves intended to take the place of cancelled leaves.

1908 Pollard & Greg in Trans. Bibliogr. Soc. 9 44 When we speak of a cancel nobody else ever knows whether we mean the leaf cut out and destroyed or the leaf inserted as a substitute. If we are careful we distinguish between a cancelled leaf and a cancel-leaf, but the person to whom we are speaking probably does not catch the subtle distinction. A change of terminology might be desirable.

1914 R. B. McKerrow in Trans. Bibliogr. Soc. 12 299 In one case the leaf has been simply cut out, but in all the others it is replaced by a cancel-leaf.

1924 R. W. Chapman in Library V. 249 Notes on Cancel Leaves.

1927 R. B. McKerrow Introd. Bibliogr. 223 It is convenient to have a means of distinguishing clearly between the original sheet or portion of a sheet which is intended to be cancelled and what is intended to replace it. We may call the former the cancellandum or ‘cancelland’, the latter the cancellans or simply ‘cancel’.

1964 F. Bowers Bibliogr. & Textual Crit. v. iv. 152 Two versions of a cancel leaf.