2»'' S. X. Dbc. 22, '6O.3 



NOTES A^T> QUERIES. 



485 



LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 92. 1800. 



NO, 260. —CONTENTS. 



NOTES: — Pope's Letters, 1785, 485— Fichert a Common- 

 wealth Poet, 487 — Mr. S. Leigh Sotheby's Projected Vo- 

 lumes on Early British Bibliography, 489 — Mews, lb. — 

 Sir Robert Sibbald and " Edinburgh Review:" Jeffrey's 

 " Roxburgh," Ac. &c., 490. 



MiNOE Notes: — Wanted a Bookbinder — Eating and 

 Drinking uncovered — Sir Philip Francis — Paper and 

 Poison — The Surname TurnbuU— Gilbert's "History of 

 Dublin " — A Cock-knee. 461. 



QUERIES: —"Pilgrimage of Good Intent," 492 — Zopissa: 

 unde derivatur? 76. —Wife of Rev. John Lawrence — 

 Palmyra — Wilkins and Coppin Queries — Bugle : Isle of 

 Wight Query — The Prefix " Honorable " — Epitaph — 

 Baptismal Names — "The Monstrous Magazine " — The 

 Unities — Scagliola — Quotation Wanted — Portrait of 

 Thomas Lord Wentworth — Portrait of Edward Earl of 

 Lichfield —Portrait of Charles Duke*f Schomberg— Por- 

 trait of Lieut.-Gen. Sir 0. Wells — Portrait of John Earl 

 of Ligonier — Moorflelds in Cromwell's Time — The Gipsy 

 Language— Oxford Statutes — Captain Schuyler — Biblio- 

 maniacs, 493. 



Queries with Answehs : — Sydney — Munden, the Come- 

 dian — Episcopal Experiments — Cecil's " Memoirs " — 

 " Pitch deflleth, &c., 495. 



REPLIE S : — " The Causidicade," 496 — Leighton and Carey, 

 497— Blank Verse, 498 — Dixon of Ramshaw— Yule Dolls — 

 Nelson of Chaddleworth — Is Astrology altogether Impos- 

 sible in the Present Day? — Weston Family, Co. Dorset — 

 Hesiod and Milton — "History of Jamaica" — Oxford 

 Honorary Degrees — Jackson — Mode of concluding Leti 

 ters — Havard Family, 499. 



Nx)tes on Books. 



POPE'S LETTERS, 1735. 



The late inquiries respecting Pope's Letters 

 have given an interest and even importance to 

 what might otherwise be considered a mere bib- 

 liographical question — the exact order of pub- 

 lication. I propose, therefore, to enter somewhat 

 minutely into the subject, and shall take as my 

 model, so far as circumstances admit, the papers 

 in The Dunciad, which appeared some years since 

 in " N. & Q.," and which settled that vexed ques- 

 tion. I fear that my inquiry will be a little more 

 tedious, and require more attention on the part 

 of the reader, from the fact that the editions or 

 issues to be referred to have all the exact same 

 title-pages, and are not different editions, but the 

 same with particular sheets rfeprinted. 



My conclusions will rest on evidence deduced 

 from the " Narrative " published by, or with the 

 sanction of, Pope, the "Initial Correspondence" 

 published by Cur 11, the evidence taken before the 

 House of Lords, and the editions published in 

 1735. The first inquiry will be for one of the 

 fifty copies, the " perfect copies " delivered by K. 

 Smythe to Curll, and which Curll acknowledged 

 that he had received and sold before the 12th 

 May ; and then for one of the " horseload " — the 

 imperfect — received at Curll's house on the 12th 



May, and seized, before the bales had been opei^eci, 

 by the Messenger from the House of Lords. 



The difference between the fifty and the " horse- 

 load" is easily shown. Lord Islay, who had a copy, 

 bought, he said, at Curll's — one, therefore, of the 

 fifty — found on the 117th page " a letter to Mr. 

 Jervas, which contained, as he apprehended, an 

 abuse of the Earl of Burlington." That letter 

 could not be found in the copies seized. Notice 

 was also taken of a note, " which mentions that a 

 letter from the D. of Chandos to Mr. Pope may 

 be printed in the 2nd volume," which note also, as 

 I presume, was not found. Curll who, be it re- 

 membered, had never seen the seized copies, could 

 give no explanation ; but subsequently, after exa- 

 mination, he stated in a Letter to the Peers, that he 

 found the letters to Jervas, Digby, Blount, and 

 Arbuthnot, were wanting in all those copies. 



Here, then, from Lord Islay and Curll, we have 

 an account of the differences between the first — 

 the perfect copies — and the " horseload," or im- 

 perfect copies. But as the letters wanting in the 

 imperfect copies were reproduced in ail subse- 

 quent editions, we must seek for some other test 

 of the first edition. 



The first edition, or rather first issue of the 

 first edition, — we will call it A — and the " horse- 

 load," B, — have a table of errata. The pas- 

 sages referred to in this table are found by 

 its directions in an edition " printed and sold 

 by the Booksellers of London and Westminster,'' 

 1735. There are, however, many editions or 

 many issues so described. To distinguish this 

 particular edition A, I will notice other peeuliarix 

 ties. Thus at p. 22. the catchword is a misprint, 

 " I thanhk " for " I thank." Curll also asserted 

 in his letter to Pope (ii. p. 14.) that the copies of 

 theWycherley letters printed in 1728 [1739] were 

 used in the first edition of the letters, 1735. This 

 is substantially correct : they were used, but tam- 

 pered with; and one letter, at least, inserted. 

 There is strange confusion in the pagination of 

 these Wycherley letters ; but that it was not mere 

 blundering is proved by there being equal con- 

 fusion in the sheet lettering. Thus p. 1 . is on a 

 sheet marked "*B." This B with an asterisk ia 

 only half a sheet, pp. 1 to 4. As the next sheet is 

 " B," and the pagination begins with repeating 

 p. 3., I suspect that the Wycherley letters of 1729 

 had only two pages of letters preceding this p. 3., 

 and that the confusion arises from the introduc- 

 tion of that very suspicious letter of Dec. 26, 1704, 

 wherein, as Dr. Johnson observes, the boy of 

 sixteen wrote with all the " cant of an author," 

 and, I will add, many years before he was an au- 

 thor — before he had even contributed a line to a 

 Miscellany. 



The sheet " B " is of eight pages, and was, I 

 have no doubt, transferred bodily from the edi- 

 tion of 1729. It is followed, however, by '""C." 



