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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 29. 18G0. 



No, 261.— CONTENTS. 



NOTES : — Pope's Letters, 1735, 505 — " Collino Custure 

 Me ! "506 — Will of Lady Mary Wortlw Montagu. 507 — 

 Prologue and Epilogue to Westminster Play, 508. 



MiNOE NoTlB: — Gough and Paton Correspondence — 

 Burns (Robert)— Irish Manufactures — Portrait of Lord 

 Nelson, 509. 



QUERIES: — Chaucer at King's Lynn — Talbot Edwards— 

 Lumisden and Smith — Severe Frost of 1789 — Cloisters of 

 the Abbey of Jumieges — Sir James Brown — Smith's 

 Tavistock MSS. — Divorced Women — Conscience Money 



— The Bulk of Insects — Queen Dick — " Happy the Man " 



— Cricket, Peg Fitchet— Ice Islands in German Ocean, 510. 

 QuKEiES WITH Answees: — Sir Richard Pole — "Life of 



Peter D'Aubusson "— Salvador Jacinto Polo do Medina, 

 512. 

 REPLIES : — Woollett's Monument : Snaggs of Chiselhurst : 

 John Peltro, 513 —The Stationers of the Middle Ages, 514 



— Mention of Painting in the Old Testament, 515 — Mer- 

 chant Adventurers — Eeuter's Telegraphs — Bishops and 

 their Seats in Parliament — " Come thou Fount of every 

 Blessing" — Napoli — Vulgar Errors in Law — Pigtails — 

 Barrett of Essex — Napoleon II. — Meaning of Platty— 

 "A New Covering to the Velvet Cushion " — Alderman 

 Newnham— Oliver Cromwell — Mosheim and Morgan- 

 Smytanites— Barnevelt — Atour— Orientation —" Thomas 

 Carey, a Poet of Note" — "Drunken Barnabee's Journal" 

 Christopher Ebdon — Sawney Bean — Riding the Stang — 

 Gleaners' Bell — Brede Lene — Seven Children in One 

 Year — Shakspeare Music — Marshall Family — Sheep and 

 Mutton — Burial in an Upright Posture — " Pencil Writ- 



; ing " — Sir John Gayer — l?orged Assiguats — Reference in 

 Bartholinus — Dear is that Valley, &c., 515. 



Notes on Books. 



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POPE'S LETTERS. 1735. 



I come now (ante p. 487.) to the edition of 

 " Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence, printed for 

 E. Curll, 1735," Pope's outcry and hue and cry 

 led the public to believe that Curll was the first 

 printer of the Letters. Curll had no more to do 

 with printing the Letters than any bookseller who 

 sold copies. The first printer and publisher, as 

 shown in The Athenceum, was P. T. or Pope himself. 

 Curll, however, finding that he had been made a 

 tool of, that the "horseload" were all imperfect 

 copies, resolved to print an edition of his own — a 

 complete edition as he called it — and announced 

 his intention to do so in his Letter to the Peers, 

 of 22nd May ; with, by way of " Supplement," all 

 letters received from E.T., P. T,, R. S., and others, 

 and a new plate of Mr. Pope's head from 'Mr. Jer- 

 vas's picture. 



The copy before me has a portrait of Pope, but 

 without the name either of painter or engraver. 

 It has the address " To the Reader" from the 

 Booksellers' edition, here called "Preface"; ex- 

 cept that the passage, referring to the AVycberley 

 letters is omitted ; and it may be well to notice, 

 that the same passage was omitted in the edition 

 published by Roberts. It has not the promised 

 " Supplement." 



It must, however, be remembered, before this 



fact be allowed weight on the question of priority, 

 that Curll's advertisement, promising the " Sup- 

 plement," is dated the 2lst, and his Letter to the 

 Peers 22nd of May ; and it was not announced 

 till the 24th that the clergyman, &c., had disn 

 covered the whole transaction, and that a " Nar- 

 rative" of the same would be speedily published. 

 This may have suggested to Curll the policy of 

 remaining quiet until the "^Narrative" was pubr 

 lished. But he could not, in regard to his interestf 

 defer the publication of the Letters which had 

 been announced for this week ; and this week 

 ended Saturday the 24th May, and the " Narra- 

 tive" did not appear before the 10th of June. 



The "Supplement," however, did appear pre- 

 fixed to what Curll calls the second volume of 

 Pope's Correspondence, which also contained a 

 copy of the "Narrative," with notes by Curll. 

 This second volume must have followed quickly, 

 as a third is announced on the 26th July as to 

 appear next month. 



It may be well to note that Curll's " Supple- 

 ment" — the "Initial Correspondence" — has a 

 different pagination, and a different sheet-lettering 

 from the " Narrative." There is' no reference to 

 it in the " Narrative" : it brings the account down 

 only to the 22nd May, in brief, suggests by its 

 silence and by circumstances that it had been 

 printed before the "Narrative" was published. 

 It is strong evidence of this, that Curll's " Sup- 

 plement" does contain the "Initial Correspon- 

 dence" ; and among other letters, the two of Oct. 

 II, and of Nov. 15, 1733, which two letters were 

 published in the " Narrative," and are not, there- 

 fore, included in Curll's reprint of it. 



The Letters begin p. 1., and end p. 232., without 

 "Finis" ; and vol. ii. begins p. 1., and ends p. 316., 

 which is announced as " The end of the first 

 volume." I have two editions. My description 

 is general, and merely to help the curious at a 

 bookstall. It will be found, however, on examin- 

 ation, that the pagination of the second volume 

 ends p. 128., and then recommences p. 233., which 

 would make what follows the proper continuation 

 of vol. i. 



I have also four editions of 1735, in 12mo. As, 

 however, the interest attaches only to the first 

 edition and its various issues, these 12mos. may 

 be briefly dismissed. 



The first, as I believe, was "Printed for T. 

 Cooper, and sold by the Booksellers of London and 

 Westminster." After a hurried examination, I am 

 of opinion that it was reprinted from the A copy, 

 corrected by the table of errata. It was adver- 

 tised as " this day published," in the Country 

 Journal of June 16th. The copy itself bears evi- 

 dence that it must have been got up in great haste, 

 and it was intended probably to undersell Curll's 

 8vo., which was only announced on the 21st May. 

 Three of the letters are throughout printed in 



