Dec. 30. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



517 



LONDON. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30. 1854. 



NOTES ON EDITIONS OF " THE DUNCIAD." 



(^Concluded from p. 498.) 



(H.) THE DTJNCIAD. WITH NOTES VARIORUM, 

 AND THE PROLEGOMENA OF SCRIBLERUS. LONDON, 

 PRINTED FOR LAWTON GILLIVER AT HOMEr's 

 HEAD, AGAINST ST. DUNSTAn's CHURCH, FLEET 



STREET, 1729, 8vo. In two out of four copies which 

 are before us, the frontispiece is the Ass, with the 



words DEFEROR IN VICUM VENDENTEM THUS BT 



ODORES. This is obviously printed from the 

 vignette cut out from the engraved title-page to 

 the Dod 4to, In two copies, including one belong- 

 ing to Mr. Peter Cunningham, with Pope's auto- 

 graph on the title-page, the frontispiece is the 

 Owl, with a variation which is described in our 

 notes of edition (I.). 



That this edition followed the one last de- 

 scribed (G.), Dob's defence of his errata shows 

 pretty clearly. 



This volume corresponds generally with the 

 preceding. It has, however, at the end of the 

 index an address, M. Scriblerus Lectori, setting 

 forth certain errata, which occupies two pages. 



(I.) THE DUNCIAD : WITH NOTES VARIORUM, AND 

 THE PROLEGOMENA OF SCRIBLERUS. LONDON : 



PRINTED FOR A. DOD, 1729, 8vo. The portion of 

 the title which we have printed in Italics is printed 

 with red ink. With precisely the same fron- 

 tispiece of the Ass, as the preceding edition. 

 Indeed, H. and I. are, with the exception of 

 the title-page, and that this Dod Bvo. has not the 

 two pages of errata, perfectly identical. The same 

 errors, which in (H.) are corrected by the errata, 

 are to be found in Dod. That H. and I. were 

 printed from the same types, the following instances 

 of misplaced or imperfect letters will show : 



Page 8. 1. 2. of Advertisement, in the word 

 " liv'd," the V has dropped in both editions. 



Page 180. 1. 8. Appendix, the word "Reason" 

 is printed with a battered E,; and in p. 182. 

 1. 26., in the word " length," the g has dropped. 



Note. — Here we may notice, that in two copies 

 of Gilliver's 8vo. edition (H.), which have been sent 

 to us, we have found inserted an additional plate. 

 In one copy it precedes the first canto ; in the other 

 it is placed at the commencement of the second j 

 canto. It is the Owl frontispiece, but with vari- j 

 ations ; and is from the ow^-plate which appears in 

 the later impressions. The variations are, — 1. In j 

 the label issuing from the beak of the owl, where we 

 have the word "Variorum" introduced. 2. In the | 

 pile of books on which the owl is perched, where I 

 " Gildon & Woolston ag'* X*,'' takes the place of ! 

 "P. & K. Arthur;" and " Blackmore" takes the { 



place of "Newcastle." The copies in which this 

 additional plate is inserted, would be said to be 

 in their original binding. As Pope, in his letter 

 to Swift, dated Oct. 9, 1729, says — 



" If in any particular, anything be stated or mentioned 

 in a different manner from what You like, pray tell me 

 freelj-, that the new Editions now coming out here may 

 have it rectify'd," — 



it is possible that this owl-plate had been engraved 

 for the purpose of being used for the Dod edition 

 (I.) ; which, however, appeared, as we have seen, 

 with the Ass frontispiece. The paragraph is im- 

 mediately followed by another, which certainly 

 does not clear up the mystery : 



" You'll find the octavo rather more correct than the 

 quarto, with some additions to the Notes and Epigrams 

 cast in, which I wish had been increased by your ac- 

 quaintance in Ireland." 



Mr. Malone, to whom the copy of H. with 

 Pope's autograph had belonged, has inserted the 

 following note : 



_" First published in this improved state in 4'" in April, 

 1729 (price 6s. 6c/.), near a year after the first production. 

 In 8'o same month. A second edition 'with additional 

 Notes and Epigrams' in Nov^" 



Pope's Letter, which we have just quoted, is 

 however dated in October ; and we have no 

 doubt it refers to the following : 



(K ) THE DUNCIAD : WITH NOTES VARIORUM, 

 AND THE PROLEGOMENA OF SCRIBLERUS. THE 

 SECOND EDITION WITH SOME ADDITIONAL NOTES. 

 LONDON : PRINTED FOR LAWTON GILLIVER, AT 

 homer's HEAD, AGAINST ST. DUNSTAn's CHURCH, 



FLEET STREET, 1729. With thc Ass Frontispiecc. 



The words we have put in Italics are printed 

 in red ink. 



This edition not only contains many additional 

 Notes and Epigrams, as those in p. 106., where we 



have an epigram attributed to the Earl of B , 



against those who had libelled " an eminent 

 sculptor, for making our author's bust in marble 

 at the request of Mr. Gibbs, the architect ; " but 

 also six pages of " Errata, M. Scriblerus Lectori," 

 paged (1. to 6.), which contain, among other 

 things, a Letter from Dennis to Pope, written, as 

 Scriblerus phrases it, when Dennis was " touch'd 

 with repentance and some guineas." This edition 

 has some cancels in sheet P. 



(L) THE DUNCIAD : WITH NOTES VARIORUM, 

 AND THE PROLEGOMENA OF SCRIBLERUS. V! RITTEN 



IN THE YEAR 1727. Loudou : printed for Lawton 

 Gilliver in Fleet Street, 12mo. Without date. 

 This edition, of which we have had some copies 

 with the Ass, and some with the Owl {variorum) 

 frontis[)iece, although without date, cannot have 

 been printed earlier than 1733 ; inasmuch as it 

 contains " By the Author a Declaration," wiiich 

 purports to have been declared before John Barber 

 Mayor, on Jan. 3, 1732 ; and also in the List of 



