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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 270. 



Books, &c., in wbich the author was abused, Verses 

 on the Imitator of Horace, ^c, J. Roberts, fol., 

 1733 ; and An Epistle from a Nobleman to a Dr. 



of Divinity from Hampton Court (^Lord H y), 



printed for J. Roberts, fol. 1733. 



(M.) THE DUNCIAD : AN HEEOIC POEM TO DR. 

 JONATHAN SfVIFT. ■VTITH THE PROLEGOMENA OP 

 SCRIBLERUS, AND NOTES VARIORUM. LONDON: 

 PRINTED FOR LAWTON GILLIVER, IN FLEET STREET, 



1736. The Ass Frontispiece. V2mo. 



Here again our Italics denote red ink in the 

 original. 



On the back of the title is a Table of Errata. 

 This edition is from the same types as the preced- 

 ing, with the exception of the title-page. These 

 same errata, though they are not pointed out in the 

 preceding edition, still exist there ; and the identity 

 of the two may be shown by reference to p. 178., 

 Imitation v. 15., where the word '■'■ innumer <e" is 

 so printed in both ; and p. 184., Rem. v. 61., where, 

 in both copies, southern is spelt " southerrn." 



From this period the rival frontispieces, the 

 Owl and the Ass, disappear, and with theui all 

 the mystification with regard to the dates and 

 precedence of editions of l^he Dunciad to which 

 they so materially contributed. 



The next edition is 



(l!f.) THE WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE, ESQ., 

 yOL. IV., CONTAINING THE DUNCIAD, WITH THE 

 PROLEGOMENA OF SCRIBLERUS, AND NOTES VARI- 

 ORUM. LONDON: PRINTED FOR L. GILLIVER AND 

 J. CLARKE, AT HOMER's HEAD, AGAINST ST. DUN- 

 STAn's church in FLEET STREET, MDCCXXXVI. 



12mo. 



The words in Italics are in red ink. 



This, which would seem to form a portion of an 

 edition of Pope's works, although, like the pre- 

 ceding, published by Giiliver, &c. in 1736, is alto- 

 gether a different edition. It commences with 

 " The Preface to the first five imperfect editions 

 of The Dunciad, printed at Dublin and London, 

 in octavo and duod. 1727." 



No such editions were printed in " 1727." 

 This preface is followed by the "Advertisement 

 to the First Edition, with Notes, in quarto, 1728," 

 whereas the first quarto, as we have shown, was 

 published in " 1729." In other respects it corre- 

 sponds generally with the preceding. 



(0,) the new DUNCIAD : AS IT WAS FOUND IN 

 THE YEAR MDCCXLI., WITH THE ILLUSTRATIONS OP 

 SCRIBLERUS, AND NOTES VARIORUM. LONDON : 

 PRINTED FOR T. COOPER, AT THE GLOBE IN PATER- 

 NOSTER ROW, MDCCXLii. (Price 1*. and 6c?.) 

 4to. This is the first edition of the Fourth 

 Book. It has a bastard title, " The New Dun- 

 ciad." The title is followed by an address " To 

 the Reader," in which it is stated to have been 



" Found merely by accident, in taking a survey of the 



library of a late eminent nobleman ; but in so blotted a 

 condition, and in so many detach'd pieces, as plainly 

 showed it to be not only incorrect but u?ijinished," &c. 



This is followed by " The Argument, Book the 

 Fourth," which occupies two pages. " The Dun- 

 dad, Book the Fourth," beginning 



" Yet for a moment, one dim ray of light 

 Indulge, dread Chaos and eternal Night ! " 



commences on p. 1., which is surmounted by the 

 same copper-plate engraving as that which heads 

 the First Book in (F.) the Dod quarto, 1729. 



This edition of the Fourth Book ends on p. 39. 

 It has a short list of "errata," which concludes 

 with this : 



"l*f. B. In the Greek quotations in general are some 

 Errata, occasion'd b}' the absence of Scriblerus, who only 

 of all the Commentators was master of that language." 



(P.) THE NEW DUNCIAD : AS IT WAS FOUND IN 

 THE TEAR MDCCXLI , WITH THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF 

 SCRIBLERUS, AND NOTES VARIORUM. LONDON ! 

 PRINTED FOR T. COOPER, AT THE GLOBE IN PA- 

 TERNOSTER ROW, MDCCXLII. (Price 1*. and Qd.) 

 4to. 



This edition is distinguishable from the pre- 

 ceding by not having the engraving at the com- 

 mencement of the First Book, and by occupying 

 44 pages instead of 39. 



(^.) THE WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE, ESQ., 

 VOL. III., PART I., CONTAINING THE DUNCIAD NOW 

 FIRST PUBLISHED ACCORDING TO THE COMPLETE 

 COPT FOUND IN THE TEAR MDCCXLI. LONDON: 



Printed for R. Dodsley, and sold by T. Cooper. 

 1743. Small 8vo. 



THE WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE, ESQ., VOL. III., 

 PART II., CONTAINING THE DUNCIAD, BOOK IV., AND 

 THE MEMOIRS OF SCRIBLERUS. NEVER BEFORE 



PUBLISHED. LONDON: Printed for R. Dodsley, 

 and sold by T. Cooper, mdccxlii. Small 8vo. 



The Italics here again denote red ink in the 

 orifrinal. 



This we believe to be the first perfect edition 

 of The Dunciad in Four Boohs. We presume 

 there are impressions bearing date both in 1742 

 and 1743. As will be seen in the copy before us, 

 Part II. bears the former date, while Part I. is 

 dated in the latter year. 



Among the principal articles added "to this edi- 

 tion, we may mention that we have, in the " List 

 of Books in which the Author was abused," 



" A Letter from Mr. Gibber to Mr. Pope. Printed for 

 W. Lewis in Covent Garden. 8vo." 



And in the Appendix the following articles : 



" III. Advertisement to the First Edition, separate, of 

 the Fourth Book of The Dunciad." 

 " V. Of the Poet Laureate." 

 " VI. Advertisement printed in the Journals, 1730." 



And, lastly, the following mock proclamation, by 



