Dec. 23. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1854. 



finite. 



KOTBS ON EDITIONS OP " THE DUNCIAD." 



{^Continued from p. 478.) 



The editions already noticed are of the date 

 1728, and, as it will have been observed, are 

 neither of them " Variorum, or with the Prolego- 

 mena of Sciiblerus." 



As far as can yet be ascertained, the first in 

 which these additions were made to the poem is 

 the following quarto, which certainly preceded the 

 octavos published in the same year (1729) by 

 A. Dob, Lawton, Gilliver, and A. Dod. 



This is shown by the Addenda in Dob's octavo 

 edition, to which we shall presently refer, and 

 which are not only addenda to that, but also to 

 the Dod's quarto. This we shall now describe. 



The title-page, which is engraved, is — 



(F ) THE DUNCIAD, VARIORUM. WITH THE PKO- 

 liEGOMENA OF SCRIBLERUS. LONDON, PRINTED 

 FOB A. DOD, 1729. 



In the centre is a vignette of an ass chewing 

 thistles, and laden with a pile of books, on the top 

 of which an owl is perched. The books are 

 marked, Welsted. Po. ; Ward's Works ; Dennis's 

 Works ; Tibbald Plays ; Oldmixon ; Haywood' s 

 Nov. ; Court of Cariman. The books are resting 

 on loose papers, severally marked Pasquin ; Misfs 

 Journal ; British Journal ; London Journal ; Daily 

 Jour. ; while others marked Baker's Jour, and 

 Flying Post are scattered on the ground. Along 

 the left side of the vignette, running upwards, is 

 engraved "Deferor in Vicum," and on the right 

 " Vendentem Thus et Odores." 



On p. 1. is the enumeration of pieces contained 

 in this Book. It is as follows, and it will, perhaps, 

 be convenient to add to each article the space it 

 occupies in the volume. 

 The Publishers Advertisement, 



This occupies pp. 3, 4. 

 A Letter to the Publisher, occasioned by the present 

 Edition of " The Dunciad." 



This, which is signed " William Cleland," 

 commences on p. 5., and ends on p. 15. 



It is followed on p. 16. by the quotation 

 from Dennis, Gildon, Theobald, and Con- 

 canen, by which it is followed in all the sub- 

 sequent editions. 

 The Prolegomena of Martinus Scriblerus. 



This commences after a bastard title, with 

 the verso blank on p. 1. of a new series of 

 paging — 

 Testimonies of Authors, concerning our Poet and 



his Works, which ends on p. 21. 

 A Dissertation of the Poem. 



Commences on p. 22., and occupies the four 

 following pages. 



Dunciados Periocha, or Arguments to the Boohs, 



fills pp. 27, 28, 29. 

 The Dunciad in Three Books. 

 Notes Variorum ; being the Scholia of the learned 

 M. Scriblerus and Others, with the Adversaria 

 of John Dennis, Lewis Theobald, Edmund Curl, 

 the Journalists, Sfc. 



Here another paging begins (after a bastard 

 title), p. 1. being ornamented with an engrav- 

 ing representing in the centre an owl's head, 

 with a fool's cap and bells between two asses' 

 heads ; and with the motto on a label — " Nemo 

 me impuiie lacessit." Book the First ends on 

 p. 22. Book the Second commences on p. 23., 

 and concludes on p. 53. Book the Third 

 commences on p. 54., and ends on p. 79. 

 These Books are followed by M. Scriblerus 

 Lectori, a List of Errata which occupies p. 8 1 . ; 

 but is not noticed in the Table of Contents. 

 Index of Persons celebrated in the Poem, pp. 82, 83. 

 Index of Things (including Authors) to be found 



in the Notes, p. 84. 

 Appendix. 



This is ushered in, on the verso of the 



bastard title, i. e. p. 86., with a List of Pieces 



contained in the Appendix. We shall give 



them, specifying, as in the preceding case, the 



space occupied by each article. 



Preface of the Publisher, prefixed to the five 



imperfect Editions of " The Dunciad," printed at 



Dublin and London. 



This occupies pp. 87 — 90. both inclusive. 

 A List of Books, Papers, Sfc, in which our Author 

 was abused; with the Names of the (hitherto 

 concealed) TFnYers, pp. 91 — 94. 

 William Caxton, his Proeme to Eneidos, pp. 95 — 98. 

 Virgil Restored : or a Specimen of the Errors in 

 all the Editions of the ^neid, by M. Scriblerus, 

 pp. 99—103. 

 A Continuation of the Guardian (No. 40.) on Pas- 

 toral Poetry, pp. 104 — 111. 

 A Parallel of the Characters of Mr. Dry den and 

 Mr. Pope, as dravm by certain of their Contem- 

 porary Authors, pp. 112 — 117. 

 A List of all the Authors Genuine Works hitherto 



published, p. 118. 

 Index of Memo7-able Things in this Book, pp. cxix 

 — cxxiv. 



In one copy which we have seen, this Index is 

 followed on the opposite page by Addenda. M. 

 Scriblerus Lectori, which consist of twelve lines, 

 correcting errors in the Latin and Greek intro- 

 duced into the Virgilius Restauratus. 



We have entered into this minute description 

 of the present edition, because it is unquestion- 

 ably the first complete edition ; and also because, 

 with few exceptions, the pieces of which it is com- 

 posed occur in all the subsequent ones, though 

 sometimes varied both in length and arrangement. 

 We believe this to be the only quarto pub- 



