May 19. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY VJ, ISiS^ 



POPE AND WOODPALL. 



I threw out, long since (Vol. x., p. 2l7.)i some 

 speculations on the anecdotes told about Pope's 

 patronage of Woodfall the printer, and asked some 

 questions which have not been answered. As I 

 knew that the business then established has been 

 carried on by the descendants of Pope's Woodfall 

 down to the present time ; and that the represen- 

 tative of the family, Mr. Henry Woodfall, is a 

 most obliging man, willing in every way to assist 

 literary inquiries, I applied to him to know 

 whether any accounts of his great-great-grand- 

 father were in existence. By singular good for- 

 tune a ledger was found, which contained entries 

 of his printinjr business for the last thirteen years 

 of his life. The circumstances which led to the 

 preservation of this volume are obvious. It con- 

 cludes with his executors' accounts in detail, and 

 receipts in full, signed by all his children, or their 

 representatives. His son Henry appears to have 

 been acting executor, and is described as printer 

 in Paternoster Row ; but either father or son 

 Henry resided in Little Britain. I infer also that 

 another son, George, was either a printer or a 

 bookseller. 



These accounts begin April 1, 1734, and con- 

 clude May 13, 1747; about which time Henry 

 "Woodfall, Sen., died, as the next entry, June 5, 

 1747, is headed " Paid on my late father's ac- 

 count." 



The accounts are divided. The first half of the 

 volume is devoted to "gentlemen's work, and 

 others not booksellers." The second to " book- 

 sellers' work." Under the former heading is in- 

 cluded all the miscellaneous business of a printer ; 

 catalogues for auctioneers and booksellers, " His- 

 torical lists" of horses and races, "law cases," broad- 

 sides, bills, and so on. From the latter little can 

 be learnt more than from title-pages. I shall, 

 however, glean from both when a date or a fact 

 happen to be of interest, or may be suggestive to 

 persons better informed. 



One fact is established by this volume, that 

 Woodfall printed many of Pope's works. That it 

 was principally for the booksellers still leaves it as 

 a probability that he was so employed at the sug- 

 gestion of Pope ; and, indeed, in one instance, as 

 my extracts will show (an edition of the Epistles 

 of Horace, printed for Gilliver, from whom I 

 presume the order was received, as it is registered 

 under the head of "Booksellers' Work"), Wood- 

 fall notes in the margin, " Paid by Mr. Pope." It 

 is however of interest to know that, on one occa- 

 sion at least, he was directly employed by Pope 

 himself. The fact is recorded in The Gentleman s 



Journal. The following are the earliest references 

 which I have stumbled on. They are from " Book- 

 sellers' Work : " 



" Mr. Bernard Lintot, Dr. 

 Dec. 15, 1735. Printing the first volume of £ s. d, 

 Mr. Pope's Works, cr. 

 Long Primer 8vo., No. 



pd. for a. 



3000 (and 75 line), at 2?. a». 

 Received, Jan. per sht., 14 shts. and a 

 15,173§,3Z.10s. half - - - - 30 09 

 for fine paper, Title in red and black - 1 01 

 and the print : Paid for two reams \ of 

 so tJiat put the writing demy - - 2 16 3 



whole at 2/. Received, Sept. 3, 1737. 

 per sht. Notes for this. Paid. 



Mr. Henry Lintot, Dr. 

 April 30, 1736. Printing the third volume 

 of Pope's Works, cr. Long 

 Primer 8vo., No. 3000, 

 and 75 fine, at 21. 2s. pr. 

 sht., 13 shts. - - - 27 06 

 Title in red and black - 1 01 

 Paid for two reams of writ- 

 ing demy - - - 2 10 

 Paid for Ovid's Melam. and 



Statius - - - - 03 

 Received, Sept. 3, 1737. Notes for this. Paid. 



Mr. Henry Lintot, Dr. 

 May 15, 1736. Printing the Iliad of Homer, 



by Mr. Pope, demy, L. 



Primer and Brevier, No. 



2000, in 6 vols., 68 shts. h, 



at 21. 2s. pr. sht. - "- 143 17 

 Paid, Aug. 3, Vol 1. 15 shts. 80 10 6 



1737, 80/. 10s. „ 2. 11 63 6 6 



Qd. by Mr. H. „ 3. 9^ 



Lintot. „ 4. Hi 143 17 



„ 6. 11 



« 6. lOi 



68i 

 Mr. R. Dodsley, Dr. 

 May 12, 1737. Printing the first Epistle of 

 the Second Book of Horace 

 Imitated, folio, double size. 

 Poetry, No. 2000, and 150 

 fine and shts. at 27s. pr. 

 sht. - - - - 9 09 

 May 18, 1737. 150 fol. titles, Second Book 



of Epistles - - - 04 

 Paid, June 23, 1737." 

 The following is the order given by Gilliver, and 

 registered under " Booksellers' Work," but paid 

 for by Pope. The "altering the last sheet to a 

 half sheet " looks like a cancel, and may suggest 

 careful comparison to future editors. 



" Mr. Lawton Gilliver and Co., Drs. 

 June 15, 1737. Printing Epistles of Horace, £ s. d. 

 Paid by Mr. 3shts. i, cr. 8vo., L.Prim., 

 Pope, June 2, No. 1500, and 100 fine, 



1738. 28s per sht. - - - 4 18 

 Altering the last sht. to a 



half sht. - - - 05 



Had 16 r. sm. paper, 1 large, 

 20 quire, 

 only 15 qu. used. 24. 



