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THE TATLER. 



Edited with Introduction and Notes by George A. Aitken, 

 author of "The Life of Richard Steele/' etc. Four 

 volumes, small demy 8vo, with engraved frontispieces, 

 bound in buckram, dull gold top, 7s. 6d. per vol., not 

 sold separately. 



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Extract from the Editor's Preface. 



"The original numbers of The Tatler were re-issued in two forms in 

 1710-11 ; one edition, in octavo, being published by subscription, while 

 the other, in duodecimo, was for the general public. The present 

 edition has been printed from a copy of the latter issue, which, as 

 recorded on the title-page, was ' revised and corrected by the Author ' ; 

 but I have had by my side, for constant reference, a complete set 

 of the folio sheets, containing the ' Lucubrations of Isaac BickerstafF' 

 in the form in which they were first presented to the world. Scrupulous 

 accuracy in the text has been aimed at, but the eccentricities of spelling 

 — which were the printer's, not the author's — have not been preserved, 

 and the punctuation has occasionally been corrected. 



"The first and the most valuable of the annotated editions of The 

 Tatler was published by John Nichols and others in 1786, with notes 

 by Bishop Percy, Dr John Calder, and Dr Pearce ; and though these 

 notes are often irrelevant and out of date, they contain an immense 

 amount of information, and have been freely made use of by subsequent 

 editors. I have endeavoured to preserve what is of value in the older 

 editions, and to supplement it, as concisely as possible, by such further 

 information as appeared desirable. The eighteenth century diaries and 

 letters published of late years have in many cases enabled me to 

 throw light on passages which have hitherto been obscure, and some- 

 times useful illustrations have been found in the contemporary news- 

 papers and periodicals." 



