PUBLICATIONS OF THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETYMany of the listed titles are available from Project Gutenberg. Where possible, links are included.First Year (1946-1947)Numbers 1-6 out of print.Titles:1.Richard Blackmore’sEssay upon Wit(1716), and Addison’sFreeholderNo. 45 (1716).2.Anon.,Essay on Wit(1748), together with Characters by Flecknoe, and Joseph Warton’sAdventurerNos. 127 and 133.3.Anon.,Letter to A. H. Esq.; concerning the Stage(1698), and Richard Willis’Occasional PaperNo. IX (1698).4.Samuel Cobb’sOf PoetryandDiscourse on Criticism(1707).5.Samuel Wesley’sEpistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry(1700) andEssay on Heroic Poetry(1693).6.Anon.,Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the Stage(1704) and anon.,Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage(1704).Second Year (1947-1948)7.John Gay’sThe Present State of Wit(1711); and a section on Wit fromThe English Theophrastus(1702).8.Rapin’sDe Carmine Pastorali, translated by Creech (1684).9.T. Hanmer’s (?)Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet(1736).10.Corbyn Morris’Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, etc.(1744).11.Thomas Purney’sDiscourse on the Pastoral(1717).12.Essays on the Stage, selected, with an Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch.Third Year (1948-1949)13.Sir John Falstaff (pseud.),The Theatre(1720).14.Edward Moore’sThe Gamester(1753).15.John Oldmixon’sReflections on Dr. Swift’s Letter to Harley(1712); and Arthur Mainwaring’sThe British Academy(1712).16.Nevil Payne’sFatal Jealousy(1673).17.Nicholas Rowe’sSome Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespeare(1709).18.“Of Genius,” inThe Occasional Paper, Vol. III, No. 10 (1719); and Aaron Hill’s Preface toThe Creation(1720).Fourth Year (1949-1950)19.Susanna Centlivre’sThe Busie Body(1709).20.Lewis Theobold’sPreface to The Works of Shakespeare(1734).21.Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela(1754).22.Samuel Johnson’sThe Vanity of Human Wishes(1749) and TwoRamblerpapers (1750).23.John Dryden’sHis Majesties Declaration Defended(1681).24.Pierre Nicole’sAn Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in Which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams, translated by J. V. Cunningham.Fifth Year (1950-1951)25.Thomas Baker’sThe Fine Lady’s Airs(1709).26.Charles Macklin’sThe Man of the World(1792).27.Frances Reynolds’An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of Our Ideas of Beauty, etc.(1785).28.John Evelyn’sAn Apologie for the Royal Party(1659); andA Panegyric to Charles the Second(1661).29.Daniel Defoe’sA Vindication of the Press(1718).30.Essays on Taste from John Gilbert Cooper’sLetters Concerning Taste, 3rd edition (1757), & John Armstrong’sMiscellanies(1770).Sixth Year (1951-1952)31.Thomas Gray’sAn Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard(1751); andThe Eton College Manuscript.32.Prefaces to Fiction; Georges de Scudéry’s Preface toIbrahim(1674), etc.33.Henry Gally’sA Critical Essayon Characteristic-Writings (1725).34. Thomas Tyers’ A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1785).35.James Boswell, Andrew Erskine, and George Dempster.Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch(1763).36.Joseph Harris’sThe City Bride(1696).Seventh Year (1952-1953)37.Thomas Morrison’sA Pindarick Ode on Painting(1767).38. John Phillips’A Satyr Against Hypocrites(1655).39. Thomas Warton’sA History of English Poetry.40. Edward Bysshe’sThe Art of English Poetry(1708).41. Bernard Mandeville’s “A Letter to Dion” (1732).42. Prefaces to Four Seventeenth-Century Romances.
Many of the listed titles are available from Project Gutenberg. Where possible, links are included.
Numbers 1-6 out of print.
Titles:1.Richard Blackmore’sEssay upon Wit(1716), and Addison’sFreeholderNo. 45 (1716).2.Anon.,Essay on Wit(1748), together with Characters by Flecknoe, and Joseph Warton’sAdventurerNos. 127 and 133.3.Anon.,Letter to A. H. Esq.; concerning the Stage(1698), and Richard Willis’Occasional PaperNo. IX (1698).4.Samuel Cobb’sOf PoetryandDiscourse on Criticism(1707).5.Samuel Wesley’sEpistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry(1700) andEssay on Heroic Poetry(1693).6.Anon.,Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the Stage(1704) and anon.,Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage(1704).
Titles:
1.Richard Blackmore’sEssay upon Wit(1716), and Addison’sFreeholderNo. 45 (1716).
2.Anon.,Essay on Wit(1748), together with Characters by Flecknoe, and Joseph Warton’sAdventurerNos. 127 and 133.
3.Anon.,Letter to A. H. Esq.; concerning the Stage(1698), and Richard Willis’Occasional PaperNo. IX (1698).
4.Samuel Cobb’sOf PoetryandDiscourse on Criticism(1707).
5.Samuel Wesley’sEpistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry(1700) andEssay on Heroic Poetry(1693).
6.Anon.,Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the Stage(1704) and anon.,Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage(1704).
7.John Gay’sThe Present State of Wit(1711); and a section on Wit fromThe English Theophrastus(1702).
8.Rapin’sDe Carmine Pastorali, translated by Creech (1684).
9.T. Hanmer’s (?)Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet(1736).
10.Corbyn Morris’Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, etc.(1744).
11.Thomas Purney’sDiscourse on the Pastoral(1717).
12.Essays on the Stage, selected, with an Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch.
13.Sir John Falstaff (pseud.),The Theatre(1720).
14.Edward Moore’sThe Gamester(1753).
15.John Oldmixon’sReflections on Dr. Swift’s Letter to Harley(1712); and Arthur Mainwaring’sThe British Academy(1712).
16.Nevil Payne’sFatal Jealousy(1673).
17.Nicholas Rowe’sSome Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespeare(1709).
18.“Of Genius,” inThe Occasional Paper, Vol. III, No. 10 (1719); and Aaron Hill’s Preface toThe Creation(1720).
19.Susanna Centlivre’sThe Busie Body(1709).
20.Lewis Theobold’sPreface to The Works of Shakespeare(1734).
21.Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela(1754).
22.Samuel Johnson’sThe Vanity of Human Wishes(1749) and TwoRamblerpapers (1750).
23.John Dryden’sHis Majesties Declaration Defended(1681).
24.Pierre Nicole’sAn Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in Which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams, translated by J. V. Cunningham.
25.Thomas Baker’sThe Fine Lady’s Airs(1709).
26.Charles Macklin’sThe Man of the World(1792).
27.Frances Reynolds’An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of Our Ideas of Beauty, etc.(1785).
28.John Evelyn’sAn Apologie for the Royal Party(1659); andA Panegyric to Charles the Second(1661).
29.Daniel Defoe’sA Vindication of the Press(1718).
30.Essays on Taste from John Gilbert Cooper’sLetters Concerning Taste, 3rd edition (1757), & John Armstrong’sMiscellanies(1770).
31.Thomas Gray’sAn Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard(1751); andThe Eton College Manuscript.
32.Prefaces to Fiction; Georges de Scudéry’s Preface toIbrahim(1674), etc.
33.Henry Gally’sA Critical Essayon Characteristic-Writings (1725).
34. Thomas Tyers’ A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1785).
35.James Boswell, Andrew Erskine, and George Dempster.Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch(1763).
36.Joseph Harris’sThe City Bride(1696).
37.Thomas Morrison’sA Pindarick Ode on Painting(1767).
38. John Phillips’A Satyr Against Hypocrites(1655).
39. Thomas Warton’sA History of English Poetry.
40. Edward Bysshe’sThe Art of English Poetry(1708).
41. Bernard Mandeville’s “A Letter to Dion” (1732).
42. Prefaces to Four Seventeenth-Century Romances.
Additional NotesVariant SpellingsIntroduction:The editor’s name, printed “Roestvig”, is more correctly Røstvig.Latin:The use of œ and æ in words such as “mœstus” is in the original. Accents are variously acute ´, grave ` or circumflex ^, with no apparent difference in meaning. Some do not even mark long syllables.English:Variation between -w- and -vv- is in the original.Typography:In both languages, poem titles were randomly Italic or Roman. Italicization (or de-italicization) of ’s in possessives is also random.Long s (ſ)At the beginning ofp. 10there appears to have been an accident with the Italic type trays. Almost all long s’s (ſ) on p. 10 (signature 5v), and many onp. 12(signature 6v), are misprinted as f, except in the -st- and -ss- ligatures. Misprints are shown in red, correct forms in blue; the page thumbnails are linked to larger views. Note the one ſ-for-f error on page 12.page imagepage image“Ode 44, Lib. 4.”The printed number is retained, though it is almost certainly an error for “14” (between 13 and 15). The error may have been carried over from the source text.Vilna : ViliaInOde 35 of Lib. 4, “Vilna” is the city (modern Vilnius, Wilna in Polish), “Vilia” the river (modern Vilnia).Page NumberingPage numbers 95-96 are repeated, and the setback in numbering continues to the end of the text. The folio numbers (in duodecimo, or sets of 24 pages) remain correct.
Introduction:The editor’s name, printed “Roestvig”, is more correctly Røstvig.
Latin:The use of œ and æ in words such as “mœstus” is in the original. Accents are variously acute ´, grave ` or circumflex ^, with no apparent difference in meaning. Some do not even mark long syllables.
English:Variation between -w- and -vv- is in the original.
Typography:In both languages, poem titles were randomly Italic or Roman. Italicization (or de-italicization) of ’s in possessives is also random.
At the beginning ofp. 10there appears to have been an accident with the Italic type trays. Almost all long s’s (ſ) on p. 10 (signature 5v), and many onp. 12(signature 6v), are misprinted as f, except in the -st- and -ss- ligatures. Misprints are shown in red, correct forms in blue; the page thumbnails are linked to larger views. Note the one ſ-for-f error on page 12.
The printed number is retained, though it is almost certainly an error for “14” (between 13 and 15). The error may have been carried over from the source text.
InOde 35 of Lib. 4, “Vilna” is the city (modern Vilnius, Wilna in Polish), “Vilia” the river (modern Vilnia).
Page numbers 95-96 are repeated, and the setback in numbering continues to the end of the text. The folio numbers (in duodecimo, or sets of 24 pages) remain correct.