The Augustan Reprint Society
2520 CIMARRON STREET, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90018
General Editors: William E. Conway, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library; George Robert Guffey, University of California, Los Angeles; Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los Angeles
Corresponding Secretary: Mrs. Edna C. Davis, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
The Society’s purpose is to publish rare Restoration and eighteenth-century works (usually as facsimile reproductions). All income of the Society is devoted to defraying costs of publication and mailing.
Correspondence concerning memberships in the United States and Canada should be addressed to the Corresponding Secretary at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California. Correspondence concerning editorial matters may be addressed to the General Editors at the same address. Manuscripts of introductions should conform to the recommendations of the MLA Style Sheet. The membership fee is $5.00 a year in the United States and Canada and £1.19.6 in Great Britain and Europe. British and European prospective members should address B. H. Blackwell, Broad Street, Oxford, England. Copies of back issues in print may be obtained from the Corresponding Secretary.
Publications of the first fifteen years of the Society (numbers 1-90) are available in paperbound units of six issues at $16.00 per unit, from the Kraus Reprint Company, 16 East 46th Street, New York, N.Y. 10017.
Make check or money order payable to The Regents of the University of California
REGULAR PUBLICATIONS FOR 1969-1970
139. John Ogilvie, An Essay on the lyric poetry of the ancients (1762). Introduction by Wallace Jackson.
140. A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) and Pudding burnt to pot or a compleat key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727). Introduction by Samuel L. Macey.
141. Selections from Sir Roger L’Estrange’s Observator (1681-1687). Introduction by Violet Jordain.
142. Anthony Collins, A Discourse concerning Ridicule and Irony in writing (1729). Introduction by Edward A. Bloom and Lillian D. Bloom.
143. A Letter from a clergyman to his friend, with an account of the travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver (1726). Introduction by Martin Kallich.
144. The Art of Architecture, a poem. In imitation of Horace’s Art of poetry (1742). Introduction by William A. Gibson.
SPECIAL PUBLICATION FOR 1969-1970
Gerard Langbaine, An Account of the English Dramatick Poets (1691), Introduction by John Loftis. 2 Volumes. Approximately 600 pages. Price to members of the Society, $7.00 for the first copy (both volumes), and $8.50 for additional copies. Price to non-members, $10.00.
Already published in this series:
1. John Ogilby, The Fables of Aesop Paraphras’d in Verse (1668), with an Introduction by Earl Miner. 228 pages.
2. John Gay, Fables (1727, 1738), with an Introduction by Vinton A. Dearing. 366 pages.
3. The Empress of Morocco and Its Critics (Elkanah Settle, The Empress of Morocco [1673] with five plates; Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco [1674] by John Dryden, John Crowne and Thomas Snadwell; Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco Revised [1674] by Elkanah Settle; and The Empress of Morocco. A Farce [1674] by Thomas Duffett), with an Introduction by Maximillian E. Novak. 348 pages.
4. After THE TEMPEST (the Dryden-Davenant version of The Tempest [1670]; the “operatic” Tempest [1674]; Thomas Duffett’s Mock-Tempest [1675]; and the “Garrick” Tempest [1756]), with an Introduction by George Robert Guffey. 332 pages.
Price to members of the Society, $3.50 for the first copy of each title, and $4.25 for additional copies. Price to non-members, $5.00. Standing orders for this continuing series of Special Publications will be accepted. British and European orders should be addressed to B. H. Blackwell, Broad Street, Oxford, England.
Transcriber’s Notes:
Additional spacing after some of the quotes is intentional to indicate both the end of a quotation and the beginning of a new paragraph as presented in the original text.
Long “s” has been modernized.
The inclusion of two footnotes numbered 53 in intentional to reflect the original text.
Footnote placement in this text reflects the placement in the original, either inside punctuation or spaced between words.
Other than the corrections noted by hover information, printer’s inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, hyphenation, and ligature usage have been retained.