The Augustan Reprint Society

General Editors: Earl Miner, University of California, Los Angeles; Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los Angeles; Lawrence Clark Powell, Wm. Andrews Clark Memorial Library Corresponding Secretary: Mrs. Edna C. Davis, Wm. Andrews Clark Memorial Library

The Society’s purpose is to publish reprints (usually facsimile reproductions) of rare seventeenth and eighteenth century works. All income of the Society is devoted to defraying costs of publication and mailing.

Correspondence concerning subscriptions in the United States and Canada should be addressed to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2205 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. Correspondence concerning editorial matters may be addressed to any of the general editors. The membership fee is $5.00 a year for subscribers in the United States and Canada and 30/– for subscribers in Great Britain and Europe. British and European subscribers should address B. H. Blackwell, Broad Street, Oxford, England. Copies of back issues in print may be obtained from the Corresponding Secretary.

PUBLICATIONS FOR 1965-1966

Thomas Traherne, Meditations on the Six Days of the Creation (1717). Introduction by George Robert Guffey. Charles Macklin, The Covent Garden Theatre [manuscript] (1752). Introduction by Jean B. Kern. Roger L’Estrange, Citt and Bumpkin (1680). Introduction by B. J. Rahn.

Daniel Defoe and Others, Accounts of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal (ca. 1705). Introduction by Manuel Schonhorn. Henry More, Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1662). Introduction by M. V. DePorte. Bernard Mandeville, Aesop Dress’d or a Collection of Fables Writ in Familiar Verse (1704). Introduction by John S. Shea.

ANNOUNCEMENT:

The Society announces a special publication, a reprint of John Ogilby, The Fables of Aesop Paraphras’d in Verse (1668), with an Introduction by Earl Miner. Ogilby’s book is commonly thought one of the finest examples of seventeenth-century bookmaking and is illustrated with eighty-one plates. Publication is assisted by funds from the Chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles. Price: to members of the Society, $2.50; to non-members, $4.00.

THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2205 WEST ADAMS BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90018

Make check or money order payable to The Regents of the University of California.

[Transcriber’s Notes]

[ Title Page]

Everything except the play title was written by the Examiner of Plays.

1752

Covent Garden Theatre.
or
Pasquin turn’d Drawcansir
A
Dramatic Satyr.

S^r.

This peice ent’d Cov^t. Garden Theatre or Pasquin turn’d Drawcansir M^r. Macklin designs to have perform’d on his Benefit Night w^th the permission of his Grace the Duke of Grafton.

To William Chetwyne Esq.

I am
S^r. y^r humble Srv^t
Jn^o Rich

[Page 3]

In the facsimile, page 3 and the following unnumbered page are the same size as all other pages, but have fewer lines and contain only half as much text (see [marginal page numbers] in this e-text). It looks as if they were written by the same person but at a different time, using two half-sheets counted as one.

Page 2 excerpt:

Page 3 excerpt:

Additional Notes

[A.] Page 6: “of this Metropolis”: original text has “of” at line-end, with crossed-out text at beginning of following line replaced with “of this Metropolis”.

[B.] Page 40: Stage direction added above line:

[C.] Page 42: Pet-en-l’air, literally “fart in the air”.

[D.] Page 62: “If you call upon me any Evening at the Bedford, I shall be glad to See you. To night I am engaged to deal at my Lady High-life’s”. Original text may read “at Lady Highlife’s”; name is crossed out and “the Bedford” inserted above line; next sentence is written “my Lady’s” with “High-life’s” added above line: