The Augustan Reprint Society
General Editors
R. C. Boys | Vinton A. Dearing |
Ralph Cohen | Lawrence Clark Powell |
| Corresponding Secretary: Mrs. Edna C.Davis, Wm. Andrews Clark Memorial Library | |
The Society exists to make available inexpensive reprints (usually facsimile reproductions) of rare seventeenth and eighteenth century works. The editorial policy of the Society remains unchanged. As in the past, the editors welcome suggestions concerning publications. All income of the Society it devoted to defraying cost of publication and mailing.
All 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 18, California. Correspondence concerning editorial matters may be addressed to any of the general editors. The membership fee is $3.00 a year for subscribers in the United States and Canada and 15/- for subscribers in Great Britain and Europe. British and European subscribers should address B. H. Blackwell, Broad Street, Oxford, England.
Publications for the eleventh year [1956-57]
(At least six items, most of them from the
following list, will be reprinted.)
Many of the listed titles are available from Project Gutenberg. Where possible, links are included.
An Essay on the New Species of Writing Founded by Mr. Fielding (1751). Introduction by James A. Work.
Elizabeth Elstob, An Apology for the Study of Northern Antiquities (1715). Introduction by Charles Peake.
G. W. Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling (1703). Anon., The Needful Attempt, to make Language and Divinity Plain and Easie (1711). Introduction by David Abercrombie. [e-text 20130] (Year 14)
Prefaces to Fiction. Selected, with an introduction, by Claude E. Jones.
Samuel Johnson. Notes to Shakespeare, Vol. II, Histories. Edited by Arthur Sherbo. (A double issue)
Parodies of Ballad Criticism. Selected, with an introduction, by William K. Winsatt, Jr. [e-text 22081]
Two Funeral Sermons. Selected, with an introduction, by Frank L. Huntley.
Richard Savage, An Author to be Let (1732). Introduction by James Sutherland.
Publications for the first ten years (with the exception of Nos. 1-6, which are out of print) are available at the rate of $3.00 a year. Prices for individual numbers may be obtained by writing to the Society.
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PUBLICATIONS OF THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY
First Year (1946-1947)
Numbers 1-6 out of print.
Second Year (1947-1948)
[7.] John Gay’s The Present State of Wit (1711); and a section on Wit from The English Theophrastus (1702).
[8.] Rapin’s De 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’s Discourse 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’s The Gamester (1753).
[15.] John Oldmixon’s Reflections on Dr. Swift’s Letter to Harley (1712); and Arthur Mainwaring’s The British Academy (1712).
[16.] Nevil Payne’s Fatal Jealousy (1673).
[17.] Nicholas Rowe’s Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespeare (1709).
[18.] "Of Genius," in The Occasional Paper, Vol. III, No. 10 (1719); and Aaron Hill’s Preface to The Creation (1720).
Fourth Year (1949-1950)
[19.] Susanna Centlivre’s The Busie Body (1709).
[20.] Lewis Theobold’s Preface to The Works of Shakespeare (1734). Spelled “Theobald” in published text.
21. Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (1754). In preparation.
[22.] Samuel Johnson’s The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two Rambler papers (1750).
[23.] John Dryden’s His Majesties Declaration Defended (1681).
[24.] Pierre Nicole’s An 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’s The Fine Lady’s Airs (1709).
[26.] Charles Macklin’s The Man of the World (1792).
27. Out of print.
[28.] John Evelyn’s An Apologie for the Royal Party (1659); and A Panegyric to Charles the Second (1661).
[29.] Daniel Defoe’s A Vindication of the Press (1718).
[30.] Essays on Taste from John Gilbert Cooper’s Letters Concerning Taste, 3rd edition (1757), & John Armstrong’s Miscellanies (1770).
Sixth Year (1951-1952)
[31.] Thomas Gray’s An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751); and The Eton College Manuscript.
[32.] Prefaces to Fiction; Georges de Scudéry’s Preface to Ibrahim (1674), etc.
[33.] Henry Gally’s A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings (1725).
34. Thomas Tyers’ A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1785).
[35.] James Roswell, Andrew Erskine, and George Dempster. Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch (1763).
[36.] Joseph Harris’s The City Bride (1696).
Seventh Year (1952-1953)
[37.] Thomas Morrison’s A Pindarick Ode on Painting (1767).
38. John Phillips’ A Satyr Against Hypocrites (1655). In preparation.
39. Thomas Warton’s A History of English Poetry. In preparation.
40. Edward Bysshe’s The Art of English Poetry (1708). In preparation.
41. Bernard Mandeville’s "A Letter to Dion" (1732). In preparation.
42. Prefaces to Four Seventeenth-Century Romances. In preparation.
Eighth Year (1953-1954)
43. John Baillie’s An Essay on the Sublime (1747).
[44.] Mathias Casimire Sarbiewski’s The Odes of Casimire, Translated by G. Hils (1646).
45. John Robert Scott’s Dissertation on the Progress of the Fine Arts. In preparation.
46. Selections from Seventeenth Century Songbooks.
47. Contemporaries of the Tatler and Spectator.
[48.] Samuel Richardson’s Introduction to Pamela.
Ninth Year (1954-1955)
49. Two St. Cecilia’s Day Sermons (1696-1697).
50. Hervey Aston’s A Sermon Before the Sons of the Clergy (1745).
51. Lewis Maidwell’s An Essay upon the Necessity and Excellency of Education (1705).
[52.] Pappity Stampoy’s A Collection of Scotch Proverbs (1663).
53. Urian Oakes’ The Soveriegn Efficacy of Divine Providence (1682).
54. Mary Davys’ Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady (1725).
Tenth Year (1955-1956)
55. Samuel Say’s An Essay on the Harmony, Variety, and Power of Numbers (1745).
56. Theologia Ruris, sive Schola & Scala Naturae (1686).
57. Henry Fielding’s Shamela (1741).
58. Eighteenth Century Book Illustrations.
[59.] Samuel Johnson’s Notes to Shakespeare. Vol. I, Comedies, Part I.
[60.] Samuel Johnson’s Notes to Shakespeare. Vol. I, Comedies, Part II. Combined e-text.
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