The Augustan Reprint Society

General Editors: George Robert Guffey, University of California, Los Angeles;
Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los Angeles; Robert Vosper, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
Corresponding Secretary: Mrs. Edna C. Davis, William 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 memberships in the United States and Canada should be addressed to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2520 Cimarron St., Los Angeles, California. Correspondence concerning editorial matters may be addressed to any of 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 30/— 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 FOR 1967-1968

127-128. Charles Macklin, A Will and No Will, or a Bone for the Lawyers (1746). The New Play Criticiz’d, or The Plague of Envy (1747). Introduction by Jean B. Kern.

[129.] Lawrence Echard, Prefaces to Terence’s Comedies (1694) and Plautus’s Comedies (1694). Introduction by John Barnard.

130. Henry More, Democritus Platonissans (1646). Introduction by P. G. Stanwood.

131. John Evelyn, The History of . . . Sabatai Sevi . . . The Suppos’d Messiah of the Jews (1669). Introduction by Christopher W. Grose.

[132.] Walter Harte, An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad (1730). Introduction by Thomas B. Gilmore.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Next in the series of special publications by the Society will be a volume including Elkanah Settle’s The Empress of Morocco (1673) with five plates; Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco (1674) by John Dryden, John Crowne and Thomas Shadwell; Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco Revised (1674) by Elkanah Settle; and The Empress of Morocco. A Farce (1674) by Thomas Duffet, with an Introduction by Maximillian E. Novak. Already published in this series are reprints of John Ogilby’s The Fables of Aesop Paraphras’d in Verse (1668), with an Introduction by Earl Miner and John Gay’s Fables (1727, 1738), with an Introduction by Vinton A. Dearing. Publication is assisted by funds from the Chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles. Price to members of the Society, $2.50 for the first copy and $3.25 for additional copies. Price to non-members, $4.00.

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[Spelling and Language]

The author used a number of forms that were unusual or archaic even in 1646, and might be mistaken for typographical errors:

ne (conjunction)

won
stay, dwell (like German wohnen)

eath
easy, light; also uneath

Words in -en, especially verbs:

aboven, amazen, been (infinitive), causen, standen, withouten...

Both occurrences of the name “DesCartes” or “DesChartes” are at line break; the hyphen has been omitted conjecturally. In general, spellings that appear more than once, such as “Psyc-” for “Psych-”, were assumed to be inten­tional. In corrections, the word “invisible” means that the letter is absent but there is an appropriately sized blank space.

Greek diacritics were consistently printed over the first vowel of an initial diphthong. This has been silently regularized.

Pagination

Democritus Platonissans and Cupids Conflict were each paginated from 1; other parts of the original have no visible page numbers. Individual missing numbers may have been too near the margin to be included in the facsimile. Folio numbers (signatures) are continuous for the whole text. Gaps in the sequence represent blank pages, except that A was probably a half-octavo (4 leaves instead of 8).