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 1970-1971

145-146. Thomas Shelton, A Tutor to Tachygraphy, or, Short-writing, 1642, and Tachygraphy, 1647. Introduction by William Matthews.

147-148. Deformities of Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1782. Introduction by Gwin J. Kolb and J. E. Congleton.

149. POETA DE TRISTIBUS: or, the Poet's Complaint, 1682. Introduction by Harold Love.

150. Gerard Langbaine, Momus Triumphans: or, the Plagiaries of the English Stage [A New Catalogue of English Plays], 1687. Introduction by David Rodes.


Members of the Society will receive
copies of Clark Library seminar papers.


SPECIAL PUBLICATION FOR 1969-1970-1971

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 Shadwell; 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.