The Augustan Reprint Society
General Editors
R. C. Boys | Vinton A. Dearing |
Ralph Cohen | Lawrence Clark Powell |
Corresponding Secretary: Mrs. EdnaC. 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 is 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 eighth year [1953-1954]
The notation [*] means that the title was apparently never published. The Sarbiewski collection is currently in preparation for Project Gutenberg. The song collection was published with the title “...Songbooks”.
(At least six items, most of them from the following list, will be reprinted.)
John Baillie: An Essay on the Sublime (1747). Introduction by Samuel H. Monk.
Contemporaries of the Tatler and Spectator. Introduction by Richmond P. Bond.
John Dart and George Ogle on Chaucer. Introduction by William L. Alderson. [*]
John T. Desaguliers: The Newtonian System of the World the Best Model of Government (1728). Introduction by Marjorie H. Nicolson. [*]
Sale Catalogue of Mrs. Piozzi’s Effects (1816). Introduction by John Butt. [*]
M. C. Sarbiewski: The Odes of Casimire (1646). Introduction by Maren-Sofie Rœstvig.
Selections from Seventeenth-Century Songs. Introduction by Jennifer W. Angel.
A Sermon Preached at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (1745). [Probably by Samuel Johnson]. Introduction by James L. Clifford. [*]
Publications for the first seven 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
Many of the listed titles are available from Project Gutenberg. Where possible, links are included.
First Year (1946-1947)
Numbers 1-6 out of print.
Titles:
[1.] Richard Blackmore’s Essay upon Wit (1716), and Addison’s Freeholder No. 45 (1716).
[2.] Anon., Essay on Wit (1748), together with Characters by Flecknoe, and Joseph Warton’s Adventurer Nos. 127 and 133.
[3.] Anon., Letter to A. H. Esq.; concerning the Stage (1698), and Richard Willis’ Occasional Paper No. IX (1698).
[4.] Samuel Cobb’s Of Poetry and Discourse on Criticism (1707).
[5.] Samuel Wesley’s Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and Essay on Heroic Poetry (1693).
[6.] Anon., Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the Stage (1704) and anon., Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage (1704).
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).
21. Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (1754).
[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.] Frances Reynolds’ An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of Our Ideas of Beauty, etc. (1785).
[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 Boswell, 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).
39. Thomas Warton’s A History of English Poetry.
40. Edward Bysshe’s The Art of English Poetry (1708).
41. Bernard Mandeville’s “A Letter to Dion” (1732).
42. Prefaces to Four Seventeenth-Century Romances.
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