Note.—On the Title-page of another copy of this edition there is a period instead of a comma after "James Cawthorn." The word "Satire" on the Title, and the words "Scotch Reviewers" on the Half-title, are in Gothic characters.
VII.
[Fifth Edition.] [8º.
[For Title-page, vide supra, Fourth Edition, 1811, No. vi. No special Title-page for a Fifth Edition was printed.]
Collation—
Text, pp. 1-83. [Signature B, p. [1]; C, p. 17; D, p. 33; E, p. 49; F, p. 65; G, p. 81.] There is no Imprint on pp. [1], 83, or on p. [84]. The Text numbers 1070 lines.
Note (1).—The Half-title prefixed to the Title-page of the Fourth Edition of 1811, which precedes the Museum copy of the Fifth Edition, bears the MS. signature, "R. C. Dallas," and a blank leaf the following note: "This is one of the very few copies preserved of the suppressed edition, which would have been the Fifth. No Title-page was printed—the one prefixed was taken from the preceding edition."
Note (2)—Mr. S. Leicester Warren (Lord de Tabley) records the following MS. notes inscribed in a copy of the Fifth Edition, which had formerly belonged to James Boswell, jun., and was then in the possession of Mr. J. R. P. Kirby, of Bloomsbury Street:—
A. A note on the abortive duel between Jeffrey and Moore is dated November 4, 1811.
B. A note on the fly-leaf in the handwriting of James Boswell, jun.—