NOTES.
Note (1).—On Genuine and Spurious Issues of "English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers."
Among the first who called attention to the "inextricable tangle" of the several editions of English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers was Mr. Leicester Warren, better known as Lord de Tabley, who communicated some notes in 1877 to Notes and Queries (Series V. vol. vii. pp. 145, etc.); but it was reserved to the late Mr. Dykes Campbell, Mr. Bertram Dobell, and other correspondents to the Athenæum (May 5 to July 7, 1894), to point out that the problem was still farther complicated by the existence of spurious issues of at least three out of the five or six distinct editions of the Satire.
All editions, genuine or spurious, claim as their publisher "James Cawthorn, British Library, No. 24 Cockspur Street," but different printers were employed. The First Edition bears the imprint of "T. Collins, Printer, No. 1, Harvey's Buildings, Strand;" the Second Edition, that of "Deans and Co. Hart Street, Covent Garden;" the Third Edition, that of "T. Collins," etc.; the Fourth Edition of 1810, that of "T. Collins," etc.; the Fourth Edition of 1811 ("James Cawthorn and Sharpe and Hailes"), that of "Cox, Son, and Baylis, Great Queen Street, London." No printer's name was attached to the suppressed Fifth Edition of 1812.
Genuine First Editions have the water-mark, "E. and P. 1804," or "E. and P. 1805," or, possibly, no water-mark at all. A copy of the spurious First Edition, in Mr. Murray's possession, has the water-mark, "S. and C. Wise, 1812." In addition to at least eleven variants in punctuation, the spurious copy prints (p. 5, line 47) "Wizzard" (p. 20 n.), "Medeira," and, in the same note, "Anna d'Afert;" whereas the genuine copies print correctly "Wizard," "Madeira," and "Anna d'Arfet."
A genuine copy of the Second Edition, which belonged to the late Mr. Dykes Campbell, bears the water-mark "Budgen and Willmot, 1808." On p. 80, line 1007, "Abedeen" is misprinted for "Aberdeen;" and the same misprint occurs in a copy of the Second Edition in the British Museum. In all probability there was no spurious issue of the Second Edition.
Of the Third Edition (1810), copies bearing the water-mark, "E.&P. 1804," or "G.&R.T.," may be regarded as genuine—rare exceptions among a host of forgeries which either lack a water-mark altogether or bear water-marks of a later period. Mr. Gilbert R. Redgrave, in an article (The Library, December 1, 1899, Series II. vol. i. pp. 18-25), notes two distinct and divergent forgeries bearing the water-mark "Pine, and Thomas, 1812." Forgery A prints "myse" for "muse" (line 4), "rove" for "rave" (line 384), etc.; while forgery B, in a footnote to p. 30, prints "Bowle'ss" for "Bowles's," and, at the end of p. 85, "we" for "me," and "farther" for "further." Other copies bear the water-marks, "Allnutt, 1816," "Smith & Allnutt, 1816," "Ivy Mills, 1817," and "I.&R. Ansell, 1818." A copy of a spurious issue of the Third Edition in the British Museum prints "crawl" for "scrawl" (line 47), and "p. 73" for "p. 85."