Aitken tells us that, "Like other publications of the time, the successive numbers of the Tatler were reprinted in Dublin and Edinburgh, as they came out. The Dublin issue was in quarto form, the Edinburgh paper a folio sheet, rather smaller than the original, and with a fresh set of advertisements of interest to local readers."
In No. 102, our editor says of the octavo edition:
"Whereas I am informed, That there is a ſpurious and very incorrect Edition of theſe Papers printed in a ſmall Volume; Theſe are to give Notice, That there is in the Preſs, and will ſpeedily be publiſhed, a very neat Edition, fitted for the Pocket, on extraordinary good Paper, a new Brevier Letter, like the Elzevir Editions, and adorned with ſeveral Cuts by the beſt Artiſts. To which is added, a Preface, Index, and many Notes, for the better Explanation of theſe Lucubrations. By the Author. Who has reviſed, amended, and made many Additions to the Whole." In the last number he says again: "The Third Volume of theſe Lucubrations being juſt finiſh'd, on a large Letter in Octavo, ſuch as pleaſe to ſubſcribe for it on a Royal Paper, to keep up their Sets, are deſired to ſend their Names to Charles Lillie, Perfumer, at the Corner of Beauford-Buildings, in the Strand, or John Morphew near Stationers Hall, where the Firſt and Second Volumes are to be deliver'd."
The price of the corrected work in four quarto volumes, if bought of the printer, was £1 per volume on royal paper, and ten shillings on medium paper; and it is gratifying to learn that the work met with so great a success that there was hardly a name eminent at the time which was not subscribed.
A copy in the British Museum has for a frontispiece a portrait of "Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. Engraved and ſold by John Sturt in Golden-Lion Court in Alderſgate Street Price Six Pence. MDCCX." and signed B. L ens ſenr delineavit.
Folio.
Collation: Two volumes. No signatures. Volume I: iv pp. [114 ll.], iv pp. Volume II: viii pp. [271 ll.], vi pp.