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ADDENDA
Verses On the Death of Doctor Swift" Again
Through the kind attention of Mr. G. R. Pettit, of the University Library Cambridge, I have got acquainted with still another [1736] edition of the "Verses" than the six already described in Studies in Bibliography, IV (1952), 183-188. It collates as follows:
Verses | On the Death of | Dr. Swift. | Occasioned by reading the following Maxim in | Rochfoucault. | Dans l'adversite de nos mellienrs [sic] amies nous trouvons tou-|jours quelque choses [sic], qui ne nous deplaist pas. | Written by Himself; Nov. 1731. | [ornament] | Dublin, Printed: | London: Re-printed, and sold by the | Booksellers of London and Westminster.
Sm. 80: (frontispiece+) A4 B2. 2 pp. (blank+frontisp.), 2 pp. (title, verso blank), 3-12 (Verses).
Copy: Univ. Libr. Cambridge (S 72l.d.73.4). Unfortunately this copy is not in its original state; it has been re-sewn with a guard to each leaf. However, the signing A4 B2 makes it apparent that it was published separately, not as an addition to "An Essay on Man."
This edition is very clearly related to the one mentioned on page 184 under (IV), and shall therefore be called (IVa). The following similarities appear in them: (1) the frontispiece; (2) the separate title for the "Verses"; (3) the great wealth of capitals; (4) the greater attempt at ornamentation (title-page; headpiece and decorated capital on page 3); (5) the very significant misprints, not present in any of the other editions, namely "mellieurs" for "meilleurs", and "quelque choses" for "quelque chose"; (6) the variants mentioned on page 185 are exactly the same in (IV) and (IVa).
And yet we have to do with two distinctly different type-settings. The fact that the (IVa) frontispiece, copied from (IV), shows lack of attention to detail,
H. Teerink
The 'Private Issues' of The Deserted Village (See Studies in Bibliography, Vol. VI)
With the kind assistance of Dr. John D. Gordan I am now able to define the relationship
between the 1775 Belfast edition of Goldsmith's Poems and the various separate editions of The Deserted Village. The rare Belfast collection, known only by the copy in the Berg Collection, is
described as follows:
POEMS | BY THE LATE | DR. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. | VIZ. |
THE TRAVELLER. || THE DESERTED VILLAGE.
THE HERMIT. || RETALIATION.
TO WHICH IS PREFIXED | The LIFE of the AUTHOR. | [ornament] | BELFAST: | PRINTED
BY JAMES MAGEE, AT THE BIBLE AND CROWN, | IN BRIDGE-STREET. | M,DCC,LXXV.
Demy 80 in 4s. A-44. Watermark, fleur-de-lis and initials RM (not in Heawood). Copytext: Ql. Variant readings: 23 at each/ 239 splendour!/ 365 no ¶.
As the separate Belfast edition N, a full post octavo described in the last volume of Studies in Bibliography (VI, 43), also represents these three variants and introduces four others, it obviously derives from the 1775 collection, as I conjectured, but is of a separate setting. Hence this reprint, like the 'London' and Dublin editions B-E, G-J, and M, is properly regarded as a piracy of a piracy.
William B. Todd
Notes On Contributors
ALICE WALKER, residing at Welcombe in Devonshire, England, is the most active English scholar engaged in applying bibliographical techniques to Shakespearian textual criticism. She is the author of Textual Problems of the First Folio, and is at present assisting J. Dover Wilson in editing the final plays of the New Cambridge Shakespeare.
JOHN RUSSELL BROWN, B. Litt. Oxon, is a Fellow of The Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon.
FREDSON BOWERS is Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
HAROLD JENKINS, of the University of London, was formerly Reader in English at University College and is now Professor of English at Westfield College. He is editing Hamlet for the Arden series.
VINTON A. DEARING, Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, is a researcher for the new Dryden edition.
WILLIAM B. TODD, the eighteenth-century bibliographer, is Professor of English at Salem College but will soon transfer to a new position in the Houghton Library of Harvard University.
ERNST KYRISS, resident in Germany, is a well-known authority on early bindings. His translator, Lawrence Thompson, is Director of the University of Kentucky Libraries.
C. WILLIAM MILLER, Associate Professor of English at Temple University, received his doctorate from the University of Virginia. This is his second article on early printers' ornaments.
DORA JEAN ASHE received her doctorate from the University of Virginia with a dissertation on Elizabethan bad quartos. She is now Assistant Professor of English at East Carolina College.
FRANK S. HOOK, Assistant Professor of English at Lehigh University, is editing Edward I for the Yale edition of the Works of Peele.
CURT F. BÜHLER, a most active scholar in analyzing incunabula printing and history, is Keeper of Printed Books at The Pierpont Morgan Library.
BRUCE HARKNESS, Instructor in English at the University of Illinois, is at work upon a history of the British publishing firm, Grant Richards, Ltd.
CYPRIAN BLAGDEN, of Longmans, Green & Co., London, is interested in the book trade history of the 17th and 18th centuries.
ROBERT L. HAIG is Instructor in English at the University of Illinois. He has done much research in the history of 18th-century newspapers.
ALLEN T. HAZEN, Professor of English in the School of Library Science at Co- lumbia University, is a noted authority on Horace Walpole and 18th-century bibliography.
ROBERT LIDDELL LOWE, Professor of English at Purdue University, has a special interest in authors' correspondence.
ROLLO SILVER, Professor of Library Science at Simmons College, is an enthusiastic historian of 19th-century American printing.
RUDOLPH HIRSCH is the expert in incunabula for the University of Pennsylvania Library.
HOWELL J. HEANEY is librarian for Thomas W. Streeter, collector of Americana and bibliographer, of Morristown, New Jersey.
H. TEERINK, resident in the Netherlands, is revising his bibliography of Swift.
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