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Notes
Authorship in the Days of Johnson: Being a Study of the Relation between Author, Patron, Publisher and Public, 1726-1780 (1927), p. 123. My account of Gilliver owes much to David Foxon, who has supplied me with information and suggested new approaches. I am also grateful to Dr. Terry Belanger, who provided me with new ideas and a check on some of my findings.
I have consulted the Stationers' Company records on University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1953.
Norma Hodgson and Cyprian Blagden, The Notebook of Thomas Bennet and Henry Clements (1686-1719). With some aspects of book trade practice (1956), pp. 4-5.
A similar engraving appears on Gilliver's shop bill in the Heal collection of trade cards in the British Museum Dept. of Prints and Drawings. I am grateful to Professor B. A. Golgar for drawing my attention to it.
John Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century; Comprising Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer (1812), I, 300.
British Library, Egerton MS. 1951, f. 8. Printed in R. W. Rogers, The Major Satires of Alexander Pope (1955), pp. 116-118.
Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence. Volume the Second (1735), p. xiv. Curll's 'contact,' the man who called himself Smythe and dressed as a clergyman, was James Worsdale, whose Cure for a Scold was published by Gilliver in May 1735.
J. V. Guerinot, Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744: a Descriptive Bibliography (1969), pp. xxiii-xxiv.
I am grateful to the Provost and Scholars of the Queen's College for permission to quote from the Minute Book (MS 450).
Twickenham Pope, IV, 383-384. Gay wrote to Swift on 1 December 1731 that Captain Gulliver 'was ruin'd by having a decree for him with costs' (Correspondence, III, 249).
Twickenham Pope, V, 398n. See F. P. Lock's introduction to the poem in Augustan Reprint Society Publication 171 (1975).
I follow the account given by George Sherburn, 'The Swift-Pope Miscellanies of 1732,' Harvard Library Bulletin, 6 (1952), 387-390.
He bound a new apprentice on that day, James Gratwick. His other apprentice, William Russel, was bound 3 June 1735. Gilliver claimed that he acquired the Dunciad copyright towards the end of March 1729, about the time of Clarke's binding.
I have consulted the catalogues for these sales in the John Johnson Collection, Bodleian Library, and have benefited from reading Dr Terry Belanger's unpublished dissertation, 'Booksellers' Sales of Copyright. Aspects of the London Book Trade: 1718-68,' Columbia University, 1970, and his article, 'Booksellers' Trade Sales, 1718-1768,' Library, 5th ser., 30 (1975), 281-302.
He was not there for the assessment for the land tax in 1743 (Guildhall Library MS. 11,316/134).
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