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Notes
The Correspondence of Thomas Percy and Richard Farmer, ed. by Cleanth Brooks (Louisiana State University Press, 1946), pp. 72-73.
Many of these are easy to detect. When he prints (No. 262, third paragraph) "any thing that favours of party" it is not difficult to conjecture that the text should read "savours" or (No. 432, fourth paragraph) that "the Thrift of Glory" should be "the Thirst of Glory." Others can only be discovered by collation.
It is clear, however, that by 27 November, at latest, Volumes III and IV had been published in 8vo. In No. 547, published on this date, Addison prints a complimentary letter praising particular essays in "those two Volumes which you have lately Published." "The Lady where we visited," the correspondent (Addison himself?) writes, "having the two last Volumes in large Paper interleafed for her own private use, ordered them to be brought down, and laid in the Window, whither every one in the Company retired, and writ down a particular Advertisement in the Stile and Phrase of the like Ingenious Compositions which we frequently meet with at the end of our News Papers." The references are all to essays in Volume III, and Addison concludes: "Not having room to insert all the Advertisements which were sent me, I have only picked out some few from the Third Volume, reserving the Fourth for another Opportunity."
Advertisements in the Guardian and the Daily Courant cited by Miss Blanchard in her edition of Steele's Correspondence (1941), p. 461.
To be noted also are two errors in the index to this volume which are carried over from 8vo to 12mo: "Abigals (made)" for "Abigails (male)" and "Canietia" for "Canidia." These of course do not affect the relationship of 12mo to Folio.
Cf. William B. Todd, "Observations on the Incidence and Interpretation of Press Figures," Studies in Bibliography, III (1950), 171-205.
The Letters of Joseph Addison, ed. by Walter Graham (1941); The Correspondence of Richard Steele, ed. by Rae Blanchard (1941). Only the letters reproduced from manuscript are of course of any value as evidence in this connection. On the textual shortcomings of Graham's edition see the review in MP, XL (1942), 107-110.
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