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notes
F.W. Bateson, RES, V (1929), 155-166; Graham Pollard, The Library, 4th ser., XXII (1941), 121; Todd, ibid., 5th ser., X (1955), 49-50.
To Professor Richmond P. Bond I am greatly indebted for microfilms of folio sets j-m and for a detailed account of the 8° and 12° editions in the British Museum, the Bodleian Lbrary, and his personal collection. Without these and other encouragements it is doubtful whether I should ever have concluded the "further investigation" I had some years ago invited others to pursue.
Among the Tatlers the original edition of numbers 2 and 3, though long anticipated from certain peculiarities in 4, did not appear before the 10th copy examined (j), the original setting of 1 not before the 16th (p) and then only in an odd lot assembled from various sources. Among early numbers of the Gentleman's Magazine, also at first 'Printed for the Author', the original issue of March 1731 occurs only in five of the 36 sets I have inspected, the issue for February only in one, the issue for January not at all.
On 2 May 1710 John Nutt, the first printer, entered in the Stationers' Register his copyright to all issues, folio, octavo, and duodecimo. This notice, supplied over a year after original issue of number 1, doubtless was prompted either by the folio reprinting begun in Edinburgh 13 February, or by the pending book edition which Hills issued before 4 July.
Through the first number the later 8° exactly reprints B except for the accidental omission at 7.12 of the "s" in "Preparations".
This uncommon edition, issued by Henry Hills, reprints folios 1-100. The piracy is represented at the University of Texas, the Bodleian Library, and in Professor Bond's collection.
Edition 'A' issued as dated; editions B-D, though bearing same date, from evidence of Table II issued on or after date now assigned.
In the continuation bearing Morphew imprint the combined number 272-273 also was issued in two setting A and B, numbers 274-330 only in A.
The alternate setting not represented in these numbers will be found, A171 in Texas copy i, B187 and 215 in Harvard copy f.
Vol. I page 368, originally misnumbered 863, is corrected in some copies of royal and all copies of medium paper impression; one or more of figures 96-2, 112-1, 128-2, 190-1 dropped in later copies of medium; vol. II page 96 figure 1 altered to 2 in some copies of royal and all copies of medium; vol. IV 284-2 added after early copies of royal.
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