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John Dennis, A Defense of Sir Fopling Flutter. In The Critical Works of John Dennis, ed. Edward Niles Hooker (1939-1943), II, 241.

P.R.O., CII/2416/49. In John Loftis, Steele at Drury Lane (1952), p. 193.

Rodney M. Baine, "The Publication of Steele's Conscious Lovers," SB, II (1949-1950), 170-71.

Chancery Pleadings, Winter, 1714-58, No. 690; Chancery Decrees, 1722B, 30, 33, 114. Quoted in G. A. Aitken, "Steele's 'Conscious Lovers' and the Publishers," Athenaeum, 5 December 1891, p. 771.

G. A. Aitken, in The Life of Sir Richard Steele (1889), mentions one edition (II, 391]. The CBEL mentions two, as does Allardyce Nicoll in A History of Early Eighteenth Century Drama 1700-1750 (1925). A more serious attempt to identify the editions was made by Arthur E. Case in British Dramatists From Dryden to Sheridan (1939), pp. 934-35.

The "broken 2" may be a broken 7; identification is impossible.

For a discussion of printing from standing type late in the century, see William B. Todd, "Recurrent Printing," SB, XII (1959), 189-98.

Baine, 172-173. Also Aitken, "Steele's 'Conscious Lovers' and the Publishers," p. 771.

For a description of Walker's printing operation, see Giles E. Dawson, "Robert Walker's Editions of Shakespeare," in Studies in Renaissance Drama, ed. Josephine Waters Bennett and others (1959), pp. 58-81.

Of the listed editions, I have not examined London, Strahan, 1782; London, Bell, 1797; Paris, 1736, 1778, and 1784; Dresden, 1752; Leipzig, 1767; Dublin, 1777, 1793, and 1795; Cork, 1761.