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[1]

Giles E. Dawson, "Three Shakespeare Piracies in the Eighteenth Century," SB, 1 (1948), 49-58.

[2]

D. F. Foxon, "A Piracy of Steele's The Lying Lover," The Library, 5th Series, 10 (1955), 127-129.

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I am indebted to Sheldon Sloan for his assistance in analyzing the composition of the two texts.

[4]

See Giles E. Dawson, "Robert Walker's Editions of Shakespeare" in Studies in the English Renaissance Drama, ed. Josephine W. Bennett, Oscar Cargill, and Vernon Hall, Jr. (1959), pp. 59-62.

[5]

Shirley Strum Kenny, ed., The Plays of Richard Steele (1971), p. 105.

[6]

I have not been able to trace the provenance of my copies, purchased from Blackwell's.

[7]

Dawson, "Robert Walker's Editions of Shakespeare," p. 75.

[8]

Dawson, "Robert Walker's Editions of Shakespeare," pp. 62-74.

[9]

H. R. Plomer, A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers . . . 1726 to 1775 (1932), p. 253. Giles E. Dawson has in his possession a volume entitled A Letter From a Gentleman in the Country to Sir R---- W----, with Walker's imprint and the date 1729.