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Notes
These poems were hardly the kind of hackwork which occupied most of Smart's time as a professional writer, the hackwork for which John Hill had attacked him.
Jill E. Grey, "The Lilliputian Magazine—a pioneering periodical?" Journal of Librarianship, 2 (1970), 107-115.
There were three substantial editions of The World Display'd during Newbery's lifetime. The first began in 1759; the second in 1760; the third in 1767.
Oddly, Newbery's successors, his son Francis and his stepson Thomas Carnan, advertised the pamphlet in the London Chronicle in 1779. Apparently they hoped to sell off remaining copies of the 1757 edition (Roscoe, John Newbery, p. 313).
Charles Thompson, Travels Through Turkey in Asia, the Holy Land, Arabia, Egypt, and other Parts of the World (London: Newbery, 1767), I, iii.
The Midwife, I, No. 1 (1751), 36. Newbery's name was not on the imprint of this periodical; it was "Printed for MARY MIDNIGHT, and Sold by T. CARNAN." It seems clear, however, that Newbery had considerable influence on his stepson's publications in the early fifties.
Hesther Lynch Piozzi, "Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D., during the Last Twenty Years of his Life," in Johnsonian Miscellanies, ed. George Birkbeck Hill (1897), I, 156-157.
The notice is distinguished by the title "Advertisement," but, of course, the word did not have the rather limited meaning it has for most of us today. He simply meant that the passage was to be taken as a notification or warning. As I show, however, the passage must be seen as an advertisement in both senses of the word.
[Lady Barbara Montagu and Sarah Scott], A Description of Millenium Hall (London: Newbery, 1762), p. i.
In 1742, while still in Reading, Newbery had published, with Charles Micklewright, John Merrick's Festival Hymns for the Use of Charity Schools. The volume was not primarily for the use of children; it was designed to publicize a school charity and give public recognition to benefactors.
Anon., A Little Pretty Pocket-Book; facsimile of 1767 edition (apparently the twelfth edition), ed., M. F. Thwaite (1967), p. 53 (title of facsimile). The title page remained essentially the same through all the editions during Newbery's life. The ball and the pincushion were not morally gratuitous. Each had one black side and one red side. If the child were good, he or she could eventually earn ten pins in the red side of the toy; if, on the other hand, the child were consistently naughty, he or she would eventually have ten pins in the black side. The reward for goodness was a penny; the punishment for being wicked was a whipping.
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