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Authorship in the Days of Johnson: Being a Study of the Relation between Author, Patron, Publisher and Public, 1726-1780 (1927), p. 123. My account of Gilliver owes much to David Foxon, who has supplied me with information and suggested new approaches. I am also grateful to Dr. Terry Belanger, who provided me with new ideas and a check on some of my findings.

[2]

I have consulted the Stationers' Company records on University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1953.

[3]

Norma Hodgson and Cyprian Blagden, The Notebook of Thomas Bennet and Henry Clements (1686-1719). With some aspects of book trade practice (1956), pp. 4-5.

[4]

Review of The Dunciad, ed. James Sutherland, Philological Quarterly, 24 (1945) 154-155.

[5]

A similar engraving appears on Gilliver's shop bill in the Heal collection of trade cards in the British Museum Dept. of Prints and Drawings. I am grateful to Professor B. A. Golgar for drawing my attention to it.

[6]

John Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century; Comprising Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer (1812), I, 300.

[7]

Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets, ed. G. Birkbeck Hill (1905), III, 213.

[8]

The Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope, V, 2nd. ed. (1953).

[9]

The Correspondence of Alexander Pope, ed. George Sherburn (1956), IV, 223.

[10]

British Library, Egerton MS. 1951, f. 8. Printed in R. W. Rogers, The Major Satires of Alexander Pope (1955), pp. 116-118.

[11]

R. H. Griffith, Alexander Pope: a Bibliography (1922 and 1927), I, 196.

[12]

Egerton MS. 1951, f. 12. Printed in Rogers, Major Satires, pp. 118-119.

[13]

The Letters of Samuel Johnson, ed. R. W. Chapman (1952), II, 114-115.

[14]

George Sherburn gives a summary in Correspondence, I, xi-xviii.

[15]

Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence. Volume the Second (1735), p. xiv. Curll's 'contact,' the man who called himself Smythe and dressed as a clergyman, was James Worsdale, whose Cure for a Scold was published by Gilliver in May 1735.

[16]

Howard P. Vincent, 'Some Dunciad Litigation,' Philological Quarterly, 18 (1939), 286.

[17]

J. V. Guerinot, Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744: a Descriptive Bibliography (1969), pp. xxiii-xxiv.

[18]

The Works of George Lyttelton (1774), p. 720.

[19]

The Works of Alexander Pope, ed. W. Elwin and W. J. Courthope (1871), V, 229.

[20]

Modern Philology, 26 (1928-29), 363.

[21]

I am grateful to the Provost and Scholars of the Queen's College for permission to quote from the Minute Book (MS 450).

[22]

Twickenham Pope, IV, 383-384. Gay wrote to Swift on 1 December 1731 that Captain Gulliver 'was ruin'd by having a decree for him with costs' (Correspondence, III, 249).

[23]

Elwin and Courthope, VI, 448.

[24]

Ralph Straus, The Unspeakable Curll (1927), p. 141.

[25]

Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope (1782), II, 154n, quoted from Griffith, II, 275.

[26]

'Pope and James Miller,' Notes and Queries, NS 17, 215 (1970), 91-92.

[27]

Twickenham Pope, V, 398n. See F. P. Lock's introduction to the poem in Augustan Reprint Society Publication 171 (1975).

[28]

Twickenham Pope, III, i, 165; IV, 43, 60-61, 143; V, 293-294, 342, 373, 396, 402, 405, 444.

[29]

I follow the account given by George Sherburn, 'The Swift-Pope Miscellanies of 1732,' Harvard Library Bulletin, 6 (1952), 387-390.

[30]

The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, ed. Harold Williams (1963), IV, 64-65.

[31]

Correspondence of Swift, IV, 371-372.

[32]

He bound a new apprentice on that day, James Gratwick. His other apprentice, William Russel, was bound 3 June 1735. Gilliver claimed that he acquired the Dunciad copyright towards the end of March 1729, about the time of Clarke's binding.

[33]

I have consulted the catalogues for these sales in the John Johnson Collection, Bodleian Library, and have benefited from reading Dr Terry Belanger's unpublished dissertation, 'Booksellers' Sales of Copyright. Aspects of the London Book Trade: 1718-68,' Columbia University, 1970, and his article, 'Booksellers' Trade Sales, 1718-1768,' Library, 5th ser., 30 (1975), 281-302.

[34]

He was not there for the assessment for the land tax in 1743 (Guildhall Library MS. 11,316/134).

[35]

Sir John Comyns, A Digest of the Laws of England (1822), II, 163.

[36]

P.R.O. B 6/1, p. 122. I am grateful to Mr. Michael Turner for directing me to this information.

[37]

Assessment for the land tax, Farringdon Within (Guildhall Library MS. 11,316/145).

[38]

The Registers of Christ Church, Newgate, ed. Willoughby A. Littledale (1895), p. 389.