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Notes
Shelfmark Halliwell-Phillipps 770 is described as "Proposals for Printing by Subscription the Harleian Miscellany" in A Catalogue of Proclamations, Broadsides, Ballads and Poems. Presented to the Chetham Library, Manchester, by J. O. Halliwell (1851).
For a description of the proposals, see J. D. Fleeman, "Johnsonian Prospectuses and Proposals," in Augustan Studies: Essays in Honor of Irvin Ehrenpreis, ed. Douglas Lane Paley and Timothy Keagan (1985), pp. 222-223.
The proposal is reproduced in the first volume of The Shorter Prose Writings of Samuel Johnson (1992), ed. O M Brack, Jr.
Gwin J. Kolb, "A Note on the Publication of Johnson's 'Proposals for Printing the Harleian Miscellany,'" PBSA, 48 (1954), 196-198. This variant occurs in (A) at 35b. Other variants are: Accidents] Accident (5a); but was done] but what was done (1b); these] those (38b). The first printing of the proposals is in two columns; the variants are given by line number with "a" the left column and "b" the right.
The tenth number of the Harleian Miscellany should have been published in late May 1744; this wrapper could not have appeared earlier than that date. James's Medicinal Dictionary was published from 4 February 1742 through 17 August 1745. See R. M. Wiles, Serial Publication in England Before 1750 (1957), 331, 339.
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