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Appendix: Chronological List
Listed below are the first appearances of Samuel Johnson's name in subscription lists; not included are the frequent reprints and revisions of the lists in subsequent editions. Within a given year, the order is alphabetical by author.
| Year of Publication | Author: Short Title | Number in List |
| 1738 | Palladio: Four Books of Architecture | 46 |
| 1739 | Brooke: Gustavus Vasa | 10 |
| 1741 | Middleton: Life of Cicero | 43 |
| Miller: Miscellaneous Works | 44 | |
| 1744 | Butler: Hudibras | 12 |
| 1748 | Bellamy: Paraphrase on Sacred History | 5 |
| Warton: Poems | 66 | |
| 1752 | Poems upon Several Occasions | 52 |
| Poetical Pieces by Several Hands | 53 | |
| 1753 | Hill: Works | 32 |
| 1755 | Derrick: Collection of Original Poems | 19 |
| Masters: Familiar Letters and Poems | 41 | |
| 1756 | Harrison: Miscellanies | 31 |
| 1757 | Boyce: Poems on Several Occasions | 9 |
| Conybeare: Sermons | 15 | |
| Virgil: Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis | 64 | |
| 1758 | Angell: Stenography | 1 |
| Epictetus, tr. Carter | 24 | |
| 1760 | Woty: Shrubs of Parnassus | 67 |
| 1761 | Fawkes: Original Poems and Translations | 25 |
| 1762 | Lates: Attaining the Italian Tongue | 34 |
| Lloyd: Poems | 35 | |
| 1763 | Payne: Evangelical Discourses | 50 |
| Tasso: Jerusalem Delivered, tr. Hoole | 61 | |
| 1764 | Griffith: Amana | 28 |
| 1765 | Psalms, tr. Merrick | 7 |
| 1767 | Dean: Essay on Brutes | 18 |
| Handel: Messiah | 30 | |
| Statius: Thebaid, tr. Lewis | 59 | |
| Theocritus, tr. Fawkes | 62 | |
| 1768 | Tousey: Flights to Helicon | 63 |
| 1769 | Griffith: Two Novels | 29 |
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| 1770 | Kelly: A Word to the Wise | 33 |
| 1771 | Penny: Poems | 51 |
| 1772 | Berrow: Theological Dissertations | 6 |
| Lye: Dictionarium Saxonico | 39 | |
| Rolt: Select Pieces | 56 | |
| 1773 | Jones: Gorchestion Beirdd | 27 |
| Lucian: Dialogues, tr. Carr | 37 | |
| 1775 | Bourrit: Journey to the Glaciers | 8 |
| Cutts: Almeria | 16 | |
| 1776 | Beattie: Essays | 4 |
| Burney: History of Music | 11 | |
| Camões: Lusiad, tr. Mickle | 13 | |
| Deverell: Sermons | 20 | |
| Edwards: Miscellanies | 23 | |
| 1779 | Charlton: History of Whitby | 14 |
| Lucas: Poems | 36 | |
| Maurice: Poems | 42 | |
| Ruccellai: Rosamunda | 57 | |
| 1780 | Lucian, tr. Francklin | 38 |
| Shaw: Galic and English Dictionary | 58 | |
| Tasker: Odes of Pindar and Horace | 60 | |
| Walters: Poems | 65 | |
| 1781 | Deverell: Miscellanies | 21 |
| Parker: View of Society | 47 | |
| Ridley: Melampus | 54 | |
| 1782 | Martial: Epigrams, tr. Elphinston | 40 |
| Musgrave: Two Dissertations | 45 | |
| Parker: Humorous Sketches | 48 | |
| Rogers: Poems | 55 | |
| 1783 | Ariosto: Orlando Furioso, tr. Hoole | 2 |
| 1784 | Davies: Dramatic Micellanies [!] | 17 |
| Deverell: Theodora and Didymus | 22 | |
| Maurice: Westminster-Abbey | 42A | |
| 1785 | Francklin: Sermons | 26 |
| 1789 | Parker: Life's Painter | 49 |
| 1791 | Battier: The Protected Fugitives | 3 |
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