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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 
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 
Conybeare: Sermons  15 
Virgil: Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis  64 
1758  Angell: Stenography 
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 
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 
Lye: Dictionarium Saxonico  39 
Rolt: Select Pieces  56 
1773  Jones: Gorchestion Beirdd  27 
Lucian: Dialogues, tr. Carr  37 
1775  Bourrit: Journey to the Glaciers 
Cutts: Almeria  16 
1776  Beattie: Essays 
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 
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