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Preface David L. Vander Meulen Bruce Redford

The Publications of J. D. Fleeman by David Fairer

Pope in the Private and Public Spheres: Annotations in the Second Earl of Oxford's Volume of Folio Poems, 1731-1736 by James McLaverty

Samuel Johnson and the Translations of Jean Pierre de Crousaz'sExamen and Commentaire by O M Brack, Jr.

Dr. Hoadly's 'Poems Set to Music by Dr. Greene' by Keith Maslen

Virtual Readers: The Subscribers to Fielding's Miscellanies (1743) by Hugh Amory

Eighteenth-Century Authors and the Abuse of the Franking System by James E. Tierney

The Preliminaries to Dr. Johnson's Dictionary: Authorial Revisions and the Establishment of the Texts by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert DeMaria, Jr.

Textual Transformations: The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus in Johnson's Dictionary by Anne McDermott

Richard Hurd's Editions of Horace and the Bowyer Ledgers by Donald D. Eddy

From the Bishop of Gloucester to Lord Hailes: The Correspondence of William Warburton and David Dalrymple by Donald W. Nichol

Patchwork and Piracy: John Bell's "Connected System of Biography" and the Use of Johnson's Prefaces by Thomas F. Bonnell

Scott's Commentary on The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson by Ann Bowden and William B. Todd

Whose Mistress? Thomas Hardy's Theatrical Collaboration by Pamela Dalziel

Signing by the Page by B. J. McMullin

Printing History and Other History by G. Thomas Tanselle

With an O (Yorks.) or an I (Salop.)? The Middle English Lyrics of British Library Additional 45896 by Ralph Hanna III

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The Publications of J. D. Fleeman
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David Fairer

1961
"Dr. Johnson in the Highlands," Times Literary Supplement, 29 September 1961, 645. [Letter.]
"A Dr. Johnson Mystery," The Scots Magazine, n.s., 76.2 (November 1961), 120-125.

1962
"Johnson and the Truth," in Johnsonian Studies, ed. Magdi Wahba (Cairo, U.A.R.: Société Orientale de Publicité, 1962 [distributed outside the U.A.R. by Oxford University Press]), 109-113.
"A Letter of Dr. Johnson," Times Literary Supplement, 22 June 1962, 461. [Letter.]
"Some Proofs of Johnson's Prefaces to the Poets," The Library, 5th ser., 17 (September 1962), 213-230.

1963
"The Reprint of Rambler No. 1," The Library, 5th ser., 18 (December 1963), 288-294.
"Eighteenth-Century Printing Ledgers," Times Literary Supplement, 19 December 1963, 1056.

1964
"William Somervile's The Chace, 1735," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 58 (First Quarter 1964), 1-7.
"Johnson's Journey (1775), and its Cancels," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 58 (Third Quarter 1964), 232-238.
"The Johnsonian Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Hyde," Manuscripts, 16.4 (Fall 1964), 39-40.
[Compiler of] Catalogus Bibliothecae Hydeianae, 3 vols., 1964. [Privately printed.]
"Some of Dr. Johnson's Preparatory Notes for his Dictionary, 1755," Bodleian Library Record, 7 (December 1964), 205-210.

1965
[Joint editor, with Mary Lascelles, James L. Clifford, and J. P. Hardy, of] Johnson, Boswell and their Circle: Essays Presented to Lawrence Fitzroy Powell in Honour of his Eighty-Fourth Birthday. Oxford: Clarendon
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Press, 1965. xii, 338 pp. [Includes "Dr. Johnson and Henry Thrale, M.P.," pp. 170-189.]
"Johnson as a Subscriber," Johnsonian News Letter, 25.1 (March 1965), 2.
[Review of Dr. Johnson's Printer: The Life of William Strahan, by J. A. Cochrane, 1964], Review of English Studies, n.s., 16 (November 1965), 432-434.

1966
[List of books dedicated to Johnson], Johnsonian News Letter, 26.1 (March 1966), 7.
[Unsigned review of A Bibliography of Edmund Burke, by William B. Todd, 1964], Times Literary Supplement, 7 July 1966, 604.
[Review of English Prose Fiction 1700-1800 in the University of Illinois Library, comp. William H. McBurney and Charlene M. Taylor, 1965], The Library, 5th ser., 21 (December 1966), 347-348.

1967
A Preliminary Handlist of Documents & Manuscripts of Samuel Johnson. Oxford Bibliographical Society Occasional Publication no. 2. Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1967. 51 pp.
[Review of Freshest Advices: Early Provincial Newspapers in England, by R. M. Wiles, 1965], The Library, 5th ser., 22 (March 1967), 79-81.
[Review of The Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. Arthur Friedman, 5 vols., 1966], Review of English Studies, n.s., 18 (May 1967), 212-214.
"Hill's Johnson," Times Literary Supplement, 24 August 1967, 768. [Letter.]
"The Making of Johnson's Life of Savage, 1744," The Library, 5th ser., 22 (December 1967), 346-352.

1968
[Review of The Cambridge University Press 1696-1712: A Bibliographical Study, by D. F. McKenzie, 2 vols., 1966], The Library, 5th ser., 23 (March 1968), 75-79.
"Some Notes on Johnson's Prayers and Meditations," Review of English Studies, n.s., 19 (May 1968), 172-179.
[Review of Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews, ed. Martin C. Battestin, 1967], Review of English Studies, n.s., 19 (May 1968), 208-209.

1969
[Review of Bibliography: Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, May 7, 1966, by Fredson Bowers and Lyle H. Wright, 1966], Notes & Queries, 214 (July 1969), 280.
[Review of Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick, ed. Gardner D. Stout, Jr., 1968], Review of English Studies, n.s., 20 (August 1969), 347-351.
[Review of An Introduction To The Study of Bibliography, To Which is Affixed a Memoir on the Public Libraries of the Antients, by Thomas Hart-well
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Horne, 1814, reprinted 1967], The Private Library, 2nd ser., 2 (Autumn 1969), 127-128.

1970
[Revisal and correction of] Boswell, Life of Johnson, ed. R. W. Chapman. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970. xxiv, 1492 pp. [Reprinted and reissued as a World's Classics edition, Oxford, 1980.]
Introductory note to facsimile edition of Johnson's London, 1738 and 1748 and The Vanity of Human Wishes, 1749 and 1755. Menston: Scolar Press, 1970. Reprinted 1973.
Introductory note to facsimile edition of Johnson's Plan of a Dictionary, 1747. Menston: Scolar Press, 1970. [English Linguistics 1500-1800 (A Collection of Facsimile Reprints), selected and edited by R. C. Alston, no. 223.]
[Notice of The Bibliothek, 5.4 (1968)], Notes & Queries, 215 (January 1970), 3-4.
[Review of Prince of Publishers, by Harry M. Geduld, 1969], Notes & Queries 215 (March 1970), 105-106.
"Dr. Johnson and the Laird of Lochbuie," Times Literary Supplement, 16 October 1970, 1195. [Letter.]
[Review of Johnson on Shakespeare, ed. Arthur Sherbo, 1968. The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Vols. VII-VIII], Notes & Queries, 215 (November 1970), 435-439.

1971
Introductory note to facsimile edition of Johnson's Life of Richard Savage, 1748. Menston: Scolar Press, 1971.
[Editor of] Samuel Johnson: The Complete English Poems. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1971. 260 pp. [2nd ed. revised, Allen Lane, 1974; 3rd ed. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1982.]
"Samuel Johnson" in The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, ed. George Watson, vol. 2, 1660-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971), columns 1122-1174 (main entry).
"Johnson's 'Rambler,'" Times Literary Supplement, 21 May 1971, 594. [Letter.]
[Review of The Rambler, ed. W. J. Bate and A. B. Strauss, 1970. The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Vols. III-V], Review of English Studies, n.s., 22 (August 1971), 348-352.
[Review of The Letters of Tobias Smollett, ed. Lewis M. Knapp, 1970], Notes & Queries, 216 (September 1971), 357-358.

1972
[Review of A Catalogue of Horace Walpole's Library, by Allen T. Hazen. With Horace Walpole's Library, by W. S. Lewis, 3 vols., 1969], The Book Collector, 21 (Summer 1972), 275-279.

"Johnsonian Bibliography," Transactions of the Johnson Society of Lichfield, December 1972, 34-45. [Presidential Address.]

1973
[Editor of] Early Biographical Writings of Dr. Johnson. Westmead, Hampshire: Gregg International, 1973. xi, 522 pp. [Includes "Introduction," pp. 7-11. Facsimile edition.]
Introductory note to facsimile edition of Johnson's Irene, 1749. Menston: Scolar Press, 1973.
[Review of Samuel Johnson: A Survey and Bibliography of Critical Studies, ed. James L. Clifford and Donald J. Greene, 1970], Notes & Queries, 218 (June 1973), 230-233.

1974
[Revisal of] The Poems of Samuel Johnson, ed. David Nichol Smith and Edward L. McAdam. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.
"Johnson on Shakespeare," Times Literary Supplement, 17 May 1974, 528. [Letter on John Wain's Johnson as Critic.]
"An Emendation to Johnson's Life of Pope," The Library, 5th ser., 29 (June 1974), 227. [Letter.]
[Compiler of] Johnson's Prayers and Meditations. Facsimiles of the MSS at Pembroke College. Oxford: Pembroke College, 1974. [Fourteen booklets in a slipcase. Includes unsigned four-page "A Note on the Facsimiles." Printed for the 350th anniversary of the founding of the college.]

1975
The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library. A Facsimile Edition. ELS Monograph Series no. 2. Victoria, B.C.: English Literary Studies, Department of English, University of Victoria, 1975. 118 pp.
"The Revenue of a Writer: Samuel Johnson's Literary Earnings," in Studies in the Book Trade. In Honour of Graham Pollard (Oxford Bibliographical Society Publications, n.s. 18; Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1975), 211-230.
[Review of William Shaw, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Late Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Hester Lynch Piozzi, Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. During the Last Twenty Years of His Life, ed. Arthur Sherbo, 1974], Review of English Studies, n.s., 26 (August 1975), 335-337.

1976
[Review of The Early Biographies of Samuel Johnson, ed. O M Brack, Jr., and Robert E. Kelley, 1974], Modern Language Review, 71 (1976), 136-138.
"A Productive Career," in Our Friend L. F.: Recollections of Lawrence Fitzroy Powell. 1976. [Privately printed for the thirty-first annual dinner of the Johnsonians, Friday, 17 September 1976, at the Metropolitan Club, New York.]

1977
[Review of A Bibliography of George Berkeley, by Geoffrey Keynes, 1976], Notes & Queries, 222 (June 1977), 286-287.
[Review of Samuel Johnson in the British Press, 1749-1784: A Chronological Checklist, by Helen Louise McGuffie, 1976], Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 1.3 (July 1977), 209-214.
[Notice of Research in Progress in English and History, in Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (2nd ed.), ed. S. T. Bindoff and J. T. Boulton, 1975], Notes & Queries, 222 (December 1977), 482-483.
[Review of Titles of English Books (and of Foreign Books Printed in England), vol. 1 (1475-1640), by A. F. Allison and V. F. Goldsmith, 1977], Notes & Queries, 222 (December 1977), 566-567.
[Review of Abraham Cowley: A Bibliography, by M. R. Perkin, 1977], Notes & Queries, 222 (December 1977), 573.

1978
[Notice of The Thrales of Streatham Park, by Mary Hyde, 1977], Notes & Queries, 223 (August 1978), 290.
1979
"Concealed Proofs and the Editor," in Studies in the Eighteenth Century. IV. Papers presented at the Fourth David Nichol Smith Seminar, Canberra 1976, ed. R. F. Brissenden and J. C. Eade (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1979), 207-221.
[Review of Samuel Johnson and the Age of Travel, by Thomas M. Curley, 1976], Modern Language Review, 74 (1979), 418-419.
[Review of Dryden: A Selection, ed. John Conaghan, 1978], Notes & Queries, 224 (December 1979), 577.
[Review of Samuel Johnson, Biographer, by R. Folkenflik, 1978], Notes & Queries, 224 (December 1979), 578.
[Review of Samuel Johnson, Sermons, ed. Jean Hagstrum and James Gray, 1978. The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. XIV], Notes & Queries, 224 (December 1979), 578-579.

1980
"A Johnsonian Crux," Notes & Queries, 225 (February 1980), 48-49.
"Samuel Beilby alias Herbert alias A Yorkshire Freeholder," Notes & Queries, 225 (February 1980), 56-57. [Identifies the author of an anonymous attack on Johnson's Lives.]
[Review of Augustan Worlds: Essays in Honour of A. R. Humphreys, ed. J. C. Hilson, M. M. B. Jones, and J. R. Watson, 1978], Review of English Studies, n.s., 31 (February 1980), 81-83.
[Review of Index to British Literary Bibliography, vols. 4 and 5, by T. H. Howard-Hill, 1979], Notes & Queries, 225 (October 1980), 424.
[Review of Charles Dickens and his Publishers, by Robert L. Patten, 1978], Notes & Queries, 225 (October 1980), 462-463.

1981
[Notice of facsimile reprint of Johnson's Dictionary, Times Books, 1979], Notes & Queries, 226 (October 1981), 385-386.
[Brief commemorative address on laying the wreath to Samuel Johnson on behalf of the Johnson Society of London, Westminster Abbey, Saturday, 19 December 1981], The New Rambler, 1981 issue, 18.
"Editing Johnson's Journey," The New Rambler, 1981 issue, 19-20. [Summary of paper read 19 December 1981.]

1982

1983
[Review of A Chesterfield Bibliography to 1800, by Sidney L. Gulick, 1979], Review of English Studies, n.s., 34 (February 1983), 119.
[Notice of Hebridean Decade, Mull, Coll and Tiree, 1761-1771, by Major N. M. Bristol (1982)], Notes & Queries, 228 (April 1983), 100-101.
"Johnson's Poetry," Proceedings of the British Academy, 69 (1983), 355-369. [British Academy Warton Lecture on English Poetry, read 3 November 1983.]

1984
A Preliminary Handlist of Copies of Books Associated with Dr. Samuel Johnson. Oxford Bibliographical Society Occasional Publication no. 17. Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1984. 101 pp.
"Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, 1755," in Samuel Johnson 1709-84 [Arts Council Commemorative Exhibition Catalogue], ed. Kai Kin Yung (London: The Herbert Press, 1984), 37-45.
"Bibliographer," Notes & Queries, 229 (March 1984), 30-31. [A note on Johnson's manuscript revision to the Dictionary's definition of "bibliographer."]
[Review of The Guardian, ed. John Calhoun Stephens, 1982], Notes & Queries, 229 (March 1984), 93-94.
[Review of Development of the English Book Trade, 1700-1899, ed. Robin Myers and Michael Harris, 1981], Notes & Queries, 229 (March 1984), 128-129.
[Review of Sale and Distribution of Books from 1700, ed. Robin Myers and Michael Harris, 1982], Notes & Queries, 229 (March 1984), 129.
[Review of Samuel Johnson, Rasselas Principe d'Abissinia, trans. Goffredo Miglietta, 1982], Notes & Queries, 229 (March 1984), 135-136.
[Review of A Critical Edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, ed. Ulrich H. Hardt, 1982], Notes & Queries, 229 (March 1984), 137-138.
[Review of A Bibliography of Jane Austen, by David Gilson, 1982], Notes & Queries, 229 (March 1984), 138-140.
[Catalogue of] An Exhibition for the Johnson Conference at Pembroke College, Oxford, 8-13 July 1985. [Privately printed.]
"A Valediction." Beirut: Librairie du Liban; The Egyptian Publishing Co.-Longman,
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1984. [Lecture delivered in Pembroke College Hall on Friday, 13 July, 1984 at 9.30 a.m.]

1985
[Editor of] Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985. lx, 371 pp.
"Johnsonian Prospectuses and Proposals," in Augustan Studies: Essays in Honor of Irvin Ehrenpreis, ed. Douglas Lane Patey and Timothy Keegan (Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1985), 215-238.
[Review of The Nichols File of The Gentleman's Magazine: Attributions of Authorship and Other Documentation in Editorial Papers at the Folger Library, by James M. Kuist, 1982], Review of English Studies, n.s., 36 (February 1985), 99-101.
[Review of The Unknown Samuel Johnson, ed. John J. Burke, Jr., and Donald Kay, 1983], Review of English Studies, n.s., 36 (November 1985), 573-575.

1986
[Review of Dr. Johnson's Household, by Lyle Larsen, 1985], The New Rambler, 1985/86 issue, 39-40.
[Review of Blue Guide. Literary Britain and Ireland, comp. Ian Ousby, 1985], The New Rambler, 1985/86 issue, 40-42.
"Dr. Johnson and 'Miss Fordice,'" Notes & Queries, 231 (March 1986), 59-60.

1987
[Review of The Correspondence of Thomas Percy and John Pinkerton, ed. H. Harvey Wood, 1985], Notes & Queries, 232 (March 1987), 91-94.
"Dr. Johnson's Desk," The Times, 18 April 1987, 17. [Letter.]
"Johnson's Dictionary (1755)," Trivium, 22 (Summer 1987), 83-88.
[Review of Irish Booksellers and English Writers, 1740-1800, by R. C. Cole, 1986], Review of English Studies, n.s., 38 (November 1987), 568-569.
[Review of Index of English Literary Manuscripts, vol. 3, 1700-1800, Part 1, Addison-Fielding, comp. M. M. Smith, with P. Boumelha, 1986], Notes & Queries, 232 (December 1987), 545-546.

1988
[Review of Dr. Johnson: Interviews and Recollections, ed. N. Page, 1987], The New Rambler, 1987/88 issue, 48-50.
[Review of Selections from Johnson on Shakespeare, ed. B. H. Bronson and J. M. O'Meara, 1987], Notes & Queries, 233 (March 1988), 98-99.
[Review of The Birth of Shakespeare Studies, by Arthur Sherbo, 1986], Modern Philology, 86 (August 1988), 90-92.

1989
"Memorabilia," Notes & Queries, 234 (March 1989), 1-5. [Addenda and corrigenda to Samuel Johnson: A Survey and Bibliography of Critical Studies,
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by J. L. Clifford and Donald J. Greene, 1970, and A Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies, 1970-1985, by John A. Vance, 1987.]

1990
"Johnson and Boswell in Scotland," Transactions of the Johnson Society of Lichfield, 1989-1990, 51-72. [An address delivered at a study day in the Guildhall, Lichfield, 21 April 1990.]
"Commemorative Address (Uttoxeter September 24th 1990)," Transactions of the Johnson Society of Lichfield, 1989-1990, 77-80. [A commemoration of Johnson's penance in Uttoxeter Market Place.]
[Review of Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in Criticism, ed. Prem Nath, 1987], The New Rambler, 1989/90 issue, 38-41.
[Review of William Heberden. Physician of the Age of Reason, by Ernest Heberden, 1989], The New Rambler, 1989/90 issue, 41-43.
[Review of The Sublime Savage: A Study of James Macpherson and the Poems of Ossian, by F. J. Stafford, 1988], Notes & Queries, 235 (June 1990), 224-225.

1991
[Review of Collected Poems of Thomas Parnell, ed. C. Rawson and F. P. Lock, 1989], Notes & Queries, 236 (September 1991), 388-389.
[Review of Edward Young, Night Thoughts, ed. S. Cornford, 1989], Notes & Queries, 236 (September 1991), 389-390.
[Review of Index of English Literary Manuscripts, vol. 3, 1700-1800, Part 2, John Gay-Ambrose Philips, with a First-line Index to Parts 1 and 2, comp. M. M. Smith, 1989], Notes & Queries, 236 (September 1991), 390-392.

1992
[Review of Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking, by Catherine N. Parke, 1991], The New Rambler, 1991/92 issue, 39-40.
[Review of The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography. New Series 11, for 1985, ed. Jim Springer Borck, 1990], Review of English Studies, n.s., 43 (November 1992), 604.

1993
"Johnson in the Schoolroom: George Fulton's Miniature Dictionary (1821)," in An Index of Civilisation: Studies of Printing and Publishing History in Honour of Keith Maslen, ed. R. Harvey, W. Kirsop, and B. J. McMullin (Clayton, Victoria: Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, 1993), 163-171.
"Dr. Johnson and Revd. William Dodd," Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions, 6.2 (1993), 55-56.
[With Donald Eddy] "A Preliminary Handlist of Books to which Dr. Samuel Johnson Subscribed," Studies in Bibliography, 46 (1993), 187-220. [Reprinted, with corrections, as Occasional Publication no. 2 of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1993.]
"Lawrenceson Fitzroy Powell," in Dictionary of National Biography: Missing
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Persons, ed. C. S. Nicholls (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), 531-532.

1994-
"Johnson's Shakespeare (1765): The Progress of a Subscription," in Writers, Books, and Trade: An Eighteenth-Century Miscellany for William B. Todd, ed. O M Brack, Jr. (New York: AMS Press, 1994), 355-365.
[Review of Johnson and Boswell in Scotland: A Journey to the Hebrides, ed. Pat Rogers, 1993], Notes & Queries, 239 (March 1994), 106-109.
[Review of Samuel Johnson, by Pat Rogers, 1993], Notes & Queries, 239 (June 1994), 249-250.
[Review of Samuel Johnson's Translation of Sallust: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hyde Manuscript, ed. David L. Vander Meulen and G. Thomas Tanselle, 1993], The Library, 6th ser., 16 (June 1994), 155-156.
[Review of A Preface to Samuel Johnson, by Thomas Woodman, 1993], Notes & Queries, 239 (September 1994), 395-396.
[Review of Robert Surtees and Early Victorian Society, by Norman Gash, 1993], Notes & Queries, 239 (September 1994), 401-404.
"Johnson's Secret," in The Age of Johnson, 6 (1994), 147-149.