May 18, 1737. 150 fol. titles, _Second Book of Epistles_, 4. 0 A few weeks later Woodfall received an order from Lawton Gilliver for 1500 crown octavo copies of _Epistles of Horace_, and 100 fine or large paper copies. The second edition of Pope's Works was also printed by Woodfall for Henry Lintot, the order being for 2000. For Andrew Millar Woodfall printed the following works of Thomson the poet-- Oct. 14th 1734. Spring, a poem, 8vo, 250 copies. Jan. 8th 173-4/5. Liberty, a poem, 1st part cr. 8vo, No. 3000, and 250 fine copies. Of the 4th and 6th parts only 1250 copies were printed. June 6th, 1738, Mr. Thomson's Works. Vol. I. No. 1000, 8vo. With the issue of the second volume the number was increased to 1500. _The Seasons_ were printed on June 19th, 1744, in octavo. There were 1500 errata in the work, and a special charge of £2, 4s. was made for 'divers and repeated alterations.' Among the miscellaneous writers whose works were passed through the elder Woodfall's press was the Rev. John Peters, against whom he entered an account, dated July 17th, 1735, for printing _Thoughts concerning Religion_, 4to, 16 sheets. This gentleman was a literary shark, ready to devour any unprotected morsel that came in his way. The work above mentioned, and another printed by Woodfall in 1732, called _A Letter to a Bishop_, were afterwards discovered to be from the pen of Duncan Forbes, and were published in an edition of his works printed in Edinburgh and London in 1751. A lawsuit was at once commenced by George Woodfall and John Peters against the publishers of Forbes' works, the name of Messrs. Rivington being prominently mentioned, and the defendants, in their answer, stated that the two works in question were well known to have been written by Duncan Forbes, and that the MS. was in the possession of his family.[14] This little incident, taken in conjunction with Henry Woodfall's connection with E. Curll and the letters of Pope, and the story told by Thomas Gent of the printing of _The Bishop of Rochester's Effigy_, shows that he was a worthy disciple of Iago in the matter of money-getting.[15] Mention of Thomas Gent leads naturally to a study of the provincial press of this period. This is a much more difficult matter than it has been hitherto, as presses were established not in three or four places only, but in almost every town of any size. The history of provincial printing has never yet been written, and the task of tracing out the various printers and their work would be long and arduous. All that is attempted here is to give a sketch of the earlier and more important presses, adding in an appendix a chronological list of the places in which printing was carried on before 1750.