4to. P. [i], title, verso blank; pp. [iii]-iv, “Advertisement”; pp. [1]-14, text; p. [15], advertisement of _The Project_, Second Edition, verso blank. Copies: BM, HC, LHB. Second, Third, and Fourth Editions, Becket, 1778. Fifth Edition, Becket, 1778 or 1779 (I have traced no copy). Sixth Edition, Becket, 1780. Dublin: Wm. Wilson, 1779. Reprinted in _The New Foundling Hospital for Wit.... A New Edition.... In Six Volumes_, J. Debrett, 1786, I, 295-306. Reprinted in _Bell’s Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry_, British Library, 1789-94, V, [76]-85. Reprinted in _The School for Satire: or, A Collection of Modern Satirical Poems Written during the Present Reign_, Jacques and Co., 1801 (sometimes 1802), pp. 143-159. iii Prologue to the Camp. Written by Richard Tickell, Esq. This entry is from _The London Chronicle_, 23 October 1778. Though printed in several magazines at the time of the production, the Prologue seems first to have accompanied the text of the play in John Murray’s edition of Sheridan’s _Works_, 1821, II, 161-162. _The Camp_, “a musical entertainment,” was first performed 15 October 1778, at Drury Lane Theatre; it was first printed, without publisher’s name, London, 1795. Sheridan’s authorship was universally accepted by the press of the time and in the early biographical notices of Sheridan; see R. Crompton Rhodes’ edition of Sheridan’s _Plays and Poems_, New York, 1929, II, 271. The first to question it was Tate Wilkinson, who asserted that Sheridan “never wrote a line” of this “catchpenny for the time” (_The Wandering Patentee_, York, 1795, IV, 124). Later, Thomas Moore likewise thought _The Camp_ “unworthy” of Sheridan’s genius and declared, on the evidence of a rough copy in Tickell’s hand, that Tickell was the author (_Sheridan_, 2nd ed., 1825, I, 264). Following Moore, some editors have omitted it from editions of Sheridan. Library catalogues and recent bibliographies, apparently following Walter Sichel (_Sheridan_, I, 443), whose statements on these matters are sometimes merely conjectures, generally assign _The Camp_ to Tickell as “revised” by Sheridan. A rough copy in Tickell’s hand is very inconclusive evidence of his authorship. In view of known “catchpenny” work by Sheridan, the alleged inferiority of _The Camp_ is still less conclusive. Tickell may of course have contributed to the dialogue, as he later did in many of the Drury Lane productions. But there are no adequate grounds for denying the contemporary attribution to Sheridan. iv