Public interest having displayed itself in a sufficiently emphatic manner, the "Author" evidently felt justified in engaging a permanent printer, and the imprint of the fifth number reads: "Sold by John Morphew near Stationers-Hall; where Advertiſements are taken in." The first four numbers were distributed free as a kind of advertisement. Then, "Upon the humble Petition of the Running Stationers, &c.," they were sold at one penny. But a charge of halfpence was added after the twenty-sixth number, "Whereas Several Gentlemen have deſir'd this Paper, with a blank Leaf to write Buſineſs on, and for the convenience of the poſt." "Quidquid agunt homines nostri farrago libelli" is the motto printed at the head of the first forty numbers, and "Celebrare domestica facta" on Nos. 41 and 42, but after that special mottoes were used. The single numbers usually bear the name of "_Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq,_, aged sixty-four, an old man, a philosopher, an humorist, an astrologer and a censor," but sometimes other members of his family appear in his stead, especially his half-sister Jenny Distaff, and her husband. Number 271, dated January 2, 1711, omits Bickerstaff's name, and the whole paper, except for some advertisements at the end, is given to a letter signed by Steele, in which he says: "The Printer having informed me that there are as many of theſe Papers printed as will make Four Volumes, I am now come to the End of my Ambition in this Matter, and have nothing further to ſay to the World, under the Character of _Iſaac Bickerſtaff_. This Work has indeed for ſome time been diſagreeable to me, and the Purpoſe of it wholly loſt by my being ſo long underſtood as the Author.... All I can now do for the further Gratification of the Town, is to give them a faithful Index and Explication of Paſſages and Alluſions...." The index, called "A Faithful Index of the Dull as well as Ingenious Paſſages in the Tatlers," bears at the end the important note, "[The Price of theſe Two Sheets, Three Pence.]" The "Explication of paſſages" was made in "The Preface," which, in our copy, is bound after the dedications of the second volume. For, as it will thus be seen, Steele bethought himself to add further to the gratification of the public by printing two title-pages and four dedications, on folio sheets, for the benefit of those subscribers who might wish to bind their copies.