Bibliographic Notes on One Hundred Books Famous in English LiteratureKent, Henry Watson
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Bibliographic Notes on One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature
Kent, Henry Watson
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"Whereas I am informed, That there is a ſpurious and very
incorrect Edition of theſe Papers printed in a ſmall
Volume; Theſe are to give Notice, That there is in the
Preſs, and will ſpeedily be publiſhed, a very neat
Edition, fitted for the Pocket, on extraordinary good Paper,
a new Brevier Letter, like the Elzevir Editions, and adorned
with ſeveral Cuts by the beſt Artiſts. To which is
added, a Preface, Index, and many Notes, for the better
Explanation of theſe Lucubrations. By the Author. Who has
reviſed, amended, and made many Additions to the Whole." In
the last number he says again: "The Third Volume of theſe
Lucubrations being juſt finiſh'd, on a large Letter in
Octavo, ſuch as pleaſe to ſubſcribe for it on a Royal
Paper, to keep up their Sets, are deſired to ſend
their Names to Charles Lillie, Perfumer, at the Corner of
Beauford-Buildings, in the Strand, or John Morphew near
Stationers Hall, where the Firſt and Second Volumes are to
be deliver'd."
The price of the corrected work in four quarto volumes, if
bought of the printer, was £1 per volume on royal paper, and
ten shillings on medium paper; and it is gratifying to learn
that the work met with so great a success that there was
hardly a name eminent at the time which was not subscribed.
A copy in the British Museum has for a frontispiece a portrait
of "Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. Engraved and ſold by John Sturt
in Golden-Lion Court in Alderſgate Street Price Six Pence.
MDCCX." and signed _B. L ens ſen^r delineavit_.
Folio.
COLLATION: _Two volumes. No signatures._ Volume I: _iv pp.
[114 ll.], iv pp._ Volume II: _viii pp. [271 ll.], vi pp._
THE SPECTATOR
40. Numb. I | The Spectator | Non fumum ex fulgore, ſed ex fumo dare
lucem | Cogitat ut ſpecioſa dehinc miracula promat. Hor. | To be
continued every Day. | Thurſday, March 1. 1711. [At the end] London:
Printed for Sam. Buckley, at the Dolphin in Little Britain; and sold
by A. Baldwin in Warwick-Lane.
The last _Tatler_ had appeared in the previous January:
the new paper like its predecessor came out in single folio
sheets, but, as may be seen above, its editors considered the
demand sufficient to warrant its daily publication.
The first fifteen numbers bore the imprint here given, with
the additional information, after the second number, "where
Advertisements are taken in." Buckley paid Addison and Steele
£575, on November 10, 1712, for a half-share in the copyright
of the paper and in the numbers not yet published. On October
13, 1714, he transferred this assignment to Jacob Tonson,
Jr., whose name appears October 2, 1712, in place of that of
Baldwin's and of "Charles Lillie, Perfumer, at the Corner of
Beaufort-Buildings in the Strand," who had sold the sheet from
the sixteenth number, dated March 19, 1711, until that time.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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