1. _New Bearings in English Poetry_ (1932; new ed., London: Chatto & Windus, 1950), p. 11. 2. Treatise IV: "An Inquiry Concerning Virtue, or Merit," Book I, Part ii, Section 3, in _Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times_ (London, 1711), II, 28-29. 3. Reprinted in the _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1 (1731), 55-56. 4. These attacks are described in J. V. Guerinot, _Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope_ 1711-1744 (New York: New York Univ. Press, 1969), pp. 204-21. 5. _Literary Criticism of William Wordsworth_, ed. Paul M. Zall (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1966), p. 50. 6. I owe these details (which correct the _DNB_ account) to Mr. Michael Hunter of Worcester College, Oxford. 7. In his edition of Pope's _Works_ (London, 1797), V, 285 (note on _The Dunciad_, IV, 570). 8. _Gentleman's Magazine_, I (1731), 55-56. A Note on the Text _The Man of Taste_ was published on 8 March 1733 by Lawton Gilliver in a handsome folio format. A second folio edition (although not so called) was published later in the same month; this was followed within the year by octavo editions in London[1] and Dublin. Using the evidence of advertisements in the two folios and contemporary newspapers, W. B. Todd argues for the priority of the edition he calls "A,"[2] reversing the order previously suggested by Iolo A. Williams on internal evidence.[3] The textual variants are slight and are confined to accidentals, except that on p. 5, line 9, "A" reads "Strife still persists" and "B" has "Strife still subsists." A copy of Todd's edition "A" is reproduced here. [1] Although the imprint on the title page reads "London," this edition was probably printed in Edinburgh. For a reassessment of the number and order of editions of _The Man of Taste_, see D. F. Foxon, _English Verse_ 1701-1750 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, forthcoming 1975), I, 78 (B396-401). [2] _The Library_, 5th series, VIII (1953), 186-87. Todd here summarizes the evidence about publication. [3] _Points in Eighteenth-Century Verse_ (London: Constable, 1934), pp. 67-69. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE The facsimile of Bramston's _The Man of Taste_ (1733) is reproduced by permission from a copy (Shelf Mark: *fPR3627/E663b/copy 2) in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. The total type-page (p. 7) measures 243 x 144 mm. THE MAN of TASTE. OCCASION'D by an EPISTLE _Of Mr._ POPE'_s_ On that Subject. _By the Author of the_ ART OF POLITICKS. _LONDON_: Printed by _J. Wright_, for LAWTON GILLIVER at _Homer's Head_ against _St. Dunstan's Church_ in _Fleet Street_, 1733. Price 1 _s._ Where may be had the _Art of Politicks_, In Imitation of _Horace_'s Art of Poetry. Price 1 _s._ The Man of Taste.