, the original
edition of 1686 was used. Any difference in text which has been adopted
from later editions is duly noted in the textual apparatus to that
piece. The Poems have in every case been printed from the first-- which
are generally the only-- editions. Where they appeared as broadsides,
these, when traceable, have been collated.

THE PORTRAITS OF MRS. BEHN.

Of Mrs. Behn there exist three portraits, one by Mary Beale, a second by
John Riley, and the third by Sir Peter Lely.

The Beale portrait has been engraved: 'Aphra Behn. From a Picture by
Mary Beale in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Buckingham. Drawn
by T. Uwins. Engraved by J. Fittler, A.R.A. London. 1 March, 1822.
Published by W. Walker, 8 Grays Inn Square.' The original oil painting
was purchased at the Stow Sale in 1848 (No. 57 in the sale catalogue),
by J. S. Caldwell, a literary antiquarian, Linley Wood, Staffordshire.
A letter which I wrote to _The Times Literary Supplement_ (26 November,
1914) on the subject of these portraits brought me a most courteous
permission from Major-General F. C. Heath Caldwell, the present owner of
Linley Wood, to view the picture.

With regard to the well-known and most frequently reproduced portrait by
Riley, this, engraved by R. Wise, figures as frontispiece to _The
Unfortunate Bride_ (title page, 1700, and second title page, 1698).
It is also given before the _Novels_ (1696, 1698, and other editions).
Engraved by B. Cole, the same portrait fronts the _Plays_, 4 vols.,
1724, and the _Novels_, 2 vols., 1735. It again appears 'H. R. Cook,
Sculp.', published 1 August, 1813, by I. W. H. Payne, when it was
included as an illustration to the _Lady's Monthly Museum_.

The portrait by Sir Peter Lely, which is reproduced as frontispiece to
this edition of Mrs. Behn, was exhibited at the South Kensington
Portrait Exhibition of 1866 by Philip Howard, Esq., of Corby Castle, the
head of the Corby branch of the Howard family.

The portrait of Mrs. Behn which appears as frontispiece to the _Plays_,
2 vols., 1716, is none other than Christina of Sweden from Sebastian
Bourdon's drawing now in the Louvre.

A so-called portrait of Mrs. Behn, 'pub. Rob't Wilkinson', no date,
is of no value, being, at best, a bad pastiche from some very poor
engraving.

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Errors and Irregularities: General Introduction

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