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_THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY_
Announces Its
_Publications for the Third Year (1948-1949)_
[Transcriber's Note:
Many of the listed titles are or will be available from Project
Gutenberg. Where possible, the e-text number is given in brackets.]
_At least two_ items will be printed from each of the _three_ following
groups:
Series IV: Men, Manners, and Critics
Sir John Falstaff (pseud.), _The Theatre _(1720).
Aaron Hill, Preface to _The Creation_; and Thomas Brereton, Preface to
_Esther_. [#15870]
Ned Ward, Selected Tracts.
Series V: Drama
Edward Moore, _The Gamester _(1753).
Nevil Payne, _Fatal Jealousy _(1673).
Mrs. Centlivre, _The Busie Body _(1709).
Charles Macklin, _Man of the World _(1781).
Series VI: Poetry and Language
John Oldmixon, _Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley _(1712); and
Arthur Mainwaring, _The British Academy _(1712).
Pierre Nicole, _De Epigrammate_.
Andre Dacier, Essay on Lyric Poetry.
_THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY_
Makes Available
_Inexpensive Reprints of Rare Materials_
from
English Literature of the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Students, scholars, and bibliographers of literature, history, and
philology will find the publications valuable. _The Johnsonian News
Letter_ has said of them: "Excellent facsimiles, and cheap in price,
these represent the triumph of modern scientific reproduction. Be sure
to become a subscriber; and take it upon yourself to see that your
college library is on the mailing list."
The Augustan Reprint Society is a non-profit, scholarly organization,
run without overhead expense. By careful management it is able to offer
at least six publications each year at the unusually low membership fee
of $2.50 per year in the United States and Canada, and $2.75 in Great
Britain and the continent.
Libraries as well as individuals are eligible for membership. Since the
publications are issued without profit, however, no discount can be
allowed to libraries, agents, or booksellers.
New members may still obtain a complete run of the first year's
publications for $2.50, the annual membership fee.
During the first two years the publications are issued in three series:
I. Essays on Wit; II. Es
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