The
advertisement displays the same cautious phraseology as was employed in
the prefatory notice to the quarto, and speaks of the Dublin volume as
only printed, not published. One motive which probably induced Faulkner
to delay it was, that the work would have been incomplete without the
additional letters.]

[Footnote 151: Page 89 in the quarto bears, in the cancelled division,
the signature M., and the later page 89 has the signature N. The cause
of the difference is plain. It is the ordinary habit to begin the body
of a work on sheet B, and reserve the signature A, for the preliminary
matter. This is the method adopted with the three previous quarto
volumes of Pope's works, and was followed in the original quarto
impression of the correspondence; but after the poet had cancelled the
beginning of the volume, the sheet commonly marked B was in the second
state of the quarto marked A, which occasioned the usual sheet N to
become M. The discrepancy is an additional proof that the opening sheets
had been cancelled and reprinted.]

[Footnote 152: There were probably minor cancels which did not disturb
the general arrangement, as at page 124, where there is a note which
purports to be copied from the Dublin edition. The final sheet of all
was evidently printed after Faulkner's volume was in type.]

[Footnote 153: Pope to Lord Orrery, March, 1737.]

[Footnote 154: Curll, who delivered his answer upon oath, was no doubt
aware that the work was not first published in Dublin. He therefore used
the evasive word "printed," and left it to his opponents to detect the
fallacy. The methods, however, by which Pope had obtained his priority
would not permit him to plead it, nor was he likely, by mooting the
question, to risk the revelation of his plot.]

[Footnote 155: Atkyns's Reports, Vol. II. p. 342.]

[Footnote 156: The other counsel were Sir Dudley Ryder, then
Attorney-General, and Mr. Noel. They all paid Pope the tribute of
refusing their fees.]

[Footnote 157: Tonson _v._ Collins, Blackstone's Reports, Vol. I. p.
311.]

[Footnote 158: Millar _v._ Taylor, Burrow's Reports, Vol. IV. p. 2396.
"I know," Lord Mansfield observed, "that Mr. Pope had no paper upon
which the letters were written," which means that he had received this
assurance from Pope, and supposed it to be true. In one particular the
memory of Lord Mansfield deceived him. Blackstone on the authority of
the preface to the quarto of 1741, stated, while arguin