Elizabeth Elstob._

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William Andrews Clark Memorial Library: University of California

THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY

_General Editors_

R.C. BOYS
University of Michigan

RALPH COHEN
University of California, Los Angeles

VINTON A. DEARING
University of California, Los Angeles

LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL
Wm. Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Corresponding Secretary:
Mrs. EDNA C. DAVIS, Wm. Andrews Clark Memorial Library

THE SOCIETY exists to make available inexpensive reprints (usually
facsimile reproductions) of rare seventeenth and eighteenth century
works. The editorial policy of the Society remains unchanged. As in the
past, the editors welcome suggestions concerning publications. All income
of the Society it devoted to defraying cost of publication and mailing.

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Publications for the eleventh year [1956-57]

(At least six items, most of them from the following list, will be
reprinted.)

_An Essay on the New Species of Writing Founded by Mr. Fielding_ (1751).
Introduction by James A. Work.

Elizabeth Elstob, _An Apology for the Study of Northern Antiquities_
(1715). Introduction by Charles Peake.

G. W. _Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling_ (1703).

Anon., _The Needful Attempt, to make Language and Divinity Plain and
Easie_ (1711). Introduction by David Abercrombie.

_Prefaces to Fiction._ Selected, with an introduction, by Claude E.
Jones.

Samuel Johnson. _Notes to Shakespeare, Vol. II, Histories._ Edited by
Arthur Sherbo. (A double issue)

_Parodies of Ballad Criticism._ Selected, with an introduction, by
William K. Winsatt, Jr.

_Two Funeral Sermons._ Selected, with an introduction, by Frank L.
Huntley.

Richard Savage, _An Author to be Let_ (1732). Introduction by James
Sutherland.

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PUBLICATIONS OF THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY

*First Year (1946-1947)*

Numbers 1-6 out of print.

*Second Year (1947-1948)*

7. John Gay's _The Present State of Wit_ (1711); and a section on Wit
from _The English Theophrastus_ (1702).

8. Rapin's _De Carmine Pastorali_, translated by Creech (1684).

9. T. Hanmer's (?) _Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet_ (1736).

10. Corbyn Morris' _Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of