The editorial policy of the Society continues unchanged.  As in the past, the editors welcome suggestions concerning publications.

All correspondence concerning subscriptions in the United States and Canada should be addressed to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2205 West Adams Blvd., Los Angeles 18, California.  Correspondence concerning editoral matters may be addressed to any of the general editors.  Membership fee continues $2.50 per year.  British and European subscribers should address B.H.  Blackwell, Broad Street, Oxford, England.

Publications for the fifth year [1950-1951]

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

FRANCES REYNOLDS (?):  An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of Our Ideas of Beauty, &c. (1785).  Introduction by James L. Clifford.

THOMAS BAKER:  The Fine Lady’s Airs (1709).  Introduction by John Harrington Smith.

DANIEL DEFOE:  Vindication of the Press (1718).  Introduction by Ortho Clinton Williams.

JOHN EVELYN:  An Apologie for the Royal Party (1659); A Panegyric to Charles the Second (1661).  Introduction by Geoffery Keynes.

CHARLES MACKLIN:  Man of the World (1781).  Introduction by Dougald MacMillan.

Prefaces to Fiction.  Selected and with an Introduction by Benjamin Boyce.

THOMAS SPRAT:  Poems.

SIR WILLIAM PETTY:  The Advice of W.P. to Mr. Samuel Hartlib for the
Advancement of some particular Parts of Learning (1648).

THOMAS GRAY:  An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751).  (Facsimile of first edition and of portions of Gray’s manuscripts of the poem).

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To the Augustan Reprint Society Subscriber’s Name and Address: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library 2205 West Adams Boulevard Los Angeles 18, California

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PUBLICATIONS OF THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY

First Year (1946-1947)

1.  Richard Blackmore’s Essay upon Wit (1716), and Addison’s Freeholder No. 45 (1716).

2.  Samuel Cobb’s Of Poetry and Discourse on Criticism (1707).