[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 six items will be printed in the main from the following list)
SERIES IV: MEN, MANNERS, AND CRITICS
John Dryden, His Majesties Declaration Defended (1681) [#15074] Daniel Defoe (?), Vindication of the Press (1718) [#14084] Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (1754)
SERIES V: DRAMA
Thomas Southerne, Oroonoko (1696)
Mrs. Centlivre, The Busie Body (1709)
Charles Johnson, Caelia (1733)
Charles Macklin, Man of the World (1781) [#14463]
SERIES VI: POETRY AND LANGUAGE
Andre Dacier, Essay on Lyric Poetry
Poems by Thomas Sprat
Poems by the Earl of Dorset
Samuel Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes (1749),
and one of the 1750
Rambler papers. [#13350]
EXTRA SERIES:
Lewis Theobald, Preface to Shakespeare’s Works (1733) [#16346]
A few copies of the early publications of the Society are still available at the original rate.
GENERAL EDITORS
H. RICHARD ARCHER, William Andrews Clark Memorial
Library
R.C. BOYS, University of Michigan
E.N. HOOKER, University of California, Los
Angeles
H.T. SWEDENBERG, JR., University of California,
Los Angeles
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).
(I, 1) [#13484]
2. Samuel Cobb’s Of Poetry
and Discourse on Criticism (1707).
(II, 1) [#14528]
3. Letter to A.H. Esq.; concerning the
Stage (1698), and Richard
Willis’ Occasional
Paper No. IX (1698). (III, 1) [#14047]
4. Essay on Wit (1748), together with
Characters by Flecknoe, and
Joseph Warton’s Adventurer
Nos. 127 and 133. (I, 2) [#14973]
5. Samuel Wesley’s Epistle to
a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and
Essay on Heroic Poetry
(1693). (II, 2)
6. Representation of the Impiety and Immorality
of the Stage (1704)
and Some Thoughts Concerning
the Stage (1704). (III, 2) [#15656]
Second Year (1947-1948)
7. John Gay’s The Present State
of Wit (1711); and a section on Wit
from The English Theophrastus
(1702). (I, 3) [#14800]