An Apologie for the Royal Party (1659); and A Panegyric to Charles the Second Part 3

E. N. HOOKER University of California, Los Angeles

JOHN LOFTIS University of California, Los Angeles

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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 Otho Clinton Williams.

JOHN EVELYN: _An Apologie for the Royal Party_ (1659); _A Panegyric to Charles the Second_ (1661). Introduction by Geoffrey 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 ma.n.u.scripts of the poem).