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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).
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PUBLICATIONS
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).
3. _Letter to A.H. Esq.; concerning the Stage_ (1698), and Richard Willis' _Occasional Paper No. IX_ (1698). (OUT OF PRINT)
4. _Essay on Wit_ (1748), together with Characters by Flecknoe, and Joseph Warton's _Adventurer_ Nos. 127 and 133. (OUT OF PRINT)
5. Samuel Wesley's _Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry_ (1700) and _Essay on Heroic Poetry_ (1693).
6. _Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the Stage_(1704) and _Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage_ (1704).
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 Wit, etc_. (1744).
11. Thomas Purney's _Discourse on the Pastoral_ (1717).
12. Essays on the Stage, selected, with an Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch.
Third Year (1948-1949)
13. Sir John Falstaff (pseud.), _The Theatre_ (1720).
14. Edward Moore's _The Gamester_ (1753).
15. John Oldmixon's _Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley_ (1712); and Arthur Mainwaring's _The British Academy_ (1712).
16. Nevil Payne's _Fatal Jealousy_ (1673).
17. Nicholas Rowe's _Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear_ (1709).
18. Aaron Hill's Preface to _The Creation_; and Thomas Brereton's Preface to _Esther_.
Fourth Year (1949-1950)
19. Susanna Centlivre's _The Busie Body_ (1709).
20. Lewis Theobald's _Preface to The Works of Shakespeare_ (1734).
21. _Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Gradison, Clarissa, and Pamela_ (1754).
22. Samuel Johnson's _The Vanity of Human Wishes_ (1749) and Two _Rambler_ papers (1750).
