Selections from the Writings of Joseph Addison

Two parts, octavo; pp. 219 + 56. Part i contains the following poems by Addison:

"8. Sphæristerium. Jo. Addison. Col. Magd. Oxon.” (p. 34).

"9. Resurrectio, delineata ad altare Col. Magd. Jo. Addison" (p. 38). "10. Machinæ Gesticulantes, Anglicè. A puppet-show. Jo. Addison" (p. 44).

"II. Insignissimo viro Thomæ Burnet. Jo. Addison" (p. 49). "15. Barometri Descriptio. Jo Addison" (p. 75).

"29. Prælium inter Pygmæos & grues commissium [sic]. Jo. Addison (p. 158).

Part ii, the last fifty-six pages of the book (numbered separately 1-56), is entitled "Epigrammatum | seu | Poematum Minorum | Specimen Novum"; it contains one hundred and two epigrams, of which the authors are not indicated.

(B. M.*)

This volume contains the following poems by Addison; the numbers which precede them give their place in the table of contents, although they are not actually so numbered.

[1.] "Pax, Gulielmi ̊ Auspiciis, Europæ reddita, 1697. J. Addison, A.M. Coll. Magd. Soc." (p. 3).

[9.] "Barometri Descriptio, Jo. Addison, A.B. è Coll. Magd.” (p. 44). [12.] "IITгMAIO-TEPANOMAXIA, sive Prælium inter Pygmæos & Grues commissum, Jo. Addison è Coll. Magd." (p. 56).

[30.] "Resurrectio Delineata ad Altare Coll. Magd. Oxon. Jo. Addison, è Coll. Magd." (p. 157).

[35] "Sphæristerium, Jo. Addison, è Coll. Magd.” (p. 187).

[37.] "Ad DD. Hannes Insignissimum Medicum & Poetam, Jo. Addison, è Coll. Magd." (p. 199).

[45] "Machinæ Gesticulantes, Anglicè, A Puppet-show. Jo. Addison, è Coll. Magd." (p. 243).

[53.] Ad Insignissimum Virum D. Tho. Burnettum, Sacræ Theorie Telluris Autorem, Jo. Addison, A.B. è Coll. Magd." (p. 284).

The Dedication of this second volume (pp. 1-2) is "Honoratissimo Viro Carolo Mountague Armigero," etc. It is signed "Humanitatis Tuæ Cultor Devotissimus Josephus Addison."

The first volume,

"Oxon. E. Theatro Sheldoniano, Impensis | Joh. Crosley & Sam. Smith, | Bibliopol. Lond. | M.DC.XCII.,” contains thirty-two poems, of which none are anonymous and none said to be by Addison. (Vol. I, B. M.*; Vol. II, B. M.; H.*)

[1703?] The first edition of Addison's Letter from Italy, which seems to have been published in 1703, has thus far escaped our search. That there was an edition of 1703 seems clear from the fact that the poem as printed in Tonson's Miscellany for 1704 (Part V, the first edition) has a separate title-page which says that it was "Printed in the year 1703." There is, however, no such edition in the catalogues of any of the libraries mentioned at the beginning of this bibliography.

To this Addison contributed:

"The Story of Phaeton, beginning the Second Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Translated by Mr. Joseph Addison" (pp. 45-66).

"Notes on the foregoing Story" (pp. 67-75).

Europa's Rape: Translated from Ovid. By Mr. Joseph Addison" (pp. 87-91).

"Notes on the foregoing Story" (p. 92).

"Milton's Stile imitated, in a Translation of a Story out of the Third Aeneid. By Mr. Joseph Addison" (pp. 109-117).

“The Third Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. By Mr. Joseph Addison" (pp. 509-583).

"Notes on the First Fable" [Fab. II, Fab. III, &c.] (pp. 584-592). (B. M.; H.*; T. C. D.)

Addison wrote the Prologue.

(B. M.; H.*)

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By George Granville (or Grenville), Lord Lansdowne. Addison wrote, but did not sign, the Epilogue. (B. P. L.; B. M.; H.*)

Addison wrote, but did not sign, the Prologue.

(Bodl.; B. P. L.*; B. M.; H.*)

1709-1710.

Numb. I.

...

THE TATLER.

By Isaac Bickerstaff Esq;

Quicquid agunt Homines nostri Farrago Libelli.

Tuesday, April 12, 1709.

[text of paper]... London: Printed for the Author, 1709.

Nos. 1-40 keep the same motto; later numbers have various mottoes; the first number is dated as above; the second, third, and fourth, and each succeeding series of three, are dated "From Tuesday - to Thursday," "Thursday to Saturday," and "Saturday to Tuesday-"; with No. 5 the colophon changes to "Sold by John Morphew near Stationers-Hall; where Advertisements are taken in." (B. M.; H.*)

. [text]... London: Printed for Sam. Buckley, at the Dolphin in Little Britain; and Sold by A. Baldwin in Warwick-Lane.

With changes of number, motto, and date, this is the form of the daily issue except that (a) all numbers after the first omit the notice "To be Continued every Day"; (b) the numbering is irregular, No. 155 is not used (Aug. 27, 1711, is No. 154 and Aug. 28 is 156), No. 164 is called No. 162, No. 166 is called No. 165, No. 286 is called No. 186, No. 388 is called 390, No. 390 is called No. 392; (c) the colophon changes, - Nos. 3-15 add "where Advertisements are taken in "; Nos. 16-498 add "as also by Charles Lillie, Perfumer, at the Corner of Beauford-Buildings in the Strand"; with No. 499 the colophon is changed to "London: Printed for S. Buckley and J. Tonson: and Sold by A. Baldwin in Warwick Lane." (B. M.; H.*; T. C. D.)

Seven volumes, octavo; an eighth was added in 1715. The dates of the separate volumes in this first collected edition of the Spectator have been much confused. It is certainly wrong to say (as Mr. Aitken does: Steele, II, 400) that vols. III-VII were published in 1713; it is equally incorrect to say (as Mr. G. Gregory Smith does: Spectator, 1897-1898, vol. I, p. ix) that vols. III and IV appeared in 1712. The present editors have been able to gain access to only four sets of this edition; all of these, however, agree in dating vol. III, 1713 and vol. IV, 1712. Inserted in vol. III is a list of subscribers to the whole work. It is possible that, for the sake of receiving that list, vol. III was held over until it was too late to date it 1712; there is also to be considered the frequent practice of dating books ahead. But why vol. III should have been dated ahead or why it should have been held over to receive the list of subscribers is difficult to imagine, for the intention was certainly to print vols. I-II and vols. III-IV in pairs: see the advertisements of Nos. 227, 488, and 547. Note also that No. 555 (6 Dec. 1712) says, not as an advertisement, but in the body of the paper, that four volumes "are already published," and compare (Bohn VI, 630) the publisher's contract, dated November 10, 1712, which begins "Whereas there is already printed four volumes of Spectators."

The correct dates, then, so far as one may generalize from four sets, are: vols. I and II, 1712; vol. III, 1713; vol. IV, 1712; vols. V-VII, 1713; (vol. VIII, 1715). (B. M.*; H.*; T. C. D.*) 1

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1 The fourth set examined was that owned by Miss A. I. Appleton, of Winchester, Massachusetts, to whose kindness in copying the title-pages the editors are much indebted.

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