Where available, Project Gutenberg e-text numbers are included as links. Numbers shown in bold italics are in preparation.
| 1948 – 1949 | |
| 15. | John Oldmixon, Reflections on Dr. Swift’s Letter to Harley . . . (1712) and A. Mainwaring’s The British Academy . . . (1712). |
| 17. | Nicholas Rowe, Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespeare (1709). |
| 1949 – 1950 | |
| 22. | Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and two Rambler papers (1750). |
| 23. | John Dryden, His Majesties Declaration Defended (1681). |
| 1950 – 1951 | |
| 26. | Charles Macklin, The Man of the World (1792). |
| 1951 – 1952 | |
| 31. | Thomas Gray, An Elegy Wrote in a Country Churchyard (1751); and The Eton College Manuscript. |
This gap in the sequence occurs at mid-page. |
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| 1960 – 1961 | |
| 85-6. | Essays on the Theatre from Eighteenth-Century Periodicals. |
| 90. | Henry Needler, Works (1728). |
| 1961 – 1962 | |
| 93. | John Norris, Cursory Reflections Upon a Book Call’d, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1960) |
| 94. | An. Collins, Divine Songs and Meditacions (1653). |
| 95. | An Essay on the New Species of Writing Founded by Mr. Fielding (1751). |
| 96. | Hanoverian Ballads. |
| 1962 – 1963 | |
| 97. | Myles Davies, Selections from Athenae Britannicae (1716-1719). |
| 98. | Select Hymns Taken Out of Mr. Herbert’s Temple (1697). |
| 99. | Thomas Augustine Arne, Artaxerxes (1761). |
| 100. | Simon Patrick, A Brief Account of the New Sect of Latitude Men (1662). |
| 101-2. | Richard Hurd, Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762). |
| 1963 – 1964 | |
| 103. | Samuel Richardson, Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, and Postscript. |
| 104. | Thomas D’Urfey, Wonders in the Sun, or, the Kingdom of the Birds (1706). |
| 105. | Bernard Mandeville, An Enquiry into the Causes of the Frequent Executions at Tyburn (1725). |
| 106. | Daniel Defoe, A Brief History of the Poor Palatine Refugees (1709). |
| 107-8. | John Oldmixon, An Essay on Criticism (1728). |
| 1964 – 1965 | |
| 109. | Sir William Temple, An Essay upon the Original and Nature of Government (1680). |
| 110. | John Tutchin, Selected Poems (1685-1700). |
| 111. | Anonymous, Political justice. A Poem (1736). |
| 112. | Robert Dodsley, An Essay on Fable (1764). |
| 113. | T. R., An Essay Concerning Critical and Curious Learning (1680). |
| 114. | Two Poems Against Pope: Leonard Welsted, One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope (1730); Anonymous, The Blatant Beast (1740). |
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Thomas Traherne, Meditations on the Six Days of the Creation (1717). Introduction by George Robert Guffey. Charles Macklin, The Covent Garden Theatre [manuscript] (1752). Introduction by Jean B. Kern. Roger L’Estrange, Citt and Bumpkin (1680). Introduction by B. J. Rahn. |
Daniel Defoe and Others, Accounts of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal (ca. 1705). Introduction by Manuel Schonhorn. Henry More, Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1662). Introduction by M. V. DePorte. Bernard Mandeville, Aesop Dress’d or a Collection of Fables Writ in Familiar Verse (1704). Introduction by John S. Shea. |
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Everything except the play title was written by the Examiner of Plays.
1752
Covent Garden Theatre.
or
Pasquin turn’d Drawcansir
A
Dramatic Satyr.
Sr.
This peice ent’d Covt. Garden Theatre or Pasquin turn’d Drawcansir Mr. Macklin designs to have perform’d on his Benefit Night wth the permission of his Grace the Duke of Grafton.
To William Chetwyne Esq.
I am
Sr. yr humble Srvt
Jno Rich
In the facsimile, page 3 and the following unnumbered page are the same size as all other pages, but have fewer lines and contain only half as much text (see marginal page numbers in this e-text). It looks as if they were written by the same person but at a different time, using two half-sheets counted as one.
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Page 2 excerpt:
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Page 3 excerpt:
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A. Page 6: “of this Metropolis”: original text has “of” at line-end, with crossed-out text at beginning of following line replaced with “of this Metropolis”.
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B. Page 40: Stage direction added above line:
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C. Page 42: Pet-en-l’air, literally “fart in the air”.
D. Page 62: “If you call upon me any Evening at the Bedford, I shall be glad to See you. To night I am engaged to deal at my Lady High-life’s”. Original text may read “at Lady Highlife’s”; name is crossed out and “the Bedford” inserted above line; next sentence is written “my Lady’s” with “High-life’s” added above line:
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