TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.

Footnotes have been moved to the end of the book text. Some Footnotes are very long.

One occurrence of the 3-star asterism symbol is denoted by ⁂. On some handheld devices it may display as a space.

One occurrence of the old long-form s is denoted by ſ.

Footnotes [105] and [108] are referenced from the prior Footnotes [104] and [107], and not from the text itself.

Footnote [55] is referenced by two anchors in the same paragraph.

For consistency and to follow the intent of the publisher, the Plate illustrations have been moved to the beginning of the section describing them. In most cases this was only one or two paragraphs earlier than the original book layout.

Quotations of Hogarth himself, and all letters, have been indented in the main text (but not the Addenda, Notes, or Footnotes). All other quotations have not. The original text was not completely consistent in its use of vertical whitespace to end letters and Hogarth quotations.

Three illustrations listed in the 'List of Plates' have no description in the text, and have been placed after 'The Farmer's Return' section. The three are:
'Inhabitants of the Moon'
'Receipt for Print of March to Finchley'
'Gravity'.

The item numbering in the 'Chronological List' at the end of the book is sometimes inconsistent or incorrect. This has been left unchanged.

Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. For example, face-painter, face painter; Boleyne, Bulleyn; dissatisfactory; confuting; unascertained; personate.

Pg vii, 'Martin Foulkes, Esq.' replaced by 'Martin Folkes, Esq.'.
Pg 38 Footnote [18], 'countenanced by by Sir' replaced by 'countenanced by Sir'.
Pg 102, 'acquintance with men' replaced by 'acquaintance with men'.
Pg 107, 'A Monsieur Monsieur Reiffsten' replaced by 'A Monsieur Reiffsten'.
Pg 170 Footnote [85], 'Enthasiasm of Methodists' replaced by 'Enthusiasm of Methodists'.
Pg 233, 'jellies, sweatmeats' replaced by 'jellies, sweetmeats'.
Pg 289, 'Grostesque, and good' replaced by 'Grotesque, and good'.
Pg 292, 'June y_e ' [subscript] replaced by 'June y^e ' [superscript].
Pg 302, 'Churchil (once' replaced by 'Churchill (once'.
Pg 314, 'Vide 175' replaced by 'Vide p. 175'.
Pg 316, 'Vide 199' replaced by 'Vide p. 199'.
Pg 320, 'mezzottinto by' replaced by 'mezzotinto by'.