MISCELLANEOUS WORKS.

OF

JOSEPH ADDISON

EDITED BY

A. C. GUTHKELCH, M.A.

SENIOR LECTURER IN ENGLISH, KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON

VOL. I.

LONDON

G. BELL AND SONS LTD.

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NOTE

HORTLY before Addison died he arranged that his friend Thomas Tickell should publish his works, and in 1721 a collected edition appeared in four quarto volumes, with a letter of dedication from Addison to Craggs. This letter shows that Tickell's edition may be regarded as the final authority for everything contained in it, but a few works usually attributed to Addison were omitted, presumably in accordance with Addison's instructions. The plan of the present edition has been to reprint in the first two volumes Tickell's text of everything which he includes (except the Essays), and to collate all the earlier editions of each work so far as they could be found. Other works which appear to be genuine have been reprinted from the original editions, and collated with the important reissues. Works which appear to be spurious or very doubtful are printed in an appendix to the third volume.

To each work there has been prefixed a note in two parts the first states which text has been reprinted and which editions have been collated, the second deals very briefly with its bibliography. A detailed introduction and commentary and a general bibliography will be found in the third volume, which also contains Addison's Correspondence.

The publishers are indebted to Bodley's Librarian for permission to reprint Addison's autograph MS. of the Letter from Italy.

A. C. G.