F. F. MAD AN: A Critical Bibliography of DR. HENRY SACHEVERELL Edited by W. A. Speck Is ^ LISTENING TO D5 SACHEVEKEL PREAC1HN< UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LIBRARIES 1978 Front cover: Bas-relief on the base of the statue of Samuel Johnson at Lichfield (Photo: James Helyar) "When Dr. Sacheverel was at Lichfield, Johnson was not quite three years old. My grandfather Hammond observed him at the cathe• dral perched upon his father's shoulders, listening, and gaping at the much celebrated preacher. Mr. Hammond asked Mr. Johnson how he could possibly think of bringing such an infant to church, and in the midst of so great a croud. He answered, because it was impossible to keep him at home; for, young as he was, he believed he had caught the publick spirit and zeal for Sacheverel, and would have staid for ever in the church, satisfied with beholding him." Letter from Mary Adye, quoted by Boswell. University of Kansas Fuhlications Library Series, 43 F. F. MAD AN A Critical Bibliography of DR. HENRY SACHEVERELL Edited by W. A. Speck UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LIBRARIES Lawrence, Kansas 1978 PRINTED IN LAWRENCE, KANSAS, U.S.A., BY THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PRINTING SERVICE PREFACE The late F. F. Madan spent much of the time between his retirement from the Indian civil service and his death in 1961 compiling this Bibliography. The basis for it was provided by the Bibliography of Dr. Henry Sacheverdl first contributed to The Bibliographer by his father, Falconer Madan, in 1883 and 1884, and later expanded into a book published in 1884 in a limited edition of 100 copies. As a comparison with that slim volume shows, however, the son's work was to go far beyond the father's in scope. He was able to make it much more comprehensive by exploiting not only the resources of the mag• nificent pamphlet collection built up by his father, supplemented with those of the Bodleian and British Libraries, but also tlie holdings of every major library on both sides of the Atlantic, together with those of the catliedrals and Oxford and Cambridge colleges. The result was die inclusion in this work of more than twice as many tides as those listed by his father, and several more editions of works recorded in the 1884 bibliography. The differences between the two bibliographies are not merely those of size. Falconer Madan provided the briefest description of the physical charac• teristics of a publication. For example: The wolf stript of his shepherd's clothing, address'd to Dr. Sacheverell, by a Salopian gendeman. Lond., 1710. 8vo. F. F. Madan's original descriptions were fuller, even to the extent of repro• ducing capitals and italics in the title. Thus The Wolf Stript of his Shepherd's Clothing, Address'd to Dr. Sacheverell, By a Salopian Gendeman. London: . /. Balder . 1710. Price One Penny. 8°: A*; pp. 8. Most important, he added a note on the contents of each item, thereby making his a critical bibliography. He also decided to present die material in a form different from that adopted by Falconer Madan. The bibliography of 1884 is divided into nine sections, with the material arranged chronologically within each section. At first F. F. Madan was going to fit his work into precisely the same pattern, merely expanding each section with the new materials which he had located. Then he revised his father's scheme, and rearranged the tides into a chrono• logical sequence, giving wherever possible an exact date of publicadon for each item. He did, however, retain separate sections for Addresses, Division Lists, Verse Anthologies, Prints, and pieces connected with Sacheverell's jour• ney to take up his new living of Selatyn in the summer of 1710. Material re• lated to Sacheverell's "tour" was reserved for an appendix, while he presumably retained the other four secdons because of difficulties experienced in dating items in diem. Indeed, given the fact that most of the tides listed in the bibli-_ ograpliy appeared between January and September 1710, it is remarkable that he was able to assign dates to so many. Apart from the godsend of copies witli the date added by Narcissus Luttrell, whose collection when it was intact must surely have rivaled the Thomason tracts, and diligent scrutiny of news• papers and entries in Stationers Hall, internal evidence is usually the only clue to the time of publication. The process of re-ordering the material to fit into the new scheme had been taken down as far as the end of 1713, when the onset of Mr. Madan's final illness made him aware that he would be unable to com• plete it. Consequently he left provision in his will for its eventual completion by another hand. In 1967 Mrs. Menna Prestwich of St. Hilda's College, Oxford, kindly sug• gested my name to Mr. Madan's executors, who appointed me to finish the task. I wish to thank them, and particularly Mr. Charles Brocklebank for their support and interest while I was engaged on it. Not being a professional bibliographer I sought expert advice at the outset, and I am particularly grateful to Mr. David Foxon of Oxford University, Mr. Donald Gallup of Yale University and Mr. Howard Nixon, formerly of the British Museum, for their helpful comments. In the light of this advice I decided to alter slightly die descriptions provided by Mr. Madan. As we have seen, he had indicated italics and capitals in his transcription, but had given no indication of black letter or line breaks. This seemed an unsatisfactory compromise, and faced with the choice between offering a quasi-facsimile title page or merely transcribing the words and punctuation of a title, I chose the latter course. I did, however, check each tide page wherever possible, and completed the imprint where Mr. Madan had merely provided the place of publication, the publisher and the date. I also indicated the collation where he had merely stated the total number of pages. Thus to show how I altered an example given above. The wolf siripi emerged as The wolf stript of his shepherd's clothing, address'd to Dr. Sacheverell, by a Salopian gendeman. London: printed for J. Baker at the Black boy inPater-noster-row, 1710. Price one penny. 8°: A''; [1-2] 3-8. The brackets indicate that pages one and two are not numbered, whereas pages three to eight are. I made other slight modifications to the descriptions. Mr. Madan had indicated the format of a work by the number of folds in a gathering, disre• garding chain-line direction and watermark evidence. I have taken these into account and followed the usually accepted modern conventions of assign• ing format names according to this evidence. Thus, what Mr. Madan called a small quarto (actually an octavo gathered in fours) I describe as an octavo, the number of leaves in a gathering being indicated in the list of gatherings. When describing a single leaf with all its text printed on one side, Mr. Madan transcribed die title, indicated the presence of further text by "[im- VI I print]" and then transcribed the statement of place, publisher, and date. I have preferred "[text]" to "[imprint]" in this context to avoid the confusion which might arise through what is now an unfamiliar usage of the word. Where Mr. Madan used the expression "short title" for abbreviated titles on prefatory leaves I have changed it to "half title." Finally his descriptions were elegantly prosaic, while I have made them formulaic. For example, when listing second and subsequent editions he would always write "the description is the same as the preceding" or, if it differed, would render the whole new tide. I have reduced this to "tide as" followed by die number of the preceding edition, "but with" followed by any alterations. My approach therefore meant checking every piece which Mr. Madan recorded. This involved visits to, or correspondence with, many libraries on both sides of the Atlantic. I wish here to record my appreciation of the generous help I received from almost all the institudons which I used. My task was gready eased by the fact that I spent the academic year 1969-1970 at Yale University, which enabled me to check most of the American entries, and also by the generosity of Mr. Madan's executors, which allowed me to visit libraries in Britain and Ireland. This left only a few items unchecked, principally those in continental libraries, but including some tides tliat I was unable to locate. The descriptions of diese have been left as Mr. Madan re• corded them, save that italics and unnecessary capitals have been removed. As I followed in his footsteps round so many repositories I came to marvel at his thoroughness and scholarship. Only once was 1 aware of encountering an edidon which he had not recorded. I was certainly not tempted to supple• ment his final selection, being convinced that this work is as exhaustive as any one man could possibly make it. I have merely added information here and there, for instance attributions of authorship, in which I was helped by Dr. Lee Horsley of the University of Lancaster, and Professor Henry L. Snyder of the University of Kansas. My own interest in this material is primarily historical rather than biblio• graphical, and in editing Mr. Madan's manuscript I have tried to present it in a way that will be of use to historians and other students of the period. Thus I read every item, and extracted what I considered would interest spe• cialists.