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THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE LIBRARIES Occasional Publication NU:MBER 1 • SPRING 1970 The Occasional Publication of The University of Tennessee Libraries is intended to be very flexible in its content and in its frequency of publication. As a medium for descriptive works re­ lated to various facets of library collections as well as for contributions of merit on a variety of topics, it will not be limited in format or subject matter, nor will it be issued at prescribed intervals' JOHN DOBSON, EDITOR JOHN C. HODGES 1892-1967 THE JOHN C. HODGES COLLECTION OF William Congreve In The University of Tennessee Library: A Bibliographical Catalog. Compiled by ALBERT M. LYLES and JOHN DOBSON KNOXVILLE· THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE LIBRARIES· 1970 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 73-631247 Copyright © 1970 by The University of Tennessee Libraries, Knoxville, Tennessee. Manufactured in the United States of America. All rights reserved. CONTENTS Introduction ix Abbreviations XlV The Catalog Incognita 1 The Eleventh Satire of Juvenal and To Mr. Dryden on His Translation of Persius 1 The Old Bachelor 3 The Double-Dealer 14 The Mourning Muse of Alexis 21 Love for Love 22 A Pindarique Ode, Humbly Offered to the King, on His Taking Namur 32 Letters upon Several Occasions 33 The Mourning Bride 34 The Birth of the Muse 49 Amendments of Mr. Collier's False and Imperfect Citations 49 The Way of the World 50 A Pindarique Ode, Humbly Offered to the Queen 57 Ovid's Art of Love, Book III 58 Semele 59 The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice and The Fable of Cyparissus, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book X 60 To His Grace the Duke of Newcastle 62 Familiar Letters of Love, Gallantry, and Several Occasions 69 Literary Relics 71 Collected Poems 73 Dramatic Works 73 Works 82 Congreveana 110 Appendix A 121 Appendix B 127 Index 134 ERRATA Page 32: Item 49, Notes, line 5-for canceled stub read cancel stub Page 33: Item 50, Notes, line 3-for Morning Muse read Mourning Muse Page 72: Item 98, Contents, line 8-for CONGREVE so JOBEPH read CONGREVE to JOSEPH Page 78: Item 103, Section-titles, line 6-for JACOB TONSON read JACOB TONSON Page 103: Item 117, RT, line 4-for I4v -I7 [JUDGl\tlENT read I4v -17 [JUGDMENT Page 107: Item 119, vol. titles, line 4-for FREFIXED, IA LIFB IOF read PREFIXED, I A LIFE OF INTRODUCTION In a poignant note found among his class outlines for one of his last seminars in Restoration and eighteenth-century English literature, John C. Hodges, Professor of Englishat TheUniversity of Tennessee from 1921 to 1962 and head of the English Department from 1937 to 19H2, had written, "Forty years with Congreve-and only 2 slender volumes, and some dozen articles to show." Although a modest man, even he must have recognized that his note did not reflect his achievement in his bi­ ography, William Congreve the Man, and his discovery and publica.tion of Congreve's book list, The Library of William Congreve. Following his re­ tirement from teaching, John Hodges climaxed a scholarly life devoted almost exclusively to Congreve with his edition of Congreve's letters. Another result of that devotion was his Congreve library, which contains more than one hundred pre-1800 editions of the dramatist's plays, poems, and collected works. That collection he left to The University of Tennes­ see Library at his death on July 7, 1967. John Hodges did not amass his collection simply for his private use. Even before his death its users ranged from graduate students working on Ph.D. dissertations to his close friend Herbert Davis, who eollated the Hodges quartos in preparing his edition of Congreve's plays. With the belief that John Hodges would wish his collection to be of the widest use to the scholarly world and with the desire to acknowledge his gener­ ous gift, we have compiled this bibliographical catalog. In undertaking our catalog, we discovered that bibliographical research on Congreve has not been extensive. The Ashley and pforzheimer cata­ logs have some fully described entries, and Woodward and McManaway, Hugh Macdonald, Donald Wing, and Carl Stratman provide some limited information. However, the only comprehensive listing, compiled by John P. Anderson as a supplement to Gosse's biography of Congreve, is quite inadequate. It is for this reason that, although we are describing only single copies, we have been as detailed as possible in our deseription of the items in the Hodges collection. Yet even with our limited perspec­ tive and aim we have discovered four eighteenth-century editions of The Mourning Bride not listed by Carl Stratman in his Bibliography of English Printed Tragedy 1565-1900 (see items 60., 63., 68., and 73.); and we are publishing, we believe for the first time in a bibliographical work, descriptions of some of the ornaments used by Jacob Tonson and his ix INTRODUCTION heirs, one of the most important of late Restoration and early eighteenth­ century publishing firms. A definitive bibliography of Congreve-like Hugh Macdonald's Dryden but more detailed-is still needed not only for its obvious bibli­ ographical value but also as an essential tool to be used with the monu­ mental The London Stage 1660-1800 and Emmett Avery's Congreve's Plays on the Eighteenth-Century Stage in the assessment of Congreve's reputation prior to 1800. Even from our study we have been aware that Love for Love and The Mourning Bride were published more frequently than the other three plays. And such a bibliography would make possible sounder texts of Congreve's plays than are now available-even in Herbert Davis's edition. It is now known that the plays were modified in a number of subsequent editions-not simply in the 1710 collected edition-as, for example, Fredson Bowers has noted for The Mourning Bride. A definitive bibliography would provide editors with a means for studying the history of these changes. In the present work our aim has been to provide a catalog of the Hodges collection, with some bibliographical information. We did consider assign­ ing bibliographical numbers to make this catalog the beginning of a Congreve bibliography, but because of the limitations of the collection, particularly in poetry, we realized that this would not be feasible. And such an attempt would have delayed even further a project at least partly commemorative. Yet we believe that this catalog will be of some value. We have described the idiosyncrasies of particular copies, not ideal copy. We have not examined other copies. For example, in the Hodges copy of the third volume of the 1710 Works of Will'l'am Congreve the dedicatory epistle to Lord Halifax has been bound between the section title and the contents list-improperly placed in terms both of the order indicated on the contents list and the signatures, but whether this is typical of the edition we do not know. However, we have attempted on the basis of the textual notes of certain modern editors, particularly Summers and Davis, to record some variants where bibliographical in­ ferences can be reasonably made. In presenting our descriptions, we have adopted basically the system of descriptive bibliography evolved by W. W. Greg and Fredson Bowers in Greg's Bibliography ofthe English Printed Drama to the Restoration and Bowers's Principles of Bibliographical Description and exemplified by Bowers and Richard Beale Davis (George Sandys, a Bibliographical Catalogue of Printed Editions in England to 1700 [New York, 1950)) inso­ far as that system is consistent with our purpose. x INTRODUCTION In compiling the catalog, we determined to use 1800 as the terminal date for two reasons: the end of the eighteenth century marked the end of a particular period of Congreve's reputation and popularity; although the Hodges collection contains most twentieth-century editions of Con­ greve, it contains relatively few nineteenth-century ones-Leigh Hunt's and A. W. Ewald's editions of the collected plays but no editions of in­ dividual ones. We have arranged the items in the catalog in chronological order ac­ cording to the first publication of the individual work. Thus the first item listed is Incognita (1692), although the only separate Restoration or eighteenth-century edition of it in the Hodges collection is that of 1713. Each item-whether a distinct edition, a different issue, or a duplicate­ has been numbered. These numbers have been adopted for reference purposes within this catalog. We have listed together all separate publica­ tions of the individual works. We have followed the catalog of individual works with the editions of the collected poems, the dramatic works, and the collected works, and finally with a list of Congreveana. Our defini­ tion of a collected edition is a volume with a general title page. Thus we have included the 1735 Tonson edition of the plays among the collected editions even though the plays are signed and paged separately.