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BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Down to the end of the eighteenth century the list of editions of Collins has been made as complete as possible. Of editions belonging to the present century only the more valuable are named. With the exceptions indicated, all the works mentioned are in the British Museum. The other statements as to the location of editions are not meant to be taken as exhaustive.

Persian Eclogues.

Written originally for the Entertainment of the Ladies of Taurus. And now first translated, &c. London: Printed for J. Roberts, in Warwick-Lane, 1742. (Price Sixpence.) 8vo.

Not in the British Museum. One of the two copies in the Dyce Collection, in the South Kensington Museum, contains, on the flyleaf facing the title-page, this entry in Dyce's hand: "This copy was given by Collins to Joseph Warton (see note by the latter on the back of the title page). The motto from Virgil on the title-page, the corrections, etc., are in the handwriting of Collins." The note on the back of the title-page is as follows: " Mr. Collins gave me this Copy with his own Hands when I & my Brother visited Him for the last time at Chichester." On the title-page, after "translated, &c.," is written in Collins's hand, - Quos primus equis Oriens afflavit, anhelis." Below in the same hand, and cancelled with ink, are the words, "Equis Oriens afflavit anhelis." The quotation from Cicero (see p. 84) follows, but is crossed out with ink. The imprint is also crossed out. At the bottom of the title-page, in the same hand as that of the note on the back of the page, is this entry: " By Mr. Collins. (written at Winchester School)" For the written corrections of the text, see pp. 85, 90. This copy does not contain the Preface; the other copy does.

Verses Humbly Address'd to Sir Thomas Hanmer. On his Edition of Shakespear's Works. By a Gentleman of Oxford. London Printed for M. Cooper, in Paternoster Row, 1743. (Price Six Pence.) Folio.

An Epistle: addresst to Sir Thomas Hanmer, On his Edition of Shakespear's Works. The second edition. To which is

added, A Song from the Cymbeline of the same Author. By Mr. William Collins, of Magdalene-College in Oxford. London: Printed for R. Dodsley, . . . and Mr. Cooper, MDCCXLIV. (Price One Shilling.) Folio.

In the Dyce Collection in the South Kensington Museum. Not in the British Museum.

The Museum: or, the Literary and Historical Register. Volume the First. London: Printed for R. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall. MDCCXLVI.

No. VI, June 7, contains the Ode to a Lady. In the Library of Harvard University.

Odes on several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects. By William Collins. [The motto from Pindar follows; see p. 33.] London: Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand. MDCCXLVII. (Price One Shilling.) 8vo.

In the Library of Harvard University.

A Collection of Poems. By Several Hands. In Three Volumes. London: Printed for R. Dodsley, at Tully's Head in PallMall.

MDCCXLVIII.

The second edition contains the Ode to a Lady, the Ode to Evening, and How Sleep the Brave. The Collection was reprinted in 1763, 1765, 1767, 1783. Sometimes unauthorized changes were made in the text of the odes by Collins; and some of the changes have been retained in later editions of the poet.

Ode Occasion'd by the Death of Mr. Thomson. By Mr. William Collins. Haec tibi semper erunt, & cum solennia Vota reddemus Nymphis, & cum lustrabimus Agros. - Amavit nos quoque Daphnis. Virg. Bucol. Eclog. v. London: Printed for R. Manby and H. S. Cox, on Ludgate-Hill. MDCCXLIX. [Price Six-pence.] [On the next leaf:] To George Lyttleton, Esq., this Ode is inscrib'd by the Author. Folio.

In the Dyce Collection in the South Kensington Museum. Not in the British Museum.

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The Union or, Select Scots and English Poems. . . . Edinburgh : Printed for Archibald Munro & David Murray. MDCCLIII.

Contains the Ode to Evening and the Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson.

Oriental Eclogues. [For the rest of the title, etc., see p. 7.] London: Printed for J. Payne, at Pope's Head, in Paternoster-Row. MDCCLVII. (Price One Shilling.) 4to.

In the Library of Harvard University and the Boston Public Library.

The Poetical Calendar. Containing a Collection of scarce and valuable Pieces of Poetry: With Variety of Originals and Translations, by the Most Eminent Hands. . . . Written and Selected by Francis Fawkes, M.A., and William Woty. In twelve volumes. London: ... 1763.

In vol. XI are the Oriental Eclogues, the Odes of 1747, the Epistle to Hanmer, and the Song from Shakespear's Cymbeline; in vol. XII, the Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson, a sketch of Collins's life (with the lines To Miss Aurelia C—R), and Johnson's description of his character.

The Poetical Works of Mr. William Collins. With Memoirs of the Author; and Observations on his Genius and Writings. By J. Langhorne. . . . London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, at Tully's Head, near Surry Street, in the Strand. MDCCLXV. 8vo.

Contains all the poems now attributed to Collins, except the Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands, Verses Written on a Paper, To Miss Aurelia C- -R, the Sonnet, and the Song about Damon. The text is eclectic. Some of its blunders or unauthorized changes have been reproduced again and again down to within recent years, as most subsequent editions were based upon this edition. Dyce says Langhorne's Collins was reprinted in 1771. In the Dyce Collection, in the South Kensington Museum, is an edition published in 1776. Still another reprint appeared in 1781. The Poetical Works of Mr. William Collins. To which are added Mr. Hammond's Elegies. Glasgow: Printed by Robert & Andrew Foulis. MDCCLXXI. 18mo.

Reprinted in 1777.

The Poetical Works of Mr. William Collins. To which are added, Mr. Hammond's Elegies. Edinburgh: Printed for J. Balfour and W. Creech. MDCCLXXIII. 8vo.

This is vol. XLIII in the British Poets (same imprint).

A Collection of Poems, in four volumes. By Several Hands. London: Printed for G. Pearch, . . . MDCCLXXV. [Third edition.] 8vo.

Vol. II contains the Oriental Eclogues, the odes on Thomson, Pity, Simplicity, Peace, Mercy, Liberty, Fear, and the Poetical Character, The Manners, The Passions, and Verses Written on a Paper. The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson. Volume the Forty-Ninth. London: ... MDCCLXXIX. 8vo.

Collins's poems, with Langhorne's Observations, come last in the volume, preceded by Thomson's and Hammond's. Reprinted in 1790.

The Poetical Works of William Collins. With the Life of the Author. Edinburgh, 1781. I 2mo.

In vol. LXXXVIII of Bell's Poets of Great Britain, complete from Chaucer to Churchill; printed for John Bell, British Library, Strand, London, 1781. Reprinted in 1787.

The Poetical Works of William Collins. Glasgow: Printed by Andrew Foulis, Printer to the University. 1787. Folio.

This edition contains a few plates, a life of Collins stolen from Langhorne's edition, and variant readings in the Ode to a Lady and the Ode to Evening.

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Vol. I. Edinburgh ... Sold in London by T. Cadell, in the Strand. MDCCLXXXVIII.

Part II, Papers of the Literary Class, pp. 63-75, contains the Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland. In the Library of Harvard University.

An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland; considered as the Subject of Poetry.

Inscribed to Mr.

Home, Author of Douglas. By Mr. William Collins, Author of the Ode on the Passions, &c. Never before printed. Dedicated to the Wartons. [The sentence, in Johnson's life of Collins, about the ode, follows.] London: Printed by J. Bell, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at the British Library, Strand. 1788. 4to.

A second edition appeared in 1789.

The Poetical Works of William Collins....

the Life of the Author.

To which is prefixed

Edinburgh: 1794. 8vo.

In vol. IX of a Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, published in London and Edinburgh, and edited by Robert Anderson.

...

Roach's Beauties of the Poets of Great Britain. . . . From the Works of the Most Admired Authors. In Six Volumes. London: 1794. 12mo.

Vol. IV contains How Sleep the Brave, the Oriental Eclogues, and the Ode on the Poetical Character.

Poems by William Collins, being Odes, descriptive and allegorical,

The Poetical Works of Mr. William Collins. With a Prefatory London: . . . T. Cadell, jr. &

Essay by Mrs. Barbauld.

W. Davies, ... 1797.

Reprinted in 1802.

8vo.

The Poetical Works of William Collins, enriched with Elegant Engravings.. London: . . . E. Harding, ... 1798. 8vo.

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The Poetical Works of William Collins. ... Embellished with Engravings from the Designs of Richard Westall, Esq., R. A. London: Printed . . . for John Sharpe.... 1804. 16m0.

A handsome edition. According to Dyce, the same edition, with a newly engraved title-page, and without the plates, was reprinted in 1811.