F.I. DU ROVERAY, ILLUSTRATED-BOOK PUBLISHER 1798-1806:

IV: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS PUBLICATIONS·

[The large-paper Du Roveray edition of Thomson] must be a favorite edition witfi every man of taste ... nothmg could exceed the lustre of the type and plates. The editions of Pope, Gray, and Milton, by DU ROVERA Y ... are among the most elegant, as well as accurate, of our old popular writers.l

F.I. DU ROVERA Y'S HANDSOME EDITIONS of the best English authors were neatly printed octavos on fme paper with admirably engraved illustrations after some· of the best designers of the time. They were clearly aimed at a wide audience, but some of them were illso issued for connoisseurs with all the refinements of proof states of the engravings, vellum, and large-paper. Some of them are surprisingly uncommon.

Glover, Leonidas (1798)

TITLE-PAGE: LEONIDAS, 1 A POEM, 1 BY 1 RICHARD GLOVER. I ADORNED WITH PLATES. 1 VOL. 1[-11]. 1 = 1 THE SIXTH EDmON. 1 =

~~~~~~; 11 ~~~~tb·~~t?f~·irbb~~~ 6~D ~~~1ri~~~E~iE~;I WRIGHT, PICCADILLY. 1 = 1 1798. SIZE: 18.6 x 11.4 cm (Michigan); large-paper: 23.2 x 14.2 cm (Harvard, Princeton). WATERMARK: None, or J WHATMAN 1 1794 (D.H. Weinglass). FORMAT: Octavo: Vol. I: [A]2 [a]8 b8 [Bl8 C_M8 N4 0 2

Vol. 11: [Af B-M8 Nt'

CONTENTS: Vol. I: Half-title; title-page; life of 'Richard Glover' (pp.[i]-xiv); R. Glover, 'The Preface' (pp.[xv]-xxx); blank (pp.[xxxi-xxxii)); text of Books I-VI with half-titles for each book (pp.[I]-187);

Vol. 11: Half-title; title-page; text of Books VII-XII (pp.[I]-189). PLATES: There were seven plates (Vol. I frontispiece and at Vol. I, pp.19, 124, 153, Vol. 11, at pp.76, 114, 188) published 1 July 1798 by F.J. Du Roveray, designed by Burney (2),2 W. Hamilton (1), and Stothard (4), and engraved by F. Bartolozzi (1), Delat[t]re (1), Fittler (1), J. Heath (2), T. Holloway (1), and J. Neagle (1). See Part Ill, Plate 8.

*This is the final part of a monograph in four parts. Part I, in volume 12 number 1 of The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, is 'The Life of a Huguenot Publisher and Connoisseur in London' by D.H. Weinglass. Part 11, 'The Amateur and the Trade' by G.E. Bentley, appears in volume 12 number 2, and Part Ill, 'DuRoveray's Artists and Engravers and the Engravers' Strike', also by G.E. Bentley, in volume 12 number 3 of the Bulletin.

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COPIES SEEN: British Library, Harvard (large-paper), Michigan, Princeton, D.H. Weinglass, Princeton (large-paper); there are also copies in Adelaide, Duke, Huntington, Indiana, Iowa, Melbourne, National Library of Australia (2 copies, one large-paper), New York Public Library, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Syracuse, Vassar and Yale. NOTE: The work was evidently sold by subscription, for on 14 January 1803 John Crawfurd wrote to Du Roveray about payment for the 'subscribers [to LEONIDAS] whose names you sent me'.

Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1798)

TITLE-PAGE: THE I RAPEOFTHELOCK, I AN I HEROI-COMICALPOEM, I BY I A. POPE. I = I ADORNED WITH PLATES. I = I LONDON: I Printed !?Y_I:.~.~~§!~Y; I FOR F.J. DU ROVERAY, GREAT ST. HELENS; I AND'SOLD BY J. AND A ARCH, GRACECHURCH- I STREET; AND J. WRIGHT, PICCADILLY. I - I 1798. (See Part I, Plate 1). SIZES: 18.9 x 11.3 cm (GEB); large-paper, 24.9 cm high (D.H. Weinglass). WATERMARK: Text, J WHA1MAN I 1794 and none; plates, none. FORMAT: Octavo: [a]8 b8 [B]8 c-F' CONTENTS: Half-title (p. [i)); title-page (p.[iii)); 'Advertisement' (pp. [v]-xvi); T. Parnell, 'To Mr. Pope' (pp.xvii-xxiii); A Pope, 'To Mrs. Arabella Fermor' (pp.xxv-xxix); The Rape, with a half-title for each of the five Cantos (pp.[1]-64); 'Notes, Variations, and Imitations' (pp.[65]-79). PLATES: There are six handsome plates (the frontispiece and facing the first page of each Canto at pp. 3, 15, 27, 41, 55) published 1 November 1798 by F.I. Du Roveray designed by E.F. Burney (1), Fuseli (1), Hamilton (1), and Stothard (3) and engraved by Bartolozzi (2), W. Bromley (1), Thomas Holloway (1), James Neagle (1), and Anker Smith (1) - see Part Ill, Plates 1, 15. According to Shelley M. Bennett, Thomas Stothard: The Mechanisms of Art Patronage in England circa 1800 (1988), p.93, the copy in the Huntington [RB 133026] has one plate after Stothard 'never published'. However, this is merely a proof-before-Ietters of the plate for The Rape of the Lock in Pope's Poetical Works (Du Roveray, 1804).

Hamilton's drawing (which illustrates Parnell's poem 'To Mr. Pope', not Pope's) is in the Huntington, and Stothard's three designs are, Professor Halsband tells me, in a private collection; each has the same dimension as the engraved design. Another Stothard watercolour for 'Belinda smil'd, and all the world was gay' (18.2 x 14.3 cm) is in the Courtauld Institute of Art, No.3434, I am told by Dr Shelley Bennett, and another is in a private collection (see Pope's Poetical Works below). One design for the Rape was in Stothard's sale at Christie's, 17-19 June 1834, and five [sic] Stothard designs for The Rape of the Lock were exhibited at the British Institution in 1841, perhaps including the Stothard design for the Rape, 'a beautiful Gem (not engraved)" in Robert Balmanno's anonymous sale at Sotheby's, 12 May 1830, Lot 897.

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COPIES SEEN: GEB and D.H. Weinglass (large-paper); there are also copies, in the Bibliotheque Nationale (3, one on vellum), British Library, Huntington, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio State, Sydney, Syracuse, and Yale.

Gray, Poems (1800)

TITLE-PAGE: THE 1 POEMS 1 OF 1 GRAY. 1 A NEW EDmON. 1 = 1 ADORNED WITH PLATES. 1 = 1 LONDON: 1 ~!.!m~.!>.Y.I:.!J.~!!~I~YJ. 1 Bolt Court" Fleet Street, 1 FOR F.J. ROVERAY, GREAT ST. HELENS; I AND SOLD BY J~ WRIGHT,PICCADILLY; 1 ANDT.HURST,PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1-118000; SIZE: 18.1 x 11.2 cm (Toronto). WATERMARK: None in text or plates (Toronto). FORMAT: Octavo: [a]8 [b)' [B]8 C_L8 Ml CONTENTS: Half-title (p.[i]); title-page (p.[iii]); 'Advertisement' (pp.[v]-vi); 'Some Account of the Life and Writings of Gray' (pp.[vii]-xxviii); Contents (pp.[xXix]-xxx); Poems by Gray half-title and text (pp.[3]-162). PLATES: There are six plates (at pp.3, 19,29,53,59,76) published 1 January 1800 by F.J. Du Roveray designed by Fuseli (3)3 and W. Hamilton (3) and engraved by James Heath (2), Thomas Holloway (2), and James Neagle (2) - see Part Ill, Plate 16. COPIES SEEN: Bodley, Harvard, Michigan State (large-paper), Toronto, and D.H. Weinglass (2); there are also copies in the BibliotMque Nationale (3, one on vellum), British Library (large-paper, extra-illustrated), Brown, Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, Liverpool Public Library, Melbourne, Sydney, Tasmania and Utah. NOTES: It was reviewed in The Gentleman's Magazine, LXXI (February 1801), 157-158, The Monthly Review, N.S., XXXIV (January 1801),95, and The British Critic, XVI (9 September 1801),318 (according to C.S. Northrup, A Bibliography of Thomas Gray [1917], No.86), and The Monthly Magazine, X (December 1800), 609, called it 'a beautiful edition' with 'splendid typography and elegant engraving[s]'.

The MS of Fuseli's comments on Raphael and Parmigiano [October 1799], with a note: 'Mr Fuseli wishes to See a revise, if the passage be inserted', is in the Archives of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities.

Goldsmith, Poems (1800)

TITLE-PAGE: THE 1 POEMS 1 OF 1 OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 1 A NEW EDITION. 1 = 1 ADORNED WITH PLATES. 1 = 1 LONDON: 1 p.!!m~.~,,!?Y . .'!; Bensley, 1 polt Court, Fleet Street, 1 FOR F.J. DU ROVERAY, GREAT ST. HELENS; 1 AND SOLD BY J. WRIGHT, PICCADILLY; I AND J. W ALLIS, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1 - 1 1800.

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SIZES: c. 18.7 x 11 cm; a large-paper copy is offered in R.H. Evans's' Catalogue (1804), lot 1965. WATERMARKS: None (Bodley); J WHATMAN (GEB). FORMAT: Octavo: [a]8 b8 c2 [B]8 C_18 [KF CONTENTS: Half-title (p.[i));title-page (p.[iii)); colophon (p.[iv)); Some Account of the Life and Writings of Oliver Goldsmith (pp. [v]-:xxxiv); Contents (pp.[xxxv]-xxxvi); Poems of Goldsmith (pp. [1 ]-129); NEW EDITIONS [published by Du Roveray] (p.[131)). PLATES: There are six plates (at pp.lO, 18, 38, 52, 54, 90) published 1 December 1800 by F.J. Du Roveray designed by William Hamilton (3) and F. Wheatley (3) and engraved by Jas Heath (1), T. Medland (1), Jas Neagle (1), and A Smith (3) -see Part Ill, Plate 7. The ad offered separate 'decorated Portraits' [after Burney] for Goldsmith and Gray, and in his draft reply to James Norton's letter of 23 December 1801, Du Roveray said that the specimens of the 'Portraits of Gray & Golds. [were] ready',4 but I have not seen them. COPIES SEEN: Bodley, GEB, Harvard, and Virginia; there are also copies in the Bibliotheque Nationale, British Library, Library of Congress, Newberry, Sydney, Tasmania, D.H. Weinglass (4) and Yale.

Milton, Paradise Lost (1802)

TITLE-PAGES: MILTON'S I PARADISE LOST. I A NEW EDITION. I = I ADORNED WITH PLATES. I = I VOL. I [-II]. I LONDON: I :P.!.!!l:!.~~ .. y.x .. I·

~U~6~:9~.-~6~l~~~t~. \ ~~~b~~OJ~;tZ'11:0~~~!~a~~ Ill, Plate 5b) SIZE: Large-paper 23.6 x 14.2 cm (GEB). WATERMARKS: Text, 1801 and none; plates none. FORMAT: Octavo: Vol. I: [A]2 B_R8 S4

Vol. II: [A]l B_Q8 RS

CONTENTS: Vol. I title-page (p.[i)); 'The Verse' (p.[iii)); Books I-VI, each with a half-title and, on its verso, 'The Argument' (pp.[1]-264);

Vol. II title-page; Books VII-XII (pp.[1]-250). PLATES: There are thirteen plates (frontispieces of Vol. I and II and facing the beginning of each Book but Book VII, at Vol. I, pp.[3, 43, 93, 129, 179,223], Vol. II, pp.[3, 67, 123, 177,221] published 1 July 1802 by F.J. Du Roveray. They were designed by G.B. Cipriani (after Samuel Cooper) and E.F. Burney (1), Fuseli (7),2 and William Hamilton (5), and engraved by F. Bartolozzi (3), Bromley (1), James Fittler (2), James Neagle (1), R. Rhodes (1), William Sharp (1), A Smith (2), and C. Warren (2) - see Part Ill, Plates 5, 9-10, 19-22.

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For the frontispiece of Volume I, Du Roveray got the use of a portrait from James Norton, the Bristol bookseller, for £26.5.0. In his letter of 25 March 1801, Norton wrote:

1 think at least 200 should be printed on the same Paper & [folio] size as Boydells Milton [1794-97], to go with that work as it would render it more complete - and the rest on Royal 8vO

- to illustrate any other Edit. for Portrait Collectors- '

In his notes for his reply, Du Roveray commented: 'The size I want to engrave it will render it too small for Boydell's Milton. Do not think one half the number he mentions could be sold among the collectors of portraits.' In his draft reply to Norton's letter of 23 December 1801, Du Roveray remarked that the 'Portrait [is] at length begun by Sharp', and on 9 December 1802 Norton wrote: 'The Portrait of Milton, I recd. from you is fine indeed, I think it as fine & Striking a Portrait as any in the English Series.' However, as David Weinglass has pointed out in Part I, the portrait represents not Milton but his contemporary Noah Bridges.

Thomson, The Seasons (1802)

TITLE-PAGE: THE -I SEASONS, 1 BY 1 JAMES THOMSON. 1 A NEW EDITION. 1 = 1 ADORNED WITH PLATES. 1 = 1 LONDON: 1 PRINTED BY T. BENSLEY, BOLT-COURT, FLEET-STREET, 1 FOR F.J. DU ROVERAY; 1

AND SOLD BY W. MILLER, E. LLOYD, R. DUTTON, 1 AND B. CROSBY AND CO. 1 - 1 1802. SIZES: 18.1 x 11.2 cm (GEB) and large-paper: 22.9 x 14.7 cm (Western Ontario). WATERMARKS: Text, J WHt\lMAN 1 1794 and none; plates, none. FORMAT: Octavo: [at b4 B-R8 S4 CONTENTS: Half-title (p.[iii]); title-page (p.[v]); 'Some Account of the Life and Writings of Thomson' (pp.[vii]-xxiv); The Seasons, with a half-title for each Season and, on the verso, The Argument (pp.[I]-255); 'A Hymn' (pp. [257]-262); New Editions [published by Du Roveray] (p.[263]); colophon (p.[264]). PLATES: There are seven plates (the frontispiece and at pp.25, 113, 119, 153, 220, 256) published 1 December 1802 by F.J.Du Roveray; they were designed by Burney (1), Fuseli (2),2 and William Hamilton (4) and engraved by W. Bromley (2), J. Collyer (1), J. Fittler (2), J. Heath(I), and R. Rhodes (1) - see Part Ill, Plates 17-18. COPIES SEEN: GEB (2), D.H. Weinglass (3, one of them large-paper), and Western Ontario (large-paper); there are also copies in The British Library, Cincinnati Public Library, Columbia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Indiana, Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Princeton, Virginia and Washington University (St Louis).

N.B. There were other English editions of The Seasons published in 1802 in London (by T. Hurst; by R. Baldwin; by G. & J. Robinson), in Dundee, in New York, in Philadelphia, and in Vienna.

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Pope, Poetical Works (1804)

TITLE-PAGES: THE I POETICAL WORKS I OF I ALEXANDER POPE. I A NEW EDITION. I = I ADORNED WITH PLATES. I = I VOLUMEI[-VI]. I -I London: I PRINTED FOR F.J. DU ROVERA Y, I By T. Bensley, Bolt Court; I AND'·soln BY J. AND A ARCH, CORNHILL; AND I E. LLOYD, BARLEY

. STREET. I 1804. SIZES: 18.7 x 11.5 cm - a Weinglass set in original boards is 20.3 cm high; large­paper 24.5 x 17.8 cm. WATERMARK: J WHATMAN I 1801 FORMAT: Octavo: Vo!. I: [Ar a1 B_08 p 4 Ql

Vo!. Il: [Af B-L8 Vo!. Ill: [Af B-N8

Vo!. IVj [A]2 B-08 p 4 Q2 Vo!. V: [A]2 B-N8 0 3

Vo!. VI: [Af B_p8 Q2

CONTENTS: Vo!. I: Half-title (p.[i]); title-page (p.[iii]); Advertisement (pp.[v-vi]); [Johnson] Life of Pope (pp.[I]-217]); colophon (p.[218]);

Vo!. 11: Half-title (p.[i]); title-page (p.[iii]); [Pope] Preface (pp.[I]-16); Poems [from Warburton's text (pp.v-vi)] (pp.[17]-159);

Vo!. Ill: Half-title (p.[i]); title-page (p.[iii]); Contents of Vo!. III (p.[v]); Poems (pp.[I]-I92);

Vo!. IV: Half-title (p.[i]); title-page (p.[iii]); Contents of Vo!. IV (p.[v]); Poems (pp.[I]-220);

Vo!. V: Half-title (p.[i]); title-page (p.[iii]); Contents ofVo!. V (p.[v]); Poems (pp.[I]-197);

Vo!. VI: Half-title (p.[i]); title-page (p.[iii]); Dunciad including Notes (pp. [1]-221); Index of Persons and Matters Celebrated in this Poem and Notes (pp. [223]-228). PLATES: There are twenty plates published 1 October 1804 by F.J. Du Roveray designed by E.F. Burney (1), Hy Fuseli (1)3, Hy Howard (1), Hy Singleton (4), T. Stothard (7), Jas Thurston (2), and Rd Westall (4) and engraved by Wm Bromley (1), R.H. Cromek (2), Jas Fittler (6), Jas Heath (4), Jas Neagle (1), G. Noble (1), Jas Parker (1), Ls Schiavonetti (1), R. Shipster (1), C. Warren (1), and W.H. Worthington (1), at Vo!. I, frontispiece, Vo!. 11, pp. 37, [53,65, 91, 131, 149], Vo!. Ill, pp. 15, [79, 157], Vo!. IV, pp. [3, 25, 33], Vo!. V, pp. [5, 115, 189], Vo!. VI, pp. [107, 129, 165, 191] - see Part Ill, Plates 3, 12-13.

Stothard's design for The Rape of the Lock, enlarged and much improved from that of Belinda for the 1798 Rape (Part Ill, Plate -1), was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1806, and is now in a private collection; Burney's is in a Harvard set of the work. SETS SEEN: Boston Athenaeum (large-paper), GEB (large-paper), Harvard (large­paper), Huntington, D.H. Weinglass (2, one in original boards); there are also copies in The British Library and Cornell (large-paper, extra-illustrated).

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NOTES: Pope's translations of The Iliad (1805) and The Odyssey (1806) were considered as part of his Poetical Works and sometimes bound as a unit.

° At first Du Roveray evidently thought of including Pope's letters with his poetry, for James Norton wrote to him on 15 December 1801: 'the Correspondence certainly will render the Works of Pope more complete, but as your publications yet have been only Poetical I do not know how to advize.' However, the plan to include the letters was abandoned.

In his draft reply to James Norton's letter of 9 September 1807, Du Roveray wrote of his

intention not to sell Pope's Poetical Works separate from the Homer, to which resolution it is the more necessary for me to adhere, as I have several Copies more left of the latter than of the former, owing to some Booksellers who failed since the first Delivery, and to whom, of course, I did not think it expedient to deliver the two latter ...

Homer, The Iliad, tr. Pope (1805)

TITLE-PAGES: THE I ILIAD I OF I HOMER, I TRANSLATED BY A. POPE. ANEWEDITION. I = I ADORNEDWITHPLATES. I = I VOLUMEI[-VI]. - I l.ond(m: I PRINTED FOR F.J. DU ROVERA Y, I !3Y T. Bensley, Bolt Court; ANi:fsbLD

o

BY J. AND A ARCH, CORNHILL, AND I E. LLOYD, HARLEY STREET. I 1805. (See Part Ill, Plate 2b) SIZE: 26.0 x 17.0 cm (large-paper). WATERMARKS: Text J WHATMAN I 1804 and J WHATMAN I 1801; plates none; guard-leaves J WHATMAN I 1801 FORMAT: Octavo: Vol. I: [B]8 C_R8 SI

Vol. 11: [Br C_N8 0 6

Vol. Ill: [Br C_P8 QI Vol. IV: [Bf C_M8 N6

Vol. V: [B]1 C_08 p2

Vol. VI: [Br C_N8 0 5

CONTENTS: Vol. I: Title-page (p.[l]); Anon., Advertisement (pp. [3-4]); [Pope] Preface (pp.[6]-46); [Parnell] An Essay on the Life, Writings, and Learning, of Homer (pp.[47]-128); Iliad Books 1-11 including a half-title, Argument, and [Pope's] Selected Notes for each (pp.[129]-234); Observations on the Catalogue (pp.[235]-244); A Geographical Table of The Towns, &c. in Homer's Catalogue of Greece, with the Authorities for their Situations as Place in the Map [but there is no map] (pp.[245]-258);

Vol. 11: Title-page (p.[3]); Books Ill-VI (pp.[5]-203), including An Essay on Homer'S Battles (pp.[76]-93);

Vol. Ill: Title-page (p.[3]); Books VII-XI (pp.[5]-226); Vol. IV: Title-page (p.[3]); Books XII-XV (pp.[5]-188); Vol. V: Title-page (p.[3]); Books XVI-XX (pp.[5]-212);

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Vol. VI: Title-page (p.[3)); Books XXI-XXIV (pp.[5]-201); colophon (p.[202)).

PLATES: There are 25 plates published by F.J. Du Roverayon 1 October 1805 (20) and 1 October 1806 (5), designed by Burney (1), Fuseli (10),3 Howard (3), Singleton (3), Stothard (6), and Westall (2), and engraved by Bromley (1), Cromek (1), Engleheart (1), Fittler (2), James Heath (5), Schiavonetti (3), E. Smith (2),Stow (4), I. Taylor (4), and Worthington (2) - see Part Ill, Plates 2b, 4,14,23. They are placed as the frontispiece to Vol. I and facing the first text-page of each Book at Vol. I, pp.131, 179, Vol. lI, pp.7, 41, 97,163, Vol. HI, pp.7, 43, 85,135,175, Vol. IV, pp.7,39, 103, 141, Vol. V, pp.7, 67, 113, 153, 179, and Vol. VI, pp.7, 49, 89, 147.

The plates were also used in the edition of The Iliad translated by William Cowper and published by Joseph Johnson and Sharpe & Hailes in 1810.

Dr Shelley Bennett tells me the location of the following Stothard drawings: Jove Despatching Minerva (Victoria & Albert Museum); Hector and Andromache (related drawings in The British Museum [2, one in Stothard's notebook], Victoria & Albert [3], Nottingham castle Museum [2], and Royal Academy [Jupp Royal Academy catalogues Vol. HI)); Poseidon in his Chariot (Nottingham castle Museum); and Achilles Dragging the Body of Hector (Victoria" & Albert). The charming watercolour for Burney's frontispiece to Vol. I (Part I, Plate 2a) is in the Harvard set (with two proofs). .

In the archives of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities are two volumes, one for Du Roveray's Iliad and one for his Odyssey, uniformly bound by Rivi~re, each with over forty large-paper engravings, many of the pulls on India paper, some in very early states, before all lettering, or with signatures but before the addition of the imprint. Though the volumes were bound in the late nineteenth century, they presumably came from Du Roveray's collection.

SETS SEEN: Boston Athenaeum (large-paper), GEB (large-paper), Harvard (large­paper), Huntington; there are also sets in The British Library, Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, Columbia, Newberry, New York Public Library, State Library of New South Wales (Sydney), State Library of Victoria (Melbourne), D.H. Weinglass (large-paper) and Yale.

E.F. Burney, who made the coloured drawings for the frontispieces of The Iliad and The Odyssey, also made four other black-and-white designs for The Iliad and three for The Odyssey which were not engraved. All these Burney designs are preserved in the sets of Du Roveray's Iliad (1805) and Odyssey (1806) in the Harry Elkins Widener Collection of Harvard - see Plates 1-9 here, reproduced by permission of the Houghton Library.

The unused designs differ significantly from those which were engraved in depicting the action within a circle surrounded by an elaborate frame including an empty cartouche; there is no frame at all on the plates which were engraved.

Further, Fuseli made designs for exactly the same scenes as in Burney's Plates 2 and 7, Stothard made a design for exactly the same scene as in Burney's Plate 5 and one very similar to Burney's Plate 3, and Smirke made one for the same scene as in Burney's Plate 8, so that only Burney's Plates 4 and 9 are distinct from the

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scenes engraved for Du Roveray. It is.plain from the correspondence quoted in Part II that Fuseli, at least, chose his own subjects (see his letter of 27 December 1802), and Burney. may have been allowed to choose his subjects· as well. If so, the accidental duplication of scenes with his more famous rivals must have crippled Burney's chances of success. And his use of· a Circular format and of elaborate decorative borders did not conform to the designs for the rest of the series. It seems likely that these designs by Burney were intended for Du Roveray's Iliad and Odyssey but that they were not engraved because of the differences between the publisher's intentions and the artist's performances.

Homer, The Odyssey, tr. Pope (1806)

TITLE-PAGES: THE I ODYSSEY I OF I HOMER, I TRANSLATED BY A. POPE. I A NEW EDITION. I - I ADORNED WITH PLATES. I = I VOLUME 1[-VI). \ - I I£_!}_~g~: I PRINTED FOR F.J. DU ROVERA Y, I By T. Bensley, Bolt Court; AND SOLD BY J. AND A ARCH, CORNHILL, AND I E. LLOYD, BARLEY STREET. I 1806. SIZES: 22.7 x 14.0 cm (Harvard); large-paper, 27.8 x 16.5 cm (Boston Athenaeum). WATERMARKS: J WHA1MAN I 1801 (Boston Athenaeum & GEB); J WHA1MAN I 1804 (GEB); J WHA1MAN I 1805 (Western Ontario); none (Harvard). FORMAT: Octavo: Vol. I: [Br C-M81N)1

Vol. II: [B) C-N [0)1 Vol. Ill: [Br c-08 p4

Vol. IV: [Br c-08

Vol. V: [Br C-M8 N2

Vol. VI:· -[Br c-08 pS

CONTENTS: Vol. I: Half-title (p.[l)); title-page (p.[3)); A General View of the Epic Poem, and of the Iliad and Odyssey, extracted from Bossu (pp.[5)-39); Odyssey Books 1-III including half-title, Argument, and [Pope's) Select Notes for each (pp. [41)-177); colophon (p.[178));

Vol. II: Half-title (p.[l)); title-page (p.[3)); Books IV-VIII (pp.[5)-193); colophon (p.[194));

Vol. Ill: Half-title (p.[l)); title-page (p.[3)); Books VIII-XI (pp.[5)-215); colophon (p.[216));

Vol. IV: Half-title (p.[l)); title-page (p.[3)); Books XII-XVI (pp.[5)-208);

Vol. V: Half-title (p.[l)); title-page (p.[3)); Books XVII-XX (pp.[5)-179); colophon (p. [180));

Vol. VI: Half-title (p.[l)); title-page (p.[3)); Books XXI-XXIV (pp.[5)-168); Postscript by Mr. Pope (pp.[169))-192); Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice, tr. Archdeacon Parnell, Corrected by Mr. Pope (pp.[193]-216). PLATES: There are 25 plates published by F.J. Du Roveray on 1 October 1806 (but see below), designed by Burney (3), Fuseli (7),3 Howard (3), Singleton (4), Smirke (6), and Westall (2), and engraved by Bromley (2), Collyer (1), Cromek (1), Delattre

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(1), Fittler (3), Neagle (1), Schiavonetti (1), Stow (8), Isaac Taylor (3), Walker (2), and Warren (2) - see Part Ill, Plates 6, 11, 24-25. The plates face each Book at Vol. I, pp.3, 43, 91, 131, Vol. 11, pp.3, 81, 125, 161, Vol. Ill, pp.7, 55, 103, 153, Vol. N, pp.7, 45, 79,123,169, VoLV, pp.7, 47, 91,125, Vol. VI frontispiece, and pp.53, 91, 115. In the set in Harvard are Burney's coloured design engraved for the frontis­piece to Vol. I and his unused designs for Book V, 11.440-441, Book X, 11.383-384, and Book XXI, 11.115-116 - see Plates 6-9 here.

Du Roveray told George Baker on 22 January 1806 that Mr [Thomas] Ryder was then engraving Burney's frontispiece for 'Homer's (evidently The Odyssey [part Ill, Plate 6], for the Iliad frontispiece [part Ill, Plate 2a, engraved by Schiavonetti] was already published by then), but it was signed by James Stow.

When Smirke's oil for The Odyssey appeared in Du Roveray's sale of 7 May 1829 (lot 121), it was described as 'undoubtedly one of • .• [his] most successfur paintings. For a volume of Odyssey proofs probably emanating from Du Roveray's collection, see The Iliad (1805) above. SETS SEEN: Bodley (Vol. I title-page dated 1806, paper in Vol. 1-11, VI watermarked 1805), GEB (large-paper), Boston Athenaeum (large-paper), Harvard (2, one with two extra proofs of each plate), Huntington (Vol. I, IiI-V, large-paper, with duplicate proofs of the plates), State Library of New South Wales (Sydney), D.H. Weinglass (large-paper) and Western Ontario (lacking Vol. I-V and the plates); there are also sets in the Smithsonian and Yale.

Homer, The Odyssey, tr. Pope (1813)

TITLE-PAGES: THE I ODYSSEY 1 OF 1 HOMER, 1 TRANSLATED BY A. POPE. I A NEW EDITION. I = 1 ADORNED WITH PLATES. 1 = 1 VOL. II[-VI). -I London: 1 PRINTEDFORF.J.DUROVERAY, 1 ANDSUTTABY, EV ANCE, ANff'Fox. 1 1813. SIZE: 17.8 x 11.0 cm (Yale).

WATERMARKS: J WHATMAN 1 1805; J WHATMAN 1 1810 PLATES: The plates are the same as those in the 1806 edition with the 1806 inscriptions unchanged.

SETS SEEN: Bodley (Vol. II-VI title-pages dated 1813, paper in Vol. Ill-V watermarked 1810), Huntington (Vol. 11, VI only); there is also a set in Yale.

G.E. Bentley, Jr, University of Toronto.

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NOTES

1. T.B. Dibdin,Bibliomania (1811), p.645. 2. Burney's ornamental frontispiece is 'after an original portrait by Hone'; there is a duplicate of the print,

before all letters, in the Michigan copy. 3. Gert Schiff, Johann Heinrich Fiissl~ 1741-1825: Text und Oeuvrekatalog (1973) lists the plates Fuseli

made for Du Roveray as: Gray, No. 1312-14, all exhibited at the Royal Academy (1800), lots 48, 85, 172; Milton, No.1209-14, 1298-1303 - oil versions are in Kunsthaus, Zurich (1), Bayerische Staatsgemiildesammlungen, Munich (1), and private collections (4); Thomson, No. 1315-16, one exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1801 and now in the Staatliche KUnsthalle, Karlsruhej lliad, No.I441-50, one exhibited at the LiverpoolAcademy (1812), lot 187; Odyssey, No.1251-57; in 1812, one was exhibited at the Royal Academy and two at the Liverpool Academy, lots 10, 186. Fuseli owned most of Du Roveray's publications - Goldsmith's Poems (1800), Thomson's

Seasons(I802), Pope's Workr, 18 volumes [including The Iliad (1805) and The Odyssey (1806)], Milton's Paradise Lost (1802), and Pope's Rape of the Lock (1798) - and these appeared in his posthumous sale at Sotheby's, 22 July 1825, lots 63, 73-74, 94, 97, the Milton in '12 Nos.'

4. This and all other letters to and from James Norton are quoted from the *MS in the Collection of D.H. Weinglass and M. Carbonell.

5. British Library Add. MSS 2679, f.13.

The plates are reproduced by permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

PAUL EGGERT lectures in the Department of English, University College, at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra.

G.E. BENTLEY, JR is Professor of English at University College, University of Toronto, and was a 1988 Harold White Fellow at the National Library of Australia.

MERETE SMITH is employed in the Rare Books Room at the Monash University Library.

JOHN ARNOLD is Senior Research Fellow at the National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University.

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Plate 1

Coloured drawing by E.F. Burncy for the frontispiece to J7ze Iliad (1805) (Houghlon Library, Harvard University). The chief differences from

the engraving (scc Pan Ill, Plate la) arc the Greek inscriptions identifying the characters in the frieze, which arc omitted in the engraving.

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Unengraved drawing by E.F. Burney for The Iliad, Book I, 11.451453 (Houghton Library). She, in soft sorrows, and in pensive thought, Past silent, as the heralds held her hand, And oft look'd back, slow-moving ocr the strand.

At the command of Agamemnon, heralds take away Briscis, the captive of 'the fierce Achilles', who vows to withdraw from the war 'though prostrate Greece should bleed at ev'ry vein' (1.445).

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Plate 3

Unengraved drawing by E.F. Burney for Tile Iliad, Book VIII, 11.476-477 (Houghton Library). Saturnia [cnds the lash; the coursers fly;

Smooth glides the chariot [hra' the liquid sky. luno ('Saturn's other heir') guides the chariot through 'Hcav'n's golden gates,

kept by the winged Hours' and 'down the steep of Heav'n' to the plains of Troy to defend the routed Greeks, while Pallas Athcna, clad in love's cuirass,

shakes his 'massy jav'lin' (11.463, 479, 485, 473).

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Plate 4

Unengraved drawing by E.F. Burney for The Iliad, Book XVIIi, 11.709·710 (Houghton Library). At Thetis feet the finish'd labour lay: She, as the fa lcon cuts th'aerial way.

Vulcan presents the helmet and shield he has forged for Achilles to Thetis, whose winged courser waits impatiently to carry her from 'Olympus snO\ry summit'

to the fields of Tray (1.71 1).

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Plate 5

Uncngraved drawing by E.F. Bumey for The J/ind, Book XXII , 11.501 ·502 (Houghlon Ubrary). Proud on his car th' insulting victor stood And bore aloft his arms, distilling blood.

Achilles, bent on a 'vengeance ... U nwOrthy of himself, and of the dead', strips the armou r from the dead Hector and ties his fect to his chariot

as terrified Trojans peer from behind their shields before the empty towers of Ilium. The owl of Athcna and the scales of destiny arc depicted in the frame.

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Plate 6

Coloured drawing by E.F. Burncy (Houghton Library) engraved as tbe frontispiece to 71le Odyssey (sce Part Ill, Plate 6); the engraver has copied

even tbe shapes and number of the [caves beneatb the bust of Homer.

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Uncngravcd drawing by E.F. Burney for The Odyssey, Book V, 11.440-441 (Houghlon Library). This heav'nly scarf beneath thy bosom bind, And live; give all thy tcrrours to the wind.

The goddess Leucothea, alighting on the wreck: of Ulysses' ship, tells him 10 throw off his clothes and swim ashore, protected by her scarf or veil.

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Unengraved drawing by E.F. Burney for The Odyssey, Book X, 11.383-384 (Houghlon Library). Then sudden whirling, like a waving name, My beamy falchion, I assault the dame,

I'rOlected from her poisons by the sacred hcrb (Moly) given to him by Hermes, Ulysscs thrcatcns Ciree to persuadc her to rcstore his shipmmcs from swine

(alluded to in the bOrder-design) to their human forms.

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Uncngraved drav.ing by E.F. Burney for 17re Odyssey, Book XXI , 11.115-116 ( Houghton Library). No more excuses then, no morc delay; Haste to the trial - Lo! I lead the way.

Ulysscs' son Telcmachus urges his mother's revelling suitors 10 accept her ch:lllcnge to bend 'Ulysses' wondrous bow' and shoot an arrow- through ' .... -e lve r ings,

while Penelopc looks on in sorrow.

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