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88GM58 NIF [p. 1749] Hawkins’s Plan of an Edition of Ruggle’s Ignoramus
January 49-51 John Nichols’s letter, containing Hawkins’s Plan, corrected by Johnson.

Collation: 8º in 4s : [A]⁴ b-q⁴ r² s[?]1 B-G⁴ H1-3 I-2S⁴ 2T² = 228 leaves = 456 pages.

Contents: Page [i] title, [ii] blank, [iii] Dedication to Samuel Birdmore, [iv] blank, v-viii
Advertisement, dated ‘24th March, 1787,’ ²[i] ii-lxxvi, [2], lxxvii-civ The Life of the Author, cv-cxxii Appendix, [cxxiii] half-title, [cxxiv] blank, 1-35, [36], 37-80, [2], 81-84, 87-94, 93-259 text of play, [260] blank, 261-319 Glossary, [320] corrigenda, with misnumbering as above; cvi misnumbered vi.

Press figures: v-10, ²iv-5, xvi-8, xxiv-3, xxxii-2, xxxiv-12, xliii-2,1-2, lxiv-2, lxxi-11, lxxvii-3, lxxxv-5, lxxxviii-8, ci-9, cviii-3, cxvii-*, 7-1, 15-6, 23-2, 32-4, 39-4, 47-2, 52-4, 62-.2, 64-3, 74-3, 81-3, 92-7, 294-3, 108-6, 110-2, 158-1, 169-12, 180-8, 184-3, 196-3, 203-7, 206-1, 214-2, 222-10, 230-5, 232-6, 238-11, 248-4, 257-9, 266-4, 275-1, 283-12-, 292-5, 298-3, 307-11, 312-12, 318-2.

Illustrations: Frontispiece: Scene from Act V, scene 6. engraving, ‘Stothard del. Grignion sculp.’; Woodcut, facing p. lxxvii (printed as 13, but not numbered); Woodcut on p. 10; Woodcut on p. 57; Woodcut facing p. 80 (printed as M2, but not numbered); Musical notes, p. 148.

Date of publication: No specific advertisement found in the newspapers, but sometime between April 17, 1787 and November, 1787. The General Evening Post of April 10-12 (and April 14-17), 1787 advertised, ‘In the Press, and speedily will be published, In One Volume, Octavo, A NEW EDITION of THE LATIN COMEDY OF IGNORAMUS.,’ but I located no further advertisements in any newspaper. It was reviewed in the Critical Review 64 (November, 1787) 33336, published early in December. The review noted that the price was ‘6 s. in Boards.’

Copies: Bodleian Library Douce 8512; Cambridge University Library 2 copies: Cam.c.787.1 and Nn.26.30; *Cornell Rare PA 8570 R9 A3 1787; Harvard MLr 592.38; McMaster C1963; St. John's College, Cambridge 2 copies: P4.9.100 and Dd.5.46; Trinity College, Cambridge 111.4.61; *Yale (Beinecke) 1986.38; the Hyde Collection; Gerald M. Goldberg, Esq.; William Zachs, Esq.

Notes: Ruggle, George, 1575-1622. Edited by John Sidney Hawkins, 1757-1842. Although the Critical Review devoted almost four pages to the play, the net effect was scarcely one to make any potential reader rush out to buy a copy. The review ends, ‘We receive it with thankfulness; but we must own our ingratitude: we have more than once dropt asleep over pages; which have been compiled and written with no little toil. The rust of antiquity is a never failing opiate’ (p. 336).

Since John Nichols had printed 500 copies of the-play at his own expense, he could not have been happy with such a review. In an effort to promote sales of the play, and to be fair to John Sidney Hawkins, Nichols wrote a detailed letter to the Gentleman's Magazine, which published it as the main part of its review; see the Gentleman's Magazine 58 (January, 1788) 49-51. It prints Samuel Johnson's letter to Nichols of April 12, 1784--see the Letters of Samuel Johnson, ed. Bruce Redford. 5 vols. (Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1992-94) 4: 310-11--plus all of Hawkins' ‘Plan of a new Edition of the Latin Comedy of Ignoramus,’ which had been corrected by Samuel Johnson. Nichols tells us that ‘The following is the Proposal which was inclosed in the Doctor's letter; and it is but justice to declare that every part of the engagement has been punctually fulfilled’ (p. 49). [The original manuscripts of both Johnson's letter and the Plan are in the Hyde Collection.] The review continues, ‘All this, and even more than this, we will venture to say, has been done by Mr. Hawkins, who has shewn much judgement and uncommon assiduity, both in the comment and the glossary; and, in the memoirs of his author, has brought forward many new and entertaining particulars’ (p. 49). Most of the rest of the review consists of extracts. [Please note that Nichols reprinted all the review from the magazine (omitting some extracts) in his Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, 9 vols. (London: Printed for the Author, 1812-15) 9:35-37.]

Alas, the play was also reviewed by Richard Porson (1759-1808) in the Monthly Review 78 (March, 1788) 197-201. In his opening paragraph Porson notes that ‘the comedy of Ignoramus is sunk and overwhelmed in a prodigious mass of notes and illustration’ (p. 197). Porson admits, almost grudgingly, that the collation of ‘all the old copies, printed and manuscript. he seems to have performed with sufficient industry and accuracy, and without ostentation’; but the reviewer then continues, ‘We mean not to deny merit to many of the annotations on Ignoramus, yet we are forced to confess, that the greater part can neither convey instruction nor amusement’ (p. 199). The review ends with a paragraph of such outrageous condescension that it is painful to read.

Although Nichols refers to the Plan as a Proposal, it was merely Johnson's personal proposal to Nichols and was never meant--as the letter makes clear--to be printed and published as an appeal for subscriptions. It does seem evident, however, that the Plan should be admitted to the Johnson bibliography. With Ignoramus we have not only Johnson's corrected Plan but his letter to Nichols setting forth the terms for printing and publication.

Did Johnson assist Hawkins in any way with the actual editing or annotation of the text of the play? Probably at least six of the copies listed above--Yale, Cornell, McMaster, Hyde Collection, Goldberg and Zachs--were purchased in the hope that some Johnsonian connection beyond the Plan might be established. At this time, in Fleeman's words, such thoughts must ‘remain conjectural.’ [Donald D. Eddy, Esq.]