The Augustan Reprint Society
THE
TOY-SHOP
(1735)
THE
KING
AND THE
MILLER
OF MANSFIELD
(1737)
ROBERT DODSLEY
Introduction by
HARRY M. SOLOMON
Publication Number 218-219
WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY
University of California, Los Angeles
1983
GENERAL EDITOR
- David Stuart Rodes,University of California, Los Angeles
EDITORS
- Charles L. Batten,University of California, Los Angeles
- George Robert Guffey,University of California, Los Angeles
- Maximillian E. Novak,University of California, Los Angeles
- Nancy M. Shea,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- Thomas Wright,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
ADVISORY EDITORS
- Ralph Cohen,University of Virginia
- William E. Conway,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- Vinton A. Dearing,University of California, Los Angeles
- Phillip Harth,University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Louis A. Landa,Princeton University
- Earl Miner,Princeton University
- James Sutherland,University College, London
- Norman J. W. Thrower,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- Robert Vosper,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
- John M. Wallace,University of Chicago
PUBLICATIONS MANAGER
- Nancy M. Shea,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
- Beverly J. Onley,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
- Frances Miriam Reed,University of California, Los Angeles
INTRODUCTION
The career ofRobert Dodsley(1703-1764), or "Doddy" as Samuel Johnson affectionately called him, resembles nothing so much as the rise of Francis Goodchild in Hogarth'sIndustry and Idleness(1747) series. Like Goodchild, Dodsley began as a humble apprentice and, through energy, ingenuity, and laudable ambition, grew prosperous and gained the esteem of all London. Today Dodsley is remembered as the most important publisher of his period, a man who numbered among his authors Pope, Young, Akenside, Gray, Johnson, Burke, Shenstone, and Sterne. His long-laboredCollection of Poems(1748) rescued many of his contemporaries'