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Contents

  • Publisher’s Advertisement
  • A Letter to the Publisher, occasioned by the present Edition of the Dunciad
  • Martinus Scriblerus His Prolegomena to The Dunciad
  • Testimonies of Authors
  • Martinus Scriblerus of the Poem
  • Dunciados Periocha: Or, Arguments to the Books
  • The DUNCIAD, in Three Books
    • Book I
    • Book II
    • Book III
  • Index of Persons celebrated in this Poem
  • Appendix
    • Preface prefixed to the five imperfect editions of The Dunciad
    • A List of Books, Papers &c., in which our Author was abused
    • A Copy of Caxton’s Preface to his Translation of Virgil
    • Virgil Restored: Or a Specimen of the Errors in all the editions of the Aeneid, by M. Scriblerus
    • A Continuation of the Guardian (No 40) on Pastoral Poetry
    • A Parallel of the Characters of Mr. Dryden and Mr. Pope, as drawn by certain of their Contemporary Authors
    • A List of all our Author’s Genuine Works hitherto published
    • Index of Things (including Authors) to be found in the Notes
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The Dunciad Variorum (1729)
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