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The following notes give the more important variants of the 1st (1704), 3rd (1704), 5th (1710), and 6th (1724) edd, of the Battle of the Books.

P. 1 note. Clarke, 1, 3, 5; Clark, 6.

P. 4, l. 9. summity, 1, 5, 6; summit, 3.

P. 5, ll. 2, 3. as to the levelling, 5, 6; as to levelling, 1, 3

P. 14, l. 3. turn-pikes, 1, 3; turk-pikes, 5, 6.

P. 15, l. 1. his, 5, 6; this, 1, 3.

P. 15, l. 14. Is it, 5, 6; It is, 1, 3,

P. 15, ll. 15, 16. Could not you, 5, 6; Could you not, 1, 3.

P. 17, l. 12. my flights and my music, 5, 6; my flights and music, 1, 3.

P. 17, l. 13. have bestowed on me, 5, 6; have bestowed me, 1, 3.

P. 17, last line. and I hope, 1, 5, 6; and hope, 3.

P. 18, l. 18, at all, 3, 5, 6; at last, 1.

P. 18, ll. 14-21. All the edd. have 'whether is the nobler being of the two, that which by a lazy contemplation of four inches round; by an overweening pride, which feeding and engendering on itself, turns all into excrement and venom; producing nothing at all [last; see above], but fly bane and a cobweb: or that, which, by an universal