An Answer to Mr. Pope's Preface To Shakespear. In a Letter to a Friend.
Being a Vindication of the Old Actors who were the Publishers and
Performers of that Author's Plays. Whereby The Errors of their Edition
are further accounted for, and some Memoirs of Shakespear and
Stage-History of His Time are inserted, which were never before
collected and publish'd. By a Stroling Player.
Say from what Cause (by all condemn'd and curst!)
Still Bays the Second rails like Bays the First!
Right Reading of the Dunciad Variorum from a Manuscript (revised
and collated by this Author) which is interpolated by the last
Editor.
_London: Printed in the Year_ MDCCXXIX.
8^o. (7-1/4 × 4-3/4) S. 28. 5.
The letter is signed Anti-Scriblerus Histrionicus. The Author was
John Roberts.