TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
The text indicated quotes by repeating the open quote character on    each new line. This has not been followed in this transcription.
The text used the 'long s', as is common pre-1800. This has been    converted to a standard 's'.
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The alphabetical list on pages 71-72 has several entries out of order.The order has been kept from the text, rather than corrected.
On page 73 there is a footnote, "Vide Rambler.", with no footnote markeron the page. This footnote has been placed where it is in the firstedition.
 The Augustan Reprint Society
DEFORMITIES
of
Dr SAMUEL JOHNSON.
 
SELECTED FROM HIS WORKS.
(1782)
 
Introduction by
Gwin J. Kolb and J. E. Congleton
 
PUBLICATION NUMBERS 147-148
WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY
University of California, Los Angeles
1971
GENERAL EDITORS

William E. Conway, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
George Robert Guffey, University of California, Los Angeles
Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los Angeles


ASSOCIATE EDITOR

David S. Rodes, University of California, Los Angeles


ADVISORY EDITORS

Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan
James L. Clifford, Columbia University
Ralph Cohen, University of Virginia
Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles
Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago
Louis A. Landa, Princeton University
Earl Miner, University of California, Los Angeles
Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota
Everett T. Moore, University of California, Los Angeles
Lawrence Clark Powell, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
James Sutherland, University College, London
H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles
Robert Vosper, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Curt A. Zimansky, State University of Iowa


CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

Edna C. Davis, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library


EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Lilly Kurahashi, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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INTRODUCTION
During the early part of his literary career, James ThomsonCallender (1758-1803)1 belittled Samuel Johnson; during thelater, he denigrated Thomas Jefferson. Thus his reputation as aScots master of scurrility and a vicious scandalmonger wasearned on both sides of the Atlantic.
Probably because his anonymous pamphlets about Johnson'swritings—the Deformities of Dr. Samuel Johnson, Selected fromhis Works (1782) and A Critical Review of the Works of Dr. SamuelJohnson (1783)—were not both ascribed to him until 1940,Callender first came into public notice in 1792, when in Scotlandhe published The Political Progress of Britain, or An ImpartialAccount of the Principal Abuses in the Government of this Countryfrom the Revolution in 1688. For these intemperate remarks,though anonymous, he was indicted i                        
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