9 th S. I. JAN. 15, '98.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
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probably erroneously, two folios of 1728
and 1738. The bibliography of the folios is
discussed in ' N. & Q.,' 7 th S. yi. to ix., and for
the first five is also fully given in Madan's
'Oxford Press.' In 1799 a writer in the
Gentleman's Magazine (vol. Ixix. p. 200) pointed
out the need of a new edition of the ' Ana-
tomy,'and the next year appeared the first
of the octavo editions which Charles Lamb
declared such a "heartless sight." Since
then reprints have been numerous. In the
following tentative list of these editions I
have, as far as possible, taken the informa-
tion from authoritative sources ; but in a few
instances I have had to depend on book-
sellers' catalogues, and in these entries there
is, of course, great danger of error.
1800, London, 2 vols.
1804, London, 2 vols.
1806, London, 2 vols., Vernor, et al
1813, London, 2 vols.
1821, London, 2 vols., Cuthell, et al.
1826, London, 2 vols., McLean.
1827, London, 2 vols. 1829, London, 2 vols. 1836, London, 1 vol.
1836, Philadelphia, 2 vols., Wardle.
1837, London, 2 vols.
1838, London, 1 vol.
1839, London, 1 voL
1840, London, 1 vol., Tees. 1845, London, 1 vol.
1849, London, 1 vol.
1852, Philadelphia, 1 vol.
1853, Philadelphia, 1 vol., Moore.
1854, Philadelphia, 1 vol., Moore.
1854, London, 1 vol., Tegg.
1855, London, 1 vol., Tegg.
1857, Philadelphia, 1 voL, Moore. 1859, Boston, 3 vols., Veazie. 1859, London, 1 vol. 1861, London, 1 vol., Tegg.
1861, Cambridge, 3 vols. , Kiverside Press.
1862, New York, 3 vols.
1863, London, 1 vol.
1864, Boston, 3 vols. 1868, Philadelphia, 1 vol. 1870, London, 1 vol., Tegg.
187- (?), New York, 3 vols., Widdleton.
187- (?), New York, 3 vols., Appleton.
1875, Philadelphia, 1 vol., Claxton.
1876, London, 1 vol., Tegg. 1879, London, 1 vol., Tegg.
188- (?), New York, 3 vols., Armstrong. 381, London, 1 vol., Chatto.
1886, London, 3 vols., Nimmo. 1891, London, 1 vol. 1894, London, 3 vols., Bell. 1896, London, 3 vols., Bell.
Many of the above are, of course, merely reissues from the same plates with a changed imprint. I should be glad to learn of any other editions, and also the names of the publishers, when not given in the above list. ALFRED CLAGHORN POTTER.
Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass.
BREWSTER'S * LIFE OF NEWTON.' Sir David
Brewster published a 'Life of Newton' in
1831 ; but his ' Memoirs of the Life, Writings,
and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton,' which
appeared in two volumes in 1855, is so greatly
enlarged that, though founded upon the
former, it is not considered the same work.
What is called a second edition of the latter
appeared, however, in 1860 ; but it is well to
make a note that it is a mere reprint in
smaller type of the 'Memoirs.' It is much
to be regretted that advantage was not taken
of the opportunity to correct the slips in the
latter, some of which are very glaring. Thus
we are told in the first chapter, speaking of
Newton's mother (p. 4), that he was "her
only and posthumous child." The expression
would have been true if applied to his father
(of whom Sir David must nave been think-
ing) ; but his mother had three other children
by her subsequent marriage with the Kev.
B. Smith. Again, in the twenty-sixth chapter,
we are told (vol. ii. p. 396) that the memorial
window in Trinity College, Cambridge, repre-
sents the presentation of Newton to George
III., doubtless meaning George I., who died
a few months after the death of Newton,
eleven years before the bir^bh of George III.,
and thirty-three before his accession.
W. T. LYNN.
Blackheath.
SWANSEA. In the course of teaching Eng- lish history I have used the term Swansea as a capital illustration of the presence on the Welsh coast of Danish invaders. Every one knows that Abertawe, and not Swansea, is the Welsh name of the great Glamorganshire seaport; and students also know that the name Swansea has been traced back by the late Col. Grant Francis, through various spell- ings, to the latter part of the twelfth cen- tury. Col. Francis's derivation from Sweyn's Ey, though he supposed that he was the first to suggest it, had been proposed long before his time ; and that derivation is, I believe, the one generally accepted.
In the Cambrian newspaper for June, 1896, I find, in some most interesting articles by Mr. E. Roberts, of Swansea, that Col. Morgan had suggested, in a pamphlet which I have not seen, another derivation, Senghenydd.
Readers of ' Brut y Ty wysogion ' may re- member that under the date 1215 it is said (Ab Ithel's translation in the Rolls Series) that
"Young Rhys collected also an army of vast mag nitude and obtained possession of Cydweli and Carnwyllon, and burned the castle. And from thence he drew to Gower, and he first reduced the castle of Llychwr, and afterwards he fought against
