Note 217 — No. 78. [Steele.[211]

The reference here is not, as Nichols suggested, to the "Annotations on the Tatler," by "Walter Wagstaff, Esq.," because the writer of that work refers clearly to Steele as author of the Tatler, and because the book was not published until August 1710. The First Part, price 1s., was advertised in the Post Man and Post Boy for August 31 to September 2, 1710, and Part II. was advertised as published that day in the Daily Courant for September 20, 1710.