EDITORE:
Printed for the Author and sold by W. Flexney.

Scritto in risposta alle critiche contro The Rosciad (vedi), il testo contiene "a savage attack upon Smollett, and a rough warning to Garrick ... [who had] rashly suggested that he had been praised in the 'Rosciad' because its author desired the freedom of his theatre" (Dictionary of National Biography).

EDIZIONI SUCCESSIVE:
Seconda edizione "revised and corrected": London, Printed for the Author, and sold by W. Flexney, 1761.

Terza edizione "revised and corrected": London, Printed for the Author, and sold by W. Flexney, 1761.
Testo online: GOOGLE LIBRI - HATHI TRUST

Quarta edizione "revised and corrected":
- London, Printed for the Author, and sold by W. Flexney, 1761.
- Dublin, printed for Richard Watts, and William Whitestone, 1761.

Quinta edizione "revised and corrected": London, Printed for the Author, and sold by W. Flexney, 1761.

Sesta edizione: London, Printed for G. Kearsly, in Ludgate-street; W. Flexney, in Holborn; and J. Coote, in Pater-noster-Row, 1763.

Apology and Night. Poems. By C. Churchill. The former addressed to the Critical Reviewers; and the latter to Robert Lloyd, London, printed by Dryden Leach, for G. Kearsly, W. Flexney, and J. Coote, 1763.

The Rosciad and The Apology. By Charles Churchill. Edited by Robert W. Lowe. With Eight Illustrations, London, Lawrence and Bullen, 1891.
Testo online: INTERNET ARCHIVE

Il testo venne incluso in diverse raccolte dei poemi di Churchill:
- Poems. By C. Churchill. Containing The Rosciad. The Apology. Night. The Prophecy of Famine. An Epistle to William Hogarth. And The Ghost, in Four Books, London, printed for the author, by Dryden Leach; and sold by W. Flexney, at Gray's-Inn Gate, Holborn; G. Kearsly, Ludgate-Street; T. Henderson, at the Royal-Exchange; J. Coote, in Pater-Noster-Row; J. Gardner, in Charles-Street, Westminster; J. Almon, in Piccadilly; and E. Broughton, at Oxford, 1763, vol. I. Seconda edizione: London, printed for John Churchill, (Executor to the late C. Churchill) and sold by W. Flexney, 1765. Terza e quarta edizione: London, printed for John Churchill, (executor to the late C. Churchill) and W. Flexney, opposite Gray's Inn Gate, Holborn, 1766 e 1769.
Testo online: Edizione 1763, vol. I
- The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill in three volumes: with the Life of the Author, Edinburgh, Apollo Press, 1779.
- The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill, with Explanatory Notes; and An authentic Account of his Life: Now First Published, 2 voll., London, C. and R. Baldwin, 1804, vol. I.
Testo online: Vol. I
- The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill. With copious Notes and a Life of the Author by W. Tooke, 3 voll., London, W. Pickering, 1844, vol. I; Boston, New York Little, Brown and Company, 1854, vol. I.
Testo online: London ed.: Vol. I - Vol. II - Vol. III; Boston ed.: Vol. I - Vol. II - Vol. III
- The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, by the Rev. George Gilfillan, Edinburgh, James Nichol, 9 North Bank Street; London, James Nisbet and Co.; Dublin, W. Robertson, 1855; text ed. by Charles Cowden Clarke, Edinburgh, James Nichol; London, James Nisbet and Co.; Dublin, W. Robertson; Liverpool, G. Philip and Son, 1864.
Testo online: Edizione 1855 - Edizione 1864 
- Poems of Charles Churchill, edited by James Laver, 2 voll., London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1933, vol. I; 2 voll. in 1, New York, Barnes & Noble, 1970, vol. I.