Poems, &c. on several occasions : with Valentinian, a tragedy. Written by the Right Honourable John late Earl of Rochester.
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| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | Partly in verse. Title page in red and black. The first leaf bears an advertisement on verso. Includes "A pastoral, in imitation of the Greek of Moschus; bewailing the death of the Earl of Rochester" (*⁸). With a divisional title page (B1r) for part 1. "Valentinian. A tragedy" (adapted by Rochester from John Fletcher, who apparently did not collaborate with Beaumont on this work) has separate dated title page. It begins new register with 2A1 and new pagination on 2B1 with page 369. In the final sequence, even numbered pages are on recto. Quire D in two settings: setting 1) leaf D3r has stanzas 3-5 only and leaf D7r has stanza 3 only; setting 2) leaf D3r has 2 lines of stanza 6 at foot and leaf D7r has stanza 4 added. |
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| Physical Description: | 12 unnumbered pages, xv, 1 unnumbered page, 154 pages, 14 unnumbered pages, 369-449, 449-462 pages, 1 unnumbered page : portrait ; octavo. |