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Vida's Art of poetry, /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vida, Marco Girolamo, approximately 1485-1566
Other Authors: Pitt, Christopher, 1699-1748 (Translator), Hughs, John, 1703-1771 (Printer)
Format: Book
Language:English
Edition:The second edition.
Subjects:
Poetics > Early works to 1800.
Poetry > Early works to 1800.
Poetry.
English imprints, 18th century, 1742.
Early works.
Description
Item Description:Possibly not published til January 1743 (Foxon).
A translation of the author's De arte poetica.
Title-page ornament; tail-piece.
Signatures: A-G⁶ (G₆, advertisements).
The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature.
The Cushing Library/Rare Books collection copy is inscribed: "Ex Libris Geo. Horne, Coll. Univ. Oxon. 1746".
Physical Description:82 pages + 2 unnumbered pages bookseller's advertisements ; 16 cm (duodecimo in 6s)
Place of Publication:Great Britain -- England -- London.