The Agreeable variety : being a miscellaneous collection, in prose and verse, from the works of the most celebrated authors : in two parts, viz. Part I. Containing, I. Instructive discourses, on the most useful subjects, for the happy conduct of human life. 2. Characters of the most illustrious personages of both sexes, of our own, and other nations, particularly the remarkable manner of life of the excellent Princess of Parma, written by herself, and found among her papers after her decease, in the year 1577. 3. Choice poems, and select passages, extracted from Shakespeare, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Roscommon, Otway, Oldham, Prior, &c. Part II. Containing original poems, with sixty familiar letters, upon education, love, friendship, &c. /
| Format: | Book |
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed for A. Bettesworth, at the Red Lyon in Pater-noster-Row,
M.DCC.XXIV. [1724]
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| Edition: | The second edition. |
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| Item Description: | Dedication signed: J.M. Title enclosed in double rule; head- and tail-pieces; initials. Signatures: A7 (2d and 3d leaves both signed A2), B-Y8, Z2. According to Case, a reissue of the first edition (1717), with new title page and additional leaf A2 canceling old title page. 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 copy imperfect: final advertisement leaf wanting. |
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| Physical Description: | iv pages, 9 unnumbered pages, 338 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm (octavo) |
| Place of Publication: | England -- London. |