Poems on several occasions. : With A dissertation upon the Roman poets. /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719
Other Authors: Newcomb, Thomas, 1682?-1765 (Translator), Sewell, George, -1726 (Translator), Amhurst, N. (Nicholas), 1697-1742 (Translator), Hayes, Christopher, active 1719 (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Latin
Language Notes:In English and Latin.
Published: London : Printed for E. Curll in Fleet-street., 1719.
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Description
Item Description:Octavo: a⁴ ( -a1?) b⁴ [chi]² B-U⁴ X² ²A-²G⁴ (a3 missigned "a2"; page 10 mispaged "01")
Frontispiece.: "Mr Addison" after Kneller; pages [v]-xvi: Preface; page [6] (chi1v): engraving illustrating Ode to Burnett; page [79]: special t.p. "The resurrection ... fourth edition"; page [94]: engraving illustrating The resurrection; pages [163-164]: The table.
A Curll made-up volume? Poems may have been issued (alone?) in 1718 with differenttitle page (Straus p. 251); Poems was also issued 1719 with the 53, [3] page 1718 edition of Dissertatio (OCLC #3044560, Curll B36). The 56 page Dissertatio apparently was never issued separately. See Foxon (pub. [1718]), Straus.
Addison's 8 Latin poems with English translations by T. Newcomb, G. Sewell, N. Amhurst, and the seperately paged Dissertatio with its translated by Christopher Hayes.
Press figures: "*", pages vi, xv, 29, 74, 119, ²12, 48.
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 is bound with: Scating : a poem / by Mr. Addison. [London : E. Curll, 1720] -- A catalogue of of poems, plays, and novels, printed for E. Curll ... [London : E. Curll, 1720?].
Physical Description:3 unnumbered pages, vi-xvi, [5], 10-162 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 56 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, portrait, ornaments ; 20 cm