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serious and comical, in prose and verse: with his remains. In four volumes compleat. With the life and character of Mr. Brown, and his writings, by James Drake, M.D. and a key to the whole
Printed for Al. Wilde, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. Fuller, H. Woodfall, W. Johnston [and 5 others in London]
The Ninth edition, carefully corrected /
4 volumes, unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm.
v. 1. [Essays, poems, satires, and epigrams] A collection of original letters on several occasions. Aristænetus's epistles, tr. from the Greek. Epistles out of Pliny junior. M. Tully Cicero's epistles. Letters from the best French authors.--v. 2. Letters from the dead to the living, and from the living to the dead; together with Dialogues of the dead, after the manner of Lucian.--v. 3. Amusements serious and comical, calculated for the meridian of London. A walk round London and Westminster, exposing the vices and follies of the town. Letters serious and comical, to gentlemen and ladies. Æneas Sylvius's letters in English. The London and Lacedemonian oracles. The dispensary, a farce.--v. 4. The Odes of Horace translated. Martial's Epigrams translated. Epigrams. Fables. Miscellanies. A supplement in prose and verse.
Includes engraved frontispieces in each volume.
The plates of volumes 3-4 are as in the 4th edition, 1720; and frontispieces of volumes 1-2 are as in 4th edition, 1715.
The title page to volume 2 bears the imprint: printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. Fuller, W. Johnston, J. Richardson, S. Crowder, [and 3 others in London]; that to volume 4 bears the imprint: printed for Al. Wilde, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. Fuller, Hen. Woodfall, R. Baldwin, [and 6 others in London].
The Cushing Library/Rare Books Collection copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature.
Also available as: Microfilm. - Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, Inc., 1985. - 1 reel ; 35mm. - (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 1050, no. 2).
Epistolae in pontificatu editae. Selections. English