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The marriage of the Coquet and the Alwine

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Type of record: Book

Title: The marriage of the Coquet and the Alwine

Level: Piece

Classmark: Modern History Y-8.3/NEW

Additional creator(s): Adamson, John (1787-1855) (Other)

Related people: Adamson, John

Publisher: Printed by S. Hodgson, Union-Street

Publication city: Newcastle upon Tyne

Date(s): 1817

Language: English

Size and medium: viii, 8 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/267714

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017546269705181

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Title vignette.


"Two hundred and twenty-five copies were printed."--Martin, Bibl. cat. of books priv. print., p. 421.


An anonymous poem on the two rivers "written in imitation of the marriage of 'The Tame and the Isis', by Drayton... Its probable date is about the year 1780" -- Dedication, signed: John Adamson.

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Bound with nine other publications in a volume lettered: Newcastle Reprints Poetical. Volume contents: 1. Wharton, R.: Cheviot, a poetical fragment, 1817 -- 2. Marriage of the Coquet and the Alwine, 1817 -- 3. Roxby, R.: Lay of Reedwater minstrel, 1832 -- 4. Verses written at the house of Mr Henderson, 1832 -- 5. Verses on the Earl of Northumberland's restoring Alnwick Castle, 1829 -- 6. Level, L.: Stanzas on the intended new line of road, 1825 -- 7. Raffles, T.: Cowper's rose bushes, 1829 -- 8. Pando, J.M. de: Epistle to Prospero, 1828 -- 9. Thompson, W.G.: Lines on the death of Lord Byron, 1824 -- 10. Adamson, E.H.: Imperii caput et rerum pulcherrima Roma, 1831

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