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The royal wanton : containing the Gallick intriegues, with Lycogenes (late King of Albion) his expedition for Hibernia : being the second volume of The amours of Messalina, with Polydorus, K. of the Goths : compleating the whole history

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Type of record: Book

Title: The royal wanton : containing the Gallick intriegues, with Lycogenes (late King of Albion) his expedition for Hibernia : being the second volume of The amours of Messalina, with Polydorus, K. of the Goths : compleating the whole history

Other titles: Amours of Messalina

Level: Piece

Classmark: BC Lt d/AMO

Creator(s): Woman of quality (fl. 1689-1690)

Additional creator(s): Leti, Gregorio (1630-1701) (Other)

Related people: Mary, Queen of Modena, consort of James II, King of England, 1658-1718; Leti, Gregorio

Publisher: Printed for J.B. and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1689

Language: English

Size and medium: [4], 84 p. [1] folded leaf of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/268289

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017625959705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

A libellous satire on Mary of Modena, Queen consort of James II, and Luis XIV of France sometimes attributed to Gregorio Leti. Cf. NUC pre-1956 imprints.


Folding frontispiece portrait of Mary of Modena and Louis XIV.


Described as the "fifth part" of The amours of Messalina on p. 1.


Signatures: A B-L⁴ M.


Also published under title: Love letters between Polydorus the Gothick King, and Messalina, late Queen of Albion. Paris : Printed for J. Lyford, 1689.


Wing R2158.

Additional description

Bound with one other publication in a volume lettered: Amours of Messalina. Volume contents: 1. Amours of Messalina, 1689 -- 2. Royal wanton, 1689. Imprint of second work badly cut into by binder, affecting last line and date.

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