The surprize; or, The gentleman turn'd apothecary : A tale written originally in French prose; afterwards translated into Latin; and from thence now versified in Hudibrastics
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Type of record: Book
Title: The surprize; or, The gentleman turn'd apothecary : A tale written originally in French prose; afterwards translated into Latin; and from thence now versified in Hudibrastics
Other titles: Nobilis pharmacopola
Classmark: BC Lt d/ELL
Creator(s): Ellis, John (1698-1790)
Additional creator(s): Kingsmill (Other); Villiers, Claude Deschamps sieur de (1600?-1681) (Other); Villiers, Jacob de (1688) (Other)
Related people: Kingsmill; Villiers, Claude Deschamps; Villiers, Jacob de
Publisher: printed and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1739
Language: Multiple languages
Size and medium: [2], 139 p., 1 plate
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/269328
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017775369705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Added t. p.: Nobilis pharmacopola. Historia si no vera, jucunda tamen, nunc demum Latinitate donata... Londini: ex officina M. C. Prostant apud bibliopolas. 1739.
Latin prose and English verse on facing pages.
Latin version (first published 1693) attributed to Kingsmill. Cf. entry for Ellis, J., in NUC.
English version attributed to John Ellis. Cf. Halkett and Laing, Dict. anon.
Based on L'Apoticaire de qualité, variously attributed to Jacob de Villiers and C. D. de Villiers.
Foxton E290, but 2 is not the frontispiece: the plate follows p. [2], i.e. A1.
Additional description
Plate hand-coloured. Two MS verses on front flyleaf a later hand has added the attribution for these to J. Ellis, and a note on him. The same [?] hand has inserted an attribution for The surprize to John Eliis on the title page. Page 15 marked p. 87-8 holed
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