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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

Level: Item

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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