The platonic lovers: consisting of original letters, in prose and verse, that pass'd between an English lady, and an English gentleman in France, under the borrow'd names of Clio and Strephon : who took an affection to each other, by reading accidentally one another's occasional compositions. With a critical essay; containing some remarks upon the nature of epistolary and elegiac poetry; and on the most beautiful passages in these epistles
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Title: The platonic lovers: consisting of original letters, in prose and verse, that pass'd between an English lady, and an English gentleman in France, under the borrow'd names of Clio and Strephon : who took an affection to each other, by reading accidentally one another's occasional compositions. With a critical essay; containing some remarks upon the nature of epistolary and elegiac poetry; and on the most beautiful passages in these epistles
Other titles: Epistles of Clio and Strephon
Classmark: BC Lt d/EPI
Related people: Fowke, Martha; Porter, John; Bond, William
Publisher: Printed for John Wilford... and Richard Chandler
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1732
Language: English
Size and medium: xxiv, [4], 176 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/269334
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017775609705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
A reissue of the sheets of the second edition, with the addition of a new title page and a list of contents.
Signatures: A12, 2 leaves unsigned, B-H12, I⁴.
Headpiece (coat of arms).
Written by Martha Fowke and William Bond?.
Published earlier (1720) under title: The epistles of Clio and Strephon.
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