Miscellanies in prose and verse
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Type of record: Book
Title: Miscellanies in prose and verse
Classmark: BC Lt d/PEN
Creator(s): Pennyman, Lady Margaret (1688-1733)
Additional creator(s): Crousaz, Jean-Pierre de (1663-1750) (Other); Saint-Hyacinthe, Thémiseul de (1684-1746) (Other); Stanley, Eliza (Other); Forman, Charles (fl. 1728) (Other)
Related people: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744; Crousaz, Jean-Pierre de; Saint-Hyacinthe, Thémiseul de; Stanley, Eliza; Stanley, Eliza; Forman, Charles
Publisher: Printed for E. Curll
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1740
Language: English
Size and medium: viii, 112, 59, 52, 79 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/271194
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991018034849705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Signatures: A⁴ A-I⁶ K A2-A6 B-E⁶ A2-A6 B-D⁶ E⁴ A-G⁶.
An assemblage by Curll, variously paged and with general title page only, of four works; "other curious pieces" referred to are Eliza Stanley's versions of "Pausanias and Aurora", and "Ismenia and the prince", 1736, both from Hyacinthe Cordonnier's "L'histoire de Prince Titi", and "A commentary on Mr Pope's essay on man", freely translated from the French of de Crousaz by Charles Forman, 1738, (not to be confused with the translation published 1739, reissued 1742, attributed to Samuel Johnson).
Contents: A journey to Paris. Poems. Familiar letters. Pausanias and Aurora. Love's embassy. Ismenia and the prince. A commentary upon Mr. Pope's Essay on man.
Additional description
Blind stamp of Neil Court library (?), with initials W. D.(?) on blank preceding frontispiece portrait of Lady Pennyman
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