Whartoniana, or, Miscellanies, in verse and prose
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Type of record: Book
Title: Whartoniana, or, Miscellanies, in verse and prose
Classmark: BC Lt d WHA
Additional creator(s): Wharton, Anne (1632?-1685) (Other); Plantin, Arabella (Other); Wharton, Philip Wharton Duke of (1698-1731) (Other); Curll, Edmund (1675-1747) (Other); Norris, John (1657-1711) (Other); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) (Other); Wharton family (Other)
Publisher: [H. Curll]
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1727
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 volumes in 1
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/273433
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991018444079705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
With a dedication by E. Curll, which appears to belong rather to the second volume. In it Curll states that the work is a translation from the French, by J. Morgan.
Vol. 2 has title: Letters to the Lady Wharton, and several other persons of distinction. It contains, in addition to some letters to Anne, wife of Thomas Wharton, further miscellanies in verse and prose.
Forms vols. 3 and 4 of Miscellanea, London, 1727 (5 v.) published by Curll, with new title-pages supplied [1-2: Miscellanea in two volumes; 5: Atterburyana].
Includes several pieces by Swift, and the "Lamentations of Jeremiah paraphrased" by Mrs. Wharton.
"Reprinted in 1732 as 'The poetical works of Philip, late duke of Wharton'."
Sig. B5 of vol.1 is signed K3 in error (not R3 as in Case); p.108 of vol. 1 is correctly numbered in this copy.
Both vols. have engraved frontispieces. Case does not mention a frontispiece to vol.2.
Whartoniana.
Partial contents: The tower, a poem / [by Thomas Foxtom; The temple of Venus / by William Selbey ; Letters from Mr. Norris to Corinna ; Two novels / by Mrs. Arabella Plantin ; Some modern observations upon Jamaica, have special title-pages.
Indexed in: Case 347 (1) (a), 347 (2) (a).
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