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Pylades and Corinna : or, Memoirs of the lives, amours, and writings of Richard Gwinnett, esq.; of Great Shurdington in Gloucestershire; and Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, junr., of Great Russel street, Bloomsbury. Containing, the letters and other miscellaneous pieces, in prose and verse, which passed between them during a courtship of above sixteen years (v.1)

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Type of record: Book

Title: Pylades and Corinna : or, Memoirs of the lives, amours, and writings of Richard Gwinnett, esq.; of Great Shurdington in Gloucestershire; and Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, junr., of Great Russel street, Bloomsbury. Containing, the letters and other miscellaneous pieces, in prose and verse, which passed between them during a courtship of above sixteen years (v.1)

Other titles: Pylades and Corinna; Memoirs of the lives, amours, and writings of Richard Gwinnett; The second and last volume of Pylades and Corinna; The country 'squire; Life of Corinna; The honourable lovers

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Classmark: BC Lt/GWI

Creator(s): Gwinnett, Richard (1717)

Additional creator(s): Northey, Sir Edward (1652-1723) (Other); Gwinnett, Richard (1717) (Other); Thomas, Elizabeth (1677-1731) (Other)

Related people: Gwinnett, Richard, d. 1717; Thomas, Elizabeth, 1677-1731; Northey, Edward; Gwinnett, Richard; Thomas, Elizabeth

Publisher: [Curll?]

Publication city: London

Date(s): Printed in the year 1731-1732

Language: English

Size and medium: 2 v

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/274285

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991000017859705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

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Vol. II has title: The honourable lovers: or, The second and last volume of Pylades and Corinna. Being the remainder of love letters, and other pieces, (in verse and prose,) which passed between Richard Gwinnett... and Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas ... To which is added, a collection of familiar letters, between Corinna, Mr. Norris, Capt. Hemington, Lady Chudleigh, Lady Pakington, &c. ... London, 1732.


Appended to vol. II is: The country 'squire: or, Christmas gambol. A comedy. / Written by Pylades... which has special t.-p.,dated 1732, and separate paging. (The catchword at the end of V.2 of Pylades and Corinna is answered on the title-page of The Country 'squire).


Errors in paging: v. 1, p. 170-171, 174-175 numbered 180-181, 184-185 respectively.


"The life of Corinna" (lxxx p. at front of v. 1) has special t.p. and separate paging.


Both frontispiece portraits signed: G. King ab originali sculpsit.


Dedication "signed" Philalethes, possibly Edmund Curll.


"An account of the writings of Pylades and Corinna", [1] p. at end of v. 1.


ESTC T146622.

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