Miscellany poems, in two parts : containing new translations of Virgil's Eclogues, Ovid's Love-elegies, several parts of Virgil's Æneids, Lucretius, Theocritus, Horace, &c. With several original poems
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Type of record: Book
Title: Miscellany poems, in two parts : containing new translations of Virgil's Eclogues, Ovid's Love-elegies, several parts of Virgil's Æneids, Lucretius, Theocritus, Horace, &c. With several original poems
Classmark: BC Lt/DRY
Additional creator(s): Tonson, Jacob (1656?-1736) (Other); Dryden, John (1631-1700) (Other)
Related people: Tonson, Jacob; Dryden, John
Publisher: Printed for J. Tonson
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1685
Language: English
Size and medium: [11],92, 328, [39], 494, [actually 310]p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/277048
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991000511369705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
With both old & new title-pages.
Comprises 'Miscellany poems. Containing a new translation of Virgil's Eclogues... [etc.]; 'Sylvæ: or, The second part of poetical miscellanies'.
The Preface to 'Sylvæ' is signed: John Dryden (who also contributed 17 pieces, not previously printed).
The pagination of Part ii jumps from 168 to 353.
Edited by Jacob Tonson & John Dryden.
Indexed in: Wing D2379.
Indexed in: Macdonald 42a (i), 43(i), 43a(ii).
Indexed in: Case 172 (1) (a), 172 (2) (a).
Additional description
Virgil's 'Eclogues', which should follow the 'Epilogue intended to have been spoken ... when Calisto was acted at Court' (pp.327-8), are bound in error at the beginning of the volume. Part i lacks xl (A catalogue of books, printed for Jacob Tonson ... 1684)
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