Miscellany poems. Containing a new translation of Virgills eclogues, Ovid's love elegies, odes of Horace, and other authors; with several originial poems
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Type of record: Book
Title: Miscellany poems. Containing a new translation of Virgills eclogues, Ovid's love elegies, odes of Horace, and other authors; with several originial poems
Classmark: BC Lt/DRY
Additional creator(s): Dryden, John (1631-1700) (Other); Tate, Nahum (1652-1715) (Other); Creech, Thomas (1659-1700) (Other); Scrope, Sir Carr (1649-1680) (Other); Duke, Sir Richard (1658-1711) (Other); Sedley, Sir Charles (1639?-1701) (Other); Stepney, George (1663-1707) (Other); Tonson, Jacob (1656?-1736) (Other); Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon earl of (1633?-1685) (Other); Chetwood, Knightly (1650-1720) (Other)
Related people: Dryden, John; Tate, Nahum; Creech, Thomas; Scrope, Carr; Duke, Richard; Sedley, Charles; Stepney, George; Tonson, Jacob; Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon; Chetwood, Knightly
Publisher: Printed for Jacob Tonson
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1684
Language: English
Size and medium: [8], 328, [1], 92 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/277942
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991000654269705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
First in a series of miscellany published by Tonson, 1684-1709. Five other volumes published under various titles.
First edition.
Includes table of contents.
"Absalom and Achitophel" (6th ed., augm. and rev.) and "The medall" (2nd ed.) each has special title-page dated 1683. "Virgil's ecolgues" has special title-page dated 1684 and separate pagination.
Edited by Dryden. cf. Dictionary of national biography.
Contains 26 pieces by Dryden (18 not previously printed).
Primary works by Dryden: other contributions (mainly in the form of translations) by Thomas Creech, Sir Carr Scrope, Richard Duke, Sir Charles Sedley, George Stepney, Nahum Tate, the earl of Roscommon, Knightly Chetwood, and others.
Known as Tonson's Miscellany or Dryden's Miscellany.
Reissued 1685, bound with 'Sylvae: or, the second part of the poetical miscellanies' (also issued separately).
Contents: Mac Flecknoe.--Absalom and Achitophel.--The medall.--Several of Ovid's elegies.--Odes of Horace.--[Prologues and epilogues by Drysden]--Virgil's ecologues.
Indexed in: Wing D2314.
Indexed in: Case 172 (1) (a).
Indexed in: Macdonald 42a (i).
Additional description
Bookplate of Hugh Cecil, 5th earl of Lonsdale
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