The epistles of Clio and Strephon : being a collection of letters that passed between an English lady, and an English gentleman in France, who took an affection to each other, by reading accidentally one another's occasional compositions both in prose and verse
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Type of record: Book
Title: The epistles of Clio and Strephon : being a collection of letters that passed between an English lady, and an English gentleman in France, who took an affection to each other, by reading accidentally one another's occasional compositions both in prose and verse
Other titles: Clio and Strephon
Classmark: BC Lt/EPI
Related people: Porter, John; Bond, William
Publisher: Printed for J. Hooke, at the Flower-de-Luce in Fleet-street, F. Gyles, against Gray's Inn Gate in Holborn and W. Boreham, at the Angel in Pater-Noster-Row
Publication city: London
Date(s): [1720?]
Language: English
Size and medium: lxviii, 131, [1] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/277995
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991000661439705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Clio's letters written by Martha Fowke. cf. Halkett and Laing; Strephon's letters written by William Bond. cf. Epistles and poems by Clio and Strephon, published by E. Curll, 1729.
Second issue of the first edition?.
In the B.M. catalogue an issue bearing the date 1720 precedes this issue, to which the date 1720 is conjecturally assigned.
Also issued under titles: Epistles and poems by Clio and Strephon and The Platonic lovers.
"A critical essay containing some remarks upon the nature of epistolary, and elegiac poetry... by way of letter from Mr. John Porter, to his friend Richard Pocock": p. [xxv]-lxviii.
Additional description
Title leaf may be cancel (stub of original lost in rebinding?)
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