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Titus Lucretius Carus his six books of Epicurean philosophy : done into English verse, with notes

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Type of record: Book

Title: Titus Lucretius Carus his six books of Epicurean philosophy : done into English verse, with notes

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Lt/LUC

Creator(s): Titus Lucretius Carus

Additional creator(s): Creech, Thomas (1659-1700) (Other); Sawbridge, Thomas (Other); Stephens, Anthony (fl. 1683?-1685?) (Other)

Related people: Creech, Thomas; Sawbridge, Thomas; Stephens, Anthony

Publisher: Printed for Thomas Sawbridge at the Three Flower-de-luces in little Britain, and Anthony Stephens bookseller near the Theatre in Oxford

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1683

Language: English

Size and medium: [44], 223, [1], 60, [6] p., [1] leaf of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/278204

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991000733339705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

"The epistle dedicatory" signed: Thomas Creech.


Error in paging: no. 55-56 repeated in third group of paging.


Signatures: a⁴ A-D⁴ A-Z⁴ Aa-Ee⁴ a-h⁴ [i]².


Title printed within double border.


The final page is blank.


Page-numbers 55-56 of the second numeration are repeated.


Includes index not provided in the second edition.


Indexed in: Wing L3449A. According to this authority, one of two "third" editions, the other being his L3449B ("for Anthony Stephens, 1683"). The third edition proper, according to Wing (his L3449), was printed in 1683 also, "for Thomas Sawbridge".

Additional description

With signature J.[?] Goodman on title-page and four lines of commendatory verse, in a contemporary hand, on (B)2 recto (at end of poem To Mr. Creech upon his translation of Lucretius into English)

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