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The life of our blessed Lord & Saviour, Jesus Christ : an heroic poem, dedicated to Her Most Sacred Majesty : in ten books

Archive Print Item: BC Lt q/WES

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Type of record: Book

Title: The life of our blessed Lord & Saviour, Jesus Christ : an heroic poem, dedicated to Her Most Sacred Majesty : in ten books

Other titles: Life of Christ; Life of our blessed Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Lt q/WES

Creator(s): Wesley, Samuel (1662-1735)

Related people: Jesus Christ

Publisher: Printed for Charles Harper and Benj. Motte

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1693

Language: English

Size and medium: [32],349[i.e. 355],[3] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/280310

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001165659705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

"Preface, being an essay on heroic poetry" on pp.[5-18]; commendatory verses by Nahum Tate, Luke Milbourne, Pierre Le Motteux and others on pp. [19-31].


Title on engraved t.p.: The life of Christ.


Harper's booklist at end.


Various pages misnumbered, with three leaves added between pp.233 and 238; the engraved title-page is numbered as the second plate, the first being the frontispiece.


Includes bibliographical references.


Indexed in: Wing W1371.

Additional description

Thomas Warne's ownership inscription, 1693, and further note of his gift of it in 1710 to his daughter, Sarah, on recto of frontispiece his second, undated, ownership inscription in on reverse of plate 11. Spine lettered: Wesley's poem

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