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