Miscellanies
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Type of record: Book
Title: Miscellanies
Classmark: BC Lt/SAV
Creator(s): Halifax, George Savile Marquis of (1633-1695)
Additional creator(s): Defoe, Daniel (1661?-1731) (Other)
Related people: Defoe, Daniel
Publisher: Printed for Matt. Gillyflower
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1700
Language: English
Size and medium: [384] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/282410
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001564369705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
First edition.
Signatures: 1 leaf unsigned, A⁸, a³, B-X⁸, Y³, Q⁸, q⁸ (E3 incorrectly signed G3).
Each part has separate pagination.
Title within double line border.
Two completely different versions of "A letter to a Dissenter" are included; one "from his friend at the Hague, concerning the Penal laws and the Test; [etc.]" is from later editions of the works of Halifax.
"The character of a trimmer... 1699", "A letter to a Dissenter ... 1700", "Some cautions offered to the consideration of those who are to chuse members to serve in the ensuing Parliament. 1699", "A rough draught of a new model at sea, 1694. 1700", and "Maxims of state ... 1700" each has a special title-page and separate paging.
"Sacellum appollinare. A funeral poem to the memory of... George, late Marquiss of Hallifax", by Elkanah Settle: 21 p. at front.
This ed. described by Hugh Macdonald in his ed. of Halifax's Observations upon a late libel. 1940, p. 49-50, item L LOa.
Wing H 315.
"A letter to a Dissenter from his friend at The Hague" attributed to Daniel Defoe. Cf. Moore, item 5, and the Huntington Library quarterly. v.14 (1951) p.300-306.
Additional description
Bound in contemporary calf, lettered Misc:
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