Callipaedia : a poem in four books : with some other pieces
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Type of record: Book
Title: Callipaedia : a poem in four books : with some other pieces
Other titles: Callipaedia, seu, De pulchraeprolis habendae ratione
Classmark: BC Lt/QUI
Creator(s): Quillet, Claude (1602-1661)
Additional creator(s): Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718) (Other); Sewell, George (1726) (Other); Diaper, William (1717) (Other); Cobb, Samuel (1675-1713) (Other); Bayle, Pierre (1647-1706) (Other)
Related people: Quillet, Claude, 1602-1661; Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655; Rowe, Nicholas; Sewell, George; Diaper, William; Cobb, Samuel; Bayle, Pierre
Publisher: Printed for E. Sanger..., and E. Curll
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1712
Language: English
Size and medium: [10], 7, [17], 51, [1]; 48; 48; 95, [1]; 29, [3] p., [1] leaf of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/283669
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001771929705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Also issued without titlepage as part of 'The poetical works of Nicholas Rowe, Esq;', London, 1715.
Only book I is translated by Rowe; book II is by George Sewell; book III by Samuel Cobb; part of book IV by Wm. Diaper and the remainder by S. Cobb.
Each book has separate dated titlepage, pagination and register.
Signatures: plate + pi1 [superscript pi]a⁴ [superscript pi]B⁴, a B C-F⁴ G, A-F⁴, A-F⁴, ⁴A-M⁴, ⁵A-D⁴.
Includes 'An epistle to Eudoxus' and 'A panegyrical elegy on the death of Gassendus', with separate titlepage, pagination and register.
With a final advertisement leaf.
Indexed in: Case, A.E. Poetical miscellanies 253(b).
Additional description
Bound in contemporary calf, not lettered
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