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Original sonnets on various subjects : and Odes paraphrased from Horace

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Type of record: Book

Title: Original sonnets on various subjects : and Odes paraphrased from Horace

Level: Item

Classmark: Roberts Collection/SEW

Creator(s): Seward, Anna (1742-1809)

Additional creator(s): Horace (Other); Park, Thomas (1759-1834) (Other); Cary, Henry Francis (1772-1844) (Other); Sael, George (1799) (Other)

Related people: Horace; Park, Thomas; Cary, Henry Francis; Sael, George

Publisher: G. Sael

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1799

Language: English

Size and medium: [2], vi, [4], 179, [1] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/338243

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991011214929705181

Description

4to: [pi]1 A-Z[sup]4 Aa[sup]2.


Engr. vignette on t-p; half-title ("Original sonnets, &c. By Anna Seward. Price six shillings and sixpence.") is A1r, following t-p (pi1r). -- The author's preface to the sonnets is largely about the sonnet and its critics; that to the Horace is, i.a., defensive of her sex. -- Includes verses to the author by T. Park and by H.F. Carey [sic]. -- Section title (p.[103]): Paraphrases and imitations of Horace.


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