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Lucian : A dialogue between (Numb. 2)

Archive Print Item: BC Lt quarto LUC

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Type of record: Book

Title: Lucian : A dialogue between (Numb. 2)

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Lt quarto LUC

Additional creator(s): Lucian of Samosata (Other)

Publisher: Printed for Charles Corbet at the Oxford Arms in Warwick Lane

Publication city: [London, England]

Date(s): [1684]

Language: English

Size and medium: 10 v

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/685960

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010097889705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

Title from caption.


Words following "A dialogue between" in the title statement vary with each number.


Imprint from undated colophon of no. 2; first issue lacks imprint; year of publication from imprints of subsequent issues.


Note above imprint of no 3 reads: "These dialogues will be published every Tuesday and Friday."


Printed in one column.


Verse satires in the style of Lucian; they are not translations.


[1]. A dialogue between Mercury and the Sun -- 2. A dialogue between Neptune and Mercury -- 3. A dialogue between Menippus and Trophonius in the presence of Amphiloctus -- 4. A dialogue between Diogenes and Pollux -- 5. A dialogue between Achilles and Antilochus -- 6. A dialogue between Zephyrus and Notus -- 7. A dialogue between Mercury and Charon -- 8. A dialogue between Menippus and Chiron -- 9. A dialogue between Æacus, Protesilaus, Menelaus and Paris -- 10. A dialogue between Pluto and Mercury.


Numbering begins with issue no. 2.


Issues except no. 9 lack chronological designation; no. 9 dated: 19 Feb. 1684.


Collected issues, published by Corbet, have title: Part of Lucian's dialogues, (not) from the original Greek.


Collected numbers 1-10 (1684) reissued by William Bateman with title: Lucians dialogues, (not) from the Greek: done into English burlesque. The First part.


Indexed in: NCBEL,


Indexed in: ESTC (RLIN),


Indexed in: Nelson & Seccombe,

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