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Brotherton Collection11
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angels1
country life1
demonology1
ethics, ancient1
magic1
pastoral poetry, latin1
witchcraft1

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Dryden, John, 1631-17002
Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)1
Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C1
Amhurst, Nicholas1
Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)1
Brown, Thomas1
Brown, Thomas (1663-1704)1
Cicero, Marcus Tullius1
Curtius Rufus, Quintus1
Davenant, Charles (1656-1714)1

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Tully's Offices : in three books

Cicero, Marcus Tullius; L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)

1680

Pagination slightly irregular. Head pieces, initials. Page [16] blank. First edition. Page 202 misnumbered 222; p. 206 numbered 207; p. 207 numbered 206. Signatures: A-O8.

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The true picture of a modern Whig reviv'd. Set forth in a third dialogue between Whiglove and Double, at Tom's coffee-house in Covent-Garden

Davenant, Charles (1656-1714)

Printed in the year 1707

Attributed to Charles Davenant in NUC pre-1956 and BLC; the attribution is questioned by D. Waddell.

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The resurrection: a poem

Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742)

1718

The Latin text by Addison is followed by an English translation attributed to Nicholas Amhurst. Unauthorized edition. Publisher's booklist, 1 p., follows p. 13. Plate differs from that in first ...

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The Circe

Gelli, Giovanni Battista (1498-1563); Brown, Thomas (1663-1704)

1702

The title-page is a cancel. P.67 misnumbered 76; p.204-5 misnumbered 205-6, 206 appearing twice; p.274 misnumbered 247. U2 signed U3.

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Poems upon several occasions

Lansdowne, George Granville Baron (1667-1735)

1716

Publisher's advertisements: p. [207-208]. "The British enchanters; or, No magick like love. A dramatick poem" (p. [127]-206) has special t. p. As in the first edition, the author's name is given i...

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The hierarchie of the blessed angells : Their names, orders and offices

Heywood, Thomas (1574-1641)

1635

A poem in 9 books, each preceded by an argument in verse and an engraved plate, and followed by observations in prose and "A meditation" in verse. Includes a celebrated reference to Shakespeare and ...

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Notes on Dryden's Virgil : in a letter to a friend : with an essay on the same poet

Milbourne, Luke (1649-1720); Virgil

1698

"The I. book of Virgil's Georgics made English" [by Milbourne]: p.206-232. Title-leaf, preceded by free end-paper and fly-leaf, is B1; B3 signed A3 in error - an irregularity not noted by Macdonald....

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Carolina: or, Loyal poems

Shipman, Thomas (1632-1680); Flatman, Thomas (1637-1688)

1683

Pages 158-159 misnumbered 156-157; page numbers 223 and 224 repeat. Title within double line border. 'To the reader' signed: Tho. Flatman. Includes 'Prologue to Henry the third of France, at the...

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The life of Alexander the Great

Curtius Rufus, Quintus

1690

A reissue of the sheets of 1687, with a new printed title and an engraved frontispiece title, both dated 1690, and an 'Epistle dedicatory' addressed to the Queen, signed: N. Tate. These preliminaries ...

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Honours academie. Or the famous pastorall, of the faire shepheardesse, Iulietta

Montreux, Nicolas de (1561-1610); Tofte, Robert (1620)

1610

First edition. Pp.35 [sign.E2],38 [E3],59 [H2],17 [Bb3],30 [Cc3],57[Ee5],94,95,92 [Ii2],97,114,116,122,181-189,191-194,195,198,199,200-203,204-5,206-7,208-12, 213-15,216,217-278,279,280-1,282,283,28...

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