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english poetry3
etiquette1
history, ancient1
history, modern1
world history1

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Ward, Edward3
Ward, Edward (1667-1731)3
Dryden, John (1631-1700)2
Knights of Malta2
Vertot Abbe De (1655-1735)2
Butler, Samuel (1612-1680)1
Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)1
Courtin, Antoine De (1622-1685)1
D'Anvers, Alicia1
Dryden, John1

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Woman's wit, or, The lady in fashion : a comedy

Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)

1697

Publisher's advertisement below imprint on title-page. "Acted at the Theatre Royal by His Majesty's servants." Wing C 4283.

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The works of Virgil : containing his pastorals, Georgics and Ænis

Virgil; Dryden, John (1631-1700)

1697

Indexed in: Wing V616?; Macdonald 33a.

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Seasonable reproof : a satire, in the manner of Horace... : to be continued occasionally as a poetical pillory, to execute justice upon such vices and follies, as are either above the reach or without the verge of the laws

Miller, James (1706-1744); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Savage, Richard (1743)

1735

Signatures: [A]² B-H². Attributed to James Miller by Cushing and Foxon, to Richard Savage in the Wrenn Catalog, and also erroneously ascribed to Alexander Pope. Extracts from the Satirae, Book 1...

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Poems, on various subjects and occasions

Robertson, Alexander (1670?-1749)

[1750?]

"Usually dated 1751, but a copy at L (now missing) had ms. date 1752"--Foxon.

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The history of the world : the second part, in six books: being a continuation of the famous History of Sir Walter Raleigh, knight: beginning where he left; viz. at the end of the Macedonian kingdom, and deduced to these later-times; that is, from the year of the world 3806, or 160 years before Christ, till the end of the year 1640. after Christ

Ross, Alexander (1591-1654); Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552?-1618)

1652

Numerous errors in paging: including the omission of nos. 179-180 and 193-220, the repetition of nos. 158-159, 397-400, and 545-556. "A brief chronology of the principal passages faln out in the wor...

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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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The rules of civility; or, The maxims of genteel behaviour : as they are practis'd and observ'd by persons of quality, upon several occasions

Courtin, Antoine de (1622-1685)

1703

Anon., by Antoine de Courtin. "A short treatise of the point of honour" is a translation from Courtin's "Suite de la civilité fran{250}coise", chap. 6, 1675. Signatures: A6, B-M12, N6 (final leaf...

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Academia, or, The humours of the University of Oxford : in burlesque verse

D'Anvers, Alicia

1691

First ed. Cf. BM. First (sole 17th-century) edition. Preceded by verse invocation "To the university". Advertisements: p. [1] at end.

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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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Hudibras

Butler, Samuel (1612-1680)

1674

A2 of the signatures is lined up under the words "for" and "punk" of the last line of p. 1. By Samuel Butler. Signatures: A-Z8 Aa-Cc8. Part 2 has a separate title page, but signatures and pagina...

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Poems, viz : 1. A panegyrick to the king. 2. Songs and sonnets. 3. The blind lady, a comedy. 4. The fourth book of Virgil. 5. Statius his Achilleis, with annotations. 6. A panegyrick to Generall Monck

Howard, Sir Robert (1626-1698); Dryden, John (1631-1700)

1660

Irregularities in pagination: p. 209, 212-213, 216-217 and 220-221 misnumbered 193, 196-197, 200-201 and 204-205 respectively; page numbers 208-223 repeat. Title vignette; decorative initials and he...

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The history of the Knights of Malta (v.2)

Vertot abbé de (1655-1735)

1728

A section with heading: "Proofs of the history of the Knights Hospitallers of S. John of Jerusalem" begins, with a new pagination after p.487 of vol.1, and is continued, with its own pagination, after...

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