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Love for love : A comedy

Congreve, William (1670-1729)

1747

Frontispiece included in signatures and pagination.

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Love for love : a comedy

Congreve, William (1670-1729)

1695

First edition. Indexed in: Wing C5851.

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The Art of love

1745

In verse. Anon.

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Love elegies

Hammond, James (1710-1742); Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of (1694-1773)

1743

Signatures: A-D⁴ E².

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The idea of Christian love

Young, Edward (1705); Waller, Edmund (1606-1687); Wharton, Anne (1632?-1685); Atwood, William (1705)

1688

The paraphrase of Waller's "Of divine love" is printed in alternate stanzas with the original. Mrs. Wharton's verses were intended to come at end: cf. printer's note p. xxxii. The translation and ...

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The idea of Christian love

Young, Edward (1705); Waller, Edmund (1606-1687); Wharton, Anne (1632?-1685); Atwood, William (1705)

1688

The paraphrase of Waller's "Of divine love" is printed in alternate stanzas with the original. Mrs. Wharton's verses were intended to come at end: cf. printer's note p. xxxii. The translation and ...

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Love at a venture : a comedy

Centlivre, Susanna (1667?-1723)

1706

"As it is acted by His Grace, the Duke of Grafton's servants at the New Theatre in Bath."

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Love in many masks

Kemble, John Philip (1757-1823); Behn, Aphra (1640-1689)

1790

An adaptation of the first part of The rover.

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Love in a forest : a comedy

Johnson, Charles (1679-1748); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1723

Based on Shakespeare's As you like it, and including the whole of the play scene from A midsummer night's dream, with minor alterations. Dedication signed: Charles Johnson.

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Ovid's Art of love

Ovid; Ovid; Ovid; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1400); Hopkins, Charles (1664?-1700?); Dryden, John (1631-1700); Congreve, William (1670-1729); Tate, Nahum (1652-1715); Maynwaring, Arthur (1668-1712)

1709

Numbers 175-178, 236-237 omitted in paging. Ovid's Art of love and Remedy of love translated by J. Dryden, W. Congreve and N. Tate; Chaucer's The court of love modernized by A. Mainwaring. "The hi...

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Poems of love and gallantry

W. T; Wogan, Sir Charles (1698-1752)

1716

Reprints of poems by William Tunstall and Charles Wogan. Enlarged as Tunstall's Ballads and some other occasional poems, 1716. --Foxon. With a half-title. Signatures: [A][sup]4 B-C[sup]4. Head-p...

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Ovid's Art of love, in three books, together with his Remedy of love

Ovid; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Congreve, William (1670-1729); Tate, Nahum (1652-1715); Maynwaring, Arthur (1668-1712); Hopkins, Charles (1664?-1700?)

1725

Signatures: A-N12,O⁶. Omits the "Amours". Title reads as in edition of 1709, with a few differences of punctuation. "The history of love" by Charles Hopkins has a special title page. B3 signed...

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