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Brotherton Collection26
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english poetry5
classical poetry2
english drama1
painters1
painting1

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Dryden, John (1631-1700)25
Dryden, John9
Congreve, William (1670-1729)6
Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)4
Lucian of Samosata4
Tonson, Jacob4
Tonson, Jacob (1656?-1736)4
Chetwood, Knightly (1650-1720)3
Virgil3
Boccaccio, Giovanni2

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A discourse on ancient and modern learning

Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)

1739

Pp. 29-30: 'Books printed for Thomas Osbourne, in Gray's Inn'.

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The medal : A satyr against sedition

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Hills, Henry (1713)

1709

Author of 'Absalom and Achitophel' = John Dryden. Anon., By J. Dryden. In verse. Also issued as part of: 'A collection of the best English poetry, by several hands' London, 1717.

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All for love : or, the world well lost, a tragedy acted by Her Majesty's servants : written in imitation of Shakespear's stile

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1709

Based on Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.

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The tempest: or, The enchanted island : A comedy

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); D'Avenant, Sir William (1606-1668); Shadwell, Thomas (1642?-1692)

1701

Signatures: A-H⁴, I. An adaptation and alteration of Shakespeare's "Tempest" by John Dryden and Sir William Davenant. All editions of the Dryden/Davenant version from 1674-1800 also contain some a...

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A dialogue and secular masque, in the Pilgrim

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Fletcher, John (1579-1625)

1700

Drop-head title: The secular masque. Indexed in: Wing D2261A. Wing F1348 or F1349, pt.2, i.e., Fletcher: the Pilgrim; the Dryden item is not mentioned.

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The annual miscellany, for the year 1694 : being the fourth part of Miscellany poems : containing great variety of new translations and original copies

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Tonson, Jacob (1656?-1736); Philips, John (1676-1709)

1708

Nos. 365-374 omitted in paging. Running title: The fourth part of Miscellany poems. "Cyder" by John Philips ([2], 89 p. at end) appears to be identical with the separate first issue of that poem. ...

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Sylvae : or, The second part of Poetical miscellanies

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Tonson, Jacob (1656?-1736)

1702

Running title: The second part of Miscellany poems. Second in a series of miscellanies published by Tonson, 1684-1709, containing many contributions by Dryden, Addison, Pope and Prior. The first app...

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Poetical miscellanies : the fifth part. Containing a collection of original poems, with several new translations

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Tonson, Jacob (1656?-1736)

1704

p.312, 378, 379, 611 mispaged as 12, 379, 378, 612; 557-576 omitted in numbering. F1 & F5 cancels?. Containing 13 pieces by Dryden, 10 of them previously unpublished. "A table to the foregoing p...

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Poetical miscellanies : the sixth part. Containing a collection of original poems, with several new translations

Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Tonson, Jacob (1656?-1736); Dryden, John (1631-1700)

1709

Collected and edited by Jacob Tonson. Pagination highly irregular: Y6, Hh8, Mm3 are cancels. First edition, second variant; cf. Griffith 1, Wise, T., Pope library, p. 3-4; Macdonald, Dryden, but o...

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The art of painting

Du Fresnoy, Charles Alphonse (1611-1668); Dryden, John (1631-1700); Jarvis, Charles (1675?-1739); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Graham, Richard (fl. 1680-1720); Lintot, Bernard

1716

Parallel texts of du Fresnoy's Latin poem, 'De arte graphica', and Dryden's prose translation, modified by Charles Jervas. 'To Mr. Jervas, with Frensoy's [sic] Art of painting', in verse, is by Alex...

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The works of Virgil : containing his Pastorals, Georgics and Aeneis (v.1)

Virgil; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Chetwood, Knightly (1650-1720); Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)

1709

Includes Chetwood's Life of Virgil and Preface to the Pastorals (v. 1, p. 13-100) and Addison's An essay on the Georgics (v. 1, 77-92). Neither work is signed. Cf. D.N.B., v. 4, p. 210 on Chetwood and...

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