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Brotherton Collection22
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english poetry1
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Young, Edward (1683-1765)20
Dodsley, Robert4
Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764)4
Roberts, James4
Roberts, James (1754)4
Cooper, Mary3
Cooper, Mary (1761)3
Cooper, Thomas2
Cooper, Thomas (1743)2
Walpole, Robert2

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Night the second : On time, death, friendship. Humbly inscrib'd to the Right honourable the Earl of Wilmington

Young, Edward (1683-1765); Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764); Cooper, Thomas (1743)

M,DCC,XLII

With half-title: "The complaint: or, Night-thoughts on life, death, & immortality". Title vignette; head-piece. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-E⁴ F². First edition. With advertisement on half-title v...

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Night the third : Narcissa. Humbly inscrib'd to her Grace the Dutchess of P------

Young, Edward (1683-1765); Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764); Cooper, Thomas (1743)

M,DCC,XLII

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴ E¹. First edition. With half-title: "The complaint: or, Night-thoughts on life, death, & immortality". Anonymous. By Edward Young. With advertisement on half-title v...

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The complaint. Or, Night-thoughts on life, death, & immortality : Night the fifth

Young, Edward (1683-1765); Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764); Cooper, Mary (1761)

1743

Anonymous. By Edward Young. Fly-title A3 reads: "Night the fifth. The relapse. Humbly inscribed to the Right honourable the Earl of Litchfield". Title vignette, head pieces. Possibly this part w...

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The complaint: or, Night-thoughts on life, death, & immortality

Young, Edward (1683-1765); Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764); Cooper, Mary (1761)

1743

Anonymous. By Edward Young. Title page in red and black. Signatures: [A]² [B]⁴ C-G⁴. First edition. Fly-title on sig. B1: "Night the fourth. The Christian triumph. Containing our only cur...

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The complaint. Or, Night-thoughts on life, death, and immortality : Night the eighth. Virtue's apology: or, The man of the world answer'd. In which are considered, the love of this life; the ambition and pleasure, with the wit and wisdom of the world

Young, Edward (1683-1765); Hawkins, George (1780); Cooper, Mary (1761)

1745

Anonymous. By Edward Young. Signatures: [A]¹ B-I⁴ K⁴(-K4). In some copies the watermarks are inconsistent with A1 being K4 folded back, but it may have been so printed--Foxon. Printed by Sa...

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The universal passion. Satire I : To His Grace the Duke of Dorset

Young, Edward (1683-1765); Roberts, James (1754)

1725

First edition. Anonymous. By Edward Young. Press figure 4 on p. 11. (There is a variant with press figure 4 on pages 2 and 8.). With half-title. Signatures: [A]² B-E². Advertisement at the...

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The universal passion. Satire II

Young, Edward (1683-1765); Roberts, James (1754)

1725

Anonymous. By Edward Young. With a half-title. Signatures: pi¹ [A]² B-D² E¹. The final page is blank. Without a press figure on p. 14. Title vignette, initial, head- and tail-piece.

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The universal passion. Satire IV : To the Right Honourable Sir Spencer Compton

Young, Edward (1683-1765); Roberts, James (1754)

1725

Anonymous. By Edward Young. With a half-title. The final leaf is blank. Signatures: [A]² B-E². Title vignette, initial, head- and tail-piece.

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The universal passion. Satire V : On women

Young, Edward (1683-1765); Roberts, James (1754)

1727

Anonymous. By Edward Young. With a half-title. Signatures: A-H². Title vignette, initial, head- and tail-piece. A further part, Satire 6, was issued in 1728. In later editions the title was c...

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The instalment. To the right honourable Sir Robert Walpole, knight of the most noble Order of the Garter

Young, Edward (1683-1765); Walthoe, John (1778); Walpole, Robert Earl of Orford (1676-1745)

1726

Indexed in: Foxon Y87.

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The Young senator : a satyre; with An epistle to Mr. Fielding on his studying the law

1738

Signatures: [A]¹ B-E² [F]¹. In verse. "An epistle to Mr. Fielding" (p. [13]-19) has special t.p. (imprint varies). Last page contains an Epigrammatical postscript on standing armies. Anon. ...

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Night the sixth : the infidel reclaim'd : in two parts : containing, the nature, proof, and importance of immortality

Young, Edward (1683-1765)

1744

Verse. First edition. Half-title: The complaint: or, night-thoughts on life, death, and immortality. Anonymous. By Edward Young. With a final advertisement leaf. Complaint, or, Night-thought...

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