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Brown, Thomas (1663-1704)14
Dryden, John, 1631-17003
Brown, Thomas2
Congreve, William (1670-1729)2
Savage, John (1673-1747)2
Scarron, Paul (1610-1660)2
Aristaenetus1
Ayloffe, W1
Barker, Henry1
Barker, Henry (1700-)1

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Familiar and courtly letters

Voiture Monsieur de (1597-1648); Brown, Thomas (1663-1704); Dryden, John (1631-1700); Cheek, Thomas; Dennis, John (1657-1734); Aristaenetus; Pliny the Younger; Fontenelle M. de (1657-1757); Briscoe, Samuel (1691-1727); Wycherley, William (1640-1716); Congreve, William (1670-1729)

1700

First edition. The "Epistle dedicatory" signed: Sam. Briscoe. Pt. 2 has title: Letters of friendship, and several other occasions... Written by Mr. Dryden, Mr. Wycherly [and others] With letters w...

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Letters from the dead to the living

Brown, Thomas (1663-1704); Barker, Henry (fl.1700); Ayloffe, W

1702

Some of the letters were translated from the French.

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A collection of miscellany poems, letters, &c

Brown, Thomas (1663-1704)

1699

First edition of this year. Title within double line border. Cf. Bibliographical Society, London. Supplement to... Transactions. 1925. no. 4, p. 156-157. Signatures as in Case, i.e. no sheet I (...

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Notes upon Mr. Dryden's poems in four letters

Clifford, Martin (1677); Brown, Thomas (1663-1704)

1687

The "Reflections" (p.17-35) are by Thomas Brown. Collation: A-D⁴, E². No error in pagination. Indexed in: Issue not in Macdonald.

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Amusements, serious and comical, and other works

Brown, Thomas (1663-1704); Hayward, Arthur Lawrence (1885-1967); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1927

"Letters on several occasions": pages 126-210. "Letters from the dead to the living": pages 211-471.

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Heraclitus ridens redivivus; or, A dialogue between Harry and Roger concerning the times

Brown, Thomas (1663-1704)

1688

Catalogued from drop-head title and colophon. An imaginary dialogue between Henry Care and Sir Roger L'Estrange suggested by Thomas Flatman's periodical "Heraclitus ridens". L'Estrange is represente...

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The second volume of the works of Mr. Tho. Brown : containing letters from the dead to the living, both serious and comical. In three parts. Now collected together in one volume, with large additions. The third part (by Mr.Tho. Brown) never before printed

Brown, Thomas (1663-1704)

1707

Parts 1 and 2 have seperate title-pages and pagination. Part 3 has part-title only and pagination continuous with Part 2. Contents list of the second part does not agree with the text.

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The whole comical works of Monsr. Scarron. Containing I. His comical romance of a company of stage-players. In three parts, compleat. II. All his novels and histories. III. His select letters, characters, &c. A great part of which never before in English

Scarron, Paul (1610-1660); Brown, Thomas (1663-1704); Savage, John (1673-1747)

1700

Each of the three sections - "Comical romance", "Novels" and "Letters" - has a separate register and separate pagination. Between pts, 1 and 2 of the "Comical romance" there is a gap in the paginati...

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The whole comical works of Mon. Scarron : Containing I. His Comical romance of a company of stage-players. In three parts, compleat. II. All his novels and histories. III. His select letters, characters, &c. A great part of which never before in English

Scarron, Paul (1610-1660); Brown, Thomas (1663-1704); Savage, John (1673-1747)

1712

Signatures: 1 leaf unsigned, A⁴, B-Z⁸, Aa-Nn⁸. Pages 235, 256, 443, 550, incorrectly numbered 225, 265, 343, 50, respectively.

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A collection of all the dialogues written by Mr. Thomas Brown: one of them entituled, Democratici Vapulantes, being a dialogue between Julian, and others, was never before printed. To which are added, his translations and imitations of several odes of Horace, of Martial's epigrams, &c

Brown, Thomas (1663-1704)

1704

Pages 71-94, 199-201, 257-266, 313-315, and 351-352, carrying the prefaces to the Dialogues 2-6 respectively, are numbered in Roman. Page 351 is wrongly numbered cccxlix, and there are other irregul...

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