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Title: Ocyrhoe the centaures daughter turned into a mare
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On Ocyrhoe's transformation into a mare for revealing the secrets of fate; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, II
The centaur not fabulous : In five letters to a friend, on the life in vogue
Young, Edward (1683-1765); Millar, Andrew (1707-1768); Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764); Dodsley, James (1724-1797)
1755
Printed by Samuel Richardson. N1-2, R1-2, and U1 are cancels; N2, R2 unsigned. Title vignette; head-pieces; initials. Errata on t.p. verso. With separate half-titles for each letter. Signatu...
Der nicht fabelhafte Centaur : in sechs Briefen an einen Freund über das im Schwange gehende Leben
Young, Edward (1683-1765)
1755
A translation of: The centaur not fabulous.
A town of gardens, and other poems
Trevor, Rose; Beamsley House
1948
Edition of 150 copies, "printed at the Centaur Press, for the Jongleur Press".
Sender: Collingwood, Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron, 1750-1810
Recipient: "The masters of his Majesty's ships Formidable, Triumph and Centaur"
Letters: 1
Date(s): 25 Mar 1801
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 2 Collingwood
Note: With a printed portrait. The material was formerly bound into a volume containing also atranscript of the letter, which is now shelved in a separate author/alphabetical sequence following the main sequence of Miscellaneous Letters. The bound volume also contains a typescript biography of Collingwood which is different from that found in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Denomination: denarius
Date(s): 139 BCE
Issuer/creator: Marcus Aurelius Cotta
Place: Rome
Material: silver
Title: The death of Nessus
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On the death of the centaur Nessus, killed by Hercules for attempting to steal his wife; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, IX
Methuen
1950-1977
Correspondence on publishing of The Galloping Centaur. Includes MS changes and MS and TS introduction and biography for 2nd edition.
Introduction [to Recollections of writers, 1969]
Gittings, Robert (1911-1992); Clarke, Charles Cowden (1787-1877); Clarke, Mary Cowden (1809-1898)
[1969]
Introduction by Robert Gittings, to the photographic re-issue, Centaur Press, 1969. Xerox copy.
Worth Publishing
1984-1985
Requesting contribution to anthology dedicated to G Wilson Knight, specifically Iron Christ, and concerning reprinting The Galloping Centaur and Morant Bay.