Shelfmark
Fk.5.10(07)
Additional shelfmark
Fk.8.11(06) (Copy 2)
Author
Title
The music speech at the public commencement in Cambridge, July 6, MDCCXXX : To which is added, an ode designed to have been set to music on that occasion. By John Taylor, M.A. Fellow of St. John's College.
Varying form of title
Miscellanies political &c
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed by William Bowyer, Jun. sometime student of the same college; and sold by W. Thurlbourn in Cambridge, R. Clements in Oxford, and the booksellers of London and Westminster, MDCCXXX [1730].
Physical description
26, [2]p ; 20cm. (8vo.)
Note
Latin prose, English verse.
Note
With a half-title and a final advertisement leaf. Lacking the final advertisement leaf.
Note
Bowyer's records are internally contradictory, but the most detailed entries indicate three printings (not two, as Foxon suggests) in close succession, of 1000, 2000, and 500 copies respectively.
Note
Signatures: [A]4 B-C4 D².
Note
Signatures from Maslen & Lancaster, and Foxon.
Citation/references note
Foxon, T103; ESTC T41645; Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 1572
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 1692, no. 03).
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Edward Waddington, recording donation to Eton College in 1731.
Provenance
Copy 2: Book-label of Eton College Library. Pencil inside front board: "Checked Mar. 1924".
Binding
18th century quarter brown calf; red and faded blue marbled paper covered boards; five raised bands; spine title: "Miscellanies political &c".
Binding
Copy 2: 18th? century half brown calf; blue card boards; four raised bands.
Copy-specific note
Bound with ten other items.
Copy-specific note
Ms. contents list on flyleaf.
Copy-specific note
Previously: Dm.5.14.
Copy-specific note
Ms. inscription in pencil: "Checked March 1924".
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Bound with seven other items.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Ms. contents list on flyleaf.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Previously: Dm.8.11.
Subject
Baccalaureate addresses University of Cambridge.
Subject
Music Addresses, lectures, essays.
Added entry--name
Bowyer, William, 1663 - 1737 printer.
Added entry--name
Thurlbourn, William, ? - d. 1768 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Clements, Richard, fl. 1721 - 1756 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B23480