Shelfmark
Iaa2.5.21(03)
Author
Uniform title
[Verses on the grotto at Twickenham. Polygot]
Title
Verses on the grotto at Twickenham. By Mr. Pope. Attempted in Latin and Greek. To which is added Horti Popiani: ode sapphica. Also The cave of Pope. A prophecy..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for R. Dodsley at Tully's Head in Pall-Mall, and sold by M. Cooper in Pater-Noster Row., 1743..
Physical description
16 p. ; 25 cm. (4to)
Note
The Latin translations are by Robert Dodsley.With a half-title.
Note
No.IV, in Greek, is signed, "W.H. ex aula S. Mariæ, Oxon.". No.VI, The cave of Pope, is by Dodsley.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T5760
Citation/references note
Griffith, 576
Citation/references note
Foxon, D390
Provenance
Booklabel of Nicholas Mann, recording donation to Eton College in 1754.
Binding
18th century brown calf quarter-binding; boards covered in marbled paper; five raised bands; red sprinkled edges; rebacked.
Copy-specific note
Previously Fm.7.13 or Fm.7.15 (text cut off) and Db.4.2
Copy-specific note
Bound in a volume of pamphlets; with spine title, "Miscellaneous tracts".
Copy-specific note
Ms. contents list on end leaf.
Subject
Elegiac poetry, English Early works to 1800.
Genre/Form
Poems.
Added entry--name
Dodsley, Robert, 1703 - 1764 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Cooper, Mary, ? - d. 1761 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B45061