Cato. : A tragedy. / By Mr. Addison. ; [Seven lines from Seneca].

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719.

Contributor:

Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.

Garth, Samuel, Sir, 1661-1719.

Sewall, Jonathan Mitchell, 1748-1808.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 25078.

Language:

English

Genre:

Plays -- 1793.

Poems -- 1793.

Physical Description:

56 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm (12mo)

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

Boston, : Printed by P. Edes, for Thomas & Andrews. Faust's Statue, no. 45, Newbury-Street., MDCCXCIII. [1793]

Notes:

"Prologue. By Mr. Pope."--p. [3].

"Epilogue. Written by Dr. Garth."--p. [57].

"A new epilogue," p. [58], is a shortened version of A new epilogue to Cato, composed by Jonathan Mitchell Sewall in 1778 for the Bow Street Theater at Portsmouth, N.H., and first printed anonymously in the New Hampshire gazette, Portsmouth, 31 March 1778. Another version was printed as Epilogue to Cato in Sewall's Miscellaneous poems, Portsmouth, 1801, p. 107-110, and still another is reprinted under this title in Occasional addresses, edited by Laurence Hutton and William Carey, New York, Dunlap Society, 1890.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 25078).

Cited in:

Evans 25078

OCLC:

55811356