Elegant extracts. : A copious selection of instructive, moral, and entertaining passages, from the most eminent poets. : Volume I[-VI] ...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knox, Vicesimus, 1752-1821.

Cook, Richard, 1784-1857, illustrator.

Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834, illustrator.

Westall, William, 1781-1850, illustrator.

Westall, Richard, 1765-1836, illustrator.

Corbould, H. (Henry), 1787-1844, illustrator.

Brooke, William Henry, 1772-1860, illustrator.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 41210.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poems -- 1817.

Physical Description:

6 volumes : illustrations ; 15 cm

Place of Publication:

New-York: : Published by Kirk & Mercein, 22, Wall-Street., 1817[-1818].

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Contents:

V. I. Book I. II. Devotional and moral

V. II. Book III. IV. Didactic (including fables,) descriptive, narrative, and pastoral

V. III. Book V. VI. Pindaric, Horatian, and other odes.

Elegiac and funeral: including monodies and epitaphs

V. IV. Book VII. VIII. Dramatic

V. V. Book IX. X. Ballads, songs, and sonnets, and satirical and humorous pieces

V. VI. Book XI. XII. Consisting of larger poems.

Notes:

Compiled by Vicesimus Knox.

Each volume comprises two books; each book has an engraved title page. Engraved title pages have illustrations by Richard Cook, T. Stothard, W. Westall, R. Westall, H. Corbould, and W.H. Brooke.

"T. & W. Mercein, printers, no. 93 Gold-Street, New-York."--versos of title pages, v. 1-3.

"William A. Mercein, printer, no 93 Gold-Street, New-York."--versos of title pages, v. 4-6.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 41210).

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