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The works of Sir John Suckling : containing his poems, letters and plays.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection EC6 Su184 C676w 1709
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Suckling, John, Sir, 1609-1642.
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Day, Cyrus (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Beazley, Isaac John (d. 1783) (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- W. & G. Foyle (label) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 376 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 20 cm (4to)
- Fingerprint:
- hess mbme yse. BuIs (3) 1709 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for Jacob Tonson, within Grays-Inn Gate, next Grays-Inn Lane, MDCCIX [1709]
- Contents:
- Preface
- Poems on several occasions
- Letters to several eminent persons
- An account of religion by reason
- Aglaura. Presented at the private house in Black-Fryars
- Aglaura. Presented at the Court. [Act V only, in a different version]
- The goblins. A comedy
- Brennoralt. A tragedy
- The sad one. A tragedy.
- Notes:
- Two issues known, in one p. 352 is misnumbered 345, in the other, it has been corrected.
- Frontispiece portrait engraved by Michael Van der Gucht.
- All sections except Poems on several occasions have separate titles dated 1709.
- Title vignette; woodcut initials; head-pieces.
- Signatures: A⁴ B-2A⁴ 2B⁴.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy bound in full calf with blind-stamped panel on covers; title blind-stamped on spine.
- Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Cyrus Day on front pastedown.
- Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Isaac John Beazley with motto: "Benigno Numine" on front pastedown.
- Culture Class Collection copy has bookseller's label: "Foyles The booksellers 135 Charing Cross Rd. London" on front pastedown. W & G Foyle Ltd. (usually called simply Foyles) is a book seller known for its flagship store at 113-119 Charing Cross Road in London.
- Culture Class Collection copy imperfect: frontispiece portrait wanting and pages 61-62 have been supplied in manuscript.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T99823
- OCLC:
- 22172921
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