Select epistles or letters out of M. Tullius Cicero and the best Roman, Greek, and French authors both ancient and modern : adapted to the humour of the present age / by Tho. Brown ; together with Certamen epistolare, or, Letters between an attorney and a dead parson, with several original letters on entertaining subjects ; the whole volume by Mr. Tho. Brown, never before published.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.

Briscoe, Samuel, active 1691-1727, publisher.

Nutt, John, bookseller.

Language:

English

French

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Letters.

Genre:

Advertisements -- England -- London -- 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Elias, Archibald C. (donor)

Holland, Richard (autograph)

Physical Description:

32 unnumbered pages, 214 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 215-374 pages ; 20 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Half-title: Mr. Brown's letters out of the most celebrated authors both ancient and modern

Fingerprint:

mene e.'d l.s. thgi (3) 1702 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Sam. Briscoe, and sold by J. Nutt ..., 1702.

Notes:

Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁸ b⁸ A-N⁸ O⁴ P-2A⁸.

"Original letters on several subjects. By Mr. Tho. Brown." has divisional half-title.

Errata on leaf [superscript pi]A8v.

"A catalogue of books newly printed for S.B. and sold by J. Baker, in Mercers-Chapel in Cheap-side" on leaf b8.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy has autograph ("Rd. Holland") on front free endpaper; ms. inscription ("G:S:S:Lo") on half-title.

Cited in:

ESTC T120259

OCLC:

5216178