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The poetical works of the late William Dunkin, D.D. : to which are added his epistles, etc. to the late Earl of Chesterfield : in two volumes.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3430 .D3 1774 v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunkin, William, 1709?-1765.
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Latin
- Penn Provenance:
- Elias, Archibald C. (donor)
- Jolliffe (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes ; 26 cm (4to)
- Fingerprint:
- sthe y.y, w:o, QuHo (3) 1774 (R) v.1
- 1714 e.il r.lt ThFo (3) 1774 (R) v.2
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for W. Nicoll ... and sold by T. Becket ..., MDCCLXXIV [1774]
- Language Note:
- The longer poems are given both in Latin and English (one in Latin, Greek and English); contains also some Latin and Greek poems.
- Contents:
- Vol. 1 Murphaeis, or, The Murhaeid [sic] ; Speculum poeticum, or, The poetical mirror ; Phaulknerogonia, Origo Faulkneriana, or Faulkner's nativity ; Judicium Herculis ; The judgment of Hercules ; Hyems glacialis apud Hibernos, or, The frosty winter of Ireland, in the year 1739-1740 ; Regiae nuptiae
- v. 2. [Miscellaneous poems].
- Notes:
- Signatures: v. 1: [A]⁴ B-3N⁴ ; v. 2: pi1-3 B-3X⁴ a-d⁴ e1.
- Pagination: v. 1: v, [3], 463, [1] p. ; v. 2: [6], 528, [34] p.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries copy: v. 1 has armorial bookplate ("Jolliffe") on verso of front free endpaper; v. 2 has armorial bookplate ("Jolliffe") on front pastedown.
- Penn Libraries copy: v. 1 has modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front free endpaper.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T135937
- OCLC:
- 39675915
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