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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunkin, William, 1709?-1765.

Contributor:

Nicoll, W. (William), active 1761-1792, publisher.

Becket, Thomas, bookseller.

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