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Elegant epistles, or, A copious collection of familiar and amusing letters : selected for the improvement of young persons, and for general entertainment, from Cicero, Pliny, Sydney, Bacon, Raleigh, Howel, Lady Russell, Clarendon, Temple, Locke, Shaftesbury, Pope, Swift, Addison, Steele, Arbuthnot, Gay, Atterbury, Tillotson, Herring, Rundle, Secker, Watts, Shenstone, Duchess Of Somerset, Gray, West, Sterne, Johnson, and many others.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR1341 .K6 1791
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English letters.
- Latin letters.
- Penn Provenance:
- Elias, Archibald C. (bookplate) (donor)
- Grierson, George Abraham (autograph)
- Grierson Family Books (label)
- Physical Description:
- xi pages, 13 unnumbered pages, 798 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm (8vo)
- Fingerprint:
- t,a- e.n- inho yooc (3) 1791 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin : Printed for J. Moore ..., MDCCXCI [1791]
- Notes:
- "Compiled by Vicesimus Knox."--ESTC.
- "A reissue of the Dublin edition of 1790, with a cancel title page."--ESTC.
- Signatures: a⁴(±a1) b-c⁴ B-2B⁴ [superscript chi]O⁴ 2D-5I⁴.
- Primarily in double columns.
- Letters of Cicero and Pliny (p. 1-195) translated by William Melmoth
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries copy has autograph ("George Abraham Grierson") on front pastedown; bookplate of Archibald Elias and bookplate of Grierson Family Books on back pastedown.
- Penn Libraries copy: most leaves dampstained in tail portion.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T130928
- Contains:
- Pliny, the Younger. Correspondence. English. Selections.
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Correspondence. Selections. English
- OCLC:
- 7330783
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