Miscellanies in prose and verse, consisting of dramatick pieces : poems, humorous tales, fables, &c. Under the following heads: I. the rival priests; or, The female politition: a farce. II. The perjur'd devotee, or Force of love: a comedy. III. Muscipula; sive, cambro-muo-ma chia: with a translation of it in Miltonick verse. IV. Back-gammon: or, The battle of the friars: a tale. V. The fair counsellor; or, The young lady's conduct after marriage: a matrimonial conference. VI. An essay on the nature of fable; with select tales and fables, and other mythological amusements; concluding with a short pastoral interlude, entitled, The absent nymph, or The doating swain / by D. Bellamy, some time since of St. John's College, Oxford, and D. Bellamy, jun of Trinity-College, in Cambridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bellamy, D. (Daniel), 1687-

Contributor:

Bellamy, D. (Daniel), 1717-1788.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Maylor, Paul (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copies)

Maylor, Sam (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copies)

Physical Description:

2 volumes, plates : illustrations ; 17 cm (12mo)

Edition:

The second edition.

Fingerprint:

n.t, e.he n.y, seIk (3) 1741 (A) v.1

Y.r, 1007 o.w: WaKi (3) 1740 (R) v.2

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for J. Hodges ..., 1741.

Notes:

Signatures: v. 1: pi⁶ A-I¹² K⁶ ; v. 2: A-U⁶.

Volume II has no edition statement; imprint dated MDCCXL; also printed for J. Hodges at the Looking Glass on London Bridge.

Volume II by D. Bellamy the Elder.

Titlepages to volumes I and II in red and black.

Each item has a seperate t.p.

Head- and tail-pieces; factotum initials.

Volume I leaf H2 signed N2; pp. 202-203 misnumbered as pp. 226-227.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy of v. I lightly wormed.

Culture Class Collection copy of v. I pp. 51-52 detached.

Culture Class Collection copy of v. I has inscription "Sam Maylor his book" on front free endpaper, and the autograph of Sam Maylor on t.p. and p. [3]; autograph of Paul Maylor on p. [1].

Culture Class Collection copy of v. 2 has autograph of Sam Maylor on t.p. and p. [5]; autograph of Paul Maylor on p. [1].

Cited in:

ESTC, T179526

ESTC, T83554

OCLC:

79570538