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 politician: a farce. II. The perjur'd devotee; or, Force of love: a comedy. III. Muscipula; sive, Cambro-muo-machia: 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-

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

Contributor:

Holdsworth, E. (Edward), 1684-1746..

Language:

English

Latin

Genre:

Subscription lists (Publishing) -- England -- London -- 18th century.

Drama.

Penn Provenance:

Elias, Archibald C. (donor)

Rochfort, David (bookplate)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 17 cm (12mo)

Fingerprint:

s.s. e,e, o.w: WaKi (3) 1739 (A) v.2

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for J. Hodges, 1739-1740.

Notes:

Vol. 1, second sequence, page numbers 11 and 12 omitted.

Each work has special title page (often with vignette) and separate paging.

Title page, vol. 2: Miscellanies in prose and verse: consisting of dramatic pieces, poems, humorous tales, fables, &c. under the following heads: I. Vanquish'd love; or, The jealous queen. II. The rival nymphs or, The merry swain. III. Innocence betray'd; or, The royal impostor. IV. Love triumphant; or, The rival goddesses. V. Three select scenes of the celebrated Guarini's Pastor fido, in Italian and English. VI. Select Aesopian tales, in prose and verse paraphrastically translated from Phaedrus, Cambray, and others ... By D. Bellamy [the elder] sometime since of St. John's college, Oxford. London: Printed for J. Hodges, 1740.

Decorative initials, head- and tailpieces.

Includes (in v.1) Muscipula sive Cambro-muo-machia, a satire on the Welsh people, by Edward Holdsworth (first published 1709) with the translation entitled The mousetrap, or the Cambrian patriot. Latin and English texts on adjacent pages.

With separate titlepage to each item.

Vol.2 by D. Bellamy the Elder.

With three sequences of pagination to vol.1, and a list of subscribers to vol.2.

Vol 2 dated 1740.

Titlepages to vols.1 and 2 in red and black.

The final page of vol. 1 contains an advertisement for two boarding schools for "young ladies," one run by Martha, wife of Bellamy the elder, the other run by Isaac and Hannah Wood.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries Rare copy has v.2 only, without title-page. All up to p. 120 (through Innocence betray'd) is bound at front. The remainder of the work is bound at end after 4 plays by different authors.

Bound with: Shakespeare, William. The taming of the shrew. London : Printed for J. Tonson, and the rest of the proprietors; and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, MDCCXXXIV. [1734] -- Shakespeare, William. The merchant of Venice. London : Printed for J. Tonson, and the rest of the proprietors; and sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, MDCCXXXIV. [1734] -- Griffith, Mrs. (Elizabeth). The platonic wife. Dublin : Printed for Peter Wilson, John Exshaw, Henry Saunders, Hulton Bradley, William Sleater, James Potts, James Hoey, senior, James Hoey, junior, James Williams, Joshua Shepherd, and Elizabeth Watts., 1765. -- Shakespeare, William. All's well that ends well. London : Printed for J. Tonson, and the rest of the proprietors; and sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, MDCCXXXIV. [1734]

Cited in:

ESTC T83554

Related Work:

Holdsworth, E. (Edward), 1684-1746.. Muscipula.

OCLC:

786432852