Sylvæ: or The second part of Poetical miscellanies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dryden, John, 1631-1700.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Miscellany poems. Part 2.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical poetry--Translations into English--Early works to 1800.

Classical poetry.

Greek poetry--Translations into English--Early works to 1800.

Greek poetry.

Latin poetry--Translations into English--Early works to 1800.

Latin poetry.

English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--Early works to 1800.

English poetry.

English poetry--Early modern.

Translating and interpreting.

Latin poetry--Translations into English.

Classical poetry--Translations into English.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Blois, William (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy 1)

Fitzwilliam, William Charles de Meuron, Earl, 1872-1943 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)

Physical Description:

40 unnumbered pages, 168, 353-494 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 18 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Sylvae

Second part of Poetical miscellanies

Fingerprint:

m-c- wshe r.r; LoEx (3) 1685 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judges-Head in Chancery-Lane, near Fleetstreet, 1685.

Notes:

The second in a series of poetical miscellanies published by Tonson, 1684-1709, containing many contributions by Dryden, Addison, Pope and Prior. The first appeared as "Miscellany poems", the 5 later volumes under various titles. The present volume contains translations from Virgil, Lucretius, Theocritus and Horace, mainly by Dryden, and a long preface by him.

With a final errata leaf.

"On Hh8v is the word 'Finis', which is repeated on Ii7v.

Signatures: A⁸ a⁸ b⁴ B-L⁸ M⁴ Aa-Ii⁸ chi¹ (Ii 8 blank).

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy 1 has autograph of Will. Blois (?)

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has bookplate of William Charles de Meuron, Earl Fitzwilliam, with early ms. shelfmarks.

Cited in:

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), D2379

Macdonald, H. John Dryden, 43 a i

ESTC, R1682

OCLC:

9652699