New miscellaneous poems, with five love-letters from a nun to a cavalier : done into verse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bettesworth, Arthur, -1739, bookseller.

Craig D. Ritchie Bequest Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--18th century--Early works to 1800.

English poetry.

Epistolary poetry, English--18th century--Early works to 1800.

Epistolary poetry, English.

Love poetry, English--18th century--Early works to 1800.

Love poetry, English.

Penn Provenance:

Maidment, James, 1793-1879 (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

[12], 132, [8], 136 pages, [1] leaf of plates : 1 illustration ; 12 cm (12mo)

Edition:

The sixth edition, according to the original copy, with additions.

Fingerprint:

LSnd 3223 rdrd GrTo (4) 1725 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for A. Bettesworth at the Red-Lyon in Pater-Noster-Row, 1725.

Contents:

New miscellaneous poems, with five love-letters from a nun to a cavalier : done into verse. The preface ; The contents ; Five love letters from a nun to a cavalier : done into verse ; New miscellaneous poems

New miscellaneous poems, with the cavalier's answers to the nun's five love letters : in verse. The preface ; The contents ; The cavalier's answers to the nun's five love-letters : done into verse ; New miscellaneous poems.

Notes:

"Five love letters from a nun to a cavalier" are a verse translation of the "Lettres portugaises" (first published 1669) ascribed to Gabriel Joseph de Lavergne, comte de Guilleragues.

Signatures: A-M⁶ *A⁴, ²A-L⁶ M² (leaves B1, *A1 and ²A1 unsigned).

Each title within border of double rules; half-titles on leaves E5r and ²C4r each with woodcut vignette.

Engraved frontispiece (plate).

Woodcut factotums and tail-pieces.

Type ornament head- and tail-pieces.

"New miscellaneous poems, with the cavalier's answers to the nun's five love-letters" has separate signatures and pagination and special dated title leaf which reads: New miscellaneous poems, with the cavalier's answers to the nun's love-letters. In verse. London : Printed for A. Bettesworth, at the Red-Lyon in Pater-Noster-Row, 1725.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy has early manuscript note on blank leaf preceding frontispiece plate.

Kislak Center copy acquired for the Penn Libraries in 2020 from Amanda Hall Rare Books with assistance from the Craig D. Ritchie Bequest Fund.

Kislak Center copy has armorial bookplate of James Maidment on front pastedown; armorial bookplate of Lord Gray on verso of front free endpaper.

Kislak Center copy has manuscript leaf of English verse tipped in at beginning of volume.

Kislak Center copy: binding: "later crimson straight-grained morocco, probably circa 1800, elaborately gilt with double filet, bordered with chain roll, large arabesque cornerpieces, centrepiece with gilt urn standing on pedestal, spine gilt with raised bands, black morocco label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges"--Bookseller's description.

OCLC:

821861147

Online:

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