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Alexander's feast: or, the power of musick. An ode. Wrote in honour of St. Cecilia, written by Mr. Dryden. And an additional new act, call'd The choice of Hercules. Both set to musick by Mr. Handel.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1760 Sco (b.w.) Af.412.5 (Franklin)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dryden, John, 1631-1700 4467
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 20p. ; 4°.
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1751.
- Notes:
- 'The choice of Hercules' is extracted from a poem in Joseph Spence's 'Polymetis'.
- Vertical chain lines.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- Bound with Scott, Four elegies, q.v.; item 5 in volume. Modern half sheep over contemporary marbled boards; bound with other items. Inscription by William Temple Franklin on flyleaf: Collection of Poems.; purchased from Dufief, 1801- 03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (1); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
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