The first[-third] volume[s] of the works of Mr. William Congreve ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Congreve, William, 1670-1729.

Contributor:

Tonson, Jacob, 1656?-1736, bookseller.

Standardized Title:

Works. 1710.

Language:

English

Genre:

Cast lists -- England -- London -- 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Mendenhall, John C. (donor) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)

Elias, Archibald C. (donor) (RBC copy)

Holderness, Robert D'Arcy, Earl of (bookplate) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

3 volumes (24 unnumbered pages, 492 pages, 19 unnumbered pages, 508-832 pages, 13 unnumbered pages, 834-1135 pages, 1 unnumbered page) ; 21 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

First volume of the works of Mr. William Congreve

Second volume of the works of Mr. William Congreve

Third volume of the works of Mr. William Congreve

Fingerprint:

m.l- t;it r,e, isyo (3) 1710 (R) v.1

w;w, ngue y?t? FoIn (C) 1710 (R) v.2

12d. y;y, s.s, thAn (C) 1710 (R) v.3

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Jacob Tonson ..., MDCCX [1710]

Contents:

v. 1. The old bachelor ; The double dealer ; Love for love

v. 2. The mourning bride ; The way of the world ; The judgment of Paris ; Semele

v. 3. Poems upon several occasions.

Notes:

Each vol. has its own general t.p. (each work has special dated half-t.p.) and separate signatures; pagination is continuous.

Signatures: v. 1: A⁸ a⁴ B-I⁸ K⁸(±K5) L-2H⁸ 2I⁶ ; v. 2: [superscript pi]A⁴ A-X⁸ ; v. 3: A⁴ a² B-U⁸.

Vol. 1: leaf K5 is a cancel ; v. 2: the first leaf is blank.

"Vol. 3 has an additional titlepage: Poems upon several occasions. Printed in the year 1710, followed by 3 pages of contents with an errata on the verso of the second leaf and a 4-page 'Epistle to the Right Honourable Charles Lord Halifax, &c.' signed: 'a'. Variant: the preliminaries to volume 3 consist of a 4-page 'Epistle to the Right Honourable Charles Lord Halifax, &c.' signed: A3, with an errata on the verso of the second leaf."--ESTC.

Title vignettes, initials, head- and tail-pieces.

Typographical ornaments.

Errata: v. 1: leaf A4v ; v. 2: leaf [superscript pi]A4v ; v. 3: leaf A4v.

Cast lists: v. 1: leaves a4v, L6r, and X4v ; v. 2: leaves A5v and H3v.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries RBC copy: v. 3 has an additional t.p. (which reads: Poems upon several occasions. Printed in the year 1710), followed by 3 pages of contents with an errata on the verso of the second leaf and a 4-page "Epistle to the Right Honourable Charles Lord Halifax, &c." signed: a.

Penn Libraries RBC copy: cancellans leaf K5 inserted after leaf L2.

Penn Libraries RBC copy: each vol. has armorial bookplate ("The Rt. Honble. Robert D'Arcy, Earl of Hodernesse") on front pastedown, ms. collation in pencil on front free endpaper, and ms. inscription ("Dobell 6.iv.32.") on back pastedown; v. 1 has ms. inscription ("T.A. Hollick Sale 19-v-80 lot 48 (3 v.)") in pencil on back pastedown.

Penn Libraries RBC copy: v. 1 has 2 small printed slips with bookseller's descriptions of this copy laid in.

Cited in:

ESTC T52950

OCLC:

972878