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The works of James Thomson : with his last corrections and improvements : in three volumes complete : to which is prefixed the life of the author / by Patrick Murdoch ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PR3730 .A1 1788b v.1-3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomson, James, 1700-1748.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. 1788
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Booksellers' advertisements -- England -- 18th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Mendenhall, John C. (bookplate) (donor) (Singer-Mendenhall copy 1)
- Mendenhall, John C. (donor) (Singer-Mendenhall copy 2)
- Fisher, James C. (autograph, 1796) (Singer-Mendenhall copy 1)
- Dockwray, T., M.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge (bookplate) (Singer-Mendenhall copy 2)
- Dockray, Hannah (autograph) (bookplate, Lancaster, 1857) (Singer-Mendenhall copy 2)
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes : illustrations, portrait ; 19 cm (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by A. Strahan, for J. Rivington and Sons [and 18 others] ..., 1788.
- Contents:
- v. 1. [The Seasons and other poems]
- v. 2. Britannia, a poem. Liberty, a poem. Sophonisba, a tragedy. Edward and Eleonora, a tragedy.
- v. 3. Agamemnon, a tragedy. Alfred, a masque. Tancred and Sigismunda, a tragedy. Coriolanus, a tragedy.
- Notes:
- Advertisements on last leaf of v. 3.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy imperfect: v. 1-2 wanting.
- Four extra plates added to v. 1 of Singer-Mendenhall copy 2.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy 2: bindings in Etruscan style by James Edwards of Halifax; calf, lined with pale blue watered silk; fore-edge paintings concealed under gilt.
- OCLC:
- 228755419
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