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Folio, pp. [648.] A nice clean tall copy with the half-title; with some minor foxing. Bound in contemporary calf (chipped, front cover separate), Bookplate. Macdonald 37a. NCBEL II 447. Pforzheimer 326. Wing D2278. A collection of some twelve thousand verses, which "again show Dryden s energy of thought and language undiminished by age" (DNB), including paraphrases or translations of the first book of the Iliad , some of Ovid s Metamorphoses , and tales from Chaucer and Boccaccio. There is also a poem To my Honoured Kinsman John Driden , verses addressed to the Duchess of Ormond, and lines on A Fair Maiden lady who died at Bath [the wife of Lord Abingdon]. The preface, written in fine prose, contains an excellent appreciation of Chaucer as well as attacks on Milbourne and Sir Richard Blackmore, and a reply to Jeremy Collier s attack on the stage. Seller Inventory # 43630
Bibliographic Details
Title: FABLES; Ancient and Modern; translated into ...
Publisher: Jacob Tonson, London
Publication Date: 1700
Edition: First Collected Edition.
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