MISCELLANIES IN VERSE AND PROSE … The second edition. London: printed for E. Curll in Fleetstreet. 1719. [with, as often:] RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY: A TALE. With five other pieces. By Major Pack.

PACK, Richardson.

Published by London printed for E. Curll in Fleetstreet, 1720

About this Item

Two works in one volume, 8vo, pp. [viii], vi, [ii], 64, 63-126, [2], [139]-158, [2], 159-190; iii, [i], 19, [1] advertisement; a nice copy in contemporary speckled calf, spine with plain gilt lines, a bit rubbed but in attractive original condition. Second edition, considerably enlarged: first published earlier the same year. The text of the first edition has been entirely reset, with new ornaments throughout; the order of the poems has been slightly altered, and a number of substantial notes added. A commendatory poem, signed with initials only in the first edition, is now been identified as by George Sewell. The new material at the end includes a section of translations from Catullus, Tibullus, and Ovid, prefaced by a brief 'Essay upon the Roman Elegiac Poets', along with two occasional poems, and a biographical sketch of William Wycherley. Religion and Philosophy was no doubt issued separately, as a collection of six short poems: the binding up of these sheets with a related title is typical of Curll. Foxon p. 548 (with Foxon P9). Provenance: early signature 'Ar. Tremayne' on front pastedown.

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• Title: MISCELLANIES IN VERSE AND PROSE … The second edition. London: printed for E. Curll in Fleetstreet. 1719. [with, as often:] RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY: A TALE. With five other pieces. By Major Pack.
• Publisher: London printed for E. Curll in Fleetstreet
• Publication Date: 1720
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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