The story is based on the romance between James Hackman (the Mr. H. of the British Museum Catalogue) and Martha Ray, whom
Hackman shot on April 7, 1799, [
i.e. “1779”--
Ed.] and who was therefore hanged by Tyburn. The book is in the form of letters supposed to have passed between them, and letter
13, from Hackman to Miss Ray, dated from Huntington, 16th Feb. 1776, contains Logan’s speech, introduced by the paragraph:
“The remainder of this (my second sheet of paper, observe) shall be filled with what I think a valuable curiosity. The officer,
whom you saw with me on Sunday, is lately come from America. He gave it me, and assures me it is original. It will explain
itself. Would I might be in your dear, little, enchanted dressing-room, while you read it!”
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Ovidii Metamorphoseon.
Delph.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 139, no. 46, as above.
OVIDIUS NASO,
Publius.
Metamorphoseon Libri XV; Interpretatione et Notis Illustravit D. Crispinus ad Usum Delphini.
Londini,
1751.
8vo. Title from the Library of Congress Catalogue of 1839; no copy of this edition was available.
Graesse V, 76.
Ebert 15446.
Daniel Crispin, Swiss scholar, was employed by Huet to edit and revise the original Delphin editions of the classics, published in quarto
from 1674 to 1730. The first English reprint of the Delphin Metamorphoseon was printed in London in 1708, and the edition
was frequently reprinted.
For a note on the Delphin classics, see no. 52.
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Ovid. not. var.
3. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 139, no. 47, Ovidii opera, notis variorum, 3 v 8vo.
OVIDIUS NASO,
Publius.
P. Ovidii Nasonis Opera Omnia, in
tres Tomos divisa, cum integris Nicolai Heinsii, D.F. Lectissimisque Variorum Notis: quibus non pauca, ad suos quæque antiquitatis fontes
diligenti comparatione reducta, accesserunt, Studio Borchardi Cnippingii.
Lugduni Batavorum: ex Officina
Hackiana, A
o
1670.
PA6519 .A2 1670
3 vol. 8vo. 430, 408 and 410 leaves, woodcut printer’s device on the printed title, 3 engraved titles by P. Philippe (that in Vol. II after S. Vouet), engraved portrait, full page engraved plates by P. Philippe, text in long lines, notes in double columns.
Graesse V, 70.
Dibdin II, 276.
Entered by Jefferson without price in his undated manuscript catalogue.
Borchardi Cnippingu, Dutch scholar, the editor of this edition, was a schoolmaster at Leyden.
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Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
old Eng.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 139, no. 3, as above.
Jefferson’s copy as stated in the Library of Congress catalogues of 1839 and later, was imperfect, lacking the title-page.
The edition cannot therefore be identified. Early editions in duodecimo were printed in London in 1628 and in 1638.
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La Araucana de De Ercilla y Zuniga.
2. v.
p. 8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 138, no. 8, as above, but reading
Zunigo.
ERCILLA Y ZUNIGA,
Alonso de.
La Araucana. Parte I [-II]. Dirigida al Rey Don Felipe nuestro Señor su autor Don Alonso de Ercilla y Zuñiga, Caballero del Orden de Santiago, Gentil-
