45
Cowley by Hurd.
2. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 141, no. 30, as above.
COWLEY,
Abraham.
Select Works of Mr A. Cowley. In
Two Volumes. With a Preface and Notes of the Editor . . .
London: Printed by
W. Bowyer and
J. Nichols for
T. Cadell,
1772.
2 vol. Sm. 8vo. 128 and 144 leaves, advertisement on the verso of the last leaf, engraved portrait vignette on the title-page
by Hall after S. Cooper. Text preceded by the Preface of the editor, Richard Hurd, and the Life of Cowley by Thomas Sprat.
This title and collation taken from a card only; the book itself was not available.
This is one of the books bought by Jefferson from Samuel Henley, and is included in the list appended to his letter to Henley, dated from Paris March 3, 1785, and in the additional list made by Jefferson of the books included in that purchase.
Richard Hurd, 1720-1808, Bishop of Worcester. This is his
first edition of the works of Cowley.
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46
State poems.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 143, no. 54, as above.
A New Collection of Poems relating to State Affairs, from Oliver Cromwel to this present Time: by the Greatest Wits of the
Age: Wherein, not only those that are Contain’d in the Three Volumes already Published are incerted, but also large Additions
of chiefest Note, never before Published. The whole from their respective Originals, without Castration.
London, Printed in the Year,
m dcc v.
[1705.]
PR1195 .H5 P6 1705
8vo. 304 leaves.
Contains poems by Waller, Sir John Denham, Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley, John Dryden and many others. According to Case,
in his
Bibliography of English Poetical Miscellanies, cited above, “This is a piracy from the first three genuine volumes of
Poems on Affairs of State
, 1697 . . . It omits much of their contents and adds little that is new.”
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47
Oldham’s works.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 142, no. 55, as above.
OLDHAM,
John.
The Works of Mr. John Oldham, together with his Remains.
London: Printed for
M. Hindmarsh,
mdcxcviii
. [1698.]
PR3605 .04 [
i.e. “.O4”--
Ed.] 1698
8vo. 4 parts in 1 with general title, and separate title, signatures and pagination for each part: title and contents list,
2 leaves; Satyrs upon the Jesuits, 72 leaves; Poems and Translations, 72 leaves; Poems, and Translations, 104 leaves; Remains
of Mr. John Oldham in Verse and Prose, 74 leaves.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 283.
STC O231.
John Oldham, 1653-1683, English poet. Several editions of his collected works were printed between 1685 and 1722, made up by the booksellers.
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