The Hermit of Warkworth.
[PERCY,
Thomas.]
The Hermit of Warkworth. A Northumberland Ballad. In Three Fits or Cantos.
London: Printed for
T. Davies, and
S. Leacroft Successor to C. Marsh,
mdcclxxi
. [1771.]
PR1171 .Z5 Vol. 4
First Edition. 4to, 30 leaves including the half-title. [punct.
sic.--
Ed.] engraved picture on the title-page by Isaac Taylor after S. Wale, lettered on the plate
Ex dono Ducis Northumb. Dedicated to her Grace Elizabeth, Duchess and Countess of Northumberland, in her own right Baroness Percy, &c. &c. &c., in
a sonnet, dated at the foot MDCCLXX.
Lowndes IV, 1830.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 78.
This was one of the books purchased by Jefferson from the Rev. Samuel Henley, and is in the list appended to his letter to Henley dated from Paris, March 3, 1785, and is also in the separate list made by Jefferson of the books of this purchase. In both lists, Jefferson describes the book as a pamphlet, which would suggest
that the copy was unbound at the time of purchase.
For other works by Thomas Percy, Bishop for Dromore, see the Index.
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CALIDAS.
Sacontalá; or, The Fatal Ring: an Indian Drama. By Cálidás. Translated from the original
Sanscrit and
Prácrit.
London: Printed for
Edwards, Pall Mall; By
J. Cooper, No. 31, Bow Street, Covent Garden, with his new-invented ink.
m.dcc.xc
. [1790.]
PK3796 .S4 J6 1790
4to. 56 leaves; on the last leaf: “The Printer has to lament that the second, third, and fourth sheets of this publication
are exceedingly injured by the Hotpresser.”
This edition not in Lowndes.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 368.
Sent from London to Jefferson by Benjamin Vaughan, to whom Jefferson wrote on May 11, 1791: “
. . . I thank you, my dear Sir, for the Sacontalá, and for Smeaton’s book . . .”
Calidas (or more usually Kălidāsa), was one of the greatest writers of the second epoch of Sanskrit literature. This is his best
known work, and in addition to being translated into
English was translated also into German and French.
Sir William Jones, 1746-1794, English orientalist and jurist, was the translator of this drama into
English. His translation was first printed in Calcutta in 1789 where he held the appointment of Judge of the High Court. Other works
by Sir William Jones appear in this catalogue.
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Modern Honour, a Poem in Two Cantos; supposed to be written by Dean Swift in 1740 and addressed to Mr P*** [Pope].
London: Printed for
J. Sibbald at
Liverpool, and sold by
R. Baldwin,
London,
1760.
4to. See Teerink,
Bibliography of the Writings of Jonathan Swift, no. 993, where it is included under the works of doubtful ascription.
This work is not in Jefferson’s manuscript catalogue, nor in the Library of Congress catalogue of his books made in 1815. It is included here for reasons stated in the note above.
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57
Freneau’s poems.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 141, no. 56, as above.
FRENEAU,
Philip.
Poems written between the Years 1768 & 1794, by Philip Freneau, of New Jersey: a New Edition, Revised and Corrected by the Author; including a con-
