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Cotton’s Poetical works. 12 mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 145, no. 19, as above.
COTTON, Charles.
The Genuine Poetical Works of Charles Cotton, Esq; containing, I. Scarronides: or, Virgil Travestie. II. Lucian Burlesqu’d: or, The Scoffer Scoff’d. III. The Wonders of the Peake. Illustrated with many Curious Cuts, all New-Design’d, and Engraved by the best Artists. The Fifth Edition, Corrected. London: Printed for T. Osborne, A. Millar, J. Rivington, W. Johnston, S. Crowder, B. Law, S. Bladon, G. Knap, and M. Richardson, m dcc lxv . [1765.]
PR3369 .C3 1765
12mo. 174 leaves, full-page plates (1 folded) by Van der Gucht after T. Goupy, separate titles, with dates, for the several works.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 261.
Westwood, List of Charles Cotton’s Works, in N. & Q. III, vol. 9, page 16.
The first collected edition of Charles Cotton’s Works was published in 1715, and included The Planter’s Manual, omitted from the editions of the Genuine Poetical Works, first printed with that title in 1725.
[4507]
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New Bath guide 12 mo.
1815 Catalogue, p. 147, no. 16, as above.
[ANSTEY, Christopher.]
The New Bath Guide: or, Memoirs of the B-R-D Family. In a Series of Poetical Epistles . . . The Sixth Edition. Printed for J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall; and Fletcher & Hodson in Cambridge. mdcclxviii . [1768.]
8vo. 2 parts in 1, 89 leaves including 2 half-titles, frontispiece by C. Grignon after S. Wale. A copy of this sixth edition was not available for examination.
Halkett and Laing IV, 167.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 351.
Bowes, no. 587.
Christopher Anstey, 1724-1805, English poet, first published the New Bath Guide in 1766 in Cambridge, when he was living in Trumpington. The work consists of a series of letters in verse, describing the life in Bath. After the appearance of Fletcher and Hodson’s second edition in the same year, the copyright was purchased by Dodsley of London.
[4508]
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Trumbul’s M c.Fingal. 12 mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 147, no. 21, as above.
[TRUMBULL, John.]
M’Fingal: a Modern Epic Poem, in Four Cantos . . . Hartford: Printed and sold by Bvail [sic] Webster, a few Rods South-East of the Court-House, 1782.
PS852 .M3 1782
Sm. 8vo. 48 leaves.
Halkett and Laing IV, 2.
Sabin 97214.
Evans 17752.
Church Catalogue 1192.
This edition not in Wegelin.
Dexter III, page 255 (not this edition).
Howard, page 413.
Three editions were published in Hartford in 1782, by Hudson and Goodwin (the first complete edition), by Nathaniel Patten and this edition by Bavil Webster, which is used here merely because there is a copy in the Library of Congress. Beyond the fact that his copy was

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