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Praedium rusticum.
1815 Catalogue, p. 147, no. 28, as above, 12mo.
VANIÈRE,
Jacques.
Jacobi Vanierii è Societate Jesu Prædium Rusticum. Editio nova longè auctior & emendatior. Tolosæ; Apud
Petrum Robert, Collegii Tolosani Societatis Jesu Typographum & Bibliopolam, sub Signo Nominis Jesu.
mdccxlii
. Cum Privilegio Regis. [1742.]
12mo. 168 leaves, side-notes.
This edition not in Quérard and not in Graesse.
Backer VIII, 444, no. 8.
Jacques Vanière, 1664-1739, French Jesuit poet who wrote in Latin. The first edition of this poem, his most amous [
i.e. “famous”?--
Ed.] work, was published in Paris in 1707.
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Philips.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, p. 157, [
i.e. “147”--
Ed.] no. 29. Philips’s Poems, 12mo.
PHILIPS,
John.
Poems attempted in the style of Milton. By Mr. John Philips. With a new account of his Life and Writings.
London: Printed for
J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, and
T. Lownds in Fleet-Street.
mdcclxii
. [1762.]
PR3619 .P3 1762
Sm. 8vo. 88 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 engraved plates by A. Walker, separate half-titles for the various poems. The preliminary matter includes The Life of Mr. John Philips, his epitaph, and a Poem to the Memory of Mr. John Philips. Inscribed to the Hon. Mr. Trevor. By Mr. Edmund Smith.
Lowndes IV, 1855.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 325.
Jefferson bought his copy from the Rev. Samuel Henley. It is included in the list of books appended to his letter to Henley dated from Paris, March 3, 1785, and is also in the list made by Jefferson for himself of the books in this purchase.
John Philips, 1676-1708/9, English poet. The first collected edition of his poems was printed in 1612, and was frequently reprinted, with
different titles.
George Sewell, d. 1726, English writer, was the author of the
Life of John Philips prefixed to these poems. The epitaph at the end of the life has been attributed to several authors, including Robert Freind
(1667-1751, headmaster of Westminster School), Francis Atterbury (1662-1732, Bishop of Rochester), and George Smalridge 1663-1719,
Bishop of Bristol). [punct.
sic--
Ed.]
Edmund Smith, 1672-1710, English poet, first published his
Poem to the Memory of Mr. John Philips in 1710.
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Not in the Manuscript Catalogue.
1815 Catalogue, page 146, no. 17, Intercepted Letters, 12mo.
[MOORE,
Thomas.]
Intercepted Letters; or The Twopenny Post Bag. To which are added, Trifles Reprinted. By Thomas Brown, the Younger . . .
Philadelphia: Published by
Moses Thomas,
J. Maxwell, printer,
1813.
PR5054 .I6 1813a
12mo. 65 leaves including the half-title and 2 leaves of Index at the end. The dedication is dated from 245 Piccadilly, March
4, 1813.
Halkett and Laing III, 163.
This edition not in Lowndes.
This work is mentioned by Jefferson in his letter to Madame de Tessé, dated from Monticello December 8, 1813, concerning the
Memoirs of the Margrave of Bareuth
, the
Memoirs of mrs Clarke
and of her
Darling Prince,
and
the Book,
quoted in the description of the
Memoirs of the Margrave of Bayreuth, see no. 271. After suggesting that “
the whole might be published as a Supplement to M. de Buffon under the title of the ‘Natural history of kings & Princes’ or
as a sepa-
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