Author: KING (William):
Title: Miscellanies in Prose and Verse.
Description: London: Printed for B. Lintott..., and H. Clements..., no date. [1709]. 8vo, pp. [xx], 445, 444 - 445, 448 - 536 [537 - 538 The Table], with separate title-pages for the works in the volumes but continuous collation,19th century half calf, marbled boards; no leaves blank or otherwise before title-page, lacking or issued without the Dedication and Preface, several leaves working loose at inner margin, spine defective, with lower half missing, joints cracked. An insalubrious copy, and probably imperfect without the Dedication and Preface, but of some bibliographical interest, in that A Journey to London, the second item in the volume, and the following four items (The Furmetary; A Letter to the Honourable Charles Boyle [bis]; and Dialogues of the Dead) are marked for a printer, e. g. on page 205, "Monsieur Sorbiere to the Reader," a note in pencil states "ignore all initial caps, except in proper names, set in modern spelling"; these instructions to the printer continue to page 354, the end of Dialogues of the Dead. I have not been able to locate a printed volume corresponding to the one putatively set forth here.

Keywords: verse anthology literature


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