The true peri bathous: or, the Art of sinking in poetry, and rising again in four cantos. By Monsieur Boileau.
Boileau-Despr'eaux, Nicolas,1636-1711.
London : printed for E. Curll,
1728.
Probably an adaptation of Boileau's 'L'art poétique'; a re-issue of the revised Soames-Dryden translation, with additions by another hand (Foxon).
The words 'peri bathous' in the title are transliterated from the Greek, a satirical reference to the original "Peri bathous" attributed to Pope and published in Swift's 'Miscellanies' of 1727.
With one preliminary and two final advertisement leaves.
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Foxon,