Poems on various occasions
Subtitle: consisting of original pieces and translations from some of the most admired Latin classics, with the original text, and copious notes, historical, mythological, and critical, designed as an agreeable companion to such as wish to recover their knowledge of the Roman languge : the whole interspersed with reflections, remarks, and anecdotes pointed to the present times
By: by S. Rogers, A.M.
Contributors: Cruttwell, R. (Richard), -1799, printer; Shrimpton, Theophilus, publisher; Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, subscriber; Goldberg, Gerald M., former owner; Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library)
Publisher: Printed by R. Cruttwell, and published by T. Shrimpton: sold in London by J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; C. Dilly, Poultry; and W. Goldsmith, Pater-Noster-Row
Published: 1782
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Subjects: Latin poetry; Translations into English
Notes: Poems translated from Latin have Latin and English on facing pages.

Each v. has half title.

Signatures: v.1: A-U⁸; v.2: A⁸ chi² B-Y⁸ Z² a⁸

Vol. 1: xvi, 304 p., [1] leaf of plates; v.2: xviii, [2], 340, [1], xviii-xxxii p.

Errata: v.1, p. xvi, 1st group; v.2, p. [1], 2nd group and p. xxiii at end.

List of subscribers, p. xviii-xxxii at end, includes Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.

ESTC T139164

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