The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.
Subtitle: Translated into English verse.
By: By Mr. Dryden, and several other eminent hands. Together with the satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. Made English by Mr. Dryden. With explanatory notes at the end of each satire. To which is prefix'd, a discourse concerning the original and progress of satire. Dedicated to the Right Honourable Charles earl of Dorset, &c. By Mr. Dryden ...
Contributors: Dryden, John, 1631-1700, tr.; Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715, tr.; Bowles, William, d. 1705, tr.; Dryden, Charles, tr.; Stepney, George, 1663-1707, tr.; Harvey, Stephen, 1655-1707, tr.; Congreve, William, 1670-1729, tr.; Power, Thomas, fl. 1678-1692, tr.; Dryden, John, 1668-1701, tr.; Creech, Thomas, 1659-1700, tr.; Persius.
Publisher: Printed for Jacob Tonson; and are to be sold by Robert Knaplock, at the Angel and Crown in St. Paul's church-yard
Published: 1697
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 505
Subjects: Juvenal -- Translations into English.; Verse satire, Latin -- Translations into English.
Genres: Translations into English.
Notes: Wing J1290.
Second edition, second issue. cf. Macdonald, Hugh. John Dryden; a bibliography. Oxford, 1939, p. 53, no. 30c.
Signatures: A-Z⁸, Aa-Oo⁸, Pp⁴ (A₁, title page, cancel).
The satires of Persius have special t.-p.
Errors in paging: numbers 370-371, 497-498 repeated.
Satires 1, 3, 6, 10 and 16 of Juvenal, translated by Dryden; the second by Nahum Tate; fifth by W. Bowles; seventh by Charles Dryden; eighth by G. Stepney; ninth by S. Harvey; eleventh by Congreve; twelfth by T. Power; thirteenth by T. Creech; fourteenth by John Dryden, jr.; fifteenth by N. Tate.