Cato
Subtitle: a tragedy
By: by Mr. Addison. ; [Eight lines in Latin from Seneca]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 16689; Early American imprints -- no. 19396
Publisher: London, printed: Providence, re-printed and sold by Southwick and Wheeler, at the new printing office in the Main Street
Published: 1779
Place of publication: Providence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 59
Notes: "Prologue. By Mr. Pope."--p. [3].

"A new epilogue," p. 58, is a shortened version of A new epilogue to Cato, composed by Jonathan Mitchell Sewall in 1778 for the Bow Street Theater at Portsmouth, N.H., and first printed anonymously in the New Hampshire gazette, Portsmouth, 31 March 1778. Another version was printed as Epilogue to Cato in Sewall's Miscellaneous poems, Portsmouth, 1801, p. 107-110, and still another is reprinted under this title in Occasional addresses, edited by Laurence Hutton and William Carey, New York, Dunlap Society, 1890.

Shipton & Mooney report that the 1780 edition recorded as Evans 16689 is a ghost of the present edition.

Evans 16689

Evans 19396