Cato
Subtitle: a tragedy
By: by Mr. Addison. ; [Eight lines in Latin from Seneca]
Contributors: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.; Sewall, Jonathan Mitchell, 1748-1808.
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
Format: Microform
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.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 16689; 19396)