Atterburyana
Subtitle: being miscellanies
By: by the late bishop of Rochester, &c. ...
Series: Forms v.5 of Miscellanea in two [i.e. five] volumes, 1727 [i.e. 1726-27]
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1727
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
Other titles: Court secrets.; Miscellanea.
Notes: Advertisements for books printed for Henry Curll: p. [2] at front, and [3] p. at end.

First part has caption title: Miscellanea. Vol. V.

Intended to form a continuation of: Miscellanea. In two volumes; Whartoniana: or, Miscellanies, in verse and prose; and Letters to Lady Wharton.

Page [1] and [12] at front and p. [156] are blank.

Head- and tail-pieces; initials.

Dedication signed: E. Curll, New-year's day, 1726-7. The two novels by Clarke have also, though erroneously, been ascribed to Curll.

"Court secrets: or The lady's chronicle historical and gallant. From the year 1671, to 1690. Extracted from the Letters of Madam de Sevigne [& tr. by E. Curll] ...", with separate signatures & paging & special t.-p. dated 1727: 2 p.ℓ., 41 p.

Contains only two pieces by Atterbury: "Oratio ... habita Oxonii die admissionis ad decanatum ... MDCCXI." & the poem "In obitum egregii juvenis ***** Shirley."

The "Postscript" to the dedication, 3d prelim. leaf, is the first printing of " ... Mr. Pope's receipt to make soup ..."; sometimes, but probably wrongly, ascribed to John Gay.

ESTC t145153

Griffith, R.H. Pope, 181

Gift of the Friends of the Library, April 20, 1910.

No. 1 of two titles bound together.

In CMI case.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) I. A collection of original letters, &c. II. The virgin-seducer. III. The batchelor-keeper: or, Modern rake ...; title: The virgin-seducer and The batchelor-keeper are by Philaretus [i.e. John Clarke].