Immortality reveal'd
Subtitle: a poem, in four epistles to a friend
Published: 1745
Place of publication: London : Printed by W. Bowyer, for the author
Language: eng
Number of pages: 76
Subjects: Immortality; Poetry; Early works to 1800; English Epistolary poetry
Notes: Preface signed: Thomas Cooke.

English short title catalogue attributes authorship to Thomas Cooke, Vicar of Batyon; the New Cambridge bibliography of English literature attributes it to Thomas Cooke (1703-1756).

Signatures: pi1 a² b²(-b2) [A]² B-U². [pi1 may = b2 wrapped around].

Page vi misnumbered ʺiv.ʺ

Title vignette.

Includes errata (page viii).

Includes list of subscribers.

English short title catalogue, entry T73292

Foxon, D.F. English verse, 1701-1750, C415

Bowyer ledgers, 3248

New Cambridge bibliography of English literature, volume 2, column 542

Purchased in 2019 with the Endowment Fund for the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection.

Two additional errors added to the errata list in manuscript; all errata corrected. In the list of subscribers a manuscript correction[?] has been made to the name "Sir John Saint Aubyn of Oriel Col." (Subscribers page [3], second column).

Among the subscribers is "Henry Thrale of University Col. Esq." (Subscribers, page [4], first column), a close friend of Samuel Johnson, who for a time lived with Henry and his wife, Hester Lynch Salusbury Thrale.

Binding error: "Names of the subscribers" ([4] pages) bound between title page and page iii.

20th century binding: marbled paper over boards; cover title on printed paper label.